sex in the center court

According to an article in the UK’s Daily Mail today, Officials at the All England Club confirmed that they factored “babeness” in scheduling women’s matches on Center Court at Wimbledon. Those who follow tennis closely have been hip to this sort of behavior for some time. Look how much Maria Sharapova has earned for her off court activities as compared to Amelie Mauresmo. Attractive female tennis players have often been photographed in bikinis, skimpy skirts, and sheer shirts for men’s magazines. The on court outfits some of them wear can easily be mistaken for Frederick’s Of Hollywood Lingerie.

Interestingly enough, when former men’s tour player Michael Stich pointedly remarked that the Women’s Tennis Association was, “selling sex”. He was roundly criticized. Well now with the admission of the TPTB of the AELTC, it seems that Mr. Stich simply wasn’t talking out of his rear end. The rationale according to these lunkheads was that the television audience would be more interested in seeing good looking girls play on Center Court. To me, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to put two low ranked vixens on a show court in order to bring more attention to women’s tennis, which at this point is fighting tooth and nail against irrelevancy. I figure, if you’re in the top 3 and/or you’ve won Wimbledon before, you should always play on Center Court because it’s like you EARNED it instead of just looking hot in a pair of tennis panties. The call for equal pay just doesn’t hold up when the 59th ranked player in the world is conducting a clinic on error prone tennis on what’s dubbed the “Cathedral of Tennis”.

It’s disrespect pure and simple. If the WTA was worth anything, they would make a statement calling out the AELTC for this. Notice I said, “IF”. So far, I’ve heard nada from the ruling heads. They’re probably too busy putting together the, “Hot Babes of the WTA” 2010 calender.

article link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196155/Babe-set-match-How-looks-count-talent-Wimbledon-decides-girls-play-Centre-Court.html

rest in peace

Michael Jackson, one of the architects in the soundtrack of my life has died. Whatever I may felt about him in the later years of his life, I will always love his music. His indelible influence on our cultural and musical history is what I will choose to remember him by. He was the Greatest of the Greats and he will truly be missed.

why must i chase the cat?

“Fellas, when a brother takes off for 5 days to go to Argentina without telling anyone, is that or is that NOT a booty call?”

Yes it’s the booty call heard ’round the world. After days of speculation and whatnot, Governor of South Carolina Mark Sanford finally appeared and admitted that his absence was due to an extramarital affair. According to the Mark the Mack, he met his mistress some 8 years ago, but things started heating up last year. Things got so hot, he blew off his kids for Father’s Day in order to make a super secret trip to see her. No one knew where he was? Or did they? His wife had kicked him out 2 weeks prior so I’m thinking that she was hip to the game and his official spokesman was officially vague during the Gov’s absence. Everyone else in South Carolina seemed as if they were left in the dark.

But why did he do it? Why risk so much for a roll in the hay? Why do seemingly intelligent and powerful men make such stupid mistakes? A better question, why couldn’t he find a homegrown home wrecker? There are plenty of good gold diggers right here in the U.S.A! By seeking sexual comfort in another country, one could assume that Sanford doesn’t love his own. Skanks from coast to coast can probably be heard muttering, “Traitor!” under their breaths.

What’s that saying? Whatever you do in the dark comes out in the light. And boy, did Governor Sanford feel the heat of all those spotlights on him today. He’s already resigned as head of the Republican Governor’s Association, and he can just as well kiss his 2012 Presidential hopes away. For the man who called Bill Clinton a “rascal” during the Lewinsky scandal, turnabout is fair play. Now he can join his fellow Republican accusers turned adulterers turned hypocrites like John Ensign and David Vitter in that OTHER old boy’s club: The G.(etting) O.(ther) P.(punnany).

Fool!

captain chickenhawk

Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t John McCain lose the election last November? So why is he still running his mouth on the Sunday talk shows? I for one don’t care that he thinks President Obama hasn’t said enough about the Iranian elections disaster. I’m assuming that since PBO gets daily security briefings and McCain doesn’t, the Prez is more abreast of the situation than me or Senator “McCain’t Stop Talking”.

See, McCain’s brand of diplomacy involves hyping  up America’s reputation as the beacon of democracy, even if it means every other country in the world hates our guts. That glaring fact doesn’t matter to McCain because according to him, at least those countries are FREE to hate us with impunity. Too bad that really doesn’t work outside the world of neo-conservatism. What McCain fails to realize is that the Iranians have long memories. The last time we meddled in their Presidential elections, we got rid of their democratically elected President and installed the Shah. The Shah as it turned out was a big fan of American democracy, as long as it stayed in America.  Actually he was a brutal dictator who loved to lock up and kill his critics. And yet McCain the Pain wants the President to stick his nose in Iranian business again.

Can you just imagine what things would be like if McCain had actually won? No Gitmo closing, no end date for the conflict in Iraq, no resolution in Afghanistan, a possible strike against North Korea, and saber rattling in Iran. If he had his way, we’d be at war with damn near every nation in the world. Thank goodness the majority of Americans searched their conscience last year and decided McCan’ts way was not the path follow. In fact, even his fellow conservatives and other pundits are putting the brakes on his tough talk. Joe Scarborough feigned indignation at McCain’s criticism and Joe Klein from Time Magazine wrote that the Republican also ran should be quiet.

Unfortunately, I don’t think McCain will be zipping his lips soon. He’s enjoying the spotlight too much. It’s just good to have some real political wisdom in the White House to offset the clucking of Captain Chickenhawk.

sublimely ridiculous

Roger Federer took the court today with his fancy Wimbledon duds. Emphasis on DUD.

If the gold lame disco diaper bag wasn’t enough, our eyes were further assaulted with the vest with gold piping. Sgt. Pepper’s feeling a little lonely without his get up don’t you think?

Attention whore fail.

withdrawal

Number 1 ranked men’s player and defending champion Rafael Nadal withdrew from Wimbledon this year because of an ongoing knee injury.

 

This blogger is devastated. I might write more later after a few drinks.

*sigh*

A Tall Glass of S.T.F.U

S.T.F.U is needed for the following..

• Sarah Palin-Once again shows how incapable she is of handling herself on the  national stage. Instead of ignoring a rather stupid joke by David Letterman, she began a campaign of thin skinned shrillness for the talking heads. After the dust settled, she all but called Letterman a child molester. Please, Governor Palin get a glass and drink up…preferably back in Alaska with no cameras or microphones.
• Carrie PreJean-Newly fired Ms. California is skipping her daily glass of S.T.F.U in lieu of proclaiming herself a victim of a set up by some evil beauty pageant cabal. Who knew that pseudo Christian bigots were in such danger?  Of course her firing could have something to do with her not fulfilling the terms of her contract, but that wouldn’t be as nearly exciting. It’s a conspiracy to keep her from being great! Great at what, who the hell knows?
• Liz Cheney-My God, this chick is everywhere.  Lying her blonde ass off for Daddy’s sake. Like Father, like Daughter they are surviving on a S.T.F.U free diet. It needs to be rectified immediately.
• Cornel West-Professor, Author, Hip Hop Artist and Crack house Volunteer? Professor West proclaimed that he’d rather work in a crack house than with the Obama Administration. As fucking if! If he doesn’t realize it, we mere mortals do; West is pissed because he and the other stooges Michael Eric Dyson and Tavis Smiley haven’t been invited to the White House. Does he not understand the PBO has more important things to do other than stroke the egos of public intellectuals. Dr. West, have some S.T.F.U and ruminate over that please.
• Heidi and Spencer Pratt-I’ll admit I’ve never watched a single episode of  “The Hills”. Apparently they were the villans of the show and now they’ve taken their ditz act to the mainstream. It doesn’t look like things are working out that well because they got dissed by Whoopie and Joy on “The View” and then got pwned by Al Roker of all people.  How friggin’ pathetic do you have to be to get a smackdown by the Today show weatherman? Maybe a dose of S.T.F.U will help their cause.
• Mitt Romney-Mitt’s Too Legit to Quit…talking that is. Especially when he’s talking about matters he obviously knows nothing about. For a man whose foreign policy experience amounts to some missionary work in France (France? There were Mormons in France?) and rubbing elbows with international Olympic committee members, Mitt is telling anyone who will listen his thoughts on Obama’s recent speech in Cairo. He thinks Obama’s speech sucked and that he made America look bad. Oh, if Irony and Paradox were a WWF Tag Team, Mitt would have been double suplexed by now. Here’s some advice from someone who truly doesn’t give a damn about what you say, Mitt. You’ll never be President! Now bottoms up!

News around the court

• Rafael Nadal says that he will be in London June 16th and hopes to be ready to defend his Wimbledon title. According to his doctor, Nadal is suffering from knee tendinitis and edema.
• Roger Federer has skipped the Halle Open citing exhaustion.
• Anna Ivanovic has split from coach, Craig Kardon and will return to coaching by committee via the Adidas Development Program.
• As a result of his semi-final showing at the French Open, Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez returns to the top 10.
• Dinara Safina is still the #1 ranked tennis player.
• Martina Navratilova has called for a ban on shrieking. Maria Sharapova is silent.
• Federer’s 14th wasn’t a big ratings booster. More people watched Tiger Woods win the Memorial.

nuff said..

Some are celebrating the 14th.  Today, I’m remembering the 4. The 4 times Rafael Nadal hoisted the Roland Garros trophy aloft.  As with all things, the consecutive championships ended. However, I have no doubt that Rafa will be holding that big silver cup again next year, and the year after next.

0-3

0-3, that’s the Grand Slam final record for the number #1 ranked player in the world. Once again, when it all mattered, when all the chips were in, when the stars were all aligned, she couldn’t close the deal. And yet, the rest of us were accused by her of hating when in actuality, we were very aware of Dinara Safina’s amazing ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Well there’s Wimbledon in a few weeks and then the U.S Open in August. That means two more chances to prove us wrong–or two more chances to earn some more runner’s up plates.

Enough about her..

Congrats to Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia for winning her first French Open title. For two weeks she played gutsy tennis with no fuss, no muss, and she was finally rewarded for all of her hard work.  Amazing, Kuznetsova has never been ranked #1 and yet she has two major titles. 

*Dapz*