The hotties are teeing off at the 2006 US Open Championships. And you know what that means…the sexiest beast to grace the course, Camilo Villegas is getting ready to crawl.

Along with Villegas (L), we must pay homage to our second favorite hot golfer, Burberry pin-up boy, Adam Scott.

Ben Roethlisberger was “secretly” released, a little before midnight, from the hospital after being treated for nasty injuries suffered from his bloody motorcycle accident two days ago. The hospital released a statement saying that it “respected the wishes and privacy of Mr. Roethlisberger and his family” by not confirming his discharge until about nine hours later. Luckily, Dr. Daniel Pituch, chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Pittsburgh’s Mercy Hospital, was on hand to demonstrate the method used to repair the facial fractures of Big Ben during seven hours of surgery. Ben didn’t look too good at the demonstration, hopefullythey replaced his skin before releasing him

“We take a titanium plate, bend it and adapt it to the contours of the facial bones and then secure it in place with screws,” surgeon Daniel Pituch said. “This kind of state-of-the-art technology allowed us to successfully treat Mr. Roethlisberger’s facial fractures.” The Steelers have not given a timetable for his return, but they are optimistic he will be ready for their Sept. 7 opener against Miami.

An annual Harris Poll was conducted online among a random sample of 2085 US adults, asking whom their favorite athletes are. Tiger Woods came in at number one, knocking Michael Jordan out of first place for the first time since 93. The full list of hotties is (1) Tiger Woods, (2) Michael Jordan, (3) Brett Favre, (4) Derek Jeter, (5) Dale Earnhardt Jr, (6) Shaq, (7) Kobe, (8) LeBron, (9) Jeff Gordon, and surprise, coming in at number (10) Barry Bonds. Take that skeptics- Bonds still gets his love!

In my book, the sexiest beast in tennis is still Rafael Nadal. Nadal spanked Fernando Verdasco outta the match during Day 4 of the Stella Artois Championships at Queen’s Club in London.

IT’S MUCH MORE THAN A BEAUTIFUL GAME

World Cup fashions…it’s not just the hot golfers grabbing the attention of designers, it’s now the hot World Cup players. World cup hotties are influencing styles around the world, setting cool trends, endorsing designer brands and popping up in advertising campaigns. All this action has caused designers and athletic clothing brands to scramble to get the hottest athletes on board with their brands. Giorgio Armani is outfitting the English team for off-field World Cup appearances, and has nabbed Brazilian Kaka and Ukrainain Andriy Schevchenko in ads for the Emporio Armani and Armani Collezioni collections.

Meanwhile, I expect all of you to send thank you notes to Dolce & Gabbana. They designed the uniforms for AC Milan’s regular-season matches, and in a gift from the Athlebrity Gods, D&G have now cast five of the hottest Italian soccer players in an underwear ad campaign. I now ask you all again, who will you be cheering for when the US takes on these guys Saturday?

NO SPOILERS HERE
In case you had to tape the England- Trinidad game today, I wont spoil the match and tell you what happened. I will however, give a massive shout out to my girl Angela, aka “John Terry Freak” for turning me on to one of the greatest athletes in England.

In what I think has been the best play to date in the World Cup, John Terry cleared the ball from the goal in one of the most spectacular moves I have ever seen.

Romeo and Brooklyn Beckham watched their hot daddy, David Beckham, during the match between England and Trinidad/Tobago today.

Who has the biggest, hottest, strongest legs in the World Cup? I’m not sure, but this photo of Brazil’s Ronaldo stretching, certainly makes me wonder what else he can do with those thighs.

ROBOCOP

What is happening to this world? Hundreds of robots from 36 countries in 440 teams are taking part in the robot World Cup “Robocop”. The event is expected to draw about 20,000 fans through June 18th when this nightmare will be over. As the robots go through their paces, they may attempt the Peter Crouch “robot” dance. God help us all if this “dance” craze doesn’t stop soon- I can’t take anymore of the stork-dork and his moves. The scary red robots will compete on four legs and others on two in the “humanoid” version.

SCARY FANS

ESPN’s Dave O’Brien, who does suck hard at his uninformed and misleading coverage of the World Cup, did say something extremely poignant: “I’m a baseball guy. And that’s a dirty word among soccer enthusiasts. … There’s kind of a petulant little clique of soccer fans. There’s not many of them, but they’re mean-spirited.”

That’s it for today. As always, thanks for reading. Delinda