Relationships

LOS ANGELES -- What flies between an athlete or owner and his/her significant other/others, theoretically, is none of anybody's business.

Derek Jeter breakups are best limited to double-play situations near second base. "Dennis Rodman on the rebound" is an announcer's call, not life after Carmen Electra.

After all, when it comes to sports, what's love got to do with it?

Well, only everything if your ace pitcher can't throw a strike because he lost three houses in a divorce settlement.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- People can die of a condition known as "broken heart syndrome," which researchers in Little Rock have found to be much more common in women than men.

In the first large-scale study of it, researchers found women suffer from broken heart syndrome 7.5 times more often than men, according to Dr. Abhishek Deshmukh, a cardiology fellow at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences who led the study, which was presented at the American Heart Association conference in Orlando last year.

Our thoughts turn to fuzzy varmints and spring as Groundhog Day approaches, but there's also the notion of second chances lurking in the shadows.

We can't help it. Ever since the 1993 "Groundhog Day" film etched Bill Murray's anguish of living the same day over and over again in our brains, that idea is inevitably linked to the yearly appearance of weathercaster Punxsutawney Phil.

And we naturally wonder, what if we could have a do-over? A real chance at redoing an event or decision in our lives -- perhaps for a different outcome, or maybe just for the simple joy of reliving it?

From mending broken friendships to staying out of debt, nine Top of Utah residents shared the things they'd most like to do over.

LOGAN -- Patrick Romero multitasked a Utah State University homework assignment into a platform to annoy his ex-girlfriend.

The student made a video essay, required for an English course, into an exploration of whether men and women can ever be "just friends."

"PRIME TIME: LOVE, HEALTH, SEX, FITNESS, FRIENDSHIP, SPIRIT -- MAKING THE MOST OF ALL OF YOUR LIFE." By Jane Fonda. Random House. $27.

Celebrities love giving advice, whether it's hunky Mario Lopez telling us how to work out or zany Jenny McCarthy counseling us on autism. Judging from some of their book and video sales, apparently we like to listen.

LOS ANGELES -- Social networking has been described as the contemporary way that people interact. While that may be true, an individual's social success in the virtual world doesn't appear to carry over into the real world, according to a new study.

Previous studies on how the Internet affects relationships have produced mixed findings. Some research shows that lots of social networking activity has a negative effect on social life while others suggest it enhances one's social circle. The new study, led by Thomas V. Pollet of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, examined 117 people age 18 to 63. They filled out an extensive questionnaire about the time they spend on instant messaging and social network sites, the number of relationships they had overall and the closeness of those relationships.

The researchers found that spending a lot of time online was not linked to having a larger number of "offline" friends. Moreover, the relationships of people who socialized online weren't any closer or stronger than people who didn't socialize online.

The average age of the study participants was 28, and it could be that age influences t