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Someone at Esquire Magazine has a great sense of humor and may possible be a Vol fan like us. For their March Madness-style bracket to vote on the Sexiest Woman of the Year you will have to look close but you’ll see in the field of 64 hot chicks there is one odd entry.

Turns out former Vols coach Lane Kiffin is one of the lucky girls in the running!

He’s matched up against a professional lady golfer but as of today he is leading the first round votes by a nice margin.

Such a pretty girl...

Athletes strive for perfection, but at times they are prone to accidents — just like the rest of us. Whether it’s a ball bouncing off someone’s head for a home run, a goalie letting a puck slip past from center ice, an injury-inducing sneeze or a wardrobe malfunction, there are plenty of accidents that plague the pros.

We just hope this list doesn’t jinx the Olympics.

We do not want Team USA to make any mistakes when they beat Canada for the Gold Medal in Vancouver.  And what’s up with NBC using tape delay for the Winter Olympics?  Is this 1984?  At least in 1984 you didn’t have Twitter, Google News, and anyone with a mobile phone to read you the results before you watched the events.

NBC, you suck.  Oh, and here’s the Top 10 Own Goals in Sports list.

Benny the Bull decided to do the ‘Single Ladies’ dance in front of Jaz-Z at the recent NBA All-Star Game. Judging by the reaction we think Jay-Z and his pal Diddy didn’t find it quite as funny as we did. [source]

A few years back there was a video intro created for the UAF Nanooks that was so epic only Michael Bay could have made it.  Turns out there a new offical video out for the Nanooks that is just as fantastic and with just as many explosions.  They even took it up a notch with a great soundtrack and a polar bear flying a fighter jet.

We only wished the 2010 Winter Olympics would have used videos like these for their events.  How epic would that be?!

The 2010 Winter Olympics are scheduled to have their Opening Ceremonies tonight in Vancouver to kick off 2 weeks of events. However, tragedy struck the Games that has cast a cloud over the entire city.

21-year old Luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the Republic of Georgia, fatally crashed into a steel support beam while doing a training run at the nearby Whistler tracks.

Georgian luge Olympic athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili fatal crash

Nodar lost control of his sled during a hard curve and slide up over the concrete barrier and into a steel beam. People immediately surround the fallen athlete and after about a minute started CPR before taking Kumaritashvili to the hospital where he was later declared dead.

The horrific events have cast doubts about safety on the course even after several athletes have claimed it was designed to be too fast. For the sake of speed records, the engineers may have created a situation where the course may be shut down until safety concerns for the athletes are resolved.

Further training runs on the course have been suspended while the IOC [International Olympic Committee] further investigates the situation.

photo source : Vancouver Sun/Getty Images

Don’t adjust your speakers. There’s no sound on this video but you don’t need audio to know when someone FAILs big time.

Brady Morningstar of Kansas is just trying to shoot a free throw. We say ‘trying’ because he screws up in a funny, funny way. It’s not successful in any way, shape, or form. His free throw shots are about as graceful and effective as our pickup lines at Toddy’s Backdoor Tavern on a Saturday night during last call. Yeah, it’s that bad.

NBA Toronto Raptors PG Jarrett Jack with another funny moment, this time tying his shoe while holding the ball at the end of the quarter with the clock running down as Deng and the rest of Washington Generals Bulls players just watched him.

What’s crazy is the Bulls players just hopped around the floor and no one even tried to go for the ball! This attention to detail might be why the Bulls lost the game by 32 points.

We wonder what Jack might have done if he were playing the New Jersey Nets…. He could have had time to do a whole wardrobe change.

A fantastic goal with an assist from a red balloon.

The Dodgers season toward the World Series took a serious blow today when MLB announced that hairball Manny Ramirez will be suspended 50 games for a positive drug test for testing “positive for performance-enhancing drugs.”

The suspension will cost Ramirez $7.7 million, or roughly 31% of his $25-million salary. Players in violation of baseball’s drug policy are not paid during suspensions.

Ramirez is expected to spend the afternoon contriving a lame excuse on how he didn’t know he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.   NY slugger Alex Rodriguez called Manny today to offer up some of his lame excuse that didn’t get used in A-Rod’s recent exposure of the cheatin’ juice.

Michael Phelps takes a hit from a bong in the above picture and his world turns into a soap opera. Because of the infamous picture seen above, Phelps now has lost endorsements like Kelloggs and Subway, which did take Phelps back after his official apology. He’s also been suspended for 3 months from swimming competitions.  We think it’s funny that Subway would even consider dropping Phelps knowing that they help fend off the munchies for stoners nationwide.  That’s why the Meatball Subs are so popular.

Now we see that Alex Rodriguez is being outed for testing positive for steroids in 2003 and his punishment will be….uh, nothing.

Alex Rodriguez’s name appears on a list of 104 players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball’s ‘03 survey testing, SI’s sources say. As part of a joint agreement with the MLB Players Association, the testing was conducted to determine if it was necessary to impose mandatory random drug testing across the major leagues in 2004.

Why is that test such a big issue?  After all, it was in 2003, right?

The reason that 2003 is important is that was the year that solidified Alex Rodriguez in his big $ status.  Alex Rodriguez won the American League MVP and led the majors in home runs in his final year as a Texas Ranger before signing that huge, multi-million dollar contract with NY.

A-Rod is now A-Fraud.

Have you met Barry Bonds?

Will A-Rod lose any of his endorsement deals because of the situation?  We highly doubt it. Just goes to show you can cheat but just don’t take a hit from a bong.  We have standards here!