One of the great mysteries of the universe is how MJ Day, Senior Associate Editor at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED for the Swimsuit Issue, has less followers than I do on Twitter*. Considering she’s Twitpicking mind-blowing SI Swimsuit preview photos like this all the time:

*rubs eyes, shakes head, pounds fist, repeats*
That’s SI Swimsuit Model Irina Shayk […]

The first use of “redonkulous” I heard was Rick Reilly describing the obscene amount of money ESPN was paying him to bolt SI. Not a fan, except on the occasion of Chad Ochocinco’s UV ray-obscuring acquaintance:

(Source)
Her name Lizz Robbins and like you, I got Randy Hanson‘d when I saw her.

No idea how I missed this, but ESPN THE MAGAZINE’s “The Body Issue” included an impressive nude photo of LPGA golfers Sandra Gal and Christina Kim.

(Sandra Gal, Christina Kim)
Shot is after the jump. Definitely not safe for work!

Photo of Los Angeles Laker Josh Powell and his new bride Lauren at the NBA 2K10 Video Game Launch Party last month.

(My, what a fattering flattering angle)
I have a feeling their marriage is a smidge more legitimate than the Lamar Odom-Khloe Kardashian coupling, in which Lauren accompanied Powell.

Josh Powell’s Wife Lauren … Hot?

DaYEAHum!

Bless […]

In 1999, 17-year-old Findlay High School Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was featured in Sports Illustrated’s Faces In The Crowd:

Right next to the Super Bowl-winning QB in the feature that week was a high school mountain biker from Asheville, NC named Willow Koerber.

Like Roethlisberger, Koerber has gone on to a successful professional career.

Miserabilia weather at Penn State today for The U and the Lions.

You would figure the Minnesota cheerleaders are especially expert at warming techniques, and they certainly didn’t disappoint us at Happy Valley today.

(Foreshadowing)

We’ve been waiting all these years for Vanessa Bryant to breakout into the public eye, perhaps now she has her chance?

Egypt Sherrod reports this week that “sources are buzzing that Bravo TV producers are trying to add NBA superstar Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa Bryant to the cast of The Real Housewives of Orange County.”

(Kobe […]

Here’s some early video and photos of very attractive Brazilian female professional MMA fighter Claudia Gadelha.

Thanks to clips of her on Youtube and a recent “workout” video, Gadelha is now being compared to Gina Carano. But while Gadelha is still mostly under the radar in North America, in her home country of Brazil she’s exploded […]

Lately women’s tennis has been a letdown for hotties but fear not, I’ve found four absolutely staggering photos of two current players.

Above is Tatiana Golovin, who looks infinitely more hot than her SI layout. Below is Elena Dementieva.

Larger versions of the photos after the hump jump.
Nothing more to add.

Arash Markazi, who penned an epic piece recently in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED about Ron Artest, gives us another photo of Natalin Avci from Artest’s frightfully prescient photoshoot:

And to think I was just about to leave the house, damn you Markazi!