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Lindsey Vonn In A Bikini | Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue | Vancouver Olympics | Mediaite
Mar 1st
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Make no mistake, this Sports Illustrated photo spread of Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn is definitely supposed to make you think of sex. The other day sports blogger Nicole M. LaVoi caused a bit of an online stir when she accused Sports Illustrated of oversexualing when they put on the cover, fully clothed, in a downhill skiing position. As I noted at the time considering this was a position skiers are required to take in order to ski it was hard to see the source of the outrage: “Is this maybe a case of the viewer seeing what they want to see? I mean if they had her posed in a bathing suit and lord knows I wouldn’t necessarily put it past them then, yes, the author would very much have a point.”HA. Turns out we didn’t have to put it past them! Behold this week’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue featuring an entire spread of Lindsey Vonn half-naked 45 pictures in all. Nicole M. LaVoi was merely a week ahead of the game. Here’s what she has to say about the latest development Vonn is one of four female athletes pictured in bikinis in the issue, by the way.
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- Salon.com
Feb 23rd
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There are some pretty unusual sports in the Olympics — skeleton, anyone? — so it’s understandable that some fringe athletes would think their particular talent deserving of inclusion, too. But “sport” isn’t generally the first word that come to mind when one thinks of pole dancing — and the words that do? Well, they aren’t super family-friendly.
Nonetheless, a petition is circulating to get the discipline into the Olympics and it’s already netted roughly 4,000 signatures. Much as this might seem like a sexy publicity stunt (not that pole dancing really needs the added attention) the organizers behind the push appear incredibly earnest. Ania Przeplasko, founder of the International Pole Dancing Fitness Association, told the Associated Press: “There will be a day when the Olympics see pole dancing as a sport. The Olympic community needs to acknowledge the number of people doing pole fitness now. We’re shooting for 2012.”
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Give “sexy” figure skaters a break – Salon
Feb 19th
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In an article that appeared Wednesday in Slate, Hanna Rosin examines the fraught world of sexuality for female athletes. Her central comparison is between skier Lindsey Vonn, who recently posed for Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and “pixie” figure skaters “whose notion of sexy involves sparkly outfits and blue eye shadow.” Among other conclusions, Rosin declares that, for women, the trope “assigned to skiers (female gladiator) is far preferable to the one assigned to skaters (tragic nymph).”
But throughout the article are a number of arguments that left me wondering who ran over Rosin’s foot with a 1/8-inch blade and left her with a grudge against skaters. After saying that at least Vonn’s sexuality is preferable to that of the figure skaters, she writes, “Watching pairs skating these last few nights has reminded me of what the figure skating narrative is all about: tender young fawns gliding to maudlin music, getting thrown around, and landing on frail ankles. The vibe is more Virgin Suicides than professional sports and is thus, from the teach-your-daughters point of view, problematic.”
I don’t have a daughter to teach, but here are a few lessons I think the young figure skaters could impart: grace under pressure, dedication to a goal (in an increasingly instant-gratification world), the power of dreaming big, and that beauty, femininity and physical strength aren’t mutually exclusive. Also, though Rosin is speaking to the narrative and not the facts, saying that the skaters are “getting thrown around” is downright offensive to these athletes, who have crazy muscle control and power, not to mention a risk-taking spirit. Plus, that description doesn’t hold up in individual skating, where the women are clearly their own driving force for those whiplash jumps.
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The 10 Hottest NBA Finals WAGs Of All Time | Content
Jun 8th
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Reaching the NBA Finals is the pinnacle of NBA success, so it makes sense that players who have played in the NBA Finals would reach the pinnacle of wife or girlfriend success as well. After watching game one of the NBA Finals it appears as if we might as well focus on NBA Finals WAGs because they’re much more entertaining than the series is gonna be.
via The 10 Hottest NBA Finals WAGs Of All Time | Content.
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Travis Knight takes on former Survivor in celebrity boxing match
Mar 24th
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(News release: PHILADELPHIA, PA ) Adult performer and entrepreneur Travis Knight is ready to throw his hat into the Celebrity boxing ring. Knight, a ten year veteran of the adult film world, has gone toe to toe with some of the hottest women on the planet in over 350 scenes. Now he will take on a different challenge when he climbs between the ropes for a Celebrity Boxing Federation match with reality TV star Gervase Peterson in Philadelphia on April 3rd.
The CBF sought out Knight for the tournament and originally wanted him to fight Lindsay Lohan’s father. Plans changed when Lohan turned the bout down due to the size discrepancy between the two fighters. Peterson, who starred on the first season of “Survivor” was brought in as a replacement.
Peterson is a full five inches taller than Knight who doesn’t seem worried. “I’m ready for whatever he’s going to bring,” says Knight. “I didn’t know who he was until I looked him up on the internet. When I’m done with him he won’t be any different from anyone else I have stepped into the ring with. We’ll see who survives this.”
- LAS VEGAS – JANUARY 13: Adult film actress Gina Lynn arrives at the 24th annual Adult Video News Awards Show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center January 13, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Knight’s wife Gina Lynn will serve as his manager and will be a ringside. “They called Travis at Skin and it was something he wanted to do,” exclaims Gina. “It is something fun and they aren’t trying to hide the fact that he’s an adult performer. Travis is also doing this for a very worthy cause.”
He will boxing for his sp onsor Skin, but he will be donating his proceeds to the widow of Philadephia police officer John Pawlowski. The office was killed outside of a nightclub on Feb ruary 13th while Knight and Lynn were inside celebrating her birthday.
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“He was a young officer who left behind a pregnant wife.” Says Knight. “We have been collecting donations at our Skin store. I am proud to be able to do whatever I can to help.”
Celebrity Boxing 7: Hollywood Showdown takes place on April 3rd at 8pm at the Philadelphia Airport Ramada, 75 Indusstrial Hwy. Essington, PA (Doors open at 7:30pm)
Tickets are available at Skin in the King of Prussia Mall or at Centerstage Tickets.
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Madam Kristin Davis dated Alex Rodriguez and provided him hookers, sources claim
Mar 22nd
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Kristin Davis aka Charlotte York at the premiere of “Sex and the City: the Movie” in Berlin
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A former Manhattan madam who supplied Eliot Spitzer with hookers also counted Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez as a customer – and found him so charming she dated him herself for free, former employees of the call-girl agency tell the Daily News.
A-Rod wooed ex-madam Kristin Davis with flowers, jewelry, persistence and heated e-mails, according to the sources.
“Throughout the years, there were a number of clients that I befriended and it was not uncommon for them to want the women they can’t have whether it be the phone bookers or the madam,” Davis said.
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YouTube – Tatiana Golovin-SI Swimsuit 2009
Mar 6th
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“SI” swimsuit models invade Italy – Entertainment Weekly
Feb 8th
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Save the last cheer for me
Aug 23rd
Cheerleaders dance during the men’s beach volleyball final match between the U.S. and Brazil at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008.
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Sex And The Olympic City: What Athletes Are Doing After Hours
Aug 22nd
Matthew Syed, The Times
I am often asked if the Olympic village – the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games – is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is. I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle.
Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport. There were the gorgeous hostesses – there to assist the athletes – in their bright yellow shirts and black skirts; there were the indigenous lovelies who came to watch the competitions. And then there were the female athletes – literally thousands of them – strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh. Women from all the countries of the world: muscular, virile, athletic and oozing oestrogen. I spent so much time in a state of lust that I could have passed out.
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