Stop kissing Josh Hamilton’s ass. He doesn’t deserve all the praise and he certainly doesn’t deserve to be called a hero or a role model or a good influence. He was a complete f**k up, but because he’s can still play baseball better than almost anyone else alive we should praise him? No.

Yes, he was addicted to cocaine and crack for years. Yes, the fact that he seems to have made a full recovery is impressive (overcoming any addiction that overwhelms a person like that is impressive), but he’s not a great guy because of it. He should be working his way back to being an OK guy. Half a season of good baseball doesn’t clear him of all the bad sh*t he did before. Read More »

It didn’t take Jackson very long to post the $25,000 bail he needed after going all ’sunday sunday sunday’ in his ‘Rampage-mobile.’ Unfortunately, Jackson didn’t have much time to enjoy his freedom. According to Sherdog.com, friends of Jackson signaled to police that he may be a danger to himself and those around and the cops were back at the house of ‘Page pretty quick… Read More »

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Welcome to our fifth installment of Cheerleader Showdown!

If you search “cheerleading” on COED you will see more than a few posts that prove there are some incredibly sexy cheerleaders out there—but now it’s time again for the public to decide what school has the hottest.

In Cheerleader Showdown I Whitney McMillan (Old Dominion) demolished the competition with 78-percent of the votes. In Cheerleader Showdown II, Holly Simmons from University of Tennessee came out on top with 54-percent of the votes. In Cheerleader Showdown III, Lauren Thompson topped the competition with over 60-percent of the votes. In Cheerleader Showdown IV, Oregon Duck Kelsi Metzler won with 60% of the vote.

Who will come out on top this time? You decide!

Who has your vote in Cheerleader Showdown V?

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Past Cheerleader Showdowns

Kelsi Metzler Wins Cheerleader Showdown IV

Lauren Thompson of ASU Wins Cheerleader Showdown III

Tennessee’s Holly Simmons Wins Cheerleader Showdown II

Whitney McMillan of Old Dominion Wins Cheerleader Showdown I

Last night’s 15 inning All-Star marathon featured some of the best baseball play we will ever see.

By the 7th, inning major league leading vote getters like Ramirez and Rodriguez were benched and it was left up to the young studs of baseball like Justin Morneau, Russell Martin, Michael Young and the unlikely Nate McLouth to decide the outcome of the game.

We saw a seven inning pitcher’s duel full of heroic defense, timely hitting, aggressive base running, and best of all, hustle! Read More »

Josh Hamilton just put on a show at Yankee Stadium setting a Home Run Derby record with 28 bombs in the first round.

Hamilton’s compelling journey is the type of story from which Hollywood movies are made and it’s chronicled in our COED Vault story Josh Hamilton’s Journey From Crack Addict to Triple Crown Threat, a must read for any sports fan.

With the 2008 Summer Olympics quickly approaching, make sure you check out one the most fantastic spectator sports around: women’s beach volleyball. Sure, the sport is just a lot of back and forth, but it’s awesome to watch. What’s better than pairs of sun-kissed cuties showing their skills in the sand–and showing off some awesome athlete ass? Nothing, that’s what.

Luckily for you, we’ve taken out all the obnoxious actual volleyball, and distilled it down to the best bits. The WNBA should take a look at what the AVP is doing, we’re guessing it would up their viewership a point or two…

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When a guy like Brett Favre single-handedly brings the Green Bay Packers back to the height of the Lombardi era he probably has a little bit of respect due to him. His love of the game has always interfered with his business sense though, forcing him to think about retirement on and off for years, something Joan Rivers should have done around 1988. The fiasco in Green Bay is faulted by both sides; Favre stringing along management for years about retirement, and management disrespecting Favre when he inquires about getting his old job back. Now #4 is left blowing in the wind, trying to negotiate with the team he once dictated the shots for, left with nothing to do but wait and warm his arm doing Prilosec OTC commercials. The true issue is a business deal, one that see’s an asset is depreciating and wants to move into a more long-term oriented strategy. The ‘gun slinger’ just isn’t in that strategy. Read More »

To a lot of people, the thought of crawling in the pitch black hundreds of feet below the earth doesn’t really sound appealing. Caving is a dirty, dangerous sport. And I love it.

I ventured out to Laurel Caverns in western Pennsylvania this past weekend for my first, but certainly not last, caving adventure. I swelled with excitement as the guide explained to my group that rescue would take up to 12 hours–should anything go wrong on our expedition. I stared down at my map, trying to envision what all of those miles of passage ways underground actually were like. Decked out in clothing head to toe, a hard hat, multiple flash lights, and a very heavy back pack, I started my trip through the caverns with eight other fearless souls.

The first part of the trip was easy. It was well lit and stairs were built into the rock. This was the section that most people came through. Those are the people sensible enough not to go hiking through small spaces 47 stories down into the dirt. As I climbed and crawled away from the lights, the blackness increased as the temperature did just the opposite. I thought of that horrible movie, ‘The Descent’, as I scurried over the huge rocks. Would there be monsters living in the pits of these caves like there were in that movie? I didn’t know, but I didn’t care. Read More »

In May of 1963, Mickey Mantle hit a 734ft blast at Yankee Stadium that was a few feet short of leaving the park all together. To put that in perspective, at the height of his 1998 steroid usage Mark McGwire’s longest blast was a mere 545 feet. What a slacker…

Tonight’s Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium starts at 8PM and the line-up lacks the punch of Prince Fielder and Ryan Howard, so chances are Mickey’s epic Yankee Stadium shot will not be challenged, but the event should still be fun to watch.

In any case, I have two ways to make tonight’s event even more exciting.

Betting money can make even the most boring events fun. My buddy Kevin came up with an extremely simple way to get some action on the contest amongst friends. Have everyone throw in $5 and pick a derby contestant out of a hat. Winner takes all. Simple, no skill involved and pays out immediately. Just hope that you don’t get a player from a team you despise because cheering for a hated player might not be worth the $30.

Not everyone is a gambling fiend like myself, so instead of throwing money around you can always do the Home Run Derby Drinking game as devised by HomerDerby.com.

The rules are very easy to follow and revolve heavily around the incoherent ramblings of Chris Berman and Joe Morgan on ESPN.

The roster for the 2008 MLS All-Star team has been announced, and it includes US star Landon Donovan, who led all players in voting, and global stars David Beckham and Cuauhtemoc Blanco who were second and third in voting.

Chivas USA star Sacha Kljestan, noted for gaining the respect of his peers, has been named to his first All-Star team finishing fourth overall in player voting.

Check out the full MLS All-Star roster and tune in July 24th as the MLS All-Star team will take on West Ham of the English Premier League in Toronto.