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Hot Olympian of the Day: Tony Azevedo

2 Jul

Water polo or as I like to call it aquatic hand soccer is one of the more obscure Olympic sports. It became an Olympic sport in the 1900′s along with tug of war. Yes tug of war was an Olympic sport until 1920. I’m still not sure what water polo has to do with regular polo or why they wear those funny caps but I do know that they have some attractive players. One being our feature today, Tony Azevedo. He is a Brazilian born member of the USA Water Polo Team.

Reasons to love Azevedo:

1. The London Olympics will be his 4th Olympics representing the US in water polo. Along with Ryan Bailey they are first men to become 4-time Olympians in water polo. He has a silver metal from the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

2. He is an animal lover. While in Beijing he helped raise $4,000 for animal shelters. He rescued his cat from the Adriatic sea.

3. He favorite musical artist are Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. So classic . . . got to love that.

4. He works out 10 hours a day during Olympic training. 8 1/2 hours which are spent in the pool. Do you think he is immune from pruning?

5. His favorite movie is “The Last of the Mohicans.”

-M

Can We Just Focus on the Cuter One?

2 Jul

The media seems to be pretty upset that swimmer Michael Phelps is only doing 7 events at the London Olympics. At the Beijing Olympics Phelps swam 8 events and won 8 gold medals. And the media was salivating at the chance for a repeat. Today Phelps dropped the 200 freestyle from his list. That means he will have four individual races and 3 relay races.

My message to the media is don’t worry about what Phelps is doing and focus on our favorite Ryan Lochte. Okay so Phelps has beat Lochte in three consecutive head-to-head finals so far. That doesn’t matter because what is really important is that Lochte is hotter and more interesting.

Lochte owns over 130 pairs of shoes. Now that is a man I want to hear more about. It is pretty amazing that he has shoe contract and he is a swimmer.

-M

That’s How I Celebrate

2 Jul

What better way to celebrate victory in a run than to shove an innocent mascot? That’s at least what French runner, Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad, thought after winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the European Championships. And sadly the poor person inside the costume is a 14-year old girl. I will totally give anyone props who can figure out what company this mascot represents? Is it a camera?

-M

 

Sharapova Gone : (

2 Jul

Wimbledon is turning out a lot of upsets this year. First we save favorite and super hottie Rafael Nadal upset last week by Lukas Rosol. Now Maria Sharapova has fallen to 15th Ranked German, Sabine Lisicki. Sharapova lost 6-4, 6-3. It is sad to see her go because she was trying to become the first woman since Serena Williams in 2002 to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year.

Sharapova just won the French Open which completed her career Grand Slam. Serena Williams is still in it and has yet to play her 4th round. She will take on defending champion Petra Kvitova next.

-M

 

 

Davis Injured Already

2 Jul

Anthony Davis the number one draft pick by the New Orleans’ Hornet has sprained his ankle during training. The basketball wonder boy was scheduled to work in hopes of being on Team USA’s Basketball team in the London Olympics. Now it’s looking like he will be added to the long list of injured potential Olympic players. He’s in good company with: Chris Bosh, Dwayne Wade, Derrick Rose, and Dwight Howard.

This gives hope to Olympic wannabes like Lamar Odom.  But seriously enough with the injures already. I am running out of creative ways of saying players will not be going to the Olympics.

-M

And You Thought No One Could Top LeBron

2 Jul

Just as LeBron James is going from NBA villain to NBA Hero it seems that Dwight Howard is taking his place. After much debate Howard had committed to the Orlando Magic for the 2012-2013 season. That was until he sat down with their new GM and asked to be traded to the Brooklyn Nets. This actually worse than James’ situation with the Cleveland Cavaliers because at least his contract was up. Howard literally just told them he was staying another year. Not to mention the Magic just got rid of coach Stan Van Gundy in an attempt to appease him.

If I were the Magic I would have traded him when he first started bitching. It is impossible to make a team feel comfortable when their star player doesn’t really want to be there.

-M