That's the word going around, anyway. Claudia Jordan is a "media personality," which means she's good at getting on television, so take this with a grain of salt. But it's not a huge coup to be too good for the man who's not too good for the scariest Kardashian sister.

The rumor surfaced on the Petros and Money Show, a Los Angeles-based and Fox Sports Radio-syndicated program:

You want to know how in love Lamar is? Word is Lamar was madly in love with another young lady no less than one week before he met Khloe and asked that young lady to marry him and she said, ‘whoa, slow down.'

This was another celebrity that sees herself grace the pages of TMZ. So you wonder … maybe Lamar had alternate plans and alternate intentions of making himself more of a celebrity than just a dude that plays basketball for the Lakers. …

… One week after he asked another young lady to marry him, he meets Khloe and three weeks later, he asks her to marry him.

For what it's worth, TMZ has some footage that makes it pretty clear Jordan and Odom were an item right up until Khloe entered the picture, and Lamar's heart. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to take a shower to wash off the stink of celebrity journalism.

Odom Proposed To 'Starlet' Days Before Khloe? [SportsbyBrooks]

•Danica Patrick has reportedly signed a three-year deal to stay in IRL. Oh goody, instead of seeing her suck in NASCAR, we'll continue to see her suck in open-wheel racing.

•Lamar Odom has canceled his bachelor party blowout in favor of a more intimate affair. Read: he'll be getting a blow jay from a stripper somewhere that's not swarming with paparazzi.

•David Lee signed a one-year deal with the Knicks. The team may think they were successful in preserving cap space for 2010, but Lee is the real winner; he only has to play one more year with New York.

•Jay Glazer goes backstage for Chuck Liddell's "Dancing With The Stars" debut. Want to know what's wrong with America? This show has better ratings than MMA ever will.

•Prospective Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov was called "unpatriotic" by a member of Russia's parliament. I don't know what the fuss is about; there's nothing remotely American about New Jersey.

•Finally, courtesy of Total Pro Sports, we have fishing show host Dave Mercer with a unique ceremonial first pitch. That kind of control could probably get him a job in the AL West.

TMZ reports the two met when Khloe ran up a $3,000 bar tab at Ron Artest's "Welcome to LA" party at Glow nightclub in LA and Odom decided to pick it up. Mr. Zerkle over at With Leather notes that Lamar's bachelor party is happening tonight, and it is being hosted by Joe Francis and will feature strippers and midgets (but no midget strippers, because that wouldn't be tasteful).

This is good. The sports world has been starved for an athlete-Kardashian relationship ever since Reggie Bush moved his things out of the condo located in Kim's boy shorts. And now we have Lamar and Khloe, paired together in a relationship that is totally organic and doesn't smack of a shallow publicity grab at all!

Well, I recently celebrated my seventh wedding anniversary, and I have some advice for these crazy kids:

DO support each other in both good times and bad.

DO NOT register for a $500 frozen margarita mixer. You'll never use it. You won't even fucking OPEN it. All margarita-related wedding items are useless. My wife registered us for a dozen margarita glasses. They are fucking pointless. Duralux glasses are the shit.

DO hire Khloe's Photoshop assistant to work with your wedding photographer.

DO NOT invite Kim to the wedding. I've seen the opening credits of "Keeping Up With Kardashians". I assure you, no matter how slutty Khloe's dress will be, Kim's will be sluttier and garner more attention.

DO book a block of hotel rooms so that your guests can receive a discount.

DO NOT be surprised when the hotel concierge called up to Kobe's room at 4AM calls you in tears.

DO book a kickass band.

DO NOT let that band try and do "Crazy In Love." It won't sound the same. Trust me.

DO fight to invite the people you want at the wedding, and not the people your folks want. Mr. and Mrs. McFadden, Mom? Who the fuck are they? WHOSE WEDDING IS THIS, ANYWAY?

DO NOT sell the rights to your wedding photos to InStyle or some other magazine. Those are personal photos that meant to be shared with just you and your family.

Nah nah, I'm just fucking with you. Sell everything at the wedding. Make Star Jones look modest by comparison. After all, you're Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom, and no one actually gives a shit about you or your sham wedding. This relationship makes a Jim Harrick tutor program look legit.

Isn't it nice to have the NFL around? Week 2 is almost more satisfying than week 1, because after all the opening day hoopla has subsided, it's great to realize that Sunday football games are a part of our lives again.

Tonight's our first look at the monstrosity that is the new Cowboys Stadium, and I couldn't be more excited. The good news: AT&T has rigged up the stadium to prevent the usual sporting event cell phone failures. The bad news: it's AT&T, so phones will likely fail anyway.

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That weekend wasn't nearly long enough was it? C'est la suck.

•Reebok nixed a shoe deal with Marcin Gortat because of his Air Jordan logo tattoo. He'll just have to settle for being paid $34 million to be a slightly better Maciej Lampe.

•Rodney Harrison says the Patriots would be a great fit for Michael Vick. Sadly, the three-time dirtiest NFL player might be the best person Vick's ever taken advice from.

•Parity! None of baseball's six division leaders have payrolls less than $88 million. Meanwhile, the Pirates' entire roster's contracts were paid off by sales of Dippin' Dots at the last game.

•Lamar Odom ends up back where he started: sulking on the bench.

•The MLB trade deadline is today, and it looks like at least one big deal will be made: Victor Martinez, possibly heading to Boston. They've already got him taking grounders at shortstop.

•David Beckham might miss tomorrow's friendly against Barcelona with a bad back. Probably from carrying American soccer on his back for all these years.

•Pocono Raceway plans to be completely solar powered by next year. NASCAR fans, meanwhile, will continue to be powered by party liquor.

-Antoine Walker joins the NBA All-Star team of gambling deadbeats, alongside Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning and Michael Jor[REDACTED BY EDICT OF CZAR STERN] At least Walker tried to pay off his debts. Too bad the checks bounced.

-Pedro Martinez signs with the Phillies, anticlimactically ending his courtship. Also sure to be anticlimactic Pedro's return to the bigs.

-Meanwhile, Los Angeles has taken their offer to Lamar Odom off the table. Gamesmanship? Or, with the cap coming down, can the Lakers simply not afford to pay $9 mil to a fourth option who's running out of potential to live up to?

-To afford to offer Paul Millsap a contract, the Jazz will have to take out a bank loan. Why again did we think Salt Lake City could support a professional sports team?

-MMA poster girl Gina Carano's ex says there's a sex tape. He also says he's "smashed a lot finer than that." Classy.

-Bud Selig says Pete Rose's HOF eligibility is "under review." He declined to set odds for the prop.

-Tony Romo lost a girlfriend, but gained a sense of humor. Does this make you like him more? Didn't think so.

-Because no one believes that Prince Fielder is a vegetarian, here's a list of the 50 fattest MLB players of all time. Starting with Prince's daddy.

This charity T-shirt sells for $20, with proceeds going to Cathy's Kids, the official charity of Lakers forward Lamar Odom. Of course, it probably isn't the best bulletin board material to boldly claim that the other team sucks. Particularly when you're down 0-2.

Odom and Undefeated chose to go with a negative message - Boston Sucks - but why couldn't they instead gone with something positive? Too many ideas come to mind on what would have been a better choice. A choice that could be worn well beyond the end of this year's NBA Finals. A choice that would have brought positive thoughts to mind.

We think negative messages are fine; that's how you sell T-shirts. (And Web sites!) It just doesn't help when you crap out in the first two games. Oh, and you're Lamar Odom.

Odom's Charity Shirt Misses The Mark [Lion In Oil]

In a police report, Alexander Martinez said he left his 30th birthday celebration at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday with an uneaten 2-by-2-foot birthday cake and walked north toward the Blue 32 nightclub. Martinez told police he first came upon Lakers forward Ronny Turiaf, who he said agreed to pose for a photograph with him and the chocolate cake. But outside of a club the 6-foot-11, 270-pound Brown came along, grabbed the cake and threw it at Martinez, according to the report. Brown got into a white limousine and left, Martinez claimed in the report, although he didn't suggest any reason for the cake toss.

Martinez reported that he then walked up to Lamar Odom as the Lakers forward left Pedone's Pizza and confronted him about the cake, which was splattered on the birthday man's back.

We can't imagine what Brown might have wanted with a poor guy's 30th birthday cake — though we point out, Mr. Martinez, that a grown man isn't supposed to have a cake for his 30th birthday; he's supposed to have a threesome — but we love the comedy of errors that ensues when a bunch of Lakers have street altercations with pastry. Remember when everyone thought Lamar Odom was gonna be a disciplinary problem? This must have been what they were talking about!

Oh, and poor Kobe: No matter how many points he scores, his teammates still just won't invite him out anywhere.

Lakers' Brown Takes The Cake, But Won't Be Prosecuted [ESPN]