Florida’s Kari Klinkenborg: America’s hottest student-athlete? Yeah, like Florida needs any more national titles. But SI On Campus says she deserves the title, and who am I to argue? (More photos here.)

P.S. Speaking of hotties, it looks like Dwight King is going to lose the Law Librarian Hotties contest to Fordham’s Larry Reeves, though the polls are still open, as far as I know. Meanwhile, in the female-librarians contest, it’s a tight race between the Library of Congress’s Abigail Rudman and the U.S. Supreme Court’s Joy Hanson.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models + Trojan Marching Band = I Freaking Love The Internet.

Hey baby, wanna hold my sword?

(Hat tip: TrojanWire.)

The model is Julie Henderson, if you’re wondering. Here’s a photo of her looking very cute in her USC hat, and standing next to another SI swimsuit model, Jessica White:

I wonder: How does a Notre Dame-loving, USC-hating heterosexual male react to pictures like the ones above? Not to mention the ones after the jump (SFW, but lots of skin):

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Remember F*** the Eagles girl? (Warning: profanity!) Well, it turns out her name is Heather Rothstein, and now she’s done more than just send the Parents Television Council into a tizzy; she’s got herself a Maxim photo spread. (No nudity, but profanity and scantily-clad-ness.)

See, I like Heather. That’s a girl who knows how to seize the opportunities that life presents her. As opposed to the participants in CheerleaderSexGate, who not only turned down Penthouse, but actually denied that any hot lesbian action took place! Fools, I say, fools! ;)

(Hat tip: Scott Fort.)

Okay, I realize that reports of “baby booms” after blizzards and other such events are generally bogus:

It is a common belief that the number of conceptions increases during natural disasters or crises that keep people confined within their homes for unexpectedly long periods of times. Nine months after such events — blackouts, blizzards, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes, ice storms, and even strikes by professional football players — reports about “baby booms” in local hospitals invariably appear in the media. However, these “booms” always turn out to be nothing more than natural fluctuations in the birth rate (or, in many cases, no variation in the birth rate at all). Of course, we never hear about these fluctuations when they are not preceded by some unusual event. (Conversely, when these fluctuations do occur, reporters go scrambling to find some earlier event to “blame” them on.)

As J. Richard Udry stated at the conclusion of his article about the effect of the New York City blackout on the birth rate, it “is evidently pleasing to many people to fantasize that when people are trapped by some immobilizing event which deprives them of their usual activities, most will turn to copulation.”

But c’mon. Here we have a giant snow/icestorm sweeping across much of the nation, causing millions of people to be snowed in… on Valentine’s Day! If there was ever a time for a real “blizzard baby boom,” this is it. Or rather, mid-November is it.

Well, what are you waiting for, people? Stop reading my blog and go make babies! ;)

Okay, agree or disagree with the politics, but this is totally way better than Bush’s speech.

WARNING: Nudity! NSFW!!

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Heh-heh, heh-heh. Boobies. (Hat tip: Chris.)

Sixteen months after Hurricane Katrina, the AP says the French Quarter is in a funk:

“The money’s not the same. I remember when I made $1,200 a night,” said Elizabeth Johnson, a manager and dancer at a Bourbon Street strip club, frowning at another slow night. “I know girls who used to never let people touch them, and now they’re resorting to prostitution.”

Does this mean that going to Bourbon Street, ordering some drinks and getting a lap dance is now a patriotic duty? Ask not what your stripper can do for you…

Fox just showed a live shot of a Saints fan wearing a t-shirt that says “F*** da Eagles.” Heh.

First “West F***in’ Virginia” (warning: link contains profanity!), and now this. But that was on ESPN; this was on broadcast TV. That noise you hear is the Family Research Council’s fax machine going into overdrive.

Incidentally, the Saints lead 3-0 early. This after a touchdown-less 15-6 Colts win over the Ravens earlier today. We’ve completed almost five quarters of divisional-round playoff football, and nary a touchdown has been scored yet.

UPDATE: Michael David Smith at AOL Sports Blog is calling the t-shirt incident “Wardrobe Malfunction Part 2.”

UPDATE 2: More blog posts about Shirtgate here.

Deadspin already has video up.

I can’t get that one to play, but here’s a YouTube video, in slow motion. (Warning: profanity… obviously.)

Deployed and blogging has a downloadable WMV version. Better quality, with sound, non-slow-mo.

Looking at the video, you can see that it wasn’t actually a live shot… it was a replay! So Fox can’t even use “hey, it’s live TV, anything can happen” as an excuse… they actually chose, despite at least several seconds’ lead time, to show an instant replay of a female fan jumping up and down while wearing a vulgar shirt. Awesome. This controversy is going to be fu-u-n. :)

After the jump, photos of the shirt. Again, warning: profanity!

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Okay, I admit it: this post doesn’t actually have anything to do with Harry Potter. I was just being silly with the title. (Though I’m sure Daniel Radcliffe wouldn’t mind being in that movie!)

This post is, however, about burgeoning cleavage — and not Emma Watson’s, either, but Jennifer Aniston’s. It seems the former Mrs. Brad Pitt’s boobs have mysteriously grown in recent weeks. (SFW.) Why is this blogworthy, you ask? Well, it’s been a while since I posted anything in my newly created “Babes, Boobs & Sex” category, and if I want to get my 3 millionth hit someday, I gotta give the people what they want, so… enjoy! :)

There’s a scene from Bruce Almighty that seems rather strikingly apropos:

(Hat tip: Jay on the title of this post.)

Glenn Reynolds is pro-intimacy. (SFW.)

The search-engine traffic for Boise State cheerleader Chrissy Popadics has died down from the stratospheric levels it reached earlier in the week, in part because I’ve moved down from #1 to #7 on the Yahoo results list, so I don’t think I’ll be getting any more 18,744-hit days in the near future. Still, I figure I should offer something for the Chrissyphiles who are still hanging around, so above you see them in front of the Statue of Liberty (get it? cuz he got the winning score on a “Statute of Liberty” play?) during their recent New York trip, and here’s a video of the happy couple’s appearance on Good Morning America:

The future Mr. and Mrs. Johnson got the star treatment while in the Big Apple:

It’s a good thing Chrissy Popadics and Ian Johnson are in great physical condition, because their Fiesta Bowl workout didn’t end when the football game did Monday night.
Two days after Johnson scored the game-winning 2-point conversion for Boise State University and then proposed to Popadics on national television, the couple was touring New York City, shuttling from one television studio to another and sightseeing with Popadics’ uncle as guide.

With a picture of the wedding proposal in USA Today, the couple were instant celebrities — even on the East Coast.

“We’re outside of Boise and people are still recognizing who we are,’’ said Johnson, who is used to being interviewed, but not with the interest he’s seen since BSU won the Fiesta Bowl.

“People are like, ‘Hey, aren’t you the one who proposed?’ ’’said Johnson. “A few have also said, ‘Hey, thanks for making it so tough on the rest of us guys who want to propose this year.’’’ …

“It hasn’t even hit me yet. I can’t take it all in at the moment,’’ [Popadics] said. “I’m just so still trying to comprehend the fact that I’m engaged and in New York City.’’

Having her hair and makeup done and appearing on television was “awesome,� she said. “I felt like a celebrity.�

Like, oh my God! ;)

Here’s another article about Ian & Chrissy’s “storybook ending.” And here’s the report from ABC’s World News Tonight on the game and proposal:

Back to the game, here’s a video of the winning play from the perspective of some Boise fans in the nosebleed seats:

And here’s another bunch of Boise fan-reaction clips, mixed together in a somewhat chaotic fashion:

Just a reminder, if you want to download any of these videos, you can do so at this website.

UPDATE: You can also download MP3 files of KBOI’s radio broadcast of the game here. Woohoo! (Hat tip: C. Bassett.)

[UPDATE, 7/27: Due to the ridiculous volume of vile racist bulls**t on this thread, I’ve turned off comments for the moment.]

[UPDATE, 7/26: I just want to say that I utterly condemn and abhor the racist garbage that is being posted in comments on this thread. It’s unfortunate that the despicable riffraff from places like the white-supremacist site Stormfront.org have found their way here and are poisoning my site with their disgusting verbal vomit. Because I’m generally averse to censorship, I’ve decided — at least for the moment — to leave the racist comments up as a testament to their own ugliness, but I reserve the right to delete them later if I change my mind. In any event, I certainly don’t condone them in any way, shape or form.]

[UPDATE: For more on Ian and Chrissy, in addition what’s in the post below, see this post and this post (which contains a video of the proposal). For all of my college-football posts, go here. Or just visit my homepage for all the latest.]

Chrissy Popadics, a.k.a. the future Mrs. Ian Johnson, has a MySpace page. So does Mr. Johnson. Both contain pictures. For example:

Need I say more? (Hat tip: The 700 Level, via ESPN.)

Some people have trouble keeping their New Year’s resolutions. I’d say Boise State running back Ian Johnson is off to a pretty decent start. Here are a few things he accomplished on the first day of 2007:

1) Help prove to the world that your team deserves its spot in the BCS — and arguably more — with a performance for the ages in a game for the ages against an über-talented Oklahoma team that should have been 11-1 and in the national-title discussion. Check.

2) Win said “game for the ages” with perhaps the most dramatic trick play in college-football history (beating out the game-saving 50-yard hook-and-lateral from a few minutes earlier), a Statue of Liberty play for the game-winning two-point conversion in overtime. Check.

3) In the course of accomplishing #1 and #2, make your legions of fans, not to mention your friends and family, diliriously happy. Check.

(That’s Ian Johnson’s brother, Kyle.)

4) Propose to your extremely attractive cheerleader girlfriend on national TV. Check.

5) She says yes. Check.

Yep, I’d say that’s a pretty damn good day.

Incidentally, her name is Chrissy Popadics, and… did I mention she’s cute? Patrick was kind enough to send me links to these photos:

I nominate the future Mrs. Ian Johnson for next year’s Athlon cheerleader contest. Do I hear a second?

If I’d known about UCLA Undie Run when I made that awful list, it definitely would have been on there. I mean, USC’s “Primal Scream” is pretty cool and all, but listening to some dude* in your dorm yell “F***IN’ A!!!!” at the top of his lungs for 15 minutes doesn’t exactly measure up to watching a bunch of half-naked girls run around outside in the cold. So I’ll give UCLA the edge in the category of “exam-week study-break traditions.”

Now if only this tradition could be imported to USC, it would instantly improve, due to the inherent hotness of Trojan girls. :)

Photos here and here. (Warning: partial nudity! SFW, though — “unless Bruin dorks in underwear isn’t safe at your place of business,” as TrojanWire puts it.) Flickr photos here and YouTube videos here. (I haven’t seen ‘em all, so I can’t vouch for their SFW status.)

*His name was Shelton.

P.S. Notre Dame has its own finals-week tradition, and it involves full nudity: the Zahm Hall “Bun Run,” a tradition which the Zahm-ites apparently inherited from Keenan Hall and sometimes share with Alumni Hall (?). Alas, these are all male-only dorms. But if you’re into that sort of thing, here are some photos. As I said, full nudity is involved, but only the naked “buns” are shown in the photos — no, uh, “weiners.” :) You can also read Kristin’s accounts of the two most recent Bun Runs here and here.

The “West F***in’ Virginia” guy has a Facebook page. His name is Eddie Regan, he’s a junior at WVU, and he says “the shirt is sold around the stadium by the hundreds.” But he’s the one who got on national TV wearing it. Warning: all of the above links lead to uncensored profanity.

Speaking of West F***in’ Virginia, things aren’t looking too good for the lovely Lindsey in the Athlon cheerleader contest. The current leader, bafflingly, is Caris from North Texas with 141,512 votes, followed by Shawn from Tennessee with 113,933 votes and then Lindsey with 85,669.

I’m torn about whether to vote again for Lindsey or cast a strategic vote for Shawn in hopes of defeating Caris, who while perfectly okay-looking and probably a very nice person, wasn’t even close to being the most attractive contestant in her hottie-filled semifinal group — nevermind the finals. Good grief.

Lindsey or Shawn? Decisions, decisions…

The polls close at 11:59 PM on December 14.