Minor league team plans to honor Miss Colombia with "Runner-Up Night'

In honor of Steve Harvey's colossal Miss Universe Pageant flub Sunday night, the Frisco RoughRiders, a Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers, announced plans to salute plenty of other all-time great second-place finishers with “Runner-Up Night” at Dr Pepper Ballpark this spring.

Seeing a silver lining inside the universally ridiculed mishap, the RoughRiders are planning to promote an evening celebrating Miss Colombia and all other fantastic second-place finishers the world has known on April 26.

Mark your calendars: April 26 we honor #MissUniverse2015 flub w/ "Runner-Up Night" Details ➡ https://t.co/0kNxD9Ej3S pic.twitter.com/AtW2ZgzMlj

— Frisco RoughRiders (@RidersBaseball) December 21, 2015

“Although it may appear that Miss Colombia has lost, she really has won,” said RoughRiders Executive Vice President and General Manager Jason Dambach. “In a world in which everyone competes to be first, we have decided to honor how special a second-place finish can be. It’s something to be proud of and celebrated.”

Although most of the hoopla surrounding the legendary goof will probably be a memory by baseball season, the Riders have extended an invitation to other famous second-placers including both Jim Kelly, Andre Reed, members of the Buffalo Bills during their four-year stretch of runner-up finishes in the Super Bowl (1991-1994) to attend the event. 

The team will celebrate other second-place finishers including Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera (runner-up on Star Search); Adam Lambert and Clay Aiken(American Idol); Carrie Underwood and Michelle Obama (High School salutatorians); Al Gore and Mitt Romney (2000 and 2012 presidential elections); and Cowboys running back Darren McFadden (two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up).

Like all Riders home games, fans will have the chance to participate in on-field games, but on Runner-Up Night, prizes will be awarded to the second-place, not first-place, finishers. Other in-game promotions include a seat upgrade to the "Second-best seat in the house."

The club also plans to host an in-park beauty pageant throughout the game. Any fan that can prove a second-place finish in a beauty contest or pageant at any level will receive a free ticket to the game between the RoughRiders and the San Antonio Missions.

Just remember to check the spelling on the invites.

Miss Universe Olivia Culpo denies romance with Ryan Lochte

Miss Universe Olivia Culpo threw some cold water on the rumors of a romance heating up between her and Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte.

Culpo, the beauty who took the Miss Universe crown last month, told "Extra" host Maria Menounos that she was going to "just go with the flow" and sounded like the only thing that the two share right now is an affinity for bathing suits.

"Rumors are rumors," she told the entertainment show host from Times Square.  "At the end of the day, we're just friends. I'm happy with that."

Lochte, who has tested the waters as an gossip show reporter and sitcom actor since winning Olympic gold, has been linked to  Culpo since he met the auburn-haired Miss Rhode Island at at a Manhattan party during Fashion week in September. He even made a splash back then with the pageant owner Donald Trump who said they made a nice pairing.

Too bad Culpo, who is single and looking to date, isn't as fired up about Lochte as she is about the pageant's head honcho.

"Mr. Trump is an amazing person . . . I think I have the best boss."

You're hired.

Osi Umenyiora hits on Miss Universe

The New York Giants are in the midst of a modest one-game win streak and — considering the team's history of second half season swoons — they'll take it.

Better yet, if it's because of Osi Umenyiora's new good luck charm — Miss Universe Leila Lopes — we'll take it.

The Giants defensive end was seen "hiding out" in the back of Manhattan's Empire steakhouse with the   world-class beauty on Monday during a party to say farewell to her title.

Lopes, the first Angolan to ever win the title, was seen with the Giants two-time Pro-Bowler the night after Osi's team pounded the Green Bay Packers at MetLife Stadium.

Insiders are hoping she sticks around New York until after the playoffs "to keep his good luck coming," reports Page Six of the New York Post.

Giants fans might just want the 25-year-old Lopes to hang around anyway.