Obligatory Sports Babe

So, On 205th says that this is Andreia Vilas Boas, who is apparently the daughter of Jorge Cadete, the Portugese striker who played in the late 90s for Sporting, Celtic, Celta Vigo and Benfica. I actually have no reason to think that it might really be her, except what one webpage seems to be saying, but… who cares? Amiright?

About Time

Yahoo’s Jeff Passan, fresh from his hissy fit over JP Ricciardi not trading Roy Halladay, has discovered Fangraphs. “I have found baseball nerd heaven,” he says. “Even mathematical dimwits like me can figure it out.” Another one bites the dust.

Obligatory PEDdling Of Ideas

“The list of possible leakers of the list is as long as the entourage behind every player,” concludes Lisa Olsen in an outstanding rundown of what it is we might be able to do about “the list”—the supposedly-anonymous, should-have-been-destroyed list of MLB players who tested positive during a 2003 survey—at Fanhouse.

Quickly

Leading Islam experts in Germany are reviewing a FC Schalke 04 anthem, because it references the Prophet Muhammad, says the BBC.

“Pete Rose will now officially become eligible for the Hair Dye Hall of Fame,” writes the Onionesque Derf Magazine.

Bill Simmons jumped the shark a long time ago, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t see a whole lot of crazy awesome at a sports collectors convention—which he shares in a photo gallery at ESPN.

Never put your treadmill against the wall. I’m serious.

Thierry Henry

“What you need is history,” said Thierry Henry, who the New York Times thinks could be “the no-looking-back traction [soccer in America] has missed since Pelé,” if he moved to the MLS, discussing what is needed to “make soccer blossom” in the United States. “When you talk about baseball,” he said, “you talk about Babe Ruth, when you talk about basketball you talk about Michael Jordan, Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Pistol Pete Maravich. You grew up having a history and idolizing someone.”

Brew Drees

What can I say… I’m a sucker for these Sport Science clips. They’re kind of nails. I mean... apart from the Drew Brees cock sucking.