We’re obsessed with Paul Lukas’ UNI WATCH BLOG. Every day he’s got something in there worth discovering. Today, Lukas has a post on the joy(!) of cigarettes in sports. He’s got plenty of photographic evidence, including this bloody smashing SI cover of Dick Allen:

We’d love to have sat in on the SI editorial meeting that selected the opening sleeve for that issue. Then again, it probably was pretty boring, since the cancer stick probably never came up in the discussion.

Our contribution: a classic print ad of former NY baseball Giants announcer Russ Hodges clutching a cancer stick as he makes the most-famous broadcast call eva:

It certainly now is one of our great regrets that the only cancer-causing agents employed by athletes are invisible to the ticket-buying masses. Now if only Jim Leyland will come out of hiding.