By all accounts, The Weather Channel is worth $5 billion or more, and likely bidders CBS, NBC Universal, Time Warner, Comcast, and News Corp. are lining up for the chance to be the new owner of Landmark Communications' channel.

It's also the place where Bob Stokes would ask fellow co-anchor Hillary Andrews, "Will you lick my swizzle stick?," according to arbitration documents obtained by, who else, The Smoking Gun. As the docs show, Andrews won her sexual harassment arbitration case against TWC and Stokes, and now the channel is trying to keep everything under wraps.

Andrews won't have anything to do with that, claiming network brass "turned a blind eye to the harassment because her co-anchor, Bob Stokes, was popular with viewers and scored high ratings." So she's trying to put the documents in the public record, filing them as part of a lawsuit against Stokes in Georgia state court.

Which is probably for the betterment of society: Stokes is a creep.

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Knicks coach Isiah Thomas found sort-of guilty on sexual harassment charges. CNN reports:

A jury ruled today that New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas sexually harassed a former top team executive, subjecting her to unwanted advances and a barrage of verbal insults. After an ugly, three-week trial, the ruling gives Thomas a partial victory in the $10 million lawsuit filed by Anucha Browne Sanders.

Chin up, Isiah. Why, with the right pedigree, you just might parlay this "partial victory" into a successful campaign for Mayor of New York City, or President of the United States, or, hell, even a seat on the United States Supreme Court.

Besides, it's not exactly like any of this is gonna "ruin" the Knicks' chances for the post-season.

Update: Browne Sanders to receive punitive damages from the Knicks, although not from Isiah directly. [Stereohyped]