A Gentlemen's Wager

An interesting tidbit found on "Shutdown Corner," a blog on Yahoo Sports, and “FanHouse.” Braylon Edwards (he of last year's turn as the Cleveland Browns' surprisingly-not-a-total-draft-bust wide receiver) and Michael Phelps (he of the golden-god-of-all-things-overhyped) have a small bet regarding this NFL season. Earlier this summer, Bray-Bray vowed to score more than twice as many TDs as gold medals that Phelps would win in Beijing.

The foot injury wasn’t a complete loss. Edwards used the time on his couch to catch up with swimmer Michael Phelps’ chase for history at the Olympics.

Edwards and Phelps have University of Michigan ties and struck up a friendship. Edwards bragged before Beijing that he would more than double Phelps’ gold-medal total with touchdown catches. After Phelps’ record eight golds, Edwards needs to set another franchise record.

Unless you were in a coma during most of August (or managed to avoid even more of the nauseating Olympic media hype than I did), you know that Jesu—I mean, Phelps—won 8 gold medals, which means that Bray-Bray has quite the task at hand. True, he scored 16 times in 2007; but that was a “breakout” (read: defensive coordinators weren't paying attention until he’d scored 9 in the first half of season) year, which he is very unlikely to duplicate in the 2008 campaign. And now he has one less game in which to do it, since he was shut down by the Cowboys yesterday, catching only two passes for 14 yards—and a big goose egg in the touchdown department.

I think Jesu—I mean, Phelps (it’s so hard to tell the difference sometimes)—is safe to win this one. Whatever the hell it is he’ll actually win.

Olympians Gone Wild: Angel Matos

This is the first time I've seen this and it took a hell of a google search to find some video, thanks to NBC's outstanding attorney team, but here's footage of Cuban uh....martial arts fighter, Angel Matos, being disqualified from the Bronze metal match and then kicking the Olympic referee in the head. Matos is now facing a lifetime ban from the games. The real comedy is watching his victorious (who was losing at the point of DQ) opponent celebrate triumphantly in the background after Matos kicks the ref.

Tail Report: Amanda Beard

From Maxim.com:

America's favorite swimmer enjoys the water during her time off, too. No report on who the lucky bastard holding her hand is.

Shaq is big in China

Literally.

This is a 50-foot statue of Shaquille O'Neal in one of Beijing's most popular public parks -- filled with basketball courts and ping pong tables.

I'm sure Kobe was thrilled to see this statue just in case he hasn't heard enough from Shaq during the off-season.

Olympic Tail Report: Alicia Sacramone

U-S-A!! U-S-A!! In honor of the US pulling off a 1-2 in all-around women's gymnastics, I present to you 20 yr old Miss Sacramone. Although she hasn't medaled so far this year, Alicia is still pretty well-known around the blogosphere, it seems, for her many talents (including throwing a punch) and assets (see below). Another future ex-Mrs. D.e.f.i. (and at least I'll know that she's not just marrying me for a green card).


Thanks to CO-ED Magazine for the pics (more can be found on their page dedicated to my baby—err, I mean…Alicia).

Olympic Tail Report: Leryn Franco

Ms. Franco, a javelin thrower [fighting back phallic-imagery joke] from Paraguay, caught the eye of many a male viewer during the Opening Ceremony. So much so, that Fourth Place Medal ran a post about her:

During Fourth-Place Medal's award-winning* live blog coverage of the Olympic Opening Ceremony, one question haunted our panel and reading audience, and it wasn't whether the fireworks were real or how they managed to do that cool display with the blocks. No, we didn't care about that stuff. All we wanted to know was, who was that gorgeous woman who marched into Beijing National Stadium with the Paraguayan delegation?

After an exhaustive investigation by 4PM's crack investigative team, the mystery woman has been identified as Leryn Franco, an athlete with the Paraguayan delegation. Ms. Franco represents her native country in the javelin throw.

Leryn has a burgeoning modeling career to fall back on, should she not find the fame and glory that so many javelin throwers in the past have enjoyed.

A potential ex-Mrs. D.e.f.i.?

Beijing: City of 100,000 Condoms

It's been reported that China has made 100,000 free condoms available to the olympic athletes living in the Beijing Olympic Village.

That's a lot of condoms.

There's 10,000 athletes so you could argue that that's 10 condoms per athlete and if they're all there for 20 days or so, that's sex every other night. I mean, why not? What better place to have sex than the Olympics? Seems like a huge number of condoms but not when you consider that they ran out in the Sidney games.

Here are some funny (you be the judge) condom ads that have hit the streets of China.




Source

Nike Hyperdunk Olympic Team Shoes

These are designed for Nike sponsored national teams such as Russia, Argentina, China, Australia, Spain, Puerto Rico, Lithuania and Germany.












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