As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now and can see in the video above, Christina Aguilera was performing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl last night and she messed up the lyrics.
But she has since released a statement saying that the reason she messed up is because she was just caught up in her love for the country. Here is what she said…
“I got so caught up in the moment of the song that I lost my place. I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through.”
I’m actually starting to feel bad for Christina, she just can’t seem to catch a break can she? Sure she should have known the lyrics to the song she is singing but I am willing to bet that 90% of people watching didn’t notice the mistake themselves until they read about it. What offended me more about the Super Bowl was the Black Eyed Peas’ awful performance and vocals.
It’s been quite a year in the world of sports, with the World Cup and the Winter Olympics both on. Because of this, Sports Illustrated have come up with their 8 best female athletes of the year (in no particular order).
Marit Bjorgen, Norway (cross-country skiing)
The 30-year-old Nordic veteran led athletes across all sports with five Olympic medals in Vancouver. Three were gold — in the individual sprint, individual pursuit, and 4×5-kilometer relay. Better know for her sprints, Bjorgen nevertheless won silver in the 30k classical and 10k freestyle. It was quite a step up from the 2006 Games where she suffered from bronchitis and won only a silver. In 2010, Bjorgen added to her total of sprint victories and now stands alone at the top of the World Cup circuit with 23 for her career.
Kim Yu-Na,South Korea (figure skating)
Kim won the ladies title at the Vancouver Winter Games, capturing Korea’s first Olympic figure skating medal. She did it by earning the highest marks in both the short program (78.50) and the long (150.06), establishing a new record for highest combined score (228.56) since the sport changed to its current scoring tables. Though she trained primarily in Canada, away from the national spotlight, Kim was under enormous pressure to win gold for her country as the reigning world champion and Korea’s most recognized and best-compensated athlete. In her free skate in Vancouver, she landed six triple jumps and skated a stunning routine to Gershwin, living up to her nickname “Queen Yu-na.”
Aliya Mustafina, Russia, gymnastics
Mustafina handily won the all-around title at the World Championships in Rotterdam, besting the field by more than a point. She also took gold in the team event and silver medals in the vault, uneven bars and floor. It was a superb comeback during a season that began poorly for the 16-year-old from Moscow. In March, she had to withdraw from the Russian nationals because of an ankle injury she sustained in training. In Rotterdam, Mustafina showed her consistency in all four events, but has since become recognized for a unique skill on bars: a 1-½ twisting tucked double-back. Her showing in Rotterdam gave made her the very early favorite for the 2012 London Olympics, where she may one-up her father, Fargat Mustafin, a bronze medalist in wrestling for the former Soviet Union at the 1976 Games.
Martina Sablikova, Czech Republic, long-track speedskating
The 23-year old was the year’s most dominant distance skater, winning gold medals in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races at the Vancouver Games, where she also took bronze in the 1,500. Sablikova won the allround title at the European Championships in Hamar, Norway and at the World Championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands, bringing her total of world titles to nine. Since there are no oval skating arenas in her native country, Sablikova has had to import a fair amount of cross-training into her preparation. This past summer, she also won the Czech national road cycling and time-trail championships, and says she harbors thoughts of becoming a summer Olympian one day.
Rebecca Soni, USA, swimming
Soni, 23, had a dominant year in the breaststroke. She won national titles at both 100- and 200-meters, taking the second event by nearly a full five seconds. She then captured three gold medals — two individual and a relay — at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, Calif., setting a championship record each time despite the change to less dynamic swimsuits that the sport required in 2010. At the FINA Short Course World Swimming Championships in Dubai, Soni took home three more golds and a silver, setting four championship records in the process. In November, USA Swimming gave her the Golden Goggles award as national female swimmer of the year.
Blanka Vlasic, Croatia, track and field
In February, Vlasic set a personal-best (2.06 meters) to win the high jump at the World Indoor Championships in Arnstadt, Germany. Indoors, she recorded the three best jumps in the world and five of the top six. Outdoors, where she had seven of the highest 11 marks for the year, Vlasic, 27, jumped 2.05, her season’s best, to win the Continental Cup at her home stadium in Split. The two-time world champ and 2008 Olympic silver medalist is long past the hyperthyroid malady that first derailed her at the Athens Games. The daughter of Josko Vlasic, Croatia’s national record-holder in the decathlon, and Vanera, a basketball player and cross-country skier, Blanka has long been a favorite in her home nation. She was voted its athlete of the year for the sixth time and was also named the IAAF’s World Female Athlete of the Year.
Lindsey Vonn , USA, alpine skiing
Vonn became the first American woman to win the Olympic downhill and later took bronze in the Super-G despite a severely bruised shin that hampered her training. She later suffered a broken finger during a crash in the fog on the giant slalom run, but still won the overall World Cup title for the third straight season and also placed first in the downhill, super-G and combined events, firmly establishing herself as the world’s premier skier in the alpine speed disciplines and passing Bode Miller for the top spot among U.S. skiers in career World Cup titles, a total that now stands at 36 after three more victories this season. The Associated Press chose Vonn, 26, as its female Athlete of the Year.
Wang Meng, China, short-track speedskating
Wang became the most decorated Chinese Winter Olympian in history by winning gold medals in the 500-meters, 1,000-meters and 3,000-meter relay at the Vancouver Games. She had also won gold, silver and bronze in 2006 and has 14 world titles to her credit after taking the 500 and 1,000 in Sofia, Bulgaria this year. The 25-year-old was utterly dominant at the Olympics in the shortest sprint, which she led from wire to wire. On a down note, in the 1,500-meters, her weakest individual race, she lost an edge and crashed into the restraining barricade, losing out on a chance for a sweep.
Over the years there has been some huge sporting scandals, mainly to do with what the sportsmen (and women) do in their personal life. But here is the 11 biggest sporting scandals that actually involve the sport.
11. Lebon & Cinzano
Cinzano was a champion Uruguayan horse; Lebon was an also-ran who looked very much like Cinzano. The two were flown to the United States in 1977 by veterinarian Mark Gerard, and Cinzano apparently died soon after. Gerard collected a $150,000 insurance payment for Cinzano and bet heavily on Lebon in a race at Belmont Park. Lebon, with 57-to-1 odds, won easily and Gerard won $80,440.
A Uruguayan newspaperman, perhaps tipped off by a female acquaintance of Gerard who lost $10,000 in Lebon’s first race, alerted New York racing authorities that the horse that won was not Lebon, but Cinzano.
10. The 2000 Spanish Paralympic Basketball Team
The Spanish basketball team won gold in the intellectual disability tournament at the 2000 Paralympic Games. There was one problem: 10 of the team’s 12 players had no disability. “We were encouraged to pretend to be stupid,” said player Carlos Ribagorda. Their scam was discovered soon after the Games and they were forced to return their medals.
9. The 1951 New York Giants
The 1951 New York Giants made one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history, erasing a 13-game deficit to catch their archrival Brooklyn Dodgers and beat them in a three-game playoff. In 2001, several former Giants players confirmed the long-held belief of Dodgers players and fans by admitting to stealing signs during the final 10 weeks of the season.
The Giants had a coach sit in center field with a telescope and relay the opposing team’s signs to the dugout with an electronic buzzer. The Giants’ Bobby Thompson, who ended the playoff with a game-winning home run, insists that he was not given a stolen sign when he hit the “shot heard ’round the world.”
8. Tim Donaghy
In 2007, a story broke that NBA referee Tim Donaghy had provided professional gamblers with inside information, bet on games he refereed and manipulated the outcome of games. Though commissioner David Stern branded him as a “rogue, isolated criminal,” the credibility of NBA referees, which wasn’t strong to begin with, was damaged immensely.
Donaghy recently tried to release a book that detailed the way he and other referees would manipulate games. The publisher has canceled the book, but excerpts of it were printed on the Web site Deadspin.
7. Danny Almonte
Danny Almonte was the star of the 2001 Little League World Series, pitching a perfect game, no-hitter and one-hit shutout in three starts for his Bronx, N.Y., team. He became a national celebrity and received a key to the city from New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. However, there were questions surrounding his age, and on Aug. 30, a week after he pitched his final game, Sports Illustrated revealed that he was two years older than he claimed to be.
His team was forced to forfeit all its games, and his father and coach were banned from Little League. Today, the 21-year-old Almonte, after struggling in the low minor leagues, is playing junior college baseball for Western Oklahoma St.
6. Rosie Ruiz
In 1980, unheralded runner Rosie Ruiz crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon before any other woman, winning with a women’s record time of two hours, 31 minutes. Ruiz did not appear sweaty or fatigued, and nobody had seen her running early in the race.
According to varying witness accounts, Ruiz had taken the subway toward the finish line and entered the race with a half-mile left. Though she steadfastly denied cheating, she was disqualified and the victory was awarded to second-place finisher Jacqueline Gareau.
5. Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
On Jan. 6, a month before the start of the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee after a practice for the U.S. Olympic Trials. Soon into the investigation it was revealed that the attacker had been hired by the ex-husband of Tonya Harding, one of Kerrigan’s competitors. Though Harding did not know of the attack beforehand, she learned of it soon after and lied to investigators.
The story became a tabloid sensation. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won silver and went on to sign many endorsements and host “Saturday Night Live.” Harding wept during her routine after her skate lace broke and finished eighth. A national pariah, she was banned for life by U.S. figure skating and has since had many run-ins with the law and briefly had a career as a professional boxer.
4. Pete Rose
Pete Rose retired in 1986 as baseball’s all-time hit king, but he might never make the Hall of Fame. In 1989, an MLB investigation determined that, as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Rose had gambled on baseball games during the 1985, ’86 and ’87 seasons. That same year, commissioner Bart Giamatti handed Rose a lifetime ban.
Rose denied gambling on baseball for many years, and frequently pleaded to be re-admitted and inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 2004, he admitted to gambling on baseball and in 2007, he admitted to betting on the Reds “every night.”
3. College Basketball Point-Shaving in New York
In 1950, City College of New York shocked college basketball by winning the NIT and NCAA tournament. The following year, the team was at the center of a massive point-shaving scandal organized by New York mobsters.
The scandal included four New York-area schools plus Toledo, Bradley and Kentucky, all of whom had players manipulating the score during games at Madison Square Garden. In all, 32 players were arrested for fixing 86 games between 1947 and 1950.
2. The Black Sox
The 1919 Chicago White Sox were one of baseball’s best teams, but they were paid far less than players on other teams. Looking to make a quick buck, first baseman Chick Gandil organized a group of six other players to conspire with professional gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series. The White Sox lost the World Series five games to three to the Cincinnati Reds, with pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams—two of the fixers—combining to lose all five games.
Investigators uncovered the plot and the following September Cicotte and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson — whose involvement in the fix is disputed, as he played well during the series — admitted to fixing the World Series. The seven fixers, plus Buck Weaver, who knew of the fix but didn’t report it, were banned from baseball for life.
1. Nelson Piquet Jr.’s Intentional Crash
At the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008, the Renault team ordered driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to intentionally crash his car, which gave teammate Fernando Alonso the victory.
The Times of London’s Simons Barnes, calling the act the “worst single piece of cheating in the history of sport,” wrote, “This is no run-of-the-mill piece of skulduggery. The Renault team’s crime was not an act of cheating as mere fraudulence. Rather, it was cheating as a potentially lethal act; as potential murder, if you like.”
What do you think is missing from this list?
source: The 11 Biggest Sports Scandals of All-Time [Finding Dulcinea]
Were you watching the World Cup over the weekend? If so you may have seen Germany manager, Joachim Loew, picking his nose and eating it without realizing the camera was on him.
Whenever I see people picking their nose and eating it I feel sick, it turns my stomach but Joachim Loew seems to be really enjoying himself. By the way Germany ended up beating England 4-1 during the match.
Former lightweight boxing champion Edwin Valero was found dead, apparently by suicide, this morning in a jail cell in Caracas, Venezuela.
Edwin Valero was revered in Venezuela, where his aggressive fighting style and 27-0 record (all by knockout) made him a household name.
Valero, 28, was detained last night on suspicion of murdering his wife. Prosecutors intended to formally charge him today. The boxer left a hotel in Valencia Sunday morning after allegedly telling a security guard that he had killed his 24 year old wife, Jennifer Viera. Police found Viera’s body in their hotel room, where she had been stabbed multiple times. Police have not yet found the murder weapon.
An inmate alerted authorities this morning around 1:30am when he found Edwin Valero hanging. Valero apparently used his own clothes to kill himself. Police say that he was showing signs of life when they got to him, but they were unable to revive him.
Source: Boxer Valero found dead in jail, apparent suicide [Yahoo News]
The decade is ending, another list is made, yada yada yada. But this is one that is actually pretty good, the top 10 sporting moments of the past decade. Take a look and see if your favorite sporting moment is on it.
10. 2006 college football championship game, Texas 41, U.S.C. 38Video Here
It’s American college football, which translates about as well as George W. Bush internationally, but this wild ride and the Texas quarterback Vince Young transcended cultural barriers. Never has a winning touchdown run on 4th and 5 seemed more like a sure thing.
9. 2006 World Cup final, Italy 1-France 1 (5-3 on penalty kicks)Video Here
8. 2003 Rugby Union World Cup final, England 20, Australia 17Video Here
On a soggy night in Sydney, Jonny Wilkinson broke a tie and turned long-overdue England into a winner with a drop kick in the closing seconds of overtime.
7. Super Bowl XLII in 2008, New York Giants 17, New England Patriots 14Video Here
All that was required to keep the Patriots from the first perfect season in 35 years was a backup wide receiver, David Tyree, catching the ball on the side of his helmet on a third-down desperation pass with little more than a minute left. Eli Manning then threw the winning TD to Plaxico Burress.
6. 2008 Olympics, men’s 100-meter finalVideo Here
It wasn’t a race; it was Usain Bolt’s coming-out party. The tall Jamaican accelerated like no man in history, then downshifted with 20 meters to go. He still broke the world record.
5. 2008 Olympics, men’s 4-by-100 freestyle swimming relayVideo Here
With a half lap to go, Alain Bernard of France, the 100-meter world-record holder coming into the race, had a half-body length lead on Jason Lezak of the United States. France couldn’t possibly lose but did, and Michael Phelps would go on to win eight gold medals after all.
4. 2004 American League Championship Series, Game 4, Boston Red Sox 6, New York Yankees 4
One inning from being swept, the Red Sox stared down their bum luck and rallied to win. They went on to win the World Series for the first time since 1918, ending the “curse of the Bambino†(i.e., never trade Babe Ruth).
Tiger Woods in pain was even more compelling than Woods at the top of his game, and Woods limped and grimaced his way around the Torrey Pines course to a playoff victory over the lovable loser Rocco Mediate. Not bad for a man with a double stress fracture in his leg and a knee that would require surgery. Sounds like fun compared to what Woods has been through lately.
2. 2005 Champions League final, Liverpool 3, A.C. Milan 3 (3-2 on penalty kicks)Video Here
In Istanbul, Milan led 3-0 at halftime, which, considering how Milan usually plays defense, should have been more than enough. But three goals in six minutes from Liverpool turned this into a classic.
1. 2008 Wimbledon men’s final, Rafael Nadal def. Roger Federer, 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-7 (8-10), 9-7 Video Here
The perfect blend of the right men and the right moment. Nadal weathered two rain delays and an offensive from Federer to end his friendly archrival’s five-year reign at Wimbledon in a five-set epic that compared favorably with the John McEnroe-Bjorn Borg duel in 1980. The match, which lasted four hours and 48 minutes is widely considered by critics, players and fans alike as one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) tennis matches of all time.
Alex Massie passes along “An unfortunately timed Accenture advertisement in the Wall Street Journal today that has also caught the attention of the folks at TMZ (who dub it “the definition of irony) and, I’m sure, others.
The juxtaposition of this and Woods’ car crash over the weekend is somewhat amusing, although I’m sure the gang at Accenture are laughing all the way to the bank. This ad is pretty similar to a whole series of ads they’ve run featuring Woods going back to 2003 but this is the first one I’m paid any attention to.
On the subject of Woods, Conor Friedersdorf argues that, not only do athletes deserve to be treated as private individuals outside their sporting lives but, more importantly, sports fans would be much better served were that the case.
Every aficionado knows that sports are worth playing and watching as a simulacrum of life. Contriving various games with sets of rules, and leagues of competitors, we’re meant to enjoy the beauty of athletic prowess, to be awed by bodies that can do things ours can’t, to experience the suspense of live competition, the thrills of victory, and the lows of defeat—and to learn from the spectacle, all without the consequences of actual battle.
The effect is ruined when real life intrudes, even if only in the mind of the viewer, just as a movie is diminished when an actor’s real-life personality is as much a presence as the character he is playing, or a play suffers when a stagehand is heard sneezing behind the scenery during a climactic scene.
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What I’d like is to hold athlete-entertainers to account as role models so long as they’re on the job. Should Tiger Woods back his golf cart into a lake during a celebrity skins tournament, by all means let’s investigate the story, lament the fall of another athlete who “seemed different than the others,” and recalibrate our opinion of the sportsman. The same goes for folks who dope in private to enhance their public performances. Realty demands that Mark McGwire is a fallen hero; his sins bear directly on his supposed heroics.
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Except in the most extreme circumstances, athletes shouldn’t be treated as public figures when they are off the court, the field, or the course. It diminishes what they add to society, irrationally elevating their private lives in ways that do a disservice to them and to us.
That’s exactly right, I think.
That won’t keep us from writing about the Woods mini-scandal or others involving athletes. People are interested in these matters. Heck, I’m interested in them. But we would undoubtedly be better off knowing less about our icons than we do.
Star running back Larry Johnson has been released from the Kansas City Chiefs after questioning his coach’s abilities, insulting fans and using a gay slur on both his Twitter account and to reporters.
Known to be volatile and moody, Johnson was due to return from his second suspension of the year when the announcement that he was sacked was made. Nobody is really surprised, least of all Larry himself.
Peter Schaffer, Johnson’s agent, told the Associated Press,
“A part of him is excited and a part of him is very regretful, there’s a lot of feelings going on right now. It’s analogous to breaking up with a girlfriend. Maybe you saw it coming, but it still hurts when it happens.”
I have yet to find a girlfriend who will pay me millions of dollars to play football.
Larry Johnson was only 75 yards away from beating Priest Holmes‘ Kansas City rushing record… which apparently will still stand for awhile.
source: Star NFL Running Back Released After Gay Slurs, Comments on Coach [Fox News]
What in the hell has happened to Sammy Sosa‘s skin? The former Chicago Cubs player was spotted looking a hell of a light whiter when he attended Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas.
In the picture above you can see him back in 1989, then in 2004 and finally how he is looking now. My first reaction (after “what the actual shit is this”) was that he is doing his best Michael Jackson impression by going through some skin bleaching.
Not the case according to his friend and former Cubs employee Rebecca Polihronis, who called up the Chicago Tribune to say the reason for his different color is just a skin rejuvenation process.
She says “he is going through a rejuvenation process for his skin, women have it all of the time. He was surprised he came out looking so white. I thought it was a body double. Part of (the photo appearance) is just the lighting. He is in the middle of doing a cleansing process to his skin. The picture is deceiving. He said, ‘If you saw me in person, you would be surprised. When you see me in person, it is not going to seem like the picture.’ People who saw him in person did not react the same way. He can’t believe it is such a big deal. He has always been concerned with the way he looks, probably just bad timing going to an awards show. He was doing a dermatological skin process after years and years (of playing baseball) in the sun, it did come out looking weird (in the picture).”
She should re-write The Little Book of Big Excuses because what she said is hilarious, there is no way a skin rejuvenation can make you come out looking 5 shades lighter than you are. If this was the case and I got it done then my whiter than white ass would be invisible.
Check the thumbnails below for more “then and now pictures” the ones of him looking darker are from December last year and the lighter ones are from Wednesday, then tell me what do you think is going on with Sammy Sosa’s skin change?
[Click thumbnails for larger view]
image source: There Must Be A Good Explanation For This [Dlisted]
I never really hear about Anna Kournikova anymore, she kind of dropped of the radar didn’t she?
Anyway today I was doing my usual browsing of hot women when I came across this new photoshoot she did as the new face for K-Swiss, well they shot it in November of last year but the pictures have only been released now.
The hot Russian blond talked about the shoot on her blog saying, “we worked with a new photographer, Zach Gold, which was cool because I always love to work with creative new people. As always, I had my great hair and make-up team who always make me feel so comfortable and pretty.”
“We had six different setups, but the shoot was very fast and didn’t take as long as photo shoots normally do. I was really excited to see the new tennis line and to see some of the other K-Swiss athletes who were there doing their photo-shoots at the same time.”
I’ve always been a fan of tennis, but these photos of Anna Kournikova lying on a bed of tennis balls and wraped in a net, really make me want to pick up my gear and head for the court. But I’m too lazy and I won’t see any hot women like her, so I will stay here and just look at her instead.
Justin Timberlake does his best Jessica Simpson impersonation as he stands in front of a cutout of the aspiring country singer onstage at the 2008 ESPY Awards held at NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The singer earned raves as he alternated between self-depricating humor (at one point, he poked fun at his infamous 2004 Super Bowl performance with Janet Jackson, saying “I wanted to be the only guy at a football game to get to second base”) and playfully mocking audience members (he lowered his nose to one of David Beckham’s Tom Ford shoes and proclaimed, “Smells like $250 million to me!”). He also performed several big musical numbers.
“If I made the decisions, I’d ask Justin to be [our] entertainment every week,” Monday Night Football host Stuart Scott told reporters during the show. “After what he’s putting down tonight … Justin can come hang out with us on the set anytime.”
Seconded snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler, who won best female action sport athlete: “Not only is he funny, but he obviously knows [the sports] he’s talking about. I was here two years ago when Lance Armstrong was hosting and he did a great job, but JT is ruling it.”
Even the athletes he poked fun at seemed impressed. “It’s all in good fun,” said Terrell Owens, whose emotional news conference after the Dallas Cowboys’ season ended was spoofed during the show at L.A.’s Nokia Theater. “He’s had some funny dialogue; his interaction with the crowd is good. He’s an entertainer, and he did a great job.”
Tennis pro Ashley Harkleroad covered Playboy‘s August 2008 issue and talks about sex and lesbians.
Ashley is the world’s first female tennis player to be featured nude in Playboy.
Inside the August 2008 issue Ashley talks openly about sex, the beauty that is an athlete’s body and Anna Kournikova‘s sexy hot body:
On Fit Sex:
“I do think athletes have better sex,” she asserts with a bashful giggle. “Who wants a waify girl with no definition to her body? I like that I have some power and that everything’s tight.”
On Lesbos in the Locker Room:
“Tennis players don’t mind showing off their bodies,” she said. “Often in the locker room I feel other girls’ eyes on me.”
On What She Thinks About The World’s Foremost Tennis Sex Symbol:
“Anna [Kournikova] is stunning to look at, but she’s probably a bit damaged from what she’s been through. That’s how she acts — a bit damaged.”
source: Photo of Ashley Harkleroad On The Cover of Playboy’s August 2008 Issue July 15 [celebri net]
Pornography is very popular these days with the American working class (Woo! Stimulus checks!).
But that does not make it FCC approved. And it certainly is not an acceptable mixer with children’s rugby in New Zealand. But that’s what parents and fans of the kid’s sport were treated to while watching a live broadcast of “Grassroots Rugby” on the New Zealand television channel Prime.
A spokesman for Prime Television on Monday blamed a mixup in “distribution processes” for the error which inserted the hardcore segment in the regular program “Grassroots Rugby.”
The segment was intended to air on an adult pay-per-view channel.
Yeah, so, um, whoops? On the bright side of things, at least it puts the whole Janet Jackson – Nipplegate thing in perspective. Because, apparently, this was not just a little side boob getting flashed, it was the full hardcore pornography.
The downside is parents are going to complain and steer their kids away from your station. The upshot, though, is that by combining kids’ sports and porn, Prime has corned the market on the coveted “creepjob” demographic.
And now the totally work safe video (sorry…) of the not so thrilled parents being interviewed.
If you were married to Christie Brinkley and had $3000 in extra cash every month, would you spend it on porn?
Christie Brinkley‘s estranged husband spent about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites, the model’s lawyer said at the start of the couple’s nasty divorce trial.
“That is the man who’s come before this court and asked for custody of his 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter,” attorney Robert Stephan Cohen said of Peter Cook. The couple’s daughter, Sailor, had her birthday on Wednesday.
“It was wrong and he said it was wrong,” Cook’s lawyer, Norman Sheresky, said of the porn.
But the main focus of the trial is Cook’s affair with an 18-year-old, which set off a frenzy in the tabloids. Cohen said Brinkley found out about it from the teenager’s stepfather; the fashion model got the bad news moments before she was to speak at the Southampton High School graduation.
The teenager, Diana Bianchi, is expected to testify. She claims Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her to work at his Hamptons architectural firm.
“He did it and it was wrong. And we said so. And there is no way to make that right,” Sheresky said. “Peter has apologized. He’s cried his eyes out. He’s lost his marriage.”
The lawyer said Brinkley is partly to blame for the public spectacle.
“For goodness sake: She’s on her fourth husband,” Sheresky told the court. “Your honor, we’re here because of the self-indulgent wrath of a woman scorned.”
Oh, snap!
Look, Christie isn’t as hot as she was in the days when teenage boys had posters of her on their walls and using her for the same purposes Peter Cook presumably employed his porn to. But, dude, she’s still pretty hot!
And, to add insult to injury, he was also screwing some 18-year-old. I don’t have any pictures of her but if he was willing to risk losing Christie Brinkley to sleep with her, she had to be at least halfway decent looking.
So, he’s having sex with Christie Brinkley, shagging a hot teenager on the side, and still needs $3000 a month for porn?! The greedy bastard! You have to admire the dude’s stamina, if nothing else.
Source: Brinkley’s lawyer: Husband spent money on porn [AP]
There’s been much speculation regarding Madonna‘s failing marriage to Guy Ritchie, now we may know why.
The singer has been hosting late-night visits from New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez at her Central Park West apartment in New York City.
A ringless and grim-faced Ritchie, 39, arrived in New York City from London yesterday after several weeks apart from his family. A source said that the $28-million-a-year Rodriguez, 32, has made numerous solo nighttime visits to Madonna, 49, at her spacious home and would sneak out “as late as midnight.” Says the source, “All the doormen are talking.”
Rodriguez attended Madonna’s April 30 NYC concert; the singer sat in his seats at a Yankees game on June 22 (it was the first time she ever was photographed at a Yankees game). Her son Rocco, 7, also sported Yankees gear on June 25 while playing in Central Park.
Rodriguez, married with two young daughters, has already faced speculation about cheating: In 2007, he and a stripper were reportedly spied in Toronto, Miami and Dallas.
Complicating matters: Former Yankee slugger Jose Canseco – who once dated Madonna – wrote in his book Vindicted that he “hates [A-Rod's] guts” because he once hit on his wife.
OOooh scandal! It’s always a story about cheating, isn’t it? Alex Rodriguez sounds like a real tool, you would think that Madonna would have better taste than that. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
What others said:
Gawker says, “The New York Post must be devastated, for whom this would have been the most perfect story: a singer who made her name in New York with the city’s most hated sports celebrity.
Dlisted says, “I don’t even watch to picture these two bumping muscley genitals. They probably get stuck all the time, because Vadge’s muscled-up chocha traps A-Rod’s rod.”
source: NY Yankee Making Late-Night Visits to Madonna’s Apartment [us]
