Okay, I admit, I watched a season of Dancing With the Stars solely because my favorite athlete Hines Ward was a contestant. And he ended up winning the whole shebang! Just like his NFL comrade Donald Driver -- a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers -- who took home the mirror ball trophy in the most recent season.

But that got me thinking -- there are so many athletes who are fantastic on the show. Perhaps all their athletic training and natural coordination give them a leg up on the rest of their competition? That's probably a given, seeing as athletes like Kristi Yamaguchi, Apolo Anton Ohno, Helio Castronoves, Shawn Johnson, and Emmitt Smith have all won in previous seasons. Many athletes have been runners-up, too.

So, let's check out some of the best dances performed by professional athletes, shall we? Okay! Cool! Let's go!

I can honestly say that I would be furious if I were one of the parents whose special needs child was referred to as "mentally retarded" in the Mesquite High School yearbook. Furious. So I think the Texas school did the right thing by pulling all the yearbooks when the offending language was found (in a section meant to "honor" the special needs students, by the way), no matter how long the rest of the kids have to wait for an edited version to be printed.

I can also honestly say, as someone who worked on her high school newspaper and yearbook, I'm kind of amazed that more yearbooks don't get published with, and subsequently pulled for, offensive language.

Why? Because teenagers are in charge of putting yearbooks together! And teenagers don't know what they're doing half the time!

Wait, some schools still allow teachers and students to be Facebook friends?!

That was my first thought after hearing this story about the outrageously homophobic Facebook comments made by a Kansas middle school teacher. Then I read the actual comments and thought, Whoa, this is one seriously messed-up individual. Some school is allowing him to teach children?!

Jack Conkling, a teacher at Prairie Middle School, was apparently none too pleased by Obama's move to support same-sex marriage. Okay, already I have a problem with this guy. But then he went on Facebook and things got much, much worse ... especially because many of his FB friends also happen to be his students.

For anyone who didn't realize how divisive a topic breastfeeding was, last week's Time magazine cover controversy made that fact crystal clear! Now, a mini firestorm has broken out on Twitter, similarly set off by the image of a woman breastfeeding her baby girl ... in the form of a Twitter avatar.

The woman, Arwyn -- who uses the Twitter handle @RaisingBoychick and runs a blog by the same name -- says she practices various aspects of attachment parenting like co-sleeping and extended breastfeeding, which is totally her prerogative. But for some Twitter users, Arwyn's avatar photo takes her parenting philosophy one step too far.

One user in particular, @juliewashere88, started an all-out tweet brawl when she went after Arwyn last week, tweeting, "Just because you've got an infant sucking it does not mean anyone wants to see your tits. Keep those pics to yourself. #childfree" Hoooo-boy!

Schools are giving out suspensions like they're pencils. Actually, scratch that -- considering the amount of pencils I end up buying from my kids, schools are actually more generous with suspensions than they are with pencils.

Just look at some of the most recent cases of kids being suspended: There was that honor student suspended for hugging his friend, the young cancer survivor suspended for growing her hair for charity, and, my personal favorite, the 6-year-old who got suspended for singing LMFAO's "I'm Sexy and I Know It." Oh, and don't forget about the high school seniors who got suspended for that no-damage Post-It note prank!

Honestly, I could go on for days. But I won't, because then I wouldn't be able to tell you about the latest ridiculous reason a kid got suspended: For shaving the image of a basketball player into his hair.

Lexi ThompsonLexi Thompson, an LPGA teen sensation from Coral Springs, Florida, hasn't had the most typical teenage experience growing up. She had to be home-schooled due to her insanely busy schedule and she has to miss graduation because she'll be out on tour. So it's great she'll get a little slice of "normal" teenage life by being able to go to her prom.

But what makes this story even sweeter is that she chose her date by creating a contest to honor Wounded Warriors, which provides services to injured servicemen and women. She first thought to ask another athlete or actor, but instead gave an all-expenses-paid weekend of fun to Lance Corporal Mark Scott, a Marine active reservist and Purple Heart recipient from Naperville, Illinois. 

From going go-kart racing to appearing on "Fox and Friends" to taking a trip to the gun range then the golf course, it sounds like a weekend both of them will never forget!

Good news for over 50 teens in Indiana: Suspensions are being lifted for those behind the Cascade High School senior prank involving 12,000 Post-It notes stuck on the walls and windows of the school (in a variety of colors and patterns, many of which were quite lovely, actually), as well as the dozens of other kids who staged a sit-in to protest the prankster's punishment in the school gymnasium.

Even better? The custodian accused of helping the kids stick it to da man apparently will NOT be fired after all.

This is like a fairy tale! The school administrators actually came to their senses! That almost never happens!!!

Perhaps the seniors' explanation for their "offense" put the matter into perspective ...

Well here's something you don't see every day. Nick Mangold, the center for the New York Jets, got his chest waxed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Of course this is something you're gonna want to see.

Jimmy does a segment on his show called "Wax On, Wax Off." A "randomly chosen" audience member was asked a set of trivia questions to win some money. Why is "randomly chosen" in quotes? Because the guy they picked happened to be a self-proclaimed New York Giants fan. If he got any questions wrong, Mangold would pay for them with his chest hair.

Since the questions involved Lithuanian Prime Ministers and filling in quotes by Chaucer, Mangold's chest hair was doomed from the start.