• HOME RUN DERBY tosses up images of Misty May-Treanor throwing out the first pitch at yesterday’s Diamondbacks-Marlins game.

You probably didn’t recognize her at first, since she wasn’t in a bikini being butt-slapped by George W. Bush. (Although she did pose for pics with John McCain.)

• LARRY BROWN SPORTS types up word that Dodgers manager Joe Torre is joining the blogosphere.

• WITH LEATHER reels in the news of a North Carolina fisherman who caught a record-sized catfish - with his granddaughter’s Barbie pole.

• Holy Cow! WALKOFF WALK wonders who’s the dumbbell that made this New Orleans gym TV ad featuring a really bad Harry Caray impersonation.

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Ah, Dancing With the Stars — our national reality entertainment institution that is neither as compelling as American Idol nor as “real” as Project Runway. Because the show is filled with “stars,” everyone acts all nice and no one gets too angry even as people dance their careers away. It’s fun. And it’s fake.

Anyway, the casting for the show is now exactly as predictable as The Real World. Just as that show needed a token black person every season, so does Dancing With The Stars need its retired football player. And just who will play this year’s role? Try Warren Sapp on for size. Read more…

President George W. Bush has to be loving these Olympic Games, because for the first time since the 1996 games in Atlanta, he’s not running for President, so he can actually take the time to enjoy them. While Barack Obama and John McCain are busy hitting the campaign trail, Dubya has been spending some time in Beijing taking in the spectacle of the games.

And by spectacle of the games, I obviously mean Misty May-Treanor’s ass.

Yes, it appears that President Bush met up with Misty May and her partner Kerri Walsh before the duo began their quest for Olympic gold to give them a pep talk. Or to feel them up, however you want to look at it.

From BRIGHT BLACK INTERNET:

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