News2Me (Feb. 18, 2009)

• Imprisoned NFL star Michael Vick's (above) suburban Atlanta home will be offered for sale to the highest bidder on March 10. The judge presiding over Vick's Chapter 11 bankruptcy case issued an order scheduling the auction Tuesday. The order sets an opening bid of $3.2 million for the eight-bedroom home in a gated community in Duluth, Ga.

• The Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. auction Tuesday took a pummeling as prices for racehorses continued to drop, looking more like the floundering stock market than a high-end thoroughbred sale. During the same sale one year ago, eight horses sold for $400,000 or more each. During this year's sale, none reached that level.

• The gloves worn by Pittsburgh Steelers Santonio Holmes when he caught the game-winning touchdown pass in Super Bowl XLIII were sold for $70,200 in a charity auction. Holmes was named the game's most valuable player after the Steelers captured an unprecedented sixth Super Bowl title by defeating Arizona thanks to Holmes' catch.

• Props used by 1950s television comedian Ernie Kovacs, including a pair of eyeglasses with images of eyes on the lenses, are being sold this weekend by a Dallas collectibles auctioneer. Kovacs wore the glasses when he was in character as drunken poet Percy Dovetonsils.

• The tumbledown farmhouse in Cumbria, England where Withnail and his hapless sidekick went on holiday in the cult movie Withnail and I has been sold for £265,000. A Cumbrian publican fought off seven rivals at auction to buy the house known as "Uncle Monty's cottage" in the 1987 film starring Richard E. Grant.