Credit Where Due: ESPN World Cup Soccer Coverage was Phenomenal

There are two futbols footballs in my life…, a love affair with soccer and a fiery and passionate 30+ year fling with Oakland Raiders football. Both have been the dominant sporting factors in an unbalanced lifetime affair with sports. The very day the massive egos of Major League Baseball OWNERS & PLAYERS collectively said “fuck you peion fans” by cancelling the World Series in 1984, the script was unalterably written. Soccer (futbol and football elsewhere) would occupy the remaining liluputian sized space remaining in a wee brain; space not already devoured by Raiders football minutae.

So in comes a huge event from South Africa, majestically filling the NFL offseason with international drama, sportsmanship, and athletic grace… until reading that the dreaded and incessant hype machine of ESPN would be providing the 2010 World Cup Soccer Coverage. Could a strangely timed release of a PacMan Jones styled “make it rain” video featuring Maradona snorting coke off of Kaka’s ass be far off?

Egads, ouch… ESPN, a once beautifully unique, raw and ungroomed 24/7/365 George Michael sports machine; now supersized with the requisite bloat and self importance only a meglamaniacal blend of egos produced by taking a shit in a bowl and spraying disjointed chunks of ESPN, ABC, and Disney-fied corn kernels of power bent on controlling the face of sports on the internet, airwaves and the branded chip George Bodenheimer plans to implant in your head. I’d rather listen to Jerry Glanville “talk soccer and stuff” as the corporate sellout whore occupant of the coors light cold hard facts stool of budweiser hot seat self fellating cininchilla shit… but i digress, gentle readers.

Let me make this unequivocal…

ESPN World Cup Television Coverage Was Amazing…
even Beautiful at times.

I’m really just gonna stop here… everything ESPN/ABC has done to overexploit the NFL  (are there 537 former NFL “anchors” at ESPN, or have a few turks gotten us down into a manageable 514?… is Salisbury wearing pants at Bristol today?) was mercilessly left out of ESPN’s supreme soccer work. No endless “up close and personal” ESPN days spent detailing the car wash habits of  Manny Ramirez Cristiano Ronaldo, no nausea inducing swirls of Sportscenter tested and approved pantone #021c orange abominations of a set…

Very, very, nicely done ladies and gentlewomen of Bristol, your coverage of the 2010 World Cup was respectful, positive, fair, and balanced… and amazingly focused on the actual drama and intrigue found innately in the beautiful game. Well done ESPN!!!

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Fast Times with Phoebe Cates – “The Pool Scene”

To this very day some 28 YEARS LATER… the Phoebe Cates red bikini pool scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High still enjoys an almost mythical and certainly cult-like status as one of the hottest and sexiest movie moments of all time. There is no trip to the pool that doesn’t at some point elicit a warm smile of fond rememberance… the luscious Phoebe Cates emerges soaking wet from the pool, her red bikini clinging almost impossibly to every inch of her dripping curves… “Moving in Stereo” by the Cars is playing in the background as Phoebe scorches the earth… Judge Reinhold in the bathroom beating it like it owed him money (wait…scratch that image)… and then the magic moment when Cates red bikini majestically falls…

Ok I’ll say it… “Phoebe Cates Fast Times at Ridgemont High Red Bikini Pool Scene is the sexiest and hottest movie moment of all time”  

   

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The Infamouse Fast Times Phoebe Cates Pool Scene Video Clip (warning, uncensored )

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Brad & Stacy Hamilton’s house… The Fast Times Pool Scene actual House:
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Other worthy contenders for  ”hottest & sexiest movie moments of all time” 
*feel free to pass along your suggestions, the research is long & tedious but someone must… for the sake of passing these precious and formative moments along to our future generations… lest they ever be forgot.

 

1: Viki Kilstrom: The bell-bottom wearing hitchhiker from  Bad News Bears Breaking Training

Viki Kilstrom left an indelible impression upon all little league playin’ rebel yell shoutin’ kids of  that era.

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 2: Sharon Stone #1: The hottest fake wife to a Governator of all time from Total Recall

Besides being a new starlet in Tinseltown, Sharon Stone immediately set teen hearts a fluttering with her oh so blonde yet kickass persona

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3: Sharon Stone #2: “What are you going to do charge me with smoking?” Stone asks seductively

Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs in Basic Instinct is possibly the second sexiest movie moment of all time. If the word titillating was not in existence prior to Sharone Stone’s snapper flash, this would have guaranteed its entry into Websters lexicon.

From an interesting Rolling Stone Basic Instinct review: “…she insists it’s a setup, but she goes downtown with the cops, stopping only to slip into heels and something short and clingy. She wears no underwear, a detail that doesn’t escape her interrogators, who attend to each uncrossing of Catherine’s legs like overzealous gynecologists.”

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4: Mia Sara: Mia Sara, in the strangely gratifying  yet innocent Ferris Buellers Day Off pool scene

A comatose Cameron Frye watches the dripping Mia Sara emerge from the pool with one thought in mind “airtight” “Hey batta batta batta, hey batta batta batta SWING batta!”

Phoebe Cates Fast Times Pictures | Images | Photos…

 *note these include Phoebe Cates topless… for those with weak hearts beware

(must be 18 or please leave, respectfully thank you) Click image for larger Phoebe Cates pics
 

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Horny Goat Weed returns to the ESPN Sportscenter family…

We all know a friend who has the cutest little dog; until that certain fuzzy pillow or furry squirrel toy appears…

 The mere sight of their obsession (my neighbors pug knocks boots with a mini-football… no Barry White required)  turns little “Puffermuffins” into a 12 pound ball of gyrating canine nookie, incapable of thought past that of R. Kelly at a senior prom.

 As the moth returns to the flame, Tiger Woods Playing in the Masters returns a warm fuzzy leg for Sportscenter to madly hump. Like a crank addicted OCD case in the Dr. Drew files, the addiction AND obligatory self-loathing play out publicly; under the intense glare of the 242,914 kilowatt Sportscenter set. Even now in an era when “color” in sports generally describes benign things like the hideous nature of Miami Dolphins Aqua & Orange, the mere sight of a black guy hitting a ball with a stick appears to send ESPN into a “bom chicka wah wah” tizzy, rivaled only by that of a Bon Jovi groupie backstage on ecstasy.

So smitten is ESPN with all things Tiger Woods, you may actually think nobody else even teed it up at Augusta. Did they???

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