Dirk Nowitzki: A spectacular, movie-like ending to one of the five most bizarre sports stories of the summer – Dirk Nowitkzi’s former live-in girlfriend, the one who claimed to be pregnant and had a criminal past complete with aliases and is going to jail for five years … was never pregnant. A massive sigh of relief for the best German basketball player in NBA history. This whole drama has the feel of an NBC movie-of-the week, possibly starring Elizabeth Berkley, Meagan Good, or Eva Mendes. The athlete is a tougher role to nail … tall guy, a modicum of athletic ability, unruly hair … Ashton Kutcher needs work, right? [Marc Stein]