Because of former Bronco Tyrone Braxton's drug-possession conviction, the organizers of his golf tournament took his name off the title this year.

"They assured me next year it will be back to the Tyrone Braxton tournament," the two-time Super Bowl winner told me. "There are no hard feelings on my part. I'm still doing what I got to do to get people to participate."

A full field came out to Lakewood Country Club on Monday to play in the FSN Rocky Mountain third annual Celebrity Golf Classic. The tournament raises money for Metro Community Provider Network, a nonprofit organization that provides health-related services to needy folks, and BOLD, an outfit that sends kids whose lives have been impacted by man-made and natural disasters to camp.

Braxton, who's on probation after pleading guilty in January to cocaine and marijuana possession, said the conviction was the reality check he needed to get his act together. "I had a press conference and said I had a problem with cocaine and marijuana - I did admit that," he said. "I owned up to my mistakes, and I've been doing well."

At the time of his conviction, Braxton was ordered to pay a $50 fine, complete 48 hours of community service and complete probation.

He says that the support of fans and other famous folks who have dealt with addiction helped him get through a tough time.

"When I came out and said (that he had a drug problem), I got 200 e-mails from people saying, 'I'm proud of you. You're a fighter, you can do it.' That was great encouragement to me."

In addition to staying clean, Braxton is trying to piece his 17-year marriage back together.

"We're still on a rocky road," he said. "My wife put me out for six months now. I've got to prove to her that I did change. She's a good woman, a great wife, a great mother. It's me that's been the problem."

NAME GAME: Kevin Fitzgerald, who works for McKesson Corp., a health-care services and information technology company, is often mistaken for veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald of Animal Planet's Emergency Vets fame.

They live in the same part of town and both have a full head of snowy hair, but the similarities end there.

When it was time for his high school reunion, Fitzgerald (not the doc) started getting e-mails from former classmates in Illinois.

"They were asking, 'Are you on Emergency Vets - is that you?' " he told me during the FSN golf tournament. "I got a call from (the other paper) once wanting to interview me. I said, 'You want the other Kevin Fitzgerald, he's taller.' "

NO DEAL FOR DAHLIA: Former Rocky society scribe Dahlia Weinstein has parted ways with Shine, a start-up lifestyle magazine, before the first edition has gone to press. Weinstein left the Rocky June 1 to pursue her dream of running a magazine, but "editorial differences" between her and publisher and CEO Zac Folk resulted in the split. She's pursuing other options in the publishing field.

EAVESDROPPING on a woman, eyeing a cleavage-baring woman at the FSN golf tournament: "I didn't know Victoria's Secret had a new line of golf attire."

Penny Parker's column appears Tuesday through Saturday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-AM (630). Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail parkerp@RockyMountainNews.com.