Because it seems like it has been forever since we’ve seen Jessica Alba … J Simp to redecorate Romo’s house … incredibly dangerous, NSFW photos of Rony Seikaly’s ex-wife, SI swimsuit model Elsa Benitez, sunbathing nude … Obama assassination plot foiled … how the Presidential candidates stack up on the economy and taxes, which is an issue we care about … saw this quote on Jeopardy, it seemed cool …

Tony LaRussa denies that he was the reason Bruce Springsteen’s concert Saturday was held up. (Post-Dispatch)

The best female freshman basketball player in the country leaves the U. of Connecticut after two days to enroll at the U. of Delaware … to play volleyball. (Harford Courant)

Dissecting the latest Jemele Hill column, part of which is centered around the theory that: “The previous failures of the national [basketball] team brought a strong sense of embarrassment to both African-American fans and players.” (Sports on My Mind)

Exhaustive: The entire 2008 college football TV schedule. (Eye on Sports Media)

Castro, who remains alive, attempts to defend the lout who kicked the ref in the face at the Olympics. (Brietbart)

Charles Woodson, what might have been. (CBS Sports)

The next great American tennis player lost in five sets to James Blake at the US Open. (NY Daily News)

“‘Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization,’ takes it from there, positing hipsters as avatars of the narcissism and spiritual emptiness Adbusters laments, and as the probable harbingers of civilization’s decline.” Terrific sentence. (UTNE Reader)

Another dumbass St. Louis Cardinals fan. (Joe Sports Fan)

Worth nothing: The Angels run differential is garbage, and they play in the worst division in the AL. (The Odds and Sods)

Yes, little Gasol looks like a wolf. (Sports Hernia)

UCLA is oddly confident about its chances of recruiting against USC. (Gutty Little Bruins)

When you are a swimmer and sort of look like Michael Phelps, they mob you. (Lion in Oil)