Another black eye for newspapers: the Los Angeles Times eats up a con man’s tissue-thin lies for a story that pins a 1994 Tupac Shakur shooting on hip-hop mogul Puff Daddy. Score: 38

In his new telleven-more-all book, steroidal ex-slugger Jose Canseco fingers Alex Rodriguez as a juicer without facts or full explanation. Must be lonely in the gutter. Score: 73