Fifteen yards for being spoilsports: Washington state’s high school football referees are suing for the right to use pink whistles during games to benefit a cancer charity. The suit follows a decision by two state youth athletics associations to discipline game officials who wanted to use the pink whistles last year during high school games.

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association and the Washington Officials Association should take it as a bad sign that the judge assigned to hear the suit uses a big pink gavel.

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Married to the Mob: A new Las Vegas museum, the Tropicana’s Mob Experience, showcases Sin City’s connection with organized crime and its mobster founding fathers but has been criticized by some for glamorizing the Mafia and its brutal killers.

Really. What right does Las Vegas have to glamorize mobsters when Hollywood has been doing it so well for so long?

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Men behaving badly: Former presidential candidate John Edwards, D-Schwarzenegger’s Guest Room, pleaded not guilty to felony charges that he violated campaign finance laws by using gifts of cash to conceal a mistress and his out-of-wedlock child.

New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-Oscar Mayer, thanked Edwards for putting things in perspective.