The ESPY's really draw the poon

Furthering my notion that the whole purpose of the ESPY's is so that the male staff of ESPN can hang with hot 'tang is this batch of pics.



Are you really telling me these chicks are there for their love of sports? And could someone tell me why Kourtney Kardashian and Brady Quinn got invites to this thing? They have absolutely no connection to sports whatsoever.






UPDATE: The ESPY's even have bodypainted chicks, thus cementing my notion.

There can only be one: Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens

You know the annoying NBA playoff ads that tell us "There Can Only Be One" that we see over and over and over again? Yeah, they were cool. The first time we saw them. But what if those were made for other sports? Say baseball and using Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens?



How about football using Peyton and Eli Manning?



Golf? Tiger Woods? You betcha!



Nicely done, Ben and Eric.

Juan Manuel Marquez v. Manny Pacquiao prefight

This should be a great fight and one of the reasons why I love my job. I get pissed at the stupidity of Dana White and the utter cluelessness and insult to real fighters posed by frauds like Butterbean but there's really not much to complain about here. We've got the #2 and #3 "pound for pound" fighters in the world (according to Ring Magazine) going at it tonight. The term "warrior" is thrown around a little too easily in fightsports but both of these guys are just that--Pacquiao's story is downright amazing going from stealing cigarettes on the streets of Manilla to sell as a young boy just to survive to being at the apex of boxing as well as a rock star like celebrity in his home country. Marquez is just the latest of a seemingly endless line of seriously talented badass boxers coming up out of Mexico. If you've read my analysis over at The Sweet Science you know what I think is going to transpire, but if this fight is anything like the last one there won't be any losers....

Actually something cool in the national anthems--they had some cute 14 year old girl who was a Filipino/Mexican American sing the US National Anthem and she nailed it. Props to her for having the stones to execute in front of a sold out crowd and worldwide audience. Note to all of you anti-immigration types out there--this girl is about as good of an example as I can find of the *real* byproduct of immigration and why it makes our country so damn great. We've got Mexicans, Fillipinos, and every combination thereof plus a white guy like me all in the house for what should be a great fight....

Micheal Buffer is now prefacing his own catch phrase as "the most famous phrase in boxing history". Perhaps he never heard of "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"....PacMan is introduced first as he's the challenger here tonight and gets a decent pop from the crowd. From the reactions during the walk-in it sounds like a heavily Mexican, pro Marquez crowd. The guy singing the Mexican national anthem boomed out "Viva Mexico" at the end of the song and this got a nice pop. Kenny Bayliss gives the last minute instructions and we're ready for a fight...

Yeah, and I am the next President of the United States

The legendary SPORTSbyBROOKS dropped this piece of information on us today.

In case you can't read that, it says that according to ABC’s Good Morning America Web site visitors, 64% of women (and men) would rather date Eli Manning than Tom Brady.

Yeah, I can see that.

Eli Manning ... Unstoppable... sort of

Are you ready for all Manning, all the time? Yeah, we can't wait for all the New York-Boston slobbery. Well, while you are being inundated with feel good Manning stories over the next two weeks, let us not forget that it wasn't so long ago that people felt the need to make videos like this one poking fun at the mope.



H/T: SI: Extra Mustard

Football players need psychiatric help

Sorry to break this to you, football fans, in particular Cowboys fans, but whether or not your quarterback's wife, girlfriend, or mistress is in the stands, it has no bearing on how well he plays. I only wish football PLAYERS could understand this message.

[Eli Manning] has told his college sweetheart and fiancée, Abby McGrew, to get layered up for tonight's bitter-cold playoff game in Green Bay - because she has to brave the elements and suffer through the action from stadium seats if he's going to win.

Because her being in a suite jinxes him and makes him lose. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Is he retarded?!

"In the spirit of superstition, Eli told her, 'I don't care if it's 4 degrees in Green Bay, you're sitting in the stands,' " laughed Eli's brother Cooper.

Idiots.

And New York Post... you aren't helping with graphics like this: