• For those who want to relive Josh Hamilton’s opening round of the Home Run Derby, here’s the edited video of all 28 blasts.
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• AOL FANHOUSE cheers up from word that John McCain’s wife Cindy was once a USC Song Girl.
• The ASSOCIATED PRESS learns that it’s not just male basketball players who like to [...]

• THE 700 LEVEL hears Phillies slugger Chase Utley giving a reasonable response to all the boo birds at Yankee Stadium on Monday night.

• Meanwhile, REAL CLEAR SPORTS catches Rick Reilly complaining about too many white players participating in the Home Run Derby.
• Speaking of racist chatter, DEADSPIN discovers Reggie Jackson having the chutzpah to [...]

• WITH LEATHER is saddened to see soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and model Nereida Gallardo flushing their relationship down the drain.

• JALOPNIK (via 850 THE BUZZ) drives up word that Barack Obama won’t be sponsoring a NASCAR vehicle, after all.
• TRIPLE TRI BLOG finds LSU already talking some shirt smack before their season opener with [...]

After Ryan Braun secured his seven-year, $51m contract in May, you’d think Braun would be so thankful to his agent that he might give him the summer off. After all, what else does a young man in Milwaukee need? A hookup for Summerfest tickets?

(When we heard there would be agent throwing, we started [...]

• SPORTS CRACKLE POP cycles up some good reasons to pay attention to this year’s Tour de France – all the lovely ladies lining the route.

• Meanwhile, EDDIEBEAR suggests this fellow try out for next year’s Tour, if only for the hilarity that will surely ensue.
• Kobe Bryant & Joey Gathright must be proud: THE [...]

The LADIES… want us to see nude men treated violently. How can we say no?
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We suppose we should make this up to you. Here’s women that have a dubious link to golf (link NFSW if you come upon this Monday morning):

(What a lousy grip)
And here’s women that have a rather definite link to synchronized [...]

Remember our post yesterday about the Cubs’ ill-advised marketing material for Kosuke Fukudome? Baseball blog HOME RUN DERBY points out that the Cubs’ website graphic, however insensitive, looks a lot like the graphic it produced in early December: