Lenny in trouble

[Theoldmole]

]Kevin Coughlin - a former photo editor with The Players Club, a year-old lifestyle magazine for professional athletes - writes in the April issue of GQ that Dykstra referred to cover subjects Derek Jeter, Chris Paul and Tiger Woods as "spearchuckers." Dykstra also allegedly told Coughlin over the phone: "Nobody can call me a racist - I put three darkies and a b---- on my first four covers." The woman he was referring to was Danica Patrick. "My initial reaction was utter disgust, and as I'm reading the article, I'm getting more infuriated," Triche said. Dykstra categorically denied Coughlin's accusations in an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, including a charge that he used the word "faggy" to describe a page layout in front of a gay designer. "I'm not going down in the dirt with this guy," Dykstra said of Coughlin in the Inquirer story. "He's (ticked) off because he got fired. He was masquerading as a photo editor." In his defense against being called a racist, Dykstra said he lived with Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden, both African-Americans, when they played together for the Mets. "What else can this guy say to hurt me?" Dykstra added. "It's all lies.... I'm not reducing myself to this. What a crazy thing."

Why can the Daily News say sp***ch****r and d***ie and f**gy but not b****?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good question. I think it's um, on a New York Post variation of the seven dirty words. It's typical for papers to have a lower threshhold for harsh words of the scatalogical and sexual variety than of the racist variety. I'm sure they'd leave out the N-word, but there you go.