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Alyssa Miller Talks About Her Experience in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
By Tom Lorenzo - AOL NewsIt's not often you put on your best suit, pour yourself a glass of Bourbon and just so happen to have the complete works of Nora Roberts lying around ("Oh, these? What can I say, I'm a romantic.") when conducting a phone interview. But that was the case on Wednesday when I had the chance to speak with Alyssa Miller, who can currently be found in the pages of the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. This year's cover model, for those not in the know, is Irina Shyak, who is making her fifth consecutive appearance in the swimsuit issue. Ms. Miller, who turns 21 years old on July 4 of this ...
Irina Shayk: Get to Know the Cover Girl for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011 Issue
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsForget about turmoil in Egypt and the newly released Obama budget. We have more important news to digest: a new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl. Last night, Russian-born Irina Shayk was unveiled as the 2011 frontwoman of the iconic magazine. Here's what you need to know about her. 1. From a remote region Shayk, 25, was born in Yemanzhelinsk, Russia, a town in the South Urals, and grew up in Emangelynsk City. Her father was a Tatar -- an ethnic group found in Russia, Turkey and other Eastern and Central European countries -- and she says that's where she got her dark looks, which ...
Drew Brees Named 'Sports Illustrated' Sportsman of the Year
By FanHouse Staff - AOL NewsDrew Brees is the 2010 Sportsman of the Year, the annual honor given by "Sports Illustrated" to the "athlete or team whose performance that year most embodies the spirit of sportsmanship and achievement." Brees is the 57th recipient of the award and will be honored at a ceremony Tuesday. The Saints, of course, beat the Colts in the Super Bowl for the first championship in the team's history, less than five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast region and forced the Saints to play an entire season away from the Superdome. Brees was the primary catalyst in the team's ...
Kevin Durant Shows Why He Is Ultimate Teammate on SI Cover
By Chris Tomasson - AOL NewsDENVER -- No, Sports Illustrated isn't trying to sell more copies in Switzerland and Serbia by putting Thabo Sefolosha and Nenad Krstic on the cover with Oklahoma City star teammate Kevin Durant. The magazine wanted Durant to pose for the cover of the Oct. 25 basketball preview issue, which hits newsstands Wednesday. The high-scoring forward said that was fine as long as he was joined on the cover by Sefolosha, a Swiss guard, and Krstic, a Serbian center. "Yeah, basically I had to say it like that,'' Durant said before the Thunder's preseason game Tuesday at Denver. Durant, regarded by many ...
Canadians Fight Climate Change With Swimsuit Issue
By Dave Thier - AOL News(July 8) -- Canada may not seem like prime territory for scoping out this summer's bikinis, but at least one magazine is inviting swimsuit connoisseurs to take a closer look at the Great White North. Up Here magazine -- published out of Yellowknife, deep in the Northern Territories and almost 4,000 miles from Miami Beach -- offers a swimsuit spread in its July/August edition that it hopes will call attention to climate change. The photographs feature several scantily clad women posing in front of such backgrounds as a burned-out forest and a melting icy landscape. "We liked the idea of ... ...
Derek Jeter Named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsIt's been a pretty incredible year for New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter. He just won his fifth World Series earlier this month after having one of the best offensive seasons of his career, and also got his fourth Silver Slugger award and fourth Gold Glove to go along with it. He also passed Lou Gehrig as the Yankees' all-time leader in hits, which considering the history of the Yankees, is quite an achievement. Now he has some more hardware to add to the trophy case ,as it was announced on Monday that Jeter has been named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year. Said Sports ...
ESPN's 'Body Issue' Has Naked Stars -- and a Serious Message
By David Gibson - Politics DailySome might argue that after baring her emotions at the U.S. Open just a few weeks ago -- and in doing so losing match point and a chance at the title -- the last thing tennis star Serena Williams needed was more exposure and controversy. But she'll soon get plenty of both. It was revealed Wednesday that Williams will be among the most prominent stars in a lineup of professional and amateur athletes posing naked for the October issue of ESPN the Magazine. Other well-known sports figures to appear out of uniform in the inaugural "Body Issue" will be Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian ...
ESPN's Naked Athletes: Heavenly Bodies, Queasy Christians
By David Gibson - Politics DailyChristians adore sports, always have, always will. Saint Paul was no jock, but he knew the importance of athletics to the Greco-Roman world around him, and the relevance of sports to the life of faith: "Do you not know that the runners in the stadium all run in the race, but only one wins the prize? Run so as to win," the Apostle exhorted his listeners in Corinth. "Every athlete exercises discipline in every way. They do it to win a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. Thus I do not run aimlessly; I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing. No, I drive my body and train it, for fear ...
Lou Piniella Voted Manager Players Would Least Like to Play For
By Tom Fornelli - AOL NewsIt hasn't been the greatest week for Cubs manager Lou Piniella. Not only is he feeling the heat of the Chicago media with the Cubs scuffling, but he's also gotten into an argument with Milton Bradley in which he called his right fielder a "piece of [expletive]." Regardless of whether the exchange should have ever left the clubhouse or not, it's not exactly the type of thing you want the world to know about.All of this was done after a recent poll by Sports Illustrated in which Major League players were asked anonymously which manager in baseball they would least like to play for, and which one ...
Allstate's Bergwood Ditches Bowden Crush to Profess His Undying, Unrequited Love for Hayden Fry
By Brian Grummell - AOL NewsOne of my favorite high school teachers had a Hayden Fry poster in the classroom and made everyone in class know who he was and the history behind the man. Mind you this was in California. And none of my classmates cared about college football. Or Iowa. Or middle aged men with lockjaw scowls on posters. But darned if he didn't love that man.Enter "Bergwood" AKA Andrew Hawtrey. From an interview with Sports Illustrated On Campus:SIOC: So I'll ask the obvious: If you're stopping your real life car in traffic to touch a college football icon, who is it? Andrew Hawtrey: Hayden Fry!And let me tell ...
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