Have You Heard … ?

I learned three things this morning, two of which I really don’t care about but which apparently are big deals, and one that I do care about. See if you can guess which is which.

Texting Champ Crowned

Fifteen-year-old Kate Moore of Des Moines, Iowa, won the 2009 U.S. National Texting Championships yesterday. She beat 14-year-old Morgan Dynda of Savannah, Georgia and won $50,000 by being first to text an error-free chorus of “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.”

More than a quarter-million people entered the competition.

The sponsor – LG – is contemplating a global competition next.

Out of the Closet

“America’s Idol” runner-up Adam Lambert stepped out of the closet and declared himself gay.

He made the “not-so-startling” revelation via an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, admitting also that he did have a crush on Kris Allen, the Idol runner-up who Adam called the “cute guy.” So much for Clay Aiken, huh?

Chicken to Fly the Coop?

The San Diego Chicken is seriously thinking of hanging up his feathers at the end of the current baseball season.

Ted Glannoulas, 55, has donned the chicken costume and entertained national-wide audiences for 35 years. The chicken became the epitome of – and inspiration for – team mascots in many sports, particularly baseball.

Alas, Glannoulas is feeling his age. He’s taken so many lumps and bruises that (as he puts it) “the eggs come out hard boiled now.”

His only regrets? He’s never played Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park.