• Wealthy tax evaders are fessing up to the IRS in droves. The group chuckles over nostalgia for the days when it was totally cool to be a greedy d-bag. [WSJ]

• Lily Allen and Liam Gallagher get boozy on a plane ride, receive scolding from crew. Flight attendants failed to realize that plane rides are really boring, and it totally helps pass the time to hold a little, personal happy hour. [ONTD]

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[Mild rejoice. All photos via Getty.] eBay usually gets free publicity from users selling silly things on their site, like kidneys or Michael Phelps’ bong or a tampon that was DEFINITELY used by Britney Spears. This week (Monday through today from 1-5pm), eBay tried their hand at their very own Times Square publicity stunt, enlisting the likes of the screechy gay actor Mario Cantone to host a fun-filled “game show” called “Let’s Make a Daily Deal.” Monty Hill, a real live legitimate game show host, was also somehow involved. More»

• Nate Silver pores over polls like Emily Brill pores over her diary. Today, he examines what people really think about global warming. Basically they really don’t care. [FiveThirtyEight]

• Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean is set to make headlines with something other than her anti-gay marriage comments. Her grandmother confirmed that the beauty queen has been casually dating Olympian Michael Phelps. [Radar Online]

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• It’s only been open, what, about a week? But already Topshop is looking for a second location, focusing on Midtown [NYMag]

• Speaking of Topshop, spokesperson Kate Moss will NOT be doing a cookbook, so you’ll have to find your recipe for coke on toast somewhere else [StyleWatch]

• Hipsters rejoice! The Beatrice Inn isn’t going anywhere, will reopen next week, and they are having a party tonight [NYPost]

• So many reality shows to choose from in the coming months: reports of shows with Peaches Geldof, Daisy Lowe, even Bee Shaffer, and now, designer Samantha Pleet [Refinery29]

• Michael Phelps has returned from his little role model exile, back to celebrating that he’s a famous Olympic medalist who should be yelling “shots!” at Marquee whenever he can [NYDN]

[Michael Phelps and Eli Manning]

By Tim Morehouse and Jason Rogers

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Tuesday night at the Gehry designed IAC building, legends of New York City sports and several hundred guests turned out to honor Michael Phelps as the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year.

Special guests included New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, (perhaps a long lost twin of Phelps?), running back Brandon Jacobs, NHL Hall of Fame Ranger Mike Richter, Super Mom Deborah Phelps, NY Giants legend Carl Banks, several NHL players and yours truly Olympic Medalists/Socialites/Good Guys Jason Rogers and Tim Morehouse.

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Everyone in the world wants to know about Michael Phelps right now. What he’s wearing, where he’s eating, who he’s dating….Some advice to the girls that he may woo in the future:

Those girls better be careful. I’ve been hearing a lot about Phelps having some pretty strong swimmers. Or something like that. [Comment on Gawker by Valerie Flame]

[Michael Phelps At Chinadoll Nightclub]

After his amazing performance at the Olympics, Michael Phelps is doing, well, what anyone in his place would be doing, he’s living it up! Last night he went to China Doll, a new spot in Beijing, where he was being fawned over by a bevy of broads and admiring fans. And his rumored possible romances, U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard or British fashion model Lily Donalson were nowhere in sight…

Expect more info from this club, the current “hot spot” of Beijing later today.

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According to the IOC (International Olympic Committee) and USOC (United States Olympic Comitte) guidelines, Olympic athletes will be permitted to blog! IOC by-laws have traditionally only allowed people accredited as media to act as journalists or reporters, however, the amended guidelines read,

“The IOC considers blogging, in accordance with these Guidelines, as a legitimate form of personal expression and not as a form of journalism.”

Not a form of journalism!?! What has this world come to? We’ll show them…huff and puff. Now we’ll get to hear everything from the horses’ mouth. We can see what Michael Phelps has to say, or better yet Amanda Beard or Jenny Finch, without having it sugar-coated and varnished by NBC’s Bob Costas. Journalism shmournalism, I’m liking the sound of this.