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A glossy off-season for Avery?

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Times Staff Writer

Things you felt confident in saying about Sean Avery, New York Rangers forward and oddity:

He will never be vague.

He will never be working for Vogue.

Well, strike that last one.

Avery has applied to be an intern at Vogue this summer, Page Six Magazine reported, saying the former Kings player personally wrote a letter to Vogue’s editor.

Still, Avery has played the dedicated follower of fashion in the past.

In a New York Times Magazine story this season, he was asked about his black-on-black wardrobe.

“I’m a dark guy,” he said.

Considering his past derogatory comments about French Canadian players and his agitating ways on the ice, Avery may be confusing “dark” with “dim.”

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Trivia time

Who is the only male athlete to appear on the cover of Vogue?

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The Madden-ing crowd

GameDaily Biz, a website that covers the video game world, posted a “scoop” this week, announcing, “GameDaily Biz has discovered that Electronic Arts is preparing to announce recently retired Green Bay Packers quarterback and three-time AP MVP Brett Favre as the cover athlete for the upcoming Madden NFL 09, which is slated to hit store shelves on August 12.”

Skip the Madden Curse lines; GameDaily Biz? Guys, get outside of the house once in a while, will you, even if it’s only to stand in line for the next “X-Men” movie.

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The price is not right

A bat autographed by pitcher Tom Seaver had reached $91 in a bidding war on eBay.com as of Friday afternoon.

Seaver was a .154 lifetime hitter.

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Political football

A Paterno was taking heat in Pennsylvania last week, though this time it wasn’t Joe Pa.

Penn State quarterbacks coach Joseph “Jay” Paterno was in the spotlight, not over who will be under center for the Nittany Lions this fall, but for his public endorsement of Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary.

Paterno, the head coach’s son, told the Philadelphia Inquirer, “Joe Sarra [a former assistant coach] once said to me, ‘A turtle can’t cross the road unless he sticks his neck out.’

“This is too important to worry about whether people are going to take shots at me. And they will.”

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His father probably felt the same way the year he threw his support behind Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt.

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To errand is human

New England Patriots’ quarterback Tom Brady has been hounded by photographers in New York recently, with some having portrayed him as a mere personal assistant for significant other Gisele Bundchen.

It reached the point last week where members of the paparazzi reportedly were chanting “errand boy, errand boy, errand boy,” when Brady was picking up Bundchen’s mail.

Note to those photographers: Brady was going home to Bundchen, a Victoria’s Secret model.

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Trivia answer

The Cleveland Cavaliers’ LeBron James.

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And finally

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford told the BBC this week that the reason he is ready to invest in the English cricket league, Twenty20, is because it “has the potential to be the most popular team sport in the world in maybe less than 10 years.”

Or maybe more than 10 years.

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chris.foster@latimes.com

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