Down goes Fischer! Down goes Fischer!

Excuse us, we were just imagining the possibilities of a new sport featured in an ESPN.com story: chessboxing.

Like, is the first rule of chessboxing, don't talk about chessboxing?

Anyway, inspired by a graphic novel -- which some of us might call a comic book -- it's just like it sounds: It combines chess and boxing, alternating rounds of brain and brawn.

And people wonder, where are the new ESPN2 sports coming from? No word yet on whether chessboxing will be on ESPN2, but you know it's only a matter of time.

What's next? Ultimate checkers? You're going down like dominoes, dude!

Anyway, chessboxing is mostly a European thing. If you're really interested, check out the Berlin-based World Chessboxing Organization's Web site, site.WCBO.org.

You can even order T-shirts and stuff with the WCBO's logo (a boxing glove holding a knight) and motto on them: "Fighting is done in the ring and wars are waged on the board."

And honestly, it's just a coincidence the WCBO's marketing guy is named Christian Schrdder.

Pass the soap, Don

You mean they aren't singing "O Canada?"

No, Dial soap surveyed Canadian men about their shower habits, Canada.com reports, and just 16% said they sang.

But a full 40% said they'd like company in the shower, if only as a fantasy. Shania Twain edged out Pamela Anderson as the most popular choice among Canadian celebrities for that company. (So Shania could do the singing, we guess.)

But now comes the sports part: The survey also asked whom they'd like as their male shower buddy.

The favorite?

Don Cherry, of course.

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