As far as I can tell, we're still a sports blog, so I guess there's no point breaking with that tradition of starting out our link dump with a token "hot chick" to get some cheap page views. So here you go, fellas: the cover of the 2009 Women of Curling calendar.
Sure, it might not rank up there with yesterday's hottie, but it'll do, no?
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No, the following clip is somehow not taken from an episode of Wonder Showzen. It's for real. And it's Amare Stoudamire taking part in "Dancy Dance Time" on a show called "Yo Gabba Gabba!", which airs on the Nickelodeon network in the U.S. I could try to say something clever about it, but... uh... just watch and thank me later.
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I'm not going to sit here and claim that I actually know anything about how trash talking works in the NBA, but I'm pretty confident that openly shilling for Jenny Craig might open a player up to some ridicule. Just a hunch. And while I'm not saying that Baron Davis won't be able to take the derision, it's safe to say that I'm still more than a little puzzled by his decision to be the subject of a People Magazine article where he claims that during the off-season "it's kind of hard to maintain [his fitness] day-to-day."
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In Gleefully Rubbing Salt In The Wound news, it seems that somebody-- that would be Mr. Irrelevant-- has taken the occasion of his long-overdue firing to dig up a photo of Matt Millen in some serious high-waisted sweatpants. And this is no action shot. It's thought-out, posed, sculpted down to the last detail-- well, at least, as close to those things as Pro Set ever got (Ray "Borque" my ass). And well... the man couldn't even pick out pants! This probably should have been the first indication that running a multi-million dollar football franchise might have been a little beyond his ken.
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I find it seriously difficult to care about whatever nonsense David Blaine is getting himself up to these days. But when he's taking punches from Kimbo Slice? Yeah. I'll watch that...
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Sticking with MMA, the Sun (UK) is reporting that former WWE Champion and Olympic Gold medallist Kurt Angle is in talks with MMA organizations, including the UFC, Pro Elite XC, Affliction and the IFL. "I can almost guarantee you’re going to see me in the Octagon," Angle says. Personally, I'd rather it be David Blaine than Angle, but this could do quite nicely.