Bruce Tenen

The 2011 edition of the "Usain Bolt Show" begins this weekend in Daegu, South Korea, when the 13th Track and Field World Championships start a nine-day run (August 27-September 4).

Bolt, who won dominating sprint victories in both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2009 Berlin World Championships, has looked merely mortal this season, winning races but not running particularly fast, especially by his world record standards. 

Bolt will benefit by the absence of American star Tyson Gay (the last sprinter to defeat Bolt) due to injury. The Jamaican’s main competition will come from fellow countrymen, especially Asafa Powell in the 100 meters.

The meet will serve as a clear preview of the track and field competition at next summer's Olympic Games in London. 

Mike Gundy, the volatile head football coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, is being sued by a man from Choctaw, Oklahoma, who was fired from a construction job on Gundy's house. 

Brent Loveland claims he was hired to do $30,000 worth of work on the house, but was dismissed on his first day, because he showed up wearing a University of Oklahoma shirt. The lawsuit is asking for $10,000 in damages. 

Gundy claims that his wife was offended; while Loveland states that he dressed in the dark that morning and did not realize that there was an OU logo on the shirt. 

It looked like a delicious match-up when it was announced that Oregon (ranked #3 nationally) would meet Louisiana State (#4) in the season opener in Arlington, Texas, on September 3.

Now, the game has more subplots than an Agatha Christie mystery.  

Over the weekend, the Ducks very quietly announced that the major culprit in an ongoing NCAA investigation, Lache Seastrunk, had been granted his unconditional release from his scholarship because he was "homesick". 

The Oakland Raiderettes are in the news once again.