DAVID BECKHAM GETS RED
Motorola has snagged David Beckham as a “global brand ambassador” for a three year period. As I reported last month, Becks can now be downloaded into your Motorola handsets. (Hint: for maximum effect, set ringer on vibrate).

VP of retail marketing at Motorola Mobile Devices: “We’re very excited about this collaboration for ourselves, our customers and our consumers. David Beckham is a global icon and we look forward to working with him across a range of projects. In particular, we’re delighted that he’ll be using his immense popularity to help promote (MOTO)RED.” The newly launched (MotoRed) is affiliated with the Red campaign created to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. RED is funded by the Global Fund, which partners with governments, non-profit organizations, and private sectors to rid the world of AIDS, TB and malaria. The Fund has selected several established grants for distribution of (RED) money and in less than four years have provided: 544,000 people with treatment for HIV and AIDS; 5.7 million people with HIV testing; 1.43 million people with treatment for TB; 7.3 million people treated for malaria and 11.3 million families with insecticide treated mosquito nets. If Beckham isnt enough to get you on board, then the statistics should be. And if you are still on the fence, keep in mind that Bono also supports RED with his super cool African mud-cloth Chuck Taylors. Go to www.joinred.com for more info. Lets save the world together people. And if we haven’t saved it by next year, then at least we’ll have a nice book to read…Becks is currently penning a “soccer skills” kids books called “Making It Real” which is due out next year.

VERY “BAD BOYS” OF HOCKEY
The 12th annual Jerry Bruckheimers “Bad Boys Hockey” event went down in Vegas last weekend. Bruckheimer and his boys invaded Caesar’s Palace and filled the casino with some phenomenal eye candy and enough testosterone to fuel this girl for years. Fresh off the ice, which undoubtedly toned up their already rock hard bodies, the boys partied it up at club Pure, where Bruck’s had rented the entire second floor patio of the club.

The event is somewhat private, so, outta respect for Bruck’s, I’ll be hush-hush with the names of the “bad boys” we encountered and keep the photos in my “secret garden.” I will say they were quite eager to show us their ‘sticks’ and give us some free t-shirts, but I had my eye on a bigger trophy-Bruck’s gave each of his ‘bad boys’ dog tags engraved with their names on the back, and the logo (above) on the front…and to my surprise, the hotties complimented Bruckheimer with a sincerity that often isn’t seen among the “famous.” This changed my opinion of hockey players and more importantly, had me thinking, if they’re an accurate reflection of Bruckheimer, then he must be one hell of a guy. Way to represent boys. (Side note to the Bad Boys… you might wanna brush-up on the fine art of “damage control”…)

HERE COMES THE KITTY
Finally, we got some sexy PGA action. The PGA Buick Open in Michigan kicks off today, and with it, we are spoon fed some Camilo Villegas, Tiger Woods, Puma-kat Geoff Ogilvy, and the PGA anti-Christ himself, Mr. John Daly.

While awaiting images and activity from our kitty-kat Villegas, I have to direct you to the Cobra Golf website. (www.cobragolf.com.) This is essentially an on-line video bank of Villegas sporno. The beast has filmed three commercials for Cobra, and in one spot he holds up his “club” and says “Say hello to my not-so-little-friend”…Are you kidding me! If Camilo continues with this kind of teasing, then I suggest the PGA get some Tiger-tight security to rope him off.

HOW TO MELT ICE

Tony Parrish. San Francisco 49ers safety. Any questions?

ZIDANE SONG
“Coup de Boule,” a song inspired by Mensa reject’s Zinedine Zidane’s head-butt of Materazzi in the WC Final, has hit No. 1 on France’s singles chart. It’s a terrible song, ala Macarena, and was written by three associates of Plage Records the day after the match. They emailed the tune to “about 50 friends, the song quickly invaded the Web, with French radio (of course) putting it on its play-list and ring-tone sellers and music labels fighting for the rights.” Warner Music France eventually bought the song, which has sold more than 75,000 copies in stores in the last ten days and been downloaded more than 110,000 times. I still can’t understand why…www.laplagerecords.com.

CHELSEA BLUE

If you live in Southern Cali, and you didn’t go to Chelsea’s camp at UCLA, (and you weren’t outta town), then your Mensa points are negative. Mad love to this astute Chelsea fan who has earned Mensa gold-status by making the most of her time while the boys were in town. Miss X actually called in late for work to get her some Chelsea love- now that’s what I’m talking about! In her own words: “These boys are really world class! They stopped by and took some photos and signed a few stuff for us fans waiting outside of the locker room”…only question is, girl, why weren’t you IN the locker room?
Thank you Chelsea fans, I bow to your brilliance.

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