OLY SWIMMER AMANDA BEARD PLAYBOY PHOTOS SURFACE: The new Amanda Beard nude PLAYBOY photos have officially wildfired the internet. Here’s a highly-edited, cursory glance:

Of course, Beard is in prime condition - as she must’ve consulted Hooters bikini contest participants on their three-week bread and water-diet before the shoot.

And though makeup mashup and photoshopping is of […]

GAY BLOGGERS FULLY BEHIND ‘BRUNETTE’ MATT LEINART: Gay blogs (male and female) are agog over Matt Leinart after his recent comment about former gay NBA baller John Amaechi - in a recent Q & A with ESPN Magazine.

Leinart: “My favorite article recently was the John Amaechi piece (ed. note: in ESPN Magazine, whatta coincidence!). That […]

WE REALLY WANT TO BE ELTON BRAND, AND HERE’S WHY: Elton Brand is one of the best players in the NBA, but you don’t download him dunking on YouTube, see him berate officials, hear about him having multiple children out of wedlock or observe him dating talentless famewhores. In other words, he’s off the sports […]

• HOOPS 4 THE SOUL reviews Game 1 of the NBA Finals, as the Spurs win ugly, while LeBron was LePew:

• Mark Daniels, a columnist and pastor from the Cincinnati area, doesn’t much care for Colin Cowherd’s child-rearing advice.
• SPORTS REVIEW MAGAZINE congratulates the Anaheim Ducks on becoming the first Cali team to capture the […]

CUTHBERT PROVES HER AFFECTION FOR GOONS IS NO ACT: Elisha Cuthbert guested on Conan this week to promote her new film “Captivity”, yet spent about half of her visit instructing the NBC host on the fighting techniques of NHL goons - and calling hockey players not willing to throw hands “pussies“.

Why would she do that? […]

*SHOCK* - PAT RILEY IS OFFICIALLY A COMPLETE A-HOLE: GOLFWEEK reports Duke University’s women’s golf team, winners of three straight NCAA titles, were unable to “print T-shirts with ‘Three-peat’ on them.”

The reason: Multi-multi-multi millionaire Pat Riley, who owns the trademark rights to the phrase ‘Three-peat’, “wanted to charge the Blue Devils a licensing fee to […]

SbB NOTED IN MPLS PAPER; TEEN GOLFER GETS 4 STRAIGHT: SbB gets a note of recognition from the MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, due to the recognition we gave Minnesota teen golf sensation Katie Detlefsen:

And big congrats to Katie for clinching her fourth straight state golf title. The Minnehaha Academy senior laughed her way to a 12-stroke […]

THE BLOGFATHER HAS A TOP TEN LIST YOU CAN’T REFUSE: Jamie Mottram, AOL FANHOUSE grand poobah and co-host of the delightful Blog Show, recently presented his Top Ten Sports Blogs:

The High Five:
1. Deadspin
2. SB Nation
3. SPORTSbyBROOKS
4. True Hoop
5. The Big Lead

Mottram compiled his “subjective-yet-educated list based on perceived traffic, quality and notoriety.”
And his boss’s boss […]

ESPN MLB DRAFT COVERAGE HAS ITS OWN MEL KIPER, JR.: So congrats to our ol’ college roommate at the Univ. of Georgia (and BASEBALL AMERICA guru) Jim Callis for knockin’ ‘em dead at the MLB draft on ESPN2 yesterday.
If the baseball draft is to take hold on television, ESPN needs another Mel Kiper to take […]

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