ANYONE ELSE EMBARRASSED FOR RANDY MOSS?

On Saturday, Oakland Raiders wide receiver Randy Moss opened his Inta Juice store in his hometown of Charleston, W.Va. The once-hot baller looked right at home as he made yummy smoothies for adoring fans. Moss, who is a partner in the Fort Collins, Colo.-based juice bar franchise, plans to open additional stores in Florida, Louisiana and North Carolina.

Number one seed and oh-so-arrogant Roger Federer spanked Richard Gasquet in the first round of the mens singles at Wimbledon yesterday. Federer was sporting a jacket that had been made for him by Nike. The jacket has a crest that included a tuft of grass, the Swiss cross, the symbol star sign (Leo), an F for his surname, and three racquets that represent his three Wimbledon titles. Federer now has another reason to be arrogant, he won his 42nd straight grass-court match. “It’s nice to get any streak,” Federer said. “I’m still going, so even better if I can maybe postpone it and make it even last longer. I’m surprised myself I’ve kept it that long. To come through today was my only wish, not to break the streak, but to have it come together is nice.”

Meanwhile, Athlebrity favorite, Rafeal Nadal and his biceps took the court against Alex Bogdanovic this morning at Wimbledon. The sounds of his beautiful grunting, spanking Alex were not in vain, and our little Spanaird advanced to the next round. Yummy. Mad props to Spin magazine for recognizing the beauty of our Rafi, but points deducted for his placement on the list. The magazine’s “25 Hottest Stars Under 25” ranked sports hotties Lebron James 2nd, and Nadal 25th. They must have a blind editor running that mag, Rafi, 25th? Not!

Steve Nash has inked a three-year deal with Clearly Canadian beverages. The company will use sexy Nash primarily for “its core sparkling flavored waters and a line of enhanced waters” which will break later this year. Clearly Canadian President said of the brand, “Despite the name, most of our sales are in the U.S. We were looking for a Canadian that is also well known in the U.S. and Steve was an easy choice there.” Um, maybe Nash was an easy choice because there is only one other NBA player from Canada, Jamaal Magloire. Nash, who is during a “media tour” today, will begin appearing on in-store advertising within a month and his picture will be on around five million bottles beginning in July. The sexy baller has quite a list of Athlebrity achievements, including endorsement deals with Nike, FedEx, Wheaties, MDG Computers and ProTrade.

THE CRYING GAME…Remember the big crybaby Adam Morrison? The former Gonzaga Univ. forward is “on the cusp of signing a Diabetes-related contract” that might top a multi-year, seven-figure deal with adidas he reportedly signed last week. Morrison also has deals with Topps and EA Sports, and all the companies that have signed with Morrison are planning to donate a portion of his pay to Diabetes-related causes. All this is very sweet, but let’s have some fun shall we? An EA Sports ad for “NBA Live 07” has the big- guy poking fun at himself. It opens with Morrison shooting baskets on a lonely outdoor basketball court, followed by a close-up of him talking about his crying on the court after Gonzaga was spanked by UCLA in the ’06 NCAA Tournament. Morrison says to the camera, “Yeah, I cried. I cried on national television. So what? Failure hurts. In that moment, winning was everything. I’ll move on. I’ll cry again. I hope I never lose that intensity. More people should cry, and when I get to the NBA more people will cry. ‘NBA Live’ EA Sports: it’s in the game.”

Mensa Reject Gilbert Arenas was dumb enough to get a ticket in Miami over Memorial Weekend for standing next to his friend. (which translated into-oh-no- disorderly conduct) but wasn’t smart enough to appear in court this morning. Arenas missed his arraignment as did his attorney! The reject has been out on $1,000 bond and forced Circuit Judge Samuel Slom to slam down his gavel and issue a bench warrant for Arenas arrest.

And finally, did anyone watch hot Ukrainians spank the Swiss out of the world Cup yesterday? Team captain Shevchenko made my pulse go haywire with his fancy footwork, and more importantly, when he took off his shirt, but I almost fell off my chair when I spotted Artem Milevskiy.

I will not be quiet! In a sea of yellow uniforms and hot blond players, Milevskiy emerged just in time to quench my thirst for a tall, dark, hot soccer player. And oh my, did he deliver.

And finally, I leave you all with one of the hottest commercials in the world. Thanks to John Terry’s number one fan for sending this my way. I have never wanted to be a soccer ball so badly. Click on the TV and be prepared to appriciate the beauty of Chelsea Blue.

That’s it for today. As always, thanks for reading. Delinda
*Publishing notice- Athlebrites will not be posting tomorrow, July 28th, and will return on Thursday.