If you missed the latest, Wie was disqualified from the LPGA's State Farm Classic over the weekend for leaving the scorer's tent without signing her card in the second round.

She was in second place during the third round when it was discovered, and she was booted.

Now, there is news that she is planning to play - again - in a PGA Tour event against men when she tees it up at the Legends Reno-Tahoe Open next week.

She has yet to make the cut in a men's event and has not earned enough money to even earn her playing card on the LPGA Tour.

You can't really blame the Reno-Tahoe organizers for offering her an exemption. It will put their tournament on the radar opposite the World Golf Championship, which will draw the top men.

You can't blame Wie, either, because she has only one more exemption left this year on the women's tour.

But it will be a topic that gets people talking, and that's why the Golf Channel ought to jump on this.

There are lots of potential names for the show:

Wie TV.

The Amazing Waste.

The Contender (But Never a Winner).

For Love of Money.

It would get much better ratings than The Big Break XXXIV or wherever they are now with that show.

Plus there's the potential for all kinds of intriguing characters:

Michelle: Tthe talented teenage phenom nicknamed "The Big Wiesy," who reportedly smacks 300-yard drives between trips to the shopping mall.

Is she spoiled and undisciplined, or is that just redundant for an 18-year-old?

B.J.: Michelle's meddling father, who started out caddying for her when she was an amateur playing in professional events. He eventually had to give way to a professional caddie, because, well, he didn't know what he was doing.

Bo: Michelle's mom and the quiet force behind the family. She is the one who taught both B.J. and Michelle how to play golf, but evidently neglected to give them a rulebook.

Robin: As in Lopez, the Suns rookie who has been romantically linked to Wie. She has publicly declared that they're only friends. What better way to find out than on a reality TV show?

Anyway, few figures in sports are as polarizing and controversial as Wie, and that makes for good TV.

Time magazine once named her one of the 100 people who will "shape the world."

First, of course, she needs to learn how to shape shots. And perhaps her own future.

Although she has yet to win an LPGA Tour event, Wie has contended in some major championships and has declared her desire to play against men and someday qualify for the Masters.

She has a huge endorsement deal from Nike and drives television ratings and galleries at LPGA Tour events, much as Tiger Woods drives them for PGA Tour events.

But her young career also has been punctuated by trouble:


• In 2007 she withdrew during the first round of Annika Sorenstam's tournament, claiming a wrist injury.

She happened to be flirting with the "88 rule" at the time - which prevents a player on a sponsor's exemption from getting more exemptions that season if the player shoots 88 or worse in an LPGA Tour round.

She showed up at the next tournament site hitting practice balls, with no apparent wrist issue.

• In 2006, she was penalized 2 strokes for grounding her club in a bunker at the Weetabix Women's British Open.

Her caddie, Greg Johnston, told her that she could not move or touch a piece of moss behind her ball, but she brushed it with her club in her backswing, incurring the penalty.

B.J. and Bo reportedly were visibly angered after the round, and the caddie ended up getting fired - via a cellphone call from Wie's agent as he waited in line at the airport.

She has had eight caddies since.

• In 2005, she began her pro career at 16 with a disqualification when she took an illegal drop, then signed the incorrect scorecard.

• In 2003, she was playing in the U.S. Open at the tender age of 13 and stomped on Danielle Ammaccapane's line on the green. Ammaccapane lectured her on etiquette and took some heat for it.

As it turns out, maybe Wie could have used an entire lecture series.