WithLeather.com traffic hit record levels and spawned another generation of web postings and copycat sites. Try searching for her name on Yahoo! and you get more than 180,000 results. (Jim Boeheim only gets 197,000.)
Stokke told the newspaper that the attention has made her uncomfortable and she feels almost like a crime victim. As the newspaper accurately characterized it, "Her body had been stolen and turned into a public commodity, critiqued in fan forums devoted to everything from hip-hop to Hollywood."
Said Stokke: "Even if none of it is illegal, it just all feels really demeaning. I worked so hard for pole vaulting and all this other stuff, and it's almost like that doesn't matter. Nobody sees that. Nobody really sees me."
Texas steroids update: Public high school athletes would face mandatory random steroid testing under a bill given final approval Monday by the Texas Legislature and sent to Gov. Rick Perry.
If Perry signs the bill, the state could begin work at the start of the coming football season on the largest high school steroids testing program in the country.
The House of Representatives passed the bill, 140-4. It requires the state to pay for testing, rather than force schools to raise ticket prices to cover the cost. The University Interscholastic League, the state's governing body for public school sports, will run the program and will be empowered to determine penalties for failed tests.
About 130 of Texas' 1,300 public high schools already test for steroids. New Jersey became the first state to start a statewide testing policy last year.
Extra points: Grand Forks (N.D.) Red River's Liza Wischer defeated teammate Callie Ronkowski 6-2, 6-4 to win the girls' state tennis singles title ovr the weekend. She finishes her career with a 129-0 record and six state championships. She'll attend Iowa State next fall.
