YES!

Spanish delicacy Rafael Nadal played his first match since the Wimbledon final and spanked Nicolas Massu outta the Rogers (Rafis) Cup. “I played a normal match, a simple match, it’s very good for my confidence after a month off,” Nadal said. Indeed. It’s also good for our photo collections, libidos, and pa-leeze beat Roger prayers. I’ve never said this about an Athlebrity before, but damn, even Rafi’s feet are hot!

Speaking of the oh-so-arrogant one…of course he won his first match, and he did it on his 25th birthday.

GET REAL

Saturday evening, those of you in the Salt Lake area should already have your tickets to THE game. Real Salt Lake will take on the hot-hot-hotties of Real Madrid in an exhibition game. And yes, a handful of tickets remain available for the game, although I don’t know why. Hello, the game is serving-up a Beckham-Cannavaro sandwich and there are still tickets available? Shame on you Salt Lake.

LUSCIOUS LUCA TONI

The last few weeks have been riddled with speculation that one of Italy’s finest men wanted out. Thankfully, Luca Toni announced that he would remain with team Fiorentina. Lovely Luca was the Series A’s top scorer in 2005-2006 with 31 goals, and led Fiorentina to a 4th-place finish and spot in the Champions League during his first year with the club. He also finished among the top ten on the finest Athlebrities alive list.

CARMELTED OUT

The hot USA ballers beat the Brazilian National team 90-86 yesterday, but not without incident. Carmelt-in-my-mouth-Anthony suffered a knee injury during the game. “All initial reports were that it was a mild hyperextension,” Nuggets athletic trainer Jim Gillen said. “There was no structural damage. He is day to day. (It’s) good news.” Don’t worry Melo, Mama’s coming to rub you down.

CASH MONEY DONATION
This made me laugh. One of the largest record companies around is Cash Money. The company is run by Ronald “Slim” Williams and his brother Bryan “Birdman” Williams. Both have enough money to rebuild New Orleans and feed a third-world country for the next ten years. In an effort to give back, they are donating a whopping $3000 on behalf of their charity Cash Money For Kids to the Morningside Park Soccer Program in Miami. “We always believe in giving back to the community, and we want to make sure the kids have recreational outlets that may help them stay out of trouble,” said Slim. Birdman said, “It’s important for young kids to be able to play safe and have fun. Hopefully this will help the children of Morningside Park enjoy their day a little more.”

Why did this make me laugh? The above photo was taken by yours truly while riding around Miami in the back of “Baby’s” Maybach. Maybach’s cost upwards of $400,000. And this was just one of the many rides available from their fleet. My chuckles continue, because recently Baby had his $250k “grill” upgraded to a sparkling new one at the cost of $500k. Great job on helping the “kids” with your donation boys. If I remember correctly, wasn’t our bar tab around $3k for all that Cristal?

Perhaps the Cash Money crew can learn a lesson from David Einhorn? Einhorn is a 37-year-old hedge fund manager from N.Y. who finished 18th in the main event of the World Series of Poker. And, he is going to donate his $659,730 in winnings to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for the study of Parkinson’s disease. I guess “athletes” are more genourous than rappers?

HEY DADDY, WANT ANOTHER?

St. Louis Rams’ Jimmy Kennedy, left, visits with his 2-month-old son, Devan, while sexy Washington Redskins kicker John Hall, right, gives his son Brady a drink of Gatorade. I got your Gatorade right here daddy…

Mad love to all you sporno loving, Athlebrity worshipping readers who have sent in questions for Sundays inaugural ask D&D column. Debbie has been my wing girl for years. We’ve got stories to tell and questions to answer. We’re about finding the hottest male athletes alive. We meet them, touch them, diagnose them, rate them and lick their salty bodies. And make no mistake, we are by no means ‘goupies.’ The Greeks invented the Olympics to celebrate the beauty of male athletes, and that’s all we are: modern day Greeks…so bring it on people! Email us your best: delinda@athlebrities.com OR debbie@athlebrities.com

As always, thanks for reading. Delinda