Sports Illustarted Swimsuit Issue Review

Here is a quick review of the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue courtesy os ESPN.com Page 2 with one addition of my own:

• Pages: 229 (including cover).

• Photos of models/cheerleaders/wives/race car drivers: 156.

• Topless photos: 33.

• Breasts hidden by: hands/arms, 20; paint, 6; beads/hair, 3; surfboard, 1; curtain, 1; mud, 1; pillow 1.

• Bottomless photos: 7.

• Privates hidden by: paint, 5; pulled-down shirt, 1; coconut, 1.

• Models with finger suggestively tucked inside bikini bottom strap, as if about to take it off: 11.

• Nipples visible: 8.

• Model photographed with legs, feet wrapped around Will Ferrell's head: 3.

• Will Ferrell biting model's bottom: 1.

• Swimsuit photos of Danica Patrick: 5.

• Topless photos of Danica Patrick: 2 (we think -- it appears she is wearing nothing in the final shot, but she's hidden by a pillow).

• Photos of Danica Patrick in bed: 1.

• Full-page ads with Danica Patrick: 3.

• Total pages devoted to Danica Patrick: 8.

• Articles that are not an interview with Danica Patrick or Will Ferrell promoting a movie, or description of hotel with rooms starting at $500 a night: 0.

And the one and only Milly Figuero

Milly Figuereo Poses in SI Swinsuit Issue

One of the Buccaneers favorite's Milly Figuero is in the 2008 Sports illustrated Swimsuit Issue. For the first time in many years I'll need to go check this one out. I think it's awesome to have cheer babes in the issue. They are way hotter than the way to skinny models you usually see. Give me a fit, athletic cheer babe any day.

Mike Alstott Indicates Career Likely Over

A sad day for us Buc fans who rooted for them throughout the years, especially during their Super Bowl winning year. Mike Alstott has said he is likely going to retire. He has not officially said he is, but nothing in the article posted at TampaBay.com would lead anyone to think otherwise. I hope Mike and his family all the best, you were a great player in my book.

January 09, 2008
Alstott indicates career likely is over
Bucs fullback Mike Alstott hasn't formally announced anything yet, but he indicated on a local radio show Wednesday morning his playing career is over.Asked about his future while promoting a charity event on WDAE 620-AM, Alstott made it clear he has no plans to undergo a second neck operation in order to play next season.
"I guess you can read between the lines,'' Alstott said. "I have a young family and a life to live, and I can't be selfish and go have some kind of surgery and try to fix the thing. I'm happy just hanging out with my family.
Asked if a second operation would make it possible for him to resume his playing career, Alstott said, "it wouldn't be worth it.''During a tearful news conference in August, Alstott announced that he had suffered a second neck injury that would force him to go on injured reserve, ending his season. He stopped short of saying that the injury could end his 12-year career with the Bucs.
Alstott, 33, had a compressed disc removed and replaced with the vertebrae from a cadaver in 2003. A titanium plate was used to fuse it together.
He said a battery of tests this past fall revealed there was stress to his neck above the previously injured area. Pittsburgh nuerosurgeon Dr. Joe Maroon, who performed Alstott's first surgery, advised him not to play. After consulting with team trainers, doctors, his family, general manager Bruce Allen and coach Jon Gruden, Alstott agreed the best course of action was for him to be placed on injured reserve.
-- Rick Stroud, Times Staff Writer(Pictured: While holding his daughter Hannah, Mike Alstott blows a kiss to the crowd gathered in the south endzone tunnel while leaving the field after the Bucs loss to the Seahawks in August. Times photo - James Borchuck. Click to enlarge.)