Ladies Day At Royal Ascot 2009

Wonderful and wacky hats at the races.

The royals preferred light colors

Jasmine Guinness & Stephen Jones

Freya Berry loves ice-cream cones!

Erin O'Connor looks elegant

Gorgeous and wacky at the same time

Lovely birds of paradise

Purple elegance

Easily one of the humorous hats of the day

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Kaka Goes To Real Madrid For $94,500,000.00

Which is almost as ridiculous as this... (Showing you some love, SW!) Believe it or not, this transfer deal is still only #2 on the Most Expensive Transfer List...

Kaka strikes a pose in Esquire mag

Bloody hell!

Update: At the weekend Cristiano Ronaldo also went to Real Madrid from Manchester United for a whopping $130 million. Yikes!

Random Photo Of Man. Utd.

via kickette.com

Have A Good Sunday!!

This Sunday's gratuitous booty shot comes to you courtesy of Kickette.com. Enjoy. But not too much!!

Wtf???? It's customary to exchange jerseys after a footie game, but AS Roma's

Daniele De Rossi takes it to another level...

Oh Dear, Dear Lampsy...

“I have never had a manager who, while I’m standing in the shower cleaning my balls, tells me I’m the best player in the world. He did that. I’ll never forget it. So casual.

‘You’re the best player in the world, but you need to win titles.‘ From that moment the extra confidence was in me.“

-Frank Lampard talking about former manager Jose Mourinho.

Good grief, Frank. Can anyone be anymore direct?


Source: kickette.com

Dapper Dans: AC Milan

AC Milan players arrive in Bremen for their UEFA cup game against Werder Bremen. Ambrosini, Becks, Zambrotta, Maldini...although Paolo's looking a bit disheveled there... The last one's for you, Bebe!





Via: Kickette.com

Milan Bound!!

Thank God he lost that terrible dishevelled look..although his 'stache is still crap.

Yes, yes, I know it's old news but it's good to know Becks is going back to Europe to compete with some real clubs (haha I know I'll get a lot of flak for this but Americans have never cared about football/soccer so don't start now..) in a short-term loan move.

Dedicated To My Pals Circa 1994 - The Football Days!

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I Love Getting Stuff In The Mail!!

Look at what I got in the mail on Friday! It's from my buddy Kev in Reading, England!! We share a love/hate relationship of the English national football team.

England football shirt, postcard of a lock in Berkshire

The Three Lions

This is written on the postcard, lol

Thanks Kev, it's brilliant!! I love it! I shall think of the good times (which aren't that many presently) with the team! Onwards to 2010 South Africa!!

The Chicago Marathon 2008

Every year the Chicago marathon cuts through my neighborhood, and the best part is that I can see the runners from the window in my living room. Since moving here I've always missed going down from the apartment to watch the runners because of work, getting up late etc., but today was gorgeous, the temp was around 70 degrees by 10am, and I got up early enough to see the first 5 runners pass by my flat. I think someone said that the street was the 20th mile of the 26.2 mile course. Not surprisingly the leaders were all African runners. Dawdling by the window then I saw the top 2 female runners who were Russians running past around the 1 hr 49 minute mark.

As usual click on pics for deets.

Andy's got support, whoever he is.

The two lead female runners. One is blocked by the streetlight.

More runners early in the race.

The main groups early on.

It's very lively along the route from Ashland to Halsted, people were cheering the runners and urging them on, my neighbors across the street came out with bowls of sliced oranges and ice for the runners and the neighborhood people volunteered at the water and sponge stations. As well as getting out their water hoses and spraying water at the runners. It's heartening to see the neighborhood coming together to support the marathon! Quite a few runners were in costume, I saw Wonder Woman running by around the 5 hour 30 minute mark, and earlier on I saw Napoleon, Batman and Robin! And a guy in an inflatable horse costume.

If you look closely there's Batman & Robin
blocked by those people's giant heads.

After last year's searing heat the promotors this year made sure there were plenty of liquids for the runners...it was hot around noon today even for the likes of me who's just standing at the side walk clapping and encouraging the runners on. There was also music along the route, unfortunately the famous mariachi band was no longer playing like it did the last few years. Dammit, that was a Pilsen trademark during the event!

The main pack

Neighbors handing out orange slices

Endless stream of runners.

The intersection of 18th St. and Blue Island.

My friend Norma.

Me and Norma hanging out. The dude behind her
was crrrrazy....and has no teeth.

For more information on the winners and statistics, go here

Olympic Round Up

In honor of the Olympics and in the tradition of my buddy Sleepy Jackson I thought I'd sum up the Olympics in a few short paragraphs.

I'm still mad I missed sports like dressage and fencing and no channel ever show those sports except maybe ESPN once in a blue moon and I don't have cable or satellite (shocker) but whatever, there's always next Olympics.



The 10 meter platform final was absorbing to say the least especially when Matt Mitcham pipped Zhou Luxin to become the first Australian man since 1924 to win a diving medal and kept China from sweeping all 8 gold medals. That shot of Mitcham jumping for joy in the foreground while Zhou was in tears in the background? Quintessential Olympics.





Track..man oh man...the fastest man and woman in the world came from Jamaica, both in their first major tourney and virtual unknowns. Usain Bolt? Who's that? He's the one with 9.69 secs tattooed on his forehead. The way he won that 100m sprint was brilliant, it was like he wasn't even trying. That shot of Lolo Jones after she crossed the line in the hurdles? Augh, must suck to be her.



Swimming. Michael Phelps. Duh. Although they showed a shot of the great Alexander Popov in the closing ceremonies.



Gymnastics. So this is the funny thing..I don't really follow gymnastics except during the Olympics, so I have absolutely no clue who's who in the sport. So I was thinking the whole time that Nastia Liukin is Russian, right? Which was pretty funny, because the comentators were talking about her and Shaun Johnson being roomies, and I was thinking, wow, great Olympic spirit, all the different athletes from the different countries are rooming together. Hahahha. And I caught a glimpse of Svetlana Khorkina reporting for a Russian channel. Although I wish they'd shown Svetlana Bouginskaia instead. She was a brilliant gymnast.



The closing ceremonies was great, the Chinese seem obsessed with flight. Wonder what they'll do to the bird's nest now the Games are over? Dismantle it piece by piece? Can't wait to see what London has in store, will they build a new stadium or will they just use the new Wembley Stadium (seats 72.000+)? Although it's 8 years away, here's to Chicago in 2016!!

Sports History Made

Congratulations Michael Phelps on making it 8 for 8 at the Beijing Olympics. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!!!

Eh?????

Since when is *!@&*#$)*& TRAMPOLINE an Olympic sport????!?!?!??


Edit: apparently since January 1, 1999. Weird.

Euro 2008 Final: Spain 1- Germany 0

Congratulations Spain for winning the 2008 European Championships, courtesy of a Fernando Torres goal. Germany's won too many trophies already !!

Euro 2008: Kickette-style

The peeps at Kickette sure do appreciate their footballers!!
Congrats to Spain for making it to the final. It would have been England for me if they'd qualified, the wankers.

And This Is Why Kickette Rools...

Props to whoever mantains this site....
Eye Candy

Manchester United Rout Newcastle United

Epic football.. you can just see Newcastle's defense crumble in the second half..Final score Manchester United 6, Newcastle United 0.