• DEADSPIN hits the clearance rack, as they find the perfect premiere item for the Mitchell Report apparel line:

• Speaking of ‘roid ragers, STEROID NATION is juiced up that Todd Sauerbrun was punted from the Broncos roster.• THE LAZY EYE OF STUART SCOTT finds the connection between Barack Obama, Coach K and Bill Parcells.

• BAD JOCKS lets it all hang out, as they expose their choices of the top naked sports stories of 2007:

• Mike DeCourcy of SPORTING NEWS can’t stop yawning in anticipation of the upcoming bowl season.• John Ziegler of TIGERWOODSISGOD.COM finally gets a chance to speak to his divine inspiration.

• GOING FIVE HOLE skates over the ice-shattering news that Peter Puck is making a comeback.

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• The BBC revs up news that British Formula One racer Lewis Hamilton was caught speeding in France.• PETA shakes up some holiday fun with this Michael Vick online snow globe.

KIWI SKATES INTO SOFTCORE PORN W/PLAYBOY SPREAD: Remember Nicole Begg? She’s the anonymous Kiwi inline speedskater who put herself on the map by posing nude to promote her athletic career.

The New Zealand website STUFF reports that Begg is now ready to go full-blown softcore porn as she poses for PLAYBOY in an upcoming issue.So she’s doing it to promote her career? We wonder if her friends had any idea she was going into pole dancing?

NO MORE BEGGING FOR SPEEDSKATER’S NUDIE PICCIES: As expected, a couple more semi-nude photos of Kiwi inline speedskater Nicole Begg have been uncovered.

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KIWI SKATER UNCOVERS BODY TO GAIN MEDIA COVERAGE: A news outlet in New Zealand reports that “International speedskating star Nicole Begg is hoping to lift her international profile and that of her sport by undressing.”

The 19-year-old blonde Begg’s “motivation is to raise her profile in the hope of attracting a sponsor and also to promote inline skating.”

Her dad reminds us a little of Jessica Simpson’s father (Joe “my daughter has double-d cups” Simpson) with his creepy comments: “Begg’s father Bill, a coach, said his daughter had also posed for the photographs because the official World Inline Cup magazine wanted a sexier image. ‘It got beach volleyball in the Olympics and that’s where we would love to be.’“