"Oh well, there's always darts," shrugs the Sun. But, hang on - there's Scrabble, too, and a story in the Times offers some hope for a second career for Hamilton, Wilkinson et al.
The paper reports that a new British champion of the game was crowned last night - the former international decathlete Paul Allen, who turned to Scrabble after a shoulder injury ended his athletics career. He won the title with "skitter", played for 81 points on a double word score, having also included fatwa, genii, ai (a three-toed sloth from South America, of course) and ... bum.
The Times reports that, as the final was played out in a darkened room to whispers and the hum of computers, 200 Scrabble enthusiasts loudly debated the players' every move in a nearby auditorium. Words such as "otitis" - an inflammation of the ear - received rapturous applause because it was judged to be the optimum play at the time. Mistakes were greeted with groans and knowing looks.
Audience members were also treated to a sometimes baffling commentary from Mark Nyman, Britain's only previous world champion. "I like Cs," he said. "Cs are very underestimated in the game."
This is an edited extract from the Wrap, our digest of the daily papers.
