Gilbert’s Close Shave; No Soup For Us, Thank You

There’s never any worries about telling us to sex it up

Gilbert Arenas learns some lessons in when it comes to groin grooming:

Gilbert Arenas choke

Jimmie Johnson’s road to the Oval Office hits some speed bumps - er, actually, door jams.

• Here’s a fond video trip down memory lane - back when Bob Costas told how to pronounce “Brett Favre“, O.J. Simpson wasn’t looking for any real killers, and NBC wasn’t burdened with John Madden.

Shaq’s already prepared to lay down the law in the Ol’ West, while he backtracks from earlier comments about new teammate Steve Nash.

• UNC’s women’s basketball coach rolls out the fun by T.P.-ing the town - much to the chagrin of the Chapel Hill cops.

• Chinese athletes certainly have balls to enjoy bull penis soup:

Chick-Fil-A Cow

• Speaking of nuts, one Ohio State recruit has a keen enough (Buck)eye to tell when his scholarship withdrawal is a fake.

Roger Clemens’ steroid saga might have been a family affair.

Ocho Cinco proves he’s muy loco en la cabeza by shoving an NFL employee.

• The martinis better be tasty, as the new Yankee Stadium will be costing $1.3 billion to complete.

Secret To General Tso’s Very Special Reduction

The LONDON TIMES has an account of training techniques by the Chinese that we really hope is a massive exaggeration. But if it is true, it wouldn’t surprise us.

Bull Penis Soup Chinese Athletes Menu

The tale comes from a Dutch rowing coach named Diederik de Boorder, who was coach of the Holland women’s rowing team who won the bronze medal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He tells the Times of his bizarre experiences as a coach in China’s Henan province.

de Boorder says training for the Chinese means working the body beyond exhaustion, every single day. And that “their whole approach to food was the opposite of the Western approach. They would eat chicken heads but not the breast, and pigs’ trotters but not the pork.”

Chicken heads and pig’s feet - it can’t get worse than that, right? Actually, it does. Read more…