From Maxim: "These ladies get us on our feet cheering loudly, but mostly for them"

Miami women + boyshorts = yes

From Uncrate: "Celebrate the kick-off of the NFL season with the world's best-selling football game... on your phone. Madden NFL 10 for iPhone ($10) packs all the Madden action you know..."

How cool would it be if you could sync your console Madden with your iPhone madden so you could play the same franchise on both devices!?

From Offworld: "In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, John Madden--the former NFL Hall of Famer who is the namesake for one of EA's consistently best-selling video games series--admits that he plays Madden NFL but isn't good at it."

Is this really a surprise to anyone?

Insuring your fantasy football team used to mean grabbing the backups of your stars just in case your starters went down due to injury or criminal activity. FantasySportsInsurance.com takes this to a literal level and actually lets you take out insurance policies on your best fantasy players. The Wall Street Journal recently took a closer look at this business:

“Before the first weekend of the NFL season, the fantasy owner selects the player he wishes to insure — let’s say it’s Peyton Manning of Indianapolis. He then enters his league entry fee ($250)… FSI then determines the cost of the policy based on those numbers… In this case, insuring Mr. Manning for a 15-game fantasy season would cost $29.87 [and] an owner who loses Mr. Manning to injury for 10 of his 15 fantasy games would recoup the entire $265 he spent on his fantasy team from FSI.”

FSI will insure owners with league fees up to $1000. And while I would imagine only the most hard-core fantasy ballers would use a service like this it definitely illustrates how big fantasy sports have become.

From Deadspin: "Jerry Jones (and Texas taxpayers) spent $1.2 billion constructing an opulent state-of-the-art multi-use arena that's perfect for concerts, soccer matches, trade shows, Promise Keepers rallies, and even football games—provided that you don't allow either team to punt."

From the Onion: "Despite eyebrows raised by his .850 batting average and Persian oil lamp he carries everywhere, 'Magic Lamp' emphatically denies ever using a genie."


Baseball Superstar Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use

As if you need an excuse to go to Hooters, they’re offering Fantasy Football leagues a free draft kit when you take your league to your nearest Hooters for this year’s draft.

The only odd thing, is the add I found on Yahoo Fantasy linked to their location finder and had no mention of the draft kit. I have a sinking feeling that when your league arrives at Hooters, they’ll note the “while supplies last” clause in the ad and offer you up some over-priced wings to distract you from your beloved draft kit.

From SportsCrunch: "Here’s a preview of the upcoming NBA 2k10: Draft Combine. Gamers will be happy to know they won’t have to wait long. It will be available to download August 26th on Xbox Live and September 3rd on the Playstation Network."

Knowing my luck and skills at basketball (even video game basketball), I'd still be picked last.

From Slate.com: "Last week, Major League Baseball announced that it had struck a deal to make Topps the game's exclusive trading-card maker. This news was probably greeted with horror in Carlsbad, Calif., the home of Upper Deck."

Can this really save the baseball card industry? Doubtful.