Greg Wyshynski, better known as PUCK DADDY at Yahoo Sports, has an epic find today. Here’s the cheerleading squad for the Iowa Chops minor league hockey team:

Baby Backs? Rather appropriate considering all that extra meat the young ladies have falling off the bone.

The Chops, an American Hockey League team, held an online poll to determine the name. Suggestions that lost out: Bacon Bits, Chops Chix, Hat Tricks, Applesauce, Chopettes.

If only I could’ve figured out how to mask my IP, Applesauce would’ve won in a landslide.

So how did the Chops happen on the grand promotional idea? The poll was introduced after the team’s name attracted the attention of Sarah Palin. Read more…

Recall, if you will (and how could you forget), last night’s total disaster during VP candidate Sarah Palin’s appearance at the St. Louis Blues game. While Manny Legace sits out and lets his hip heal, the NHL might not taking any chances with the saucy, sharp-tongued hockey mom. Sure, she can pal around with hockey types, but it’ll have to be on a much smaller stage. Also worth noting: We’re totally inventing the notion that the NHL has in any way demoted Palin.

(Believe it or not, we did not make this image.)

Anyway, Palin is being presented with an honorary jersey today, but it’s in Des Moines, Iowa, with the unfortunately named Iowa Chops. Yeah, the ones with the really angry pig on their jersey. There’s probably a lipstick joke there somewhere, but we’re far, far too lazy to make it.

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• KICKETTE passes along photographic proof that Fernando Torres, hero of Spain’s Euro 2008 championship, needs to get some more sun.

We recommend a bold bronzed look along the lines of former Miss Spain & current TV sports reporter Ines Sainz.

• The Steelers aren’t the only NFL team rumored for sale, as the FLORIDA TIMES UNION hears that the Jaguars may be on the shopping block - and might soon be on their way to Los Angeles.

• PRO FOOTBALL TALK hears reasons from Plaxico Burress why Kordell Stewart didn’t have a gay old time in Pittsburgh.

• HARDWOOD PAROXYSM is bedeviled by these nine Duke players who became such douchebags in the NBA. Maybe a stint on garbage detail could have straightened them out.

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