North Korea Pitchman Dennis Rodman Checks Into RehabS  Clutching
a badly frayed passport and a Nike duffel, former rebounding
legend and Michael Jordan acquaintance Dennis Rodman entered a
rehab facility in New Jersey. The trip to rehab comes after the
latest of Rodman's slumber parties with North Korean dictator
Kim Jong Un and an ugly meltdown in front of CNN reporter Chris
Cuomo.  Rodman's brand of "basketball diplomacy" — he recently
led a group of former NBA players in a very special exhibition
game for Kim Jong Un's birthday — has attracted lots of
criticism from people who think a bygone celebrity extolling the
virtues of one of the world's most repressive regimes is a
pretty crappy publicity stunt. As for his mission to convince
the world that Kim Jong Un is really a swell guy, Rodman has
been less than successful, insinuating recently that Kenneth
Bae, an American imprisoned in North Korea, probably did
something to earn his sentence. When pressed by Cuomo as to what
kind of a thing Bae did, Rodman f