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For decades, athletes from Walt Frazier and Joe Namath to Derek Jeter and Dwyane Wade have graced us with a sense of style and pizzazz off the field. Due to uniform restrictions in most professional sports, it is much more difficult for athletes to fashionably express their individuality on the field. Some athletes, however, have still managed to find a style uniquely their own, simply by using their heads. From hats to facemasks, eye black to visors, these 12 have established their own personal trademarks by sporting headgear that makes them utterly recognizable. Where do they rank on your list?

12 ) Brett Favre’s Stained Baseball Cap – Nothing screams John Deere quite like a Brett Favre press conference. The on-again, off-again, gun-slinging, formerly retired quarterback of the Green Bay Packers…. I mean New York Jets…. wait, no, the Minnesota Vikings made a lot of press lately with his most recent return to the NFL. When Minnesota officially announced his latest comeback, Favre looked like he had just gotten off his riding lawnmower. A slave to fashion he’s never been, but don’t tell that to the marketing brass at Wrangler jeans. Favre has a style all his own, no matter how tired we all are of seeing it. What other Hall of Fame athlete could get away with wearing a torn, oil-slicked baseball cap while announcing he was about to earn $12 million at the age of 40?

11) LeBron James’s Headband – LeBron James has made the sweatband fashionable again in the NBA. Never before has a man wearing a headband been so intimidating. Only King James could rock the headband and make it look cool. Well, he and John McEnroe back in the day, but LBJ has considerably less hair. You go ahead and tell the league’s brightest talent that headbands are lame. Just be careful he’s not dunking over you in the meantime. Read the rest of this entry »

An intense match between the Sexy Swiss, Roger Federer, and Amazing American, Andy Roddick, in the Wimbledon finals made for some great tennis TV this weekend. The match ended with a 16-14 marathon fifth set — the longest in Grand Slam history.  Federer aced Roddick, taking the victory for the No. 1 tennis player in ATP rankings.

The Williams’ sisters battled it out in a close match for the women’s singles title at Wimbledon. Little sister Serena pulled out her third Wimbledon championship and beat her older sister Venus: 7-6 6-2.

Who would you rather have sex with from Wimbledon? Vote now!

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After a rain-delayed tournament, Lucas Glover of Clemson University held on to win golf’s U.S. Open Monday afternoon. It was the first major victory of his career. Glover, who landed a $1,350,000 paycheck, had only one previous tour win since turning pro in 2005. Phil Mickelson, and the resurgent David Duval, both placed second while Tiger Woods ended up tied for sixth. Only five golfers finished under par for the tournament.

After getting beaten soundly by both Brazil and Italy, US Soccer miraculously advanced to the FIFA Confederations Cup semifinals by beating Egypt 3-0. In order to advance, an unlikely series of events needed to occur, including beating Egypt by 3 goals, outscoring Italy by 3 on Sunday, having Brazil beat Italy by 3, and then beating Italy in a goals scored tie-breaker which they did 4-3. The U.S. will play top-ranked Spain on Wednesday.

Donald Fehr is stepping down as Executive Director of Major League Baseball Player’s Association. Fehr, the players’ chief negotiator, held this position since 1985. He represented the players union during the World Series cancellation in 1994 and was largely responsible for average annual salaries increasing tenfold over the past twenty-five. Buster Olney called it correctly when saying Fehr leaves behind a “mixed legacy.”
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An old high school buddy of mine recently e-mailed me and asked that I “please write something about what a prick Brett Favre is and why he needs to go away.”  So Kid Sheraton, this one’s for you:

I generally don’t like to write about Favre, mostly because there’s never anything other than pure speculation to write about.  Coverage of him must be sexy though, since his recent surgery is all that’s ever reported on the four-letter.  I hear ESPN is starting an all-Favre network soon which makes sense since on their Sunday night broadcast, the Favre surgery actually preceded Tiger’s Sunday round of 65 at the Memorial and Roger Federer’s victory at the French Open.  Perhaps a weekly Favre update will drive sportschump.net traffic through the roof.  Video: Read the rest of this entry »

The Obama campaign takes to the airwaves to battle “original mavericks” McCain/Palin. Wayne’s posted McCain’s ad on The Political Whore.

• McCain gets his campaign bump as the campaigns take the fight to key battleground states.
• California prison guards lead the charge to terminate Gov. Ah-nold.
• Ike decks Haiti.
• Gas prices continue to … fall?!!?
• New iPods today.
• The Russians discuss banning South Park. Stinkin’ Commies!
• The Rays collapsing? The Bucs are banged up already.
• With arch-nemesis Rafel Nadal already out, Roger Federer wins the U.S. Open.