So when I read that there was a fight at the Dodger vs Phillies game, I got all excited because I love a good bench-clearing fight. That was until I saw that fightless fight. Yawn.
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So when I read that there was a fight at the Dodger vs Phillies game, I got all excited because I love a good bench-clearing fight. That was until I saw that fightless fight. Yawn.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform during the coveted halftime show at the Super Bowl according to Billboard. I know I should be excited about this, but I just never got on the Bruce Springsteen train and I know I am one of the few who feels that way. Positive note at least we won’t have to worry about wardrobe malfunction unless his tight pair of jeans burst at the seams.

Pain.
Oh my goodness. This story is going to make your bones break. Well, Hungarian strongman Janor Baranyai made it to his first Olympics, but I highly doubt he’s going to treasure it much. As he was weightlifting, he disclocated his right elbow. View THIS to see more pictures.
Thankfully the paramedics went straight to him in a heart beat.
Thankyou Associated Press.
My dream man Michael Phelps deserves a BIG, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS!
And he deserves a million kisses, a billion hugs and a trillion roses for setting a new world record. He has won the most Olympic gold medals than anyone else in history. You know what this means? He’s going to be on every commerical related to sports, beer, HP, cereal, energy drinks, swim apparel, sunblock, and maybe chapstick.
Well- he def. deserves this attention. 11 Olympics medals ( and maybe two more to come). All we can do is clap and cheer and write his name on our chests!

Congratulations to Team USA!!! The score between them and New Zealand was 4-0!
This is very big for our soccer women because they don’t get as much credit as they should.
To get a minute by minute detailed report on the game CLICK HERE!

For those of you who were to drunk or busy or have been living under a cave…
Here’s an update Michael Phelps in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Before we begin, let’s examine that exquisite body. Look at the way he’s able to move like a beast in the water…can he move like that in bed? I would love to know and so would other Phelp fans.
He’s got three finals, three gold medals, three world records. In the 200-meter freestyle on Tuesday at the Water Cube, Phelps killed the field and even his year-old world record.
His time: 1:43. Holy shit. Second place, Park Tae-hwan of South Korea had 1:44. Damn it must have sucked to have lost by a second. Third place was Peter Vanderkaay who came in at 1:45. Michael Phelps now has a total of three golds and seven medals over-all.
Three down. Five more to kill,Phelps. Can he do it?

One World One Dream.
The 2008 Summer Olympics have started with a lavish opening ceremony in Beijing. It brings goosebumps to view such a remarkable moment in history. There are 80 world leaders situated in Beijing and approx. 500,000 guests. Another thing that makes this day so memorable is the Chinese counting on the lucky number 8.
Eight is an extremely lucky number in China. It’s pronounced as bah and it links to prosperity. The Olympic Games began at 8:08:08 p.m. on 8/8/08. That brings shivers down my spine. It’s incredible how fortunate Beijing was to schedule the Olympics on this day at that time. Some have lost faith in the number 8 because 88 days before the Games began there was an earthquake killing nearly 70,000.
However, numerous Chinese still believe that the lucky number will guide them to Gold Medals.
Good Luck to all the teams, and may the games be safe!
Well, former Sudanese refugee Lopez Lomong is most def. ready.
Why you ask? He’s been chosen to bear the Olympic flag. The remarkable story behind this decision lies with Lomong’s past. He is 23 years of age and has fled from the bloody civil war in Sudan at the innocent age of 6. He has spent 10 years in a refugee camp in Kenya as part of ” The Lost Boys of Sudan” generation.
Holy shit, I feel microscopic next to Lomong’s life. Thankfully, he was able to come to the US and gained citizenship last year. He qualified for the Olympics at the US trails last month along with Kenya-born world champion Bernhard Lagat.
Lomong has said: I’m here as an ambassador of my country and I will do everything I can to represent my country well. This is another amazing step for me in celebrating being an American.
Awe-inspiring. To be from a different country and to accomplish so many things. Millions of Americans should learn from Lomong’s story.

Everyone's nervous about the Olympics this year. The Chinese government's politicization of the ceremonies reminded sponsors and spectators alike of its human rights record, particularly in Tibet. Broadcasters are pushing back against restrictions on TV reporting. Athletes are concerned about air quality. In short, the Olympics are the same politicized mess they've always been, and more commercial than ever. How to keep everyone focused on the athletic action? Easy, just keep the cameras pointed at the lithe young hardbodies that flock to this competition every four years. And if that seems like a lecherous degradation of a noble event, remember this: the Olympians themselves are notoriously bad at keeping their hands off one another once they get eliminated from competition. Remind yourself by browsing this photo gallery of hot Olympic athletes past and present, curated by intern Nicola Gherson.
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Our hot soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo dumped his girlfriend model Nereida Gallardo last week!!!
Reports conclude that what ended the relationship was the lack of satisfaction. In other words, Nereida didn’t want Cristiano giving it to her from the back! Another report is that Cristiano’s madre thought Nereida only wanted the $$$. Nereida is heartbroken that she wasn’t able to make Cristiano happy in his pants. An insider reveals that she tried to read the Kama Sutra but was not able to understand how she could become so flexible.
Oh well, Cristiano is still a dime and he’ll get many sexually adventurous ladies in the very near future.

Nooooo!!!! Get well soon Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Manchester United sexy player will miss the new season after undergoing surgery on his ankle. After the European Championship he had claimed that there was pain in his ankle for the pas three months! The procedure was succesful according to the Manchester United. They even claim he will be returned to full fitness in one month.
The Real Madrid is going to get antsy because this means Ronaldo will stay with United for one more season. Ramon Calderon, Real Madrid president, isn’t 100% confident in transferring Ronaldo to their team…
All we can do is hope to see his sexiness back in the field ASAP!
Rafael Nadal owned Rodger Federer at the final Wimbledon match!
Nadal had a 6-4, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 6-7 victory against the number one tennis player Federer. Holy shit this match took 4 hrs and 48 minutes. Kudos to them for having the strength to play that long. Spain must be extremely happy to not only have this Wimbledon win but also to have the Euro Soccer title. “It’s unbelievable for me have a title here in Wimbledon,” Nadal said to The Telegraph. “I always, when I was a kid, I dream for play here, but to win is amazing.”
Dreams do come true…

Cut the shit Maria Sharapova, go do some drills.
We wonder why these amazing athletes become worse and worse at their sports. Well here’s a clue: The Media. Sharapova has been doing so many campaigns, ads and all the other cute shit that Hollywood is made for. And now at the prestigious Wimbledon, she decides to get screwed by Alla Kudryavtseva.
What the bloody hell is your problem Maria? You beat Serena Williams 4 years ago. Now you’re pathetic. Sharapova responded to the defeat:
“I guess it wasn’t my day. She just did everything better than I did.”
Well no shit sherlock. Of course she did better than you because she’s focused on the game and doesn’t have to do all the commercials and side crap you do.
Leave the glamor outside the court Sharapova.

This one is dedicated to the soccer lovers of the World.
A hero has fallen.
The three-time World Cup winner Pele
has been a victim of robbery and has even
been held up at gunpoint!
What the hell…he was in Brazil when his
car was caught in a traffic jam..some 10 ass-wipes
decided to rob him. Thats just messed up.
Here’s a guy whose a hero to not only Brazilian
soccer lovers, but to the rest of the soccer lovers
in the world. For him to be robbed in his country-
Brazil, is just ridiculous.
Someone kill please these bitches who attacked Pele.
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As much as that sucked for him to drop the ball like that, it was a great laugh for us! I wonder if he got the ball back?
John Mayer: some of us believe the crappy emo singer and blogger should take his guitar and go play in traffic; others believe he is hot, and therefore not that bad. But one thing we can all agree on is that he should not be a sports announcer. The evidence? This minute-long clip of him, for some reason, announcing a preseason baseball game in Tokyo. Which makes about as much sense as him supporting Ron Paul. Below, the video of Mayer's analysis of all sports occurrences: "Aaaaand, that happened!"

Click here to check out Irina’s SI layout!
And the Wiki says…
Irina Sheik (born January 6, 1986 in Yemanzhelinsk, Russia), born Irina Shaykhlislamova and sometimes credited as Irina Shayk, is a fashion model who has appeared on the covers of such magazines as Annabelle (Germany, May 2005), Jalouse (Greece, February 2006) and Bolero (Switzerland, June 2005). Sheik appeared in the 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as one of the 2007 Rookies and also makes an appearance in the 2008 edition. [Wiki]
And here’s a video made my the Japanese Horndogg Community:
Props to Pstroyer for the tip!

Check out Anne’s layout in the latest issue!
And the Wiki says…
Anne Vyalitsyna (Russian: Анна Вьялицына) (born March 19, 1986), also known simply as Anne V, is a Russian model.
Anne Vyalitsyna was born in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, formerly known as Gorky. Her father is a sports doctor for a soccer team there, while her mother is a pediatrician. She started her professional modeling career at the age of 15, after IMG scouts discovered her in Saint Petersburg, while looking for new faces for MTV’s Fashionably Loud Europe. She entered and ended up winning their modeling contest, along with a contract with IMG Paris, and later IMG New York. [Wiki]

Tori Praver is an American model perhaps best known for her appearances in the 2007 and 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has also done work for Guess?, Yamamay, and Liu-Jo. Tori was discovered by Cindy Kauanui of Jet Set Models after appearing in Outside magazine. She was on the cover of Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Cover magazines. Wiki
Check out Tori at her official website too.

And the Wiki says…
Tori Praver is an American model perhaps best known for her appearances in the 2007 and 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.[1] She has also done work for Guess?, Yamamay, and Liu-Jo. Tori was discovered by Cindy Kauanui of Jet Set Models after appearing in Outside magazine. She was on the cover of Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Cover magazines. [Wiki]

And the Wiki says…
Yasmin Brunet is a Brazilian supermodel who appeared in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
She owns a home in Ipanema and has a tattoo on her left foot.[2] She is the daughter of Luiza Brunet who has twice appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine (Brazilian issue). [Wiki]
Brazilian Playboy?! Holy God…

Tori Praver is an American model perhaps best known for her appearances in the 2007 and 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She has also done work for Guess?, Yamamay, and Liu-Jo. Tori was discovered by Cindy Kauanui of Jet Set Models after appearing in Outside magazine. She was on the cover of Cosmopolitan, Glamour and Cover magazines. Wiki
Check out Tori at her official website too.

When Marisa was Letterman last night, 90% of the interview was about the body painted pics. Check it below.
Held at 7 World Trade Center in New York City, Sports Illustrated made a splash with the launch of the 2008 Swimsuit issue on Tuesday night.
Bar Refaeli and all of the other SI models were on hand to help usher in another year of beautiful ladies in the tiniest bathing suits imaginable.

Check out Marisa’s bikini pics over here!
For those of you who don’t know, Marisa landed the cover of this year’s SI Swimsuit Issue, which hit newsstands yesterday. She’s been in this line of work for a while, so I think this might be her well-deserved farewell gift from SI editors. Many congrats to her.
Here’s more juice from the press release:
A seven-year veteran of the Swimsuit Issue, Miller makes her first cover appearance in a photo taken by Raphael Mazzucco during a two-day shoot on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, last October. Joining Miller in the issue are several other swimsuit favorites, such as Brooklyn Decker, Selita Ebanks, Bar Refaeli, Tori Praver, Daniella Sarahyba, Irina Shayk, Anne V and Jessica White each featured in unique pictorial essays.
NFL Cheerleaders make their debut in Swimsuit 2008 and the wildly popular bodypainting masterpieces return for the 10th time. Look for Will Ferrell in character as Jackie Moon from his new movie Semi-Pro together with Heidi Klum in a raucous treatment. IRL sensation and “Traffic Stopper” Danica Patrick makes her Swimsuit debut and yes, athletes wives show it off again!
“This is a visually powerful issue with numerous surprises that underlines the very best of the Swimsuit issue heritage,” says Terry McDonell, Editor, Sports Illustrated Group. “Creative Director Steve Hoffman, Swimsuit Editor Diane Smith and Senior Editor Chris Stone have topped themselves blending the tradition of the Swimsuit franchise with new themes and treatments that are spectacular.” [SI PR]
And, here’s a clip from her interview on Letterman last night…

Check out Bar’s bikini pics over here!
So yeah, I guess it’s safe to say that Leo has it pretty good. Damn him.

Credit: Splash via PageSix; Leo & Bar in Puerto Puerto Vallarta, Mexico last week.

And the Wiki says…
Jarah-Evelyn Makalapua Mariano[1] is an American fashion model. Mariano has appeared in MAC cosmetics ads, been featured in ads from Armani Exchange, Sephora, Abercrombie & Fitch, Victoria’s Secret, and Rock and Republic. Mariano is in Jay-Z’s “Show Me What You Got” video. She also appears in a several Old Navy commercials. She was the subject of Weber’s lens for Abercrombie & Fitch. She appeared in New York Fashion Week’s Rock & Republic Runway Show as well as Rock & Republic’s 2007 (Women’s) Fall Line. Mariano is the cover for the April/May 2007 issue of Complex magazine and is in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. She is represented by model agency IMG.
Mariano is of Hawaiian, Korean, and Chinese descent. [Wiki]

Ana Beatriz Barros (born May 29, 1982) is a Brazilian supermodel. She is one of the most successful Brazilian supermodels. She has done advertisements for Guess?, for Victoria’s Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez’s JLo fashion line.
She has been on numerous covers of magazines such as Glamour, Vogue, Marie Claire, Allure; Brazilian magazines such as Capricho and Audi magazine, W, ELLE to name a few.[3] Barros appeared six times on Sports Illustrated in the Swimsuit Issue (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008). Wiki
Check out Ana at her official website too.

Jessica White (born 1984 in Buffalo, New York) is an African-American supermodel, actress and cover girl.
In 2003, White was chosen for a coveted shoot in Sports Illustrated’s famed Swimsuit Issue. She was also featured in the 2004, 2005 and 2007 issues. In 2005, she became the first African-American model to be featured in three consecutive editions of the annual feature. Wiki

Credit: 2008 SI Swimsuit Issue
Will Ferrell seriously has the life that all normal dudes fantasize about.
Damn you, Will Ferrell, damn you!!!
And in other news: Will Ferrell finally finds out that the Internet is filled with Bastardly Haters…
The Elf star’s ego took a hard hit when he went surfing online recently - because he quickly realised how unpopular he really is. He says, “I would go online and I’d read one nice comment, then read another nice comment. Then the fourth comment could be, like, ‘I’d like to drag him behind a car.’” [Contact Music]
Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson (with tag-a-long Ken Paves of course) had a blast last night at the Key Club in Hollywood.
Metal Skool was playing and they insisted that Tony come up and belt out Journey’s 80s anthem, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’. Tony didn’t seem too hip on the idea until the band got everyone cheering, ‘Pussy!’ at him.
Guys are so easy to convince to do anything. Just call them a pussy and they’ll do it. It’s so simple. Heh.
We have to give it up for Tony though, he went through with it knowing he was going to suck. He still had a good time even though he couldn’t get Jessica to sing with him, and it looks like the crowd did too.

Tony Parker is suing paparazzi site X17 for publishing what might be fake text messages and information from the mistress who says that she slept with the NBA star.
X17 is known for taking upskirt shots of celebs, the umbrella incident with Britney, and many more instances of celebrity intrusion.
Well, Tony Parker isn’t going to have it and I say YOU GO! Parker is suing the paps website for $20 million dolllars.
Alexandra Paressant told X17 that she has sex with Parker after he was married to Eva Longoria, and while he was staying in Paris.
Parker has strongly refuted the claims, and has filed suit. Parker’s legal team claims, “X17 had to know that the story was false, or, at the very least, it had to have entertained serious doubts about the credibility of its supposed source.”

Believe it or not Venus Williams was hosting an event for womens leadership programs and global gender equality ad campaign. I guess when she saw it was about gender equality she got a hair style that made her look gender neutral..
Soccer star stud David Beckham took part in an all out celebrity soccer match to help those affected by the wildfires in Southern California. The event took place yesterday at the Home Depot Center. According to the Associated Press:
Beckham and the Galaxy will take on “Hollywood United FC” – a team comprised of actors Anthony LaPaglia, Jimmy Jean-Louis and Costas Mandylor, as well as several former World Cup players – in a friendly fund-raiser match to benefit those affected by the wildfires in Southern California.
Evidently Beck’s appearance helped to raise over $100,000. “It’s nice to be in that position and play out there and raise a certain amount of money,” David said.
We can’t help ourselves, we heart you Becks! Proceeds will go to the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
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Last night’s Sunday Night Football on NBC featured the hosts doing something not normally associated with all the spectacle of a late-night game: sitting in the dark.
The stunt was part of NBC’s Green Is Universal initiative — featuring one week of green themed television shows and eco-PSA announcements. The producers hit the lights and learned that “4 hours of power down in the studio could conserve about the same amount of energy it takes to power an average home for a month.” Wow, someone get these guys some LED replacements stat! From the article,
“In the end, preparing to kickoff the Green is Universal initiative on Football Night led to some small but tangible results. A number of staffers took mass transit to work instead of driving, hopping on a subway or taking Metro North from the suburbs. At least one started studying his electric bills going back several months looking for trends and ways to save. And even though we’ll go back to business as usual next week, with the lights on during our football studio shows, we will be turning the lights off in between shows, something we didn’t think do in the past until, during our preparation for tonight’s show, we determined that doing so will have a positive impact.”
Even thought the stadium remained aglow with energy that could power a town for a month, we give NBC credit for taking action to reduce the studio’s consumption, instead of just promoting the idea.
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There are the Nicole Richie-esq moms of the world who drink, smoke, dye their hair and eat as much sushi as they please while pregnant, and then there are the Katie Holmes-esq moms of the world, who manage not to do those things AND just happen to run a major marathon eighteen months after giving birth. Sure it helps that she didn’t exactly have to strap Suri to her back while training (one would assume, though who the hell knows with those crazy Scientologists) but still, running a marathon – especially the New York City one – is running a marathon, and it’s freaking hard! I don’t care how many other luxuries you have in life that make it easier for you – if you run a marathon, I’m going to respect the heck out of you.
Only hours after walking the red carpet at the L.A. premiere of Lions for Lambs, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes hopped an east-bound private plane headed for Manhattan, where sources confirm to OK! that Katie is planning on taking part in Sunday’s New York City Marathon.
As OK! exclusively reported several weeks ago, after months of secretly training in predawn runs in Beverly Hills and Berlin, Suri’s mom is scheduled to make her first-ever marathon run this weekend. The 28-year-old actress, who celebrates her first wedding anniversary to Tom on Nov. 18, will join thousands of other masochist runners, including cyclist Lance Armstrong, in the race that begins at the foot of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in Staten Island and works its way through Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx and then back to Manhattan, where everyone collapses in exhaustion in Central Park.
Assuming Katie makes it all the way, she’ll have quite a welcoming committee at the finish line, as several members of the Holmes family are flying in from Ohio to cheer her on. They’ll join her superstar hubby at the Finish Live Banquet at Tavern on the Green where they can watch the race on monitors, get updates on racers — “Go Katie!” — and be just feet away from the racers as they clock in.”
[From OK! Magazine]
I wasn’t really Katie Holmes’ biggest fan before this – what with the letting-yourself-be-brainwashed-by-Scientologists and the starring-in-Mad-Money-which-we-all-know-is-a-terrible-idea. But I have to say I think she’s pretty awesome right now. I set a goal a few weeks ago that in two years I will run half the New York City marathon. And that’s a freaking huge goal for someone who considers walking on her treadmill for half an hour pretty hardcore. Although I do wish I didn’t just put that out there for all the internet to hold me to, but there it is. So now I have extra respect for Katie Holmes – and the pain she’s about to go through. May the power of Xenu be with you.
Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Katie and Tom at the “Lions For Lambs” AFI Fest Premiere on Thursday. Images thanks to PR Photos.

(photo from Tabloid Rabies)
I am from NYC so I hate the Boston Red Sox, but their win gave me another reason to post this photo of this crazy fanatic.