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Just when Rex Ryan thought he was back on solid footing, it appears that another shoe has dropped.

New and graphic photos appeared on the Internet Thursday purporting to depict Michelle Ryan, the wife of the chastened Jets coach, showing off her bare feet – and much, much more.

Some of the pictures show a man who is definitely not Rex Ryan rubbing and smelling the woman’s bare feet.

“Coach Ryan considers this a personal matter and will have no comment,” said a Jets spokesman, reprising the line that Ryan used repeatedly earlier this month when asked to explain six online foot-fetish videos that seemed to show the couple engaging in foot-related role-playing.

The new photos were posted at Mediatakeout.com. The woman in the photos bears a strong resemblance to Michelle Ryan, and a headline on the posting identifies her as such. The site does not indicate the source of the photos.

The photos come nine days after the sports website Deadspin first published a story about the original videos, which were fairly innocent compared with the new images.

Deadspin also pointed out similarities between biographical details of the Ryans and a user profile – with the screen name “ihaveprettyfeet” – at a website devoted to alternative sexual lifestyles.

The new photos are only the latest in a season-long series of controversies and embarrassments for the Jets. The team’s general manager, Mike Tannenbaum, has said Ryan has the organization’s full support.

A man busted for indecent exposure after a teen girl said she saw him inappropriately touching himself on an airplane said he was just trying to get rid of the itch on his private parts after he spilled Tabasco sauce.

A 17-year-old high school cheerleader told police that on a flight from Salt Lake City to Lewiston, Idaho, she looked over to see 50-year-old Rafael Escamilla with one hand under his laptop and his “penis going side to side under the tray table that was down.”

The girl then got up to go to the bathroom and took a different seat in the back of the plane. When she told her father about the incident, he told TSA officials who then summoned the Lewiston Police who arrested him on indecent exposure charges.

Once in handcuffs, Escamilla said the whole incident was a giant misunderstanding. The physical therapist told police that he had “spilled Tabasco sauce or something similar on his penis and had an incredible itch,” according to a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun.

According to the police report, Escamilla said while he admitted rubbing his privates in public, they were never out of his jogging pants. In fact, he pleaded to cops, he tried to cover himself so the young woman “wouldn’t see it.”

The cops in the obtained police report seemed to doubt his tale.

“During my interview with Rafael, he did not appear to be upset or even embarrassed about the situation,” the reporting cop wrote. “I tried to explain to him the seriousness of the situation, including the victim’s age, however, he didn’t seem to be concerned about it and kept referring about the ‘incredible itch’ that he had.”

And the worst for Escamilla’s situation is that he didn’t even appear itchy to the officer.

“He never showed any obvious signs that he had an itch in this particular part of his body,” the officer said.

Escamilla, the Smoking Gun reported, has worked as a professor at Duke and Cal State and currently works as a research director at a Florida orthopedics and sports medicine institute.

Nickey Van Exel, son of former Dallas Mavericks player Nick Van Exel, was arrested Wednesday night in connection with a recent murder.

Bradley Bassey Eyo was found shot to death near Lake Ray Hubbard the day after Christmas. Investigators determined he was murdered at a Garland home in the 6900 block of George Brown Drive and his body later dumped at the lake, less than a mile away.

Police said 20-year-old Nickey Van Exel turned himself in Wednesday and confessed to the crime. He’s a neighbor of the victim.

The tumultuous career of Foxy Brown continues, as the Brooklyn rap star has denied statements released to AllHipHop.com by representatives she has labeled as “former” managers.

Bernadette Brennan served as Foxy Brown’s manager when she was arrested for allegedly arguing her Brooklyn neighbor in July, according to statements Brennan made to a variety of outlets at the time, including AllHipHop.com.

Last night (December 30th,) Brennan claimed producer Daddy Bigg$, rapper Rekage and Foxy Brown were planning on releasing a new single titled “U Aint Ruff Enough,” on New Year’s Day.

According to Brennan, the track was in replacement of a supposed diss record to Lil Kim titled “Christmas Massacre,” which never materialized.

Foxy Brown went into a rage at the statements made to AllHipHop.com by Brennan, who has not responded to a request for comment as of press time.

According to Foxy, she is not dropping a single titled “You Aint Ruff Enough” on January 1st, after all.

“If yall dont hear it from a MARCHAND (Inga, Gavin or Anton) its bulls**t!,” an enraged Foxy Brown tweeted earlier this morning (December 31st). “NO…I am NOT droppin’ a single called “rough whatever” Jan 1st or never!!”

“Since yall ni**as wanna lie to the streets, disrespect my fans and post f**krie….I’m addressing it all tonite baby,” Foxy fumed.

According to Foxy Brown, she is still managed by her brothers Gavin and Anton Marchand.

Additionally, Foxy hinted that any possible material that might be released will be done so, without her consent.

“Everybody quoted in that fraudulent article will be hit wit a lawsuit immediately,” Foxy Brown tweeted. “What ‘label’ are they talking about?…If ANY of my lyrics are on ANY song they were STOLEN without my consent.”

“Lastly, I dont appreciate my fans being lied to. Nothing in that story was truth. Stealing a multi-plat artists lyrics w/o my consent…is not only an incredible lawsuit but a disrespect to my craft, my legacy and my fans,” Foxy Brown continued. “If MARY J or LAURYN HILL recorded a session in a studio while creating their album and decided to go with a hotter joint, who the f**k gives anyone in that studio the audacity to experiment wit a seasoned artists music?? And throw ur unknown artist on MY song without my consent, on some secret society s**t then w/o FOX hearing or approving anything, these bastards “Biggz I trusted u” had the f**kin’ nerve to put a fake press release out lying!”

Top-ranked Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak is over.

The Huskies never led and were beaten by No. 9 Stanford 71-59 Thursday night, ending a run that drew national attention to women’s basketball.

Stanford was the last school to beat the Huskies, in the 2008 NCAA semifinals.

Jeanette Pohlen hit five 3-pointers on the way to a career-high 31 points and the Cardinal (9-2) had the Huskies’ number at last – a huge number at that. Stanford won its 52nd straight at Maples Pavilion in a rematch of last season’s NCAA title game won 53-47 by two-time defending national champion UConn.

Last week, the Huskies (12-1) topped the 88-game winning streak set by John Wooden’s UCLA men’s team from 1971-74 by beating No. 22 Florida State 93-62, then won their 90th in a row this week at Pacific.

Huskies star Maya Moore was held to 14 points on 5-of-15 shooting. UConn hadn’t lost since an 82-73 defeat to Stanford on April 6, 2008, in the Final Four at Tampa, Fla.

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The Jets on Thursday were fined $100,000 by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for violating league rules in the recent incident involving assistant coach Sal Alosi.

Alosi, who placed players in a prohibited area on the sideline to impede an opposing team’s special teams players and gain a competitive advantage, remains suspended indefinitely by the Jets.

The league, after its investigation, determined the wall of players Alosi formed along the sideline in a game against the Dolphins on Dec. 12 is both a “competitive violation as well as a dangerous tactic.’’

The discipline imposed on the team includes the response to the incident of special teams coordinator Mike Westhoff for the public comments accusing other teams of employing similar tactics, namely the Patriots.

Both the NFL Constitution and Bylaws and other league policies require clubs to report actual or suspected violations of competitive rules by other teams only to the league office and not to engage in public criticism of other clubs.

The fine has been imposed on the Jets to emphasize that teams are accountable for the actions of their employees and have the obligation to ensure that all members of their organization comply with league rules.

The Jets reacted to the fine by issuing this statement: “We will comply with the league’s decision.’’

Boston Celtics forward Kevin Garnett will sit the next two weeks nursing a calf injury said Danny Ainge, the Celtics executive director of basketball operations.

Ainge told WEEI (850-AM) radio station Thursday afternoon that the star forward had hurt a muscle in his left calf during Wednesday’s contest against the Detroit Pistons.

Following a pick-and-roll dunk, Garnett, 35, collapsed and clutched his leg almost immediately.

Garnett, who has had several knee injuries since joining the Celtics in 2007, appeared to have reinjured his knee, however an MRI on Thursday made it apparent that the injury was in his calf.

“It’s nothing to do with his knee, which is great news,” said Ainge.

So far this season, the forward has recorded 14 double-doubles in 30 games played.

Garnett has not played a full season since 2005.

Eddie Murphy’s ex wife Nicole has blown her massive $15 million divorce settlement in just four years – and now she’s millions of dollars in debt.

What’s more, the IRS has slapped her with five tax liens totally $846,630, and she has put her opulent mansion up for sale.

When Nicole divorced Eddie in 2006 after 13 years of marriage, she chose to take a one-time payout from the comedian of $15 million, instead of monthly alimony. But in a shockingly short span of time, she’s managed to lose all of it.

“Nicole made some bad investments with the fortune she got from Eddie, and now she is in serious financial straits,” said a friend of the 42-year-old stunner.

Court records show that the IRS slapped Nicole with two liens for back taxes in November totaling $214,688.

That huge bill was on top of outstanding judgments against her for nearly $600,000 by a legal firm and another $60,000 demand for payment by a landscaping company. She also owes $5 million on her Los Angeles-area home.

“Nicole is overwhelmed by the mountain of debt she has piled up,” added the source.

Nicole, who has five children with Eddie, invested in an Internet jewelry business, but the venture quickly failed and Nicole lost most of her money.”

Sony’s long-rumoured PlayStation Portable smartphone is set to be launched in North America and Europe as early as the spring, according to a Japanese newspaper report Wednesday.

The device would likely be based on Sony’s handheld PSP Go game console, would be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and run Google’s Android operating system, said the Asahi Shimbun’s English edition, citing unnamed sources.

Sony hopes to take on Apple’s iPhone, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry and Nokia devices by offering the first smartphone that is based on a portable game console, with a set of controls that allows very advanced gaming.

The PSP Go, launched in November 2009, already features software downloads through a wireless connection, allowing players to also browse the Internet, watch movies, play music and read books and comics.

The new PlayStation handset would similarly work with Sony’s online media platform, the company’s answer to Apple’s iTunes.

Sony hopes the phone will stimulate sales in the sluggish videogame console market, said the Asahi.

Sony called the newspaper report “speculation” and declined to comment.

I don’t mean no harm, but these two look like two chickenheads fighting in the yard. Did you happen to see them on twitter going back and forth? Shameful. Here is some of the banter.

First Raz B said the following, which set Chris Brown off in a Twitter rage: “Im just sittin here Thinking how can n**gas like @ebenet & @ChrisBrown disrepect woman as Intelligent as @HalleBerry11 @Rihanna.”

Chris Brown, who called Raz B immature, said: “Tell me this @razb2k!! Why when the money was coming in u won’t complaining about getting butplugged! #homothug!!!” and then, “@razb2k n**ga you want attention! Grow up n**ga! D*** in da booty a** lil boy.”

Then Chris, probably worried that he scared the Pink Mafia, said: “”I’m not homophobic! He’s just disrespectful!!!” and “I’m not mad though!!! I’m just not silent nor am i one of these scary R&B cats!!” “Watch me be the bad guy on the blogs tomorrow!!!! its cool though.. ill wear that…BTW… i love all my gay fans and this immature act is not targeted at you!!!! love.”

Raz B gets all sorts of money in the gay and lesbian communities pounced on this one: ” u victimize victims, ur a homophobe, ur on the down low & a woman beater. Merry Christmas & thx 4 showin every1 ur true colors,” and “Is this your way of coming on to me???? Dude im not Gay! i was molested! stop disrespecting the LGBT community!”

Anyway…how stupid of them. Doh Doh Birds.

Throughout 2010, Foxy Brown has been almost dissing all the females in rap, namely Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj. The closest she came to that was calling Nicki Minaj a liar and rapping on some reggae song referring to hair color. But, we all thought that she was about to go psycho when they announced the “Christmas Massacre,” which was set for Christmas / Christmas Eve. It never happened. Honestly, nobody even realized it. I don’t even know if the show went down the way it was supposed to.

Jay-Z has added another budding star to his Roc Nation imprint, with the signing of UK singer/rapper Cher Lloyd.

The 17-year-old X-Factor finalist reportedly joined Roc Nation after a bidding war between will.I.am and X-Factor/American Idol’s Simon Cowell.

“After weighing up the pros and cons, it was thought that the team at Roc Nation would be best placed to turn her dreams of stardom into a reality,” a rep told UK’s Sun Newspaper.

Lloyd, who was being heavily courted by The Black Eyed Peas’ frontman will.I.am, was named the most talked about celebrity newcomer in the United Kingdom for 2010 by a recent internet survey.

It appears Lil Wayne’s Young Money Records has added more fire power to its formidable roster, with the signing of Tallahassee, Florida rapper/singer/producer, T-Pain.

According to Cash Money/Young Money’s official jeweler, Gabriel Jacobs of Rafaello & Co, he recently completed a new, purple and black, oversized, diamond and ruby encrusted Young Money pendant for T-Pain.

In an exclusive clip on VladTv.com, Jacobs showcased T-Pain’s latest piece of jewelry, which has over 200 karats in rubies and 300 karats in diamonds, also had T-Pain’s Nappy Boy logo embossed around the edges.

The pendant by itself is worth $45,000 and when worn with the ruby/diamond encrusted chain, T-Pain will be walking around with about $100,000 worth of jewelry around his neck.

T-Pain was originally signed to Akon’s Konvict Muzik imprint. He released his last three albums including his last release, Thr33 Ringz, via Jive/Zomba.

Troubled rap star DMX was admitted to a mental health unit in an Arizona prison facility on December 20th.

According to reports, the rapper, born Earl Simmons, was sent to the Flamenco Mental Health Unit inside the Alahambra Prison complex.

The rapper was transferred to the mental-health unit on December 20th, after serving over a month in the infamous Tent City jail, run by Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

According to reports, DMX is barred from having visitors for 30 days while he is inside the mental-health unit.

When the rapper was being sentenced to a year in prison for violating his probation on December 16th, Judge Christine Mulleneaux noted that the rapper may suffer from bi-polar disorder or some sort of mental affliction.

DMX is serving the year in prison for violating his probation by drinking alcohol during a concert in November.

He later tested positive for cocaine, Oxycontin, driving with a suspended license and other infractions.