Tamara B. Tootle, a teacher at Ernest Ward Middle School, Pensacola, FL pleaded no contest to six felony counts of third-degree bribery resulting from her daily one dollar charge for students to skip her gym class. Not only has Tootle lost her teaching certificate, but she will serve three-hundred hours of community service.

A school gym teacher is now in hot water after military police in the Brazilian city of Niteroi filed a case against him for teaching his students how to play football. Unfortunately for Assad Couto, the gym teacher at the Military Police Superior School, his students play "terribly," and the footballs always land in the parking lot of the neighboring Military Police Association and damage parked cars.

pparently at Planet Fitness in the Dutchess County village of New York, you can lift, squat, crunch and sweat all you want. But whatever you do, do not grunt. In fact, the no-grunting policy is readily displayed, along with "no bandannas, do-rags, or screaming," on the long list of dos-and-don'ts posted right inside the Planet Fitness door.

Billy Joel is moving out, and you can move in for a mere $37. 5 million. If you have the cash, then you can live in the singer's Oyster Bay Harbor home in New York, which sports five bedrooms, three full baths, three half-baths, and eight fireplaces.

The first gym for the mind opened for one night in London. The national Science Museum presented mentally challenging games instead of treadmills. Memory-enhancing tips were offered with traditional mental games like chess and Rubik's cube as well as hipper alternatives such as the Japanese puzzle Sudoku.