• This weekend is, of course, the All-Star weekend at Fenway in Boston and as a part of the festivities, Major League Baseball hosts a Celebrity All-Star Hitting Challenge. Essentially, it’s 4 teams made up of a celebrity, an All-Star, and a former Red Sox All-Star. Matt Damon was the captain of his team, which consisted of former Dodger Steve Garvey and former Red Sox great Jim Rice. Damon’s team won the competition, beating the likes of Kevin Costner, Doug Flutie, and George Brett. After Damon was done hitting, Stuart Scott of ESPN was talking to him and he said it was thebest time of his life, even better than winning the Oscar. He’ll definitely be rubbing that one into Affleck, who was stuck in Hollywood and couldn’t go.
• Speaking of Damon, The 11th Hour gives the guy 30:1 odds on playing Anakin in the next Star Wars prequel. Anything butDiCaprio, we say.
• Those of you who volunteered to work at WizardCon should have gotten your acceptance letters by now, we hear. Part of the letter reads:

Have a good time, and send in those scoops! We can’t make the trek, just too damned far on our paltry budgets.

• Note: This is totally unconfirmed by us, but a scooper says he thinks he spotted a glimpse of tag team Jay & Silent Bobin a promo for the new season of Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV – Can anyone confirm? This would go WAY back to a suggestion we made here almost a year ago. Pretty cool if it came to fruition.
• The Juicy Cerebellum (a small but moderately popular online movie mag/personal site) recently held a readers’ poll todetermine the Top Fifty Movies of All Time… Clerks, Mallrats and Chasing Amy were all included, the former two within the top twenty.
• Another small Dogma site has popped up on the web, this one dedicated to being AGAINST the Catholic League’s protest ofDogma! Interesting concept. Doesn’t look like the editorialize too much, in fact, they printed most of the League’spress releases and propaganda against the film. They link to us, though, so they’re cool in our book!
• Finally today, here’s something cool that was just uncovered – Oni Press’s Grrl Scouts, issue #2, gives our site a friendly plug in the back of the issue, in references to Oni Press stuff on the web. They say, “…For all the latest Kevin updates, www.newsaskew.com is invaluable. The webmasters keep it updated regularly, and often seem to know things even before we do.”. Hey, we try! Thanks, Joe & Jamie!