On the ropes

Sex or no sex? That is the question

Do sex and sports mix? Depends on whether you're talking cricket or soccer.

Gary Kirsten, the coach of India's national cricket team, is urging his players to "go ahead and indulge," saying it increases players' energy and aggression on the field.

As Graeme Swann, an obviously envious English cricketer, told the London Sun: "This is the sort of forward thinking the game needs."

Then there's English soccer coach Fabio Capello, who says players' wives and girlfriends will have only "limited contact" with them during next year's World Cup in South Africa.

"We have something similar in this country where husbands and wives have limited contact," noted Brad Dickson in the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. "It's called football season."

Dorsett sacks Romo

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones may be on Tony Romo's side after the quarterback had three passes intercepted in a 33-31 loss last week to the New York Giants. But former Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett isn't.

"I don't know why on God's Earth Tony Romo has been anointed a superstar in the National Football League," he told Fox Sports Radio. "He's a good player who's still learning how to play in the NFL, and I think the media has given him too much credit for doing nothing.

"He hasn't done anything really in the NFL to deserve all the recognition and visibility he's gotten so far."

Some camera shoot

Two Agence France-Presse photographers are suing Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel wife Gisele Bundchen for $1 million, saying they were shot at during a post-wedding party in Costa Rica.

No word on whether it's a shotgun offense.

Mouthing off

• Al Sharpton in a statement to TMZ on Plaxico Burress' two-year prison sentence for accidentally shooting himself at a nightclub with an unregistered gun: "I think it is an unusually harsh sentence for someone who was his own victim."

• At TheOnion.com: "Vikings spread ball around to Adrian Peterson."

• Mike Bianchi of the Orlando Sentinel on the combined 0-6 start of the Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jacksonville Jaguars: "The most laughable threesome Florida has seen since the quack pack of Huey, Dewey and Louie arrived in Orlando four decades ago."

• Tiger Woods, to PGATour.com, when asked about the difference between watching Peyton Manning and Michael Jordan: "Well, no one's trying to rip Jordan's head off, maybe unless he's playing the Pistons."

• Vikings coach Brad Childress, to The Associated Press after QB Brett Favre bent a fingernail in Sunday's game: "For those of you who have fingernails, that hurts."

Miami Herald columnist Dan Le Batard, on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption," on the engagement of Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian: "Third-best Laker, meet third-best Kardashian." - From Wire Reports