Robert Green's World Cup blunder connected to model girlfriend?

* Robert Green’s Gaffe Now Being Connected to His Split with a Hot Model. The England keeper who mishandled Clint Dempsey’s howler Saturday – which subsequently landed him in the tabloids with the headline, Hand of Clod – was dating a gorgeous Canadian model, Elizabeth Minett, for two years, but the pair split before he left for South Africa. [The Big Lead]
* Video: Ohio’s Touchdown Jesus Struck By Lighting, Goes Down In Flames. There is a church on the East side of Interstate 75 between Dayton, Ohio and Cincinnati that had (until last night via lighting) a statue of Jesus with his arms raised in the air like a football referee signaling “good” for a 23-yard Jim Breech field goal. If flames burning TD Jesus aren’t enough to bring a tear to your eye. [Busted Coverage]

* Florida Marlins’ Planned Aquarium Is All Wet. The Florida Marlins plan to spend millions on their new stadium, which is set to open in 2012. But they can save countless animals’ lives as well as tons of money by rethinking plans to build two saltwater aquariums as part of the project. Exposing fish to the loud crowds, bright lights, and reverberations of a baseball stadium in an unnatural environment will certainly have a negative impact on the health and well-being of the fish. [The Peta Files]
* Want To Annoy People With Annoying Vuvuzela Noises? There’s An App For That. The iVuvuzela can emit honks or whatever the hell you want to call that noise up to 90 decibels and can be downloaded for free (and has been over 1 million times already) on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, so get to downloading, you mindless Apple lemmings. [Sportress of Blogitude]
* North Korea’s Government Provides Context To Inclusion In ‘Group of Death’. The Wall Street Journal reports that North Korean matches will not be shown “because of fears by its authoritarian government that the team will perform poorly or the prospect that protesters who dislike the North will be given screen time.” [The Sporting Blog]
* June 1: Big 12 Commish Trashed Big 10, Pac-10. A confidential white paper obtained by Andy Staples of the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED via the Freedom of Information Act shows that Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe foresaw — as early as June 1 — that the Big Ten and Pac-10 could attempt to raid his conference.[SportsbyBrooks]
* Also: If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the Wally Backman Minor League Baseball meltdown (NSFW) … Alec Baldwin, Chris Rock, Tracy Morgan join committee to woo LeBron James to New York. Sad … Together at last, Victoria Beckham and SpongeBob SquarePants.
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