Andy Roddick’s babe, Brooklyn Decker

The Wimbledon Players’ Box – Off the court, the world’s best tennis players spend as much time playing, er, mixed doubles as anyone else. As Wimbledon action gets under way this week, VF.com takes a look at 15 tennis wives and girlfriends past and present who have made the courtside seats worth scanning between sets—and, in some cases, made the tabloids a little more interesting. [vanityfair]

Federer Is Out Of Wimbledon – This is how they word it, “History is beckoning again for Andy Murray. For the second year in succession the 23-year-old Scot yesterday moved within two victories of becoming the first British man to win the singles title here since Fred Perry in 1936.” You know what this means? It means the Poms are no lonhger “English,” they are “British.” [independent]

Today Is Judgement Day For Selebi – Today in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, Judge Meyer Joffe will explain why he thinks former police national commissioner Jackie Selebi is or isn’t guilty of corruption.The former top cop faces charges, stretching back to 2005, of corruption and defeating the ends of justice, and today will see the end of his harrowing trial, which has lasted eight months. Cheers, Selebi. [mail&guardian]

Larry King Hanging Up The Suspernders – Larry King announced on Tuesday (June 29) that he will be ending his show, Larry King Live, after 25 years on the air. The 67-year-old talk show host first made the announcement on his Twitter. “I’m ending my nightly show this fall,” Larry tweeted. “But continuing at CNN.” Nice one, Lazza. [justjared]

Man Gets Smashed, Turns On Computer, Trades, Loses $10 Million – Alcohol-induced behavior has produced many unintended consequences, but pushing up the global price of oil and losing $10 million must rank among the most novel.Britain’s financial regulator disclosed on Tuesday that Steven Noel Perkins, a former oil futures broker, single-handedly engineered a jump in the price of oil a year ago and cost his firm millions of dollars with a string of unauthorized trades after a weekend of heavy drinking. [nytimes]

New Twilight Movie Breaking Records – Twilight fever is showing no sign of abatement with the film’s third installment. The film grossed in excess of $30 million from its midnight shows Tuesday in over 4,000 theaters across North America. This surpasses the previous midnight record holder, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which earned $26.3 million last November, and now holds the new industry record as largest midnight gross ever. [hollywoodinsider]

Oliver Stone Launches Attack On Film Crit – New York Times reporter Larry Rohter turned in a factually challenged fact-check of Oliver Stone’s new film South of the Border. So Stone and the film’s co-writers Mark Weisbrot and Tariq Ali wrote a devastating rebuttal. A reader passed along a link to that piece to Rohter, suggesting that he “should be embarrassed” by his review. [huffpo]

Video Of Extremely Hot Russian Spy – Those of you who caught the article yesterday about the extremely hot Russian spy they found in New York, will be quite pleased with this latest development. It’s a video of Anna Chapman (the spy) talking about the awesome time she had at New York Entrepreneur week. Hmm, whatever you say, Mary Goodnight! [mediaite]

Snoop Dogg Tries To Rent Entire Country – The request surprised authorities in the state of Liechtenstein – population 35,000 with an area of 61.7 square miles between Switzerland and Austria. Local property lease agent Karl Schwaerzler said: “We’ve had requests for palaces and villages but never one to hire the whole country before.” He admitted: “It would have been possible, but Snoop’s management “did not give us enough time”. [mirror]

Riding A Bicycle Has Many Advantages – Please enjoy this write-up by a guy names John, on the same website as David Thorne. It may well be David Thorne but, either way, you will melt from the heat of the tears you will cry as you laugh your head off. “I am often asked why my Spandex® bicycle riding costume features eight hundred and thirty corporate sponsorship logos even though I do not actually have a sponsor. The reason for this is simple..” [27bslash6]

Malema Is Not In The Headlines – I just want to say that I’ve worked out why everyone is so pleasant at the moment. It’s because no-one is being drowned in daily headlines about comments made by the insolent child that is ANC Youth League joke President, Julius Malema. Whatever the brand of muzzle you’re using, it’s doing a bloody good job! Shit, have I jinxed it? [thankgod]

The Most Mysterious Google Street View Sightings – Google Street View, a feature of Google Maps that provides 360-degree horizontal and 290-degree vertical panoramic views from just about any where in the world, has snapped its fair share of oddball scenes. But beyond displaying embarrassing snafus, from public urination to a photobombing seagull, the sightings can also be more enigmatic and weird, capturing people, places and poses that don’t quite add up. [huffpo]

Report: Tiger Woods To Pay Ex Wife $750 Million in Divorce Settlement – In what may be the biggest divorce settlement ever, Tiger Woods is said to be giving ex-wife Elin Nordegren $750 million in exchange for her never speaking of their divorce or his affairs in public. And that’s not all.. [gawker]

[thanks lance]