The gossip was right. A month ago, it was reported that Shaquille O’Neal and his supposedly estranged wife, Shaunie O’Neal, were back on the same team. They were spotted applying a full-court press on the beach in the Cayman Islands.

And now, nearly a year after filing for divorce, Shaunie O’Neal says they have changed their minds. Shaq’s divorce petition, filed in Miami in September, 2007, said their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

Apparently, that was only a brief time out.

"Neither one of us could probably answer why we were getting one in the first place," Shaunie told AP.

and for the new web site Shaunie is launching, this marks the end to the sometimes hilarious charges, suspicions, and counter charges.While it’s good news for the institution of marriage, and for the four children they have together — Shareef, 7, Amirah, 5, Shaqir, 4, and Me'Arah, 1 —

Babies out of wedlock while they were married (him), an affair with a female trainer (her), stashing money (her), selling their Star Island mansion in Miami in November to A-Rod, and apparently telling him a thing or two about divorce (him), selling items on eBay (her), and a new contract with the Phoenix Suns (him).

There was a prenuptial agreement when they married in December, 2005. Shaq’s divorce petition gave her physical custody (considering his new home in Phoenix, and his traveling schedule, that’s only logical) and allowed him liberal visitation rights.

Now Shaunie says that they plan to blow the whistle on the divorce proceedings. "Things have been going so great, that someone actually had to remind us that 'Hey, you do remember those papers are still there.' Literally, it was days ago," Shaunie said.

"So, we've agreed that before we leave Florida in a few days we'll make sure that that's gone away."

Unless all this has just been one big free throw.

Shaunie is clearly eager to draw attention to what sounds like a terrific web site and social network she is launching on September 1, www.mykidzastar.com, where parents can share videos of their talented (and not so) children. And she got us to write about it.

So it worked!