Super Cool Beas is facing questions after TMZ published photos of him on a recent boat trip, including the above shot of Beasley trying to sleep something off. (Whether that "something" is a long wholesome day of fun, or something else, is the controversy here.)

Normally we'd laugh, perhaps tut at an underage player being photographed sleeping near a pile of empties, but this is a man best known for a rehab stint spurred by a picture of him near a baggie of weed. So obviously there are going to be questions.

The Heat said the fishing boat excursion was arranged by the team, and the captain is on record as saying the beers belonged to another group on board. Also, Beasley's substance abuse counselor was aboard (perhaps that's her next to him). So no action's going to be taken.

But, Jesus Christ man, Beasley doesn't need a counselor. He really needs someone to confiscate all cameras and cell phones when he's off duty.

Rehabbed NBA Star — Sleeps Off Temptation [TMZ]

One German is so upset that Bud is the official beer of the World Cup that he's set up a website where people from around the world can bitch about sucky American beer. It's under construction, and there's not much up there right now (with the exception of some amusing pictures), but the guy has made time to call Budweiser "dish water" and an "insult to your tongue."

So yeah, Germans, as they are apt to do, reacted angrily to the news. Anheuser-Busch did hear their cries, and fearing a mob of angry Germans just showing up and burning things down in St. Louis, agreed to give 30 percent of beer sales rights to a German brewery named Bitburger. They make a German beer named "Bit" that is, I undersatnd, quite popular. I'm sure some of you have sampled it.

Still, that leaves 70% of the beer available at the World Cup as Budweiser. It's that's part a larger plan to try and keep hooligans from drinking, I don't think it's going to work.

BudOut - we're into beer [BudOut.org]
Bud faces tough taste test in World Cup Germany [Reuters]