NFL star Chad Ochocinco treated dozens of fans to a fancy dinner in Indianapolis Wednesday, after posting the offer on Twitter. The news sent the fingers of football fans flying.

"He started posting about it this morning," Bengals fan Joe Trinosky said. "He's been throwing little hints out all day. I saw the post, so I headed out of work and showed up just in time."

Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco offered to spring for dinner downtown: A free feast at St. Elmo, he tweeted, for the first 64 fans in line Wednesday afternoon.

The idea even surprised St. Elmo general manager Chris Clifford.

"The first thing that goes through your head is, 'Is this for real?'" he said. "And then he called and we started communicating by phone."

A line quickly formed at St. Elmo, where 66 people ended up getting wristbands to secure a seat at the private dinner with the NFL star. The tweet went out just after 4 p.m., and Clifford said the wristbands were gone in 25 minutes.

"We were sitting in here watching people just running from blocks away, coming in pouring sweat and saying, 'Did I make it? Did I make it?'"

But not everyone had the fastest fingers or made the fastest time. Some who came to the restaurant Wednesday missed the chance at a dinner, but they stayed just hoping to catch a glimpse of number 85 as he arrived by taxi with teammate Terrell Owens. Both attended the downtown dinner with fans.

For Ochocinco, the tweet treat has become tradition for away games for the past two years. He said Twitter helped him gain control of his image and the dinners allow fans to see him as a person, not just a player.

"You look at TV, you watch TV. You see the stuff on the field, you think you have one perception, but this is just to give the perception of who the real me is," he said. "It's also a gesture of appreciation for them supporting me in all I do."

So with cameras and footballs waiting to be signed, fans shook his hand and sat with the star for a gourmet Indy feast. Ochocinco said he chose St. Elmo because of its national reputation.

"Someone said St. Elmo was the best place to eat in Indy and I heard they were damn near the best in the world," he said. "And they also said to try the shrimp cocktail."

Sixty-six people is not a cheap date. Clifford estimated that with dinner, drinks and tax, it likely cost Ochocinco about $7,000. The word is that he may do it again when the Bengals play the Colts during the regular season in November.

Another videotape of Brandon Spikes is making the rounds, and it's not good news for the former Florida Gator.

Spikes, you may recall, was caught on tape last year trying to gouge the eyes of Georgia tailback Washaun Ealey. Gators coach Urban Meyer suspended him for the first half of the Vanderbilt game, saying Spikes was retaliating after getting his eye poked earlier against the Bulldogs.

Now a sexually explicit tape of Spikes and a woman has surfaced. The NFL is investigating based on the league's personal conduct policy.

The agent for Spikes, a Patriots rookie, told ESPNBoston.com it's an embarrassing situation.

"It was something that occurred before he became an NFL draftee and a New England Patriot," agent Terry Watson said. "I think for anyone it would be an embarrassing situation. Brandon has shown to many people the kind of person he is before and after being drafted in the second round. He's hoping to put this behind him and looks forward to having a great football season."

Over three preseason games, Spikes ranks third on New England with 17 tackles.

A filing on behalf of basketball superstar LeBron James dismisses as "rank speculation" claims by a Washington lawyer that he is the athlete's biological father, saying the man has "delusions" about alleged family ties.

Lawyers for James and his mother filed papers in federal court Monday seeking to dismiss a pending lawsuit. Leicester Stovell alleges the NBA all-star and his family have been involved in a cover-up to deny paternity, by committing fraud and misrepresentation.

The 14-page document said Stovell had completely failed to prove any of the facts alleged in his June 23 complaint. And they said he was motivated only by fame and money, calling Stovell's actions a "fanciful hope for celebrity."

The lawsuit claims Stovell met James' mother, Gloria, in a Washington bar and restaurant in 1984, when she was visiting from Ohio. She was 15 or 16 at the time, and Stovell says they had sex only once, and was informed by Gloria James months later that she was pregnant. He claims she told him the child would be named LeBron, similar to Leicester Bryce, Stovell's first and middle names.

Stovell is asking for unspecified millions of dollars in damages, and says he has been trying for three years to establish paternity, which he hopes would lead to financial and commercial opportunities. He is a solo legal practitioner in the District of Columbia, and filed the lawsuit on his own behalf.

He alleges a DNA test that showed he was not James' father was falsified.

James' attorneys, Frederick Nance and John Burlingame, dismissed those suggestions in often mocking tones aimed at the plaintiff.

"Stovell's claims for millions of dollars from his putative son and Gloria James are based upon rank speculation," said the court filing, "that a man who claims that as a 29-year-old lawyer he got a 15-year-old girl pregnant during a one-night stand and who never contributed a penny in child support would earn millions in commercial endorsements by crawling out of the woodwork after the child he never gave a thought to became an NBA star."

James, a native of Akron, Ohio, recently left the Cleveland Cavaliers to sign with the Miami Heat for what is believed to be one of the richest sports contracts in history. He is the reigning most valuable player of the NBA, and has carefully cultivated a public image as one of the most popular and talented athletes.

The complaint filed June 23 by Stovell said, "I recently have concluded that a comprehensive, sophisticated and well-funded effort might well have been under way for quite some time, perhaps beginning in its present form as early as when defendant LeBron James was in high school, to frustrate identification of his real father, and that there is a likelihood that the father in question is me."

James' lawyers think otherwise. "Stovell may truly believe that he is the father of LeBron James, even though a DNA test has told him otherwise. But his delusions do not give rise to a cause of action against either Gloria or LeBron James."

Public records show Stovell is a former government attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He filed a lawsuit in 2002 against the agency, alleging racial discrimination. Federal court records show the case was settled when the SEC paid him $230,000, while not admitting fault.

Shaun Stegall, a star on Kennesaw State's basketball team from 2004-08, was shot and killed Saturday night following an argument at his father's Decatur residence.

Georgia's Dave Bliss, top, and Kennesaw State's Shaun Stegall, bottom, battle for a loose ball during a 2007 basketball game in Athens. Stegall was shot and killed Saturday night following an argument at his father's Decatur residence.

A "drug-related altercation" broke out between two unidentified gunmen and Gerald Stegall Sr., 57, in the 2400 block of Mellville Avenue, DeKalb police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. Stegall, 25, intervened and was shot repeatedly. He was pronounced dead a few hours later at a local hospital, Parish told reporeters.

The elder Stegall, who faces no criminal charges, was pistol-whipped, but his injuries were not believed to be serious.

His son's shooting came as a shock to the Kennesaw State campus, where Stegall emerged as a star after transferring from the University of Nebraska. He was one of just 11 players in the program's history to surpass 1,000 points during his career and twice led the Owls in rebounds.

"This is a very devastating and emotional time for all of us in the Kennesaw State basketball family," Owls head basketball coach Tony Ingle said. "Everyone who recruited and coached Shaun loved him. His mother and father, Tamika and Gerald, are just wonderful people and all of our thoughts and prayers are with them."

After graduating from Kennesaw State, Stegall played professionally for teams in Britain and Syria. The Stone Mountain native played prep ball for Redan High School.

His final game at KSU was easily his best, school officials said. Stegall scored 21 points to go with 18 rebounds, six assists and three steals to lead the Owls to a 65-61 victory over rival Mercer.

"Shaun is one of the primary reasons we were able to win our second straight Peach Belt Conference championship in 2005," Ingle said. "I have a lot of fond memories of Shaun the player, but also of Shaun the person."

Stegall's funeral will be held Saturday at Covenant Ministries Cathedral in Decatur, KSU announced.

The ring awarded to Muhammad Ali when he became boxing's first three-time heavyweight champion has been returned to Ali's former wife six years after she loaned it to a friend who was dying of cancer, her lawyer said.

"It's been a long road," said Veronica Porsche, who was married to Ali for 10 years.

That road ended Monday when a federal judge ruled against the friend's widow, who claimed it was a gift, not a loan, attorney Darren Enenstein said.

Collector Keya Morgan, who is an Ali family friend, said the gold and diamond ring is the "holy grail" of boxing memorabilia. Ali got it after the September 1978 decision against Leon Spinks that made him a three-time champ, Morgan said.

Porsche, who is a clinical psychologist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, loaned it to Dr. William Young in summer 2004 after she learned he was suffering from cancer.

Young had treated her husband, who had died from leukemia earlier that year, she said. "He had always been so supportive of us."

"It was a natural thing," she said, because Young was a fan of her former husband. Porsche thought the ring would give the doctor hope and inspiration in his battle with cancer, she said.

When Young died in November 2004, he still had the ring, she said.

"I didn't want to ask his widow immediately, so I waited a month or so and then I couldn't find her," Porsche said. "She had left town."

After six years of trying to find the ring, a private investigator located Phyllis Young in Phoenix, Arizona, and began a legal battle that ended this week, Enenstein said.

When Porsche filed a lawsuit against the widow seeking the ring, Young counter-sued claiming it was given to her husband by Ali as a gift.

"The ring was my husband's to keep and an assurance of the personal bond between them, my husband and Muhammad Ali," Young said in her suit.

While the doctor had treated the boxer once or twice, they were not close friends, Porsche said.

Muhammad Ali signed a sworn statement to help his former wife's legal battle for the return of the ring, Enenstein said.

It was handed over to Porsche in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday after U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson threw out the widow's counterclaim, he said.

The ring will eventually go to Laila Ali, the 32-year-old daughter of Porsche from her marriage with Ali, she said. The couple's other daughter, Hana, already has the ring the boxer was given when he became a two-time heavyweight champ.

The divorce of golfer Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren was finalized Monday, according to a joint statement issued by their attorneys.

The marriage's end comes nine months after allegations surfaced that Woods carried on several extramarital affairs.

"We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," the statement said. "While we are no longer married, we are the parents of two wonderful children and their happiness has been, and will always be, of paramount importance to both of us."

The judgment, issued Monday in Bay County, Florida, Circuit Court, allows for "shared parenting of their two children," their attorneys said in a statement.

The estranged couple asked for privacy as they "adjust to a new family situation."

In the dissolution of marriage petition filed Monday, Nordegren cites the marriage as "irretrievably broken" as the reason for divorce.

According to the document, the couple reached a settlement agreement July 3 in which they agreed to a joint parenting plan.

Both Woods and Nordegren agreed to waive the 20-day delay period offered in Florida before a final judgment.

"The parties have been separated for a substantial period of time ... and the delay would generate unnecessary public attention," according to the waivers.

The couple were married October 5, 2004.

Allegations of infidelity first began to surface in November when Woods crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and tree outside his family's home in Orlando.

The November 27 incident, which left him with a sore neck and a cut on his lip that required five stitches to close, also set in motion the crash of his storybook life.

A few days beforehand, the National Enquirer had reported he was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess, who denied it. But that allegation was followed by others, and Woods' tightly controlled world and image soon began to crumble.

Just after Christmas he entered a rehabilitation center, where he stayed for 45 days getting treatment for undisclosed "issues."

"It was to take a hard look at myself, and I did, and I've come out better," he said in April when he made his return to the PGA tour.

Woods also has acknowledged that he engaged in multiple extramarital affairs over the course of his nearly six-year marriage.

Former pro basketball star Jayson Williams was sentenced to an additional year in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated, according to the Manhattan district attorney's office.

Williams had a blood-alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit when he crashed his Mercedes into a tree in lower Manhattan in January -- just a week before he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for accidentally shooting and killing a limousine driver in New Jersey, the district attorney's office told reporter.

The year will be added on to the current five-year prison sentence the former NBA player is serving in state prison in New Jersey. He also was also slapped with a $16,433 fine to repair the tree he hit.

Williams had been sentenced to five years in prison after fatally shooting his limo driver, Costas "Gus" Christofi, in February 2002 at his New Jersey estate. Christofi had been hired to drive the former athlete and several of his friends to dinner after a sporting event in Pennsylvania.

The group, including four members of the Harlem Globetrotters, later went back to Williams' home. The prosecution argued that Williams was recklessly handling a 12-gauge shotgun when it discharged and that he and two others tried to make it look as if Christofi had shot himself.

Williams, who retired from the NBA in 1999 because of a leg injury, played nine seasons with the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Nets.

Wendy Wilson, who said she was Lorenzen Wright's former assistant, said she has been slandered since the day Wright's body was found.

"This is asinine," Wilson said. "It's really going to hurt them and not me."

Wilson filed lawsuits against three people in Chancery Court Thursday. She said her comments about Wright's death have resulted in a barrage of media misconceptions.

"It's going to stop here," Wilson said.

Wilson's troubles began when she showed up at the crime scene the day Wright's body was found and suggested investigators should question Wright's ex-wife, Sherra Wright.

"I mean, she saw him last," Wilson said. "The stories have changed. She went to bed at 10, woke up at 11, he wasn't there. I mean, what is really going on?"

Wilson said within days, radio talk show host Thaddeus Matthews gave his listeners her cell phone number.

"He used means of intimidation via large airwaves and had people call and threaten me and put me in a bad light," Wilson said. "And all I did was tell the truth."

Matthews admitted he gave out Wilson's number.

"To me, her lawsuit is frivolous," Matthews said. "And all I'd tell her to do is bring it on."

Wilson is suing Gail Mathes, Sherra Wright's divorce attorney, for $2.5 million for comments she made. She is also suing Commercial Appeal columnist Geoff Calkins for $1.5 million for what he has written about her.

Wilson said her personal knowledge of Wright's relationship with his ex-wife has helped with the investigation.

"I was the former personal assistant to Lorenzen Wright and I gave facts that were very helpful in this investigation," Wilson said. "No one has to tell me that, God has told me that."

All three people named in Wilson's lawsuits have 30 days to answer to her complaints, which should officially become public record tomorrow.

Mathes and Calkins did not return calls Thursday.

Vikings head coach Brad Childress said Thursday Percy Harvin is doing fine and will stay at Farview Southdale Hospital overnight.

Harvin vomited and collapsed during the team's practice Thursday morning at Winter Park and was taken away in an ambulance. It appears that the wide receiver suffered a violent migraine headache.

Harvin rejoined the team on Monday after missing two weeks at training camp following the death of his grandmother and a recent bout with migraine headaches.

Harvin started practice Thursday with the special teams unit, and his problems started when he looked up into the sky to catch punts. He was seen talking with trainer Eric Sugarman outside the locker room before Thursday's practice, then jogged to the field to watch practice. Shortly after, Harvin was seen vomiting and then collapsed.

The team's medical staff tended to Harvin, and after about 10 minutes, an ambulance from the Hennepin County Medical Center arrived and EMT's tended to him.

Coach Brad Childress said Harvin was unresponsive briefly, but was "stable" when he left Winter Park.

Harvin was sent in an ambulance to Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina for evaluation. After practice, members of the team went to the hospital to visit him. They included Childress, Adrian Peterson, Sidney Rice and receivers coach George Stewart.

Harvin, the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2009, has suffered from migraine headaches since he was 10. Harvin was scheduled to talk with reporters on Thursday for the first time since he left training camp on Aug. 1. It's the second time this season Harvin has had to go to the hospital because of migraine headaches.

Dr. Frederick Taylor, director of the head pain clinic at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital, told KARE that migraine attacks can be triggered by a variety of outside forces, including sounds, odors, bright lights and blows to the head -- which are common in contact sports.

"Bangs on the head are bad for all of us," Taylor said, "Migrainers are more sensitive to them. Professional football players unequivocally get them."

He said a lot of people who suffer from migraines aren't being treated because they mistake the pain for some other malady, such as a sinus headache, tension headache or allergic reaction.

"You can do a lot of things, but if your threshold is low, you've got a bang on your head, you've got insufficient other prevention, well it's very easy to have an attack," he explained, "The light could do it. Exercise could do it."

But those who begin missing work or school need to seek professional help, and look for ways to avoid the prevent the episodes or lessen the severity.

"This is a disorder that can be largely controlled, and so you control it more than it controls you."

Vikings tackle Bryant McKinnie told reporters Thursday that Harvin has encountered trouble finding medications and therapies that work long-term.

"He says he's tried everything, so hopefully eventually he can find something," McKinnie said.

"I think what happened today kind of lets the team know exactly how hard it is, because a lot of times it doesn't take place in front of us. So now, by people actually seeing it, they'll see it's not a joke."