Hello, everybody. Lots of ground to cover as always on this Leap Day, so on with the show!

First up...the cover has been blown wide open. Britain's Prince Harry after ten weeks of deployment on the front lines in Afghanistan is coming back home, and it's partly thanks to the same website that broke the news of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky to the world ten years ago.

The prince, third in line to the throne, was deployed to the Afghan region in secrecy in December; it was subject to a news blackout deal struck between the British Ministry of Defense (equivalent to the U.S. Department of Defense) and the British and foreign media. But it wouldn't be until January when the Australian women's magazine "New Idea", German magazine "Bild", and the Drudge Report website here in the United States -- in which the "Allen Report" was based on -- all formed an alliance to break the embargo. And just a couple days prior to his withdrawal, some media crews were granted access to Harry for interviews.

By the way, it was the Drudge Report that out-scooped the traditional media in 1998 with the news of President Bill Clinton's sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky...which happened while our news anchors were covering Pope John Paul II's first and only trip to Cuba! But when the scandal broke, it was a red-eye flight to Washington for the first few days of the year's biggest story/real-life soap opera.

Why would they do such a thing about not keeping Prince Harry in Afghanistan under wraps? If I was "New Idea", "Bild", or Matt Drudge, I would keep my mouth shut about all this, because we could be fearing for the worst, i.e. getting killed without warning.

But even for a royal, I felt Harry served his country very well during those ten weeks. It's just that the foreign media put an end to it before things started to get a bit serious over there.

Well...basking in the glow of the headline-making "New York" magazine spread from two weeks ago, our favorite Marilyn Monroe wannabe Lindsay Lohan was back in the States this week after spending part of last week in Milan, Italy once again for its Fashion Week.

And even though the buzz already died down in time for the Oscars, some after-effects are still being felt. According to "Forbes" magazine, "New York" made over $500,000 in the first two days over the pics being on their website. I already reported on Monday about how its web traffic was up 2000% from last year, but what did Lindsay get for doing those poses although photographer Bert Stern was paid a fee for taking those shots? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!

That's the bad news. The good news: For the week ending February 23, web searches for Lohan as a result of those photos shot up 700 percent, topping the Lycos 50 followed by "Juno" at #2 with 475%. And now, Mr. "Playboy" Hugh Hefner wants Lindsay again as Marilyn in his magazine, this time re-creating the nude swim from the unfinished film "Something's Got to Give." I say one re-creation is good enough for us, unless of course Lindsay wears a flesh-colored thong to appear as if she's really naked.

Which reminds me...one time on the old "WWE (WWF for you old schoolers) Superstars of Wrestling" show, there was a feud between "Ravishing" Rick Rude and Jake "The Snake" Roberts with Jake's real-wife wife Cheryl participating in the storyline. One time after quickly defeating an opponent in the ring, Rude took off his red tights to reveal another that had an illustration of Cheryl on his crotch. A pissed-off Roberts surged to the ring and stripped Rude clean off his body. Even though they censored it for television with a big black dot and the word "CENSORED" underlined in red on the upper left of the screen to appear as if he was stripped naked, those in the arena actually saw him stripped to a thong. This was pretty much the WWE's answer to Yolanda Bowersley's wardrobe malfunction on "The Price Is Right" eleven years earlier, when "she came on down and they came on out", censoring her breasts with a big blue bar.

Anyway, last but not least...last week, we had the Super Bowl of entertainment; this weekend, it's the Super Bowl of dog mushing, the 36th running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. This year, a total of 96 of that sport's finest from around the world including defending champion Lance Mackey take on the always challenge 1,150 mile venture to Nome where anything along the trail could happen, from gale-force winds to bone-chilling temperatures up to -50 degrees to even unexpected twists and turns.

And this year, 15 of those 96 mushers will using GPS tracking devices for the first time in Iditarod history. If it becomes successful, then all mushers will have them next year. Of course, a fat check for $69,000 and the keys to a new $45,000 Dodge truck will be awaiting who crosses under the burled arch on Nome's Front Street first; so will Mackey shoot for back-to-back just like he did with the Yukon Quest this year? Or will Jeff King or Martin Buser tie with Rick Swenson for five...and speaking of Swenson, does he still have what it takes to make it six (since he almost repeated 30 years ago but Lance's father Dick stopped him by a hair)? Or will someone from out of the blue manage to pull of the upset of the century? Find out as "The Last Great Race" gets underway this weekend, so long long and stay strong!