Monday Blogdome: Playboy Playmate infiltrates UCF locker room for naughty photo shoot

* Playmate Shanna McLaughlin Loves UCF Football. Playboy playmate Shanna McLaughlin is a University of Central Florida graduate. Recently she returned to campus for a photo shoot for Axis Magazine. The shoot took place inside the football team’s locker room. (Which makes it very relevant to the mission statement of this sports blog.) Surprisingly, UCF isn’t exactly thrilled about the location. [The Big Lead]
* Why UFC Star Fought Like Bloated Ex-Action Hero. UFC star Anderson Silva called upon the expertise of the world’s foremost authority on fake fighting, Stephen Seagal, to train for his fight last Saturday night again Chael Sonnen. During that training, Seagal said at the time of Silva-opponent Sonnen, “I believe that this will not be one of his more difficult fights.” [SportsbyBrooks]

* Yamma Hamma: Photo Of Man Suing Mets After Taking Broken Bat To Face Is Gnarly. If you happen to be a Mets fan (you poor bastard), you just might recall what happened way back in August of 2007, when James Falzon, a 50-year-old Mets fan, was sitting in the second row along the third base line in Shea Stadium when after Luis Castillo’s bat shattered on a fly ball, got drilled in the face by pieces of the bat, resulting in “multiple facial fractures, a broken nose, busted teeth and a smashed jaw.” The lawsuit alleges that the fact the bat was made out of maple, not ash, makes the parties involved culpable and responsible for his nasty injuries. Falzon is now suing the New York Mets, Luis Castillo (who still plays for the Mets), ex-Mets catcher Ramon Castro (who borrowed Castillo the bat), Major League Baseball and Jarden Corp., the company who that owns Rawlings, the manufacturer of the bat. Jeez, I hope Falzon’s attorneys didn’t neglect to name anyone else whose ass they could sue. [Sportress of Blogitude]
* Shaq is really a 12-year-old girl named Tanya. It’s like a scene out of an unrealistic television cop drama (unrealistic like having four CSI employees working on your case, as opposed to one CSI working on 50 cases). You’re being arrested for propositioning underage girls on the Internet, and in comes a 7’1″, 300-pound, shaved head man who says he is your Tanya. Welcome to Shaquille O’Neal’s reality, as he told Vanity Fair. [Pro Basketball Talk]
* Really, Isiah Thomas? On the likely negative PR impact of the Knicks bringing him back: “Donnie Walsh and I and Jim and I, we’ve have always had great respect for each other. Donnie and I have worked with each other. Actually, Donnie gave me my first job in the NBA in terms of coaching with the Indiana Pacers. The relationships that we have and our ability to work together and understand how tough it is to win in New York and try to assemble talent to go out there and compete, I’m glad they have given me the opportunity to come back.” [Sports Radio Interviews]
* Widdle wayward wiener adds laughs to Milwaukee’s sausage race. What you’re looking at is a screencap from Sunday’s sausage relay race at Miller Park as the mini-Italian entrant overshoots the finish line and attempts to flee from the 40,000 hungry Milwaukee Brewers fans who are no doubt clamoring for his suds-absorbent casing. [Big League Stew]
* Also: Don’t miss Emmitt Smith on QVC tonight hawking his personal line of NFL HOF merchandise. … Meanwhile, Emmitt takes to Twitter to apologize for snubbing the Florida Gators in his HOF induction speech. Anyone buying it? … Jerry Rice has no such apologies in mind.
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