When you spend Father's Day with your golf-nut in-laws, you're gonna see some televised golf. We watched the last hour of the U.S. Open, in which both aging and portly Colin Montgomerie and beginning-to-age and portly Phil Mickelson self-destructed, leaving young, lean Australian golfer Geoff Ogilvy to win the tournament. It's not that I'm a sucker for an Australian accent (I don't mind it, of course), but just look at this long drink of water: There's a nice photo in this old BBC article. And his hair's all mussed up in the SI page. It's slim pickings in the golf world—I think Ogilvy's about as good as it gets.
Tennis is loaded with hot men, of course. To wit, James Blake and Andy Roddick. (And this page I ran across doesn't feature the handsomest athletes, but there are streakers.)
I can't think of any exceptional hotties in the arenas of baseball, football, basketball, or hockey. And that's fine. What I need to know now is who the hot World Cup footballers are. Any nominations? I haven't been watching the matches with Mr. Tangerine (instead I've been a World Cup widow), but if you tell me which teams have the best-looking players, I might take an interest.
Wait! I do have a favorite baseball player! It's Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina. I don't know how good a player he is (pretty accomplished, I think), but he's awfully cute, especially when he's talking while solving a crossword puzzle in Wordplay. According to his foundation website, he graduated from Stanford in 3½ years (majored in economics), and the Mike Mussina Foundation provides college scholarships. What's not to like? Other than the fact that he plays for (cough) the Yankees, that is.
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You're talking about tennis. I'm all awake now!
Last year, we got autographs for both Blake and Roddick on our giant tennis ball. I had a little conversation with Blake's mum, too. She's very normal, goofy even.
My fav on the eyes tennnis-wise is Nadal. He's just past being jail bait and oh so yummy.
You have hit upon my favorite of all time subjects. Hot professional athletes. (That just revealed far too much about my little brain, I think.)
Here are my personal World Cup favorites, and this, I promise you, is a VERY truncated list: Jan Kromkamp, Freddie Ljungberg, Zinade Zidane, Oguchi Onyewu, and my favorite for the moment, Michael Ballack. Really, I don't have a problem...
That Swede Ljungberg is h-o-t hot!
I believe there are some hot Japanese soccer players, but I'm unable to navigate the Japanese-language website to find the stash of photos that are surely lurking within.
I have a Zidane keychain.
Seriously.
What? The in-laws sent it last time France played in the finals.
Oohh, I don't know the names of any of the World Cuppers, but I turn to a jelly-like substance and drool uncontrollably when I see closeups of them on the telly. Mmm...I'd like to roll them all up in a ball and eat them with my bare hands....
Here... take your pick: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/team/squad.html?team=JPN
(My vote is Mitsuo Ogasawara or Shinji Ono, although according to their profiles, Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi is the national heartthrob. huh.)
Aah, soccer players! My very favorite sport to watch. Every player is in fine condition and there is at least one true hunk on every team. The U.S.A. has Carlos Bocanegra http://socialitelife.com/2006/06/06/2006_world_cup_participant_carlos_bocanegra.php
Bocanegra is indeed delicious (provided you can get past a surname meaning "blackhead").
Michael Bérubé has links to hottie hockey players (see comment #7). Yes, hockey. Who knew?
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