RAFAEL NADAL ON YOUR PHONE
“I have been practicing a lot at home on Mallorca to prepare for the end of the season,” said our yummy tapa. The beast of biceps won his first round of the Stockholm Open yesterday, finally ending our we-need-some-Rafa-eye-candy dry-spell.

Nadal has been a busy little Athlebrity. Today it was announced that Versaly Entertainment has entered into an agreement with Premier Alliances and Rafael to develop, produce and distribute mobile wallpapers, ring tones, text messages and video of Rafael “Rafa” Nadal. The Versaly people told me that they are currently in the process of “sorting through the large amount” of Nadal images and will release them to me as soon as they are available-possibly next week. The Rafael ring tones will be available at a later date- as he has been too busy to record them yet. This means, that maybe we can influence what he says? Email me your suggestions and I’ll pass them along. I’d be happy just to hear him “grunting” when my phone rings…

JAMES BLAKE

Looking exceptionally hot, James Blake wanted someone to spank him after he beat some Swedish dude during the second round match in the ATP Stockholm Open. Consider it done tough guy.

ANDY RODDICK BOBBLEHEAD
In a perfect world, instead of Andy Roddick bobbleheads, there would be Rafael Nadal Bobble-Biceps. Over the summer, Mughead Inc started making Andy’s first official bobblehead, which really doesn’t look anything like him. Andyroddick.com chatted with Scott Pollack, President of Mughead Inc, on the process of creating Andy’s bobblehead. “Andy is a very enthusiastic and exciting player,” Scott explained. “When making a bobble of Andy we looked for unique characteristics, actions and movements that set him apart from other players. For example, when Andy makes one of his terrific shots, wins a point, game, set or match, he characteristically pumps his right fist which energizes himself and the crowd. Also, one of his signature features is wearing his hat backwards at times and we drew upon that in designing the Andy Roddick Bobblehead.” Why I am not surprised they didn’t include the happy-wipe?

Andy has also committed to participating in the first annual Champions for Charity event on November 25th, in Wichita. “I’m thrilled to be involved in the inaugural Champions for Charity event,” said Roddick. “It will be great to catch up with some old friends, play against some stellar competitors, and meet some Wichita youth who may well be the champions of tomorrow.” Proceeds from the event benefit the Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation and the Genesis Foundation for Fitness and Tennis. More information on tickets and on-sale date are soon to follow.

TIGER WOODS ON HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
“It’s unreal what they’ve done (on the game). We had to redo my golf swing. I said, You know what. My swing has changed, it’s evolved. I’m going to need to give gamers my real swing.” Tiger Woods on NBC’s The Tonight Show.

The classy beast has been busy promoting his new EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 video game, and gave us more than we could have dreamed of. Yesterday, Tiger Woods made history (again) as the first golfer to turn the Walk of Fame into the 18th hole in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. There are two sporn worthy TV ads available here, of Tigers Los Angeles adventure.

SNOW AIN’T COLD

Cleveland Cavalier Eric Snow has a big heart. The sweet beast will officially open the Eric Snow Reading & Learning Center at the Edward L. “Peel” Coleman Community Center in Canton, Ohio today. The reading center is painted in the Cavaliers color scheme- wine, gold and navy, and will have 500 new books, along with new TVs, computers and furniture.

RED SOX HBO SERIES?

There isn’t even a script even written yet, but apparently HBO is “in the early stages of developing an eight-part miniseries based on” the ’04 World Series champion Red Sox” according to a gossip columnist from the Boston Herald. A source said, “They are pitching it like ‘Entourage-esque’ where the actors would play the players and the audience would see what it was like to be a part of the Red Sox during that time.” Entourage-esque? Pa-leeze…enough about the Red Sox in ’04 already…

WHAT MATERAZZI SHOULD HAVE SAID

Italy-based publisher Mondadori will release a book by sexy Italy stud Marco Materazzi called “What I Really Said To Zidane.” Materazzi’s “insults” to French crybaby Zinedine Zidane during the World Cup led to that wonderful head-butt and the ensuing on-going entertainment of the incident. The book contains 249 phrases “as to what Materazzi may have said during their verbal exchange,” such as “French philosophy has been rubbish since (Michel) Foucault died,” “Where exactly is the sternum?” and my entries “You need a shower,” “Delinda is mine,” and “Why cant you guys win the Tour de Farce?” The 100-page book will cost about $12.50, with proceeds going to UNICEF.

HOT QUOTES OF THE DAY

“It’s just another ‘Sheed Wallace rule. It just means I must be doing something right” – Pistons F Rasheed Wallace (L), on the NBA instituting a zero-tolerance policy against players complaining to referees… “I think [NBA Commissioner David] Stern likes everything uniform. As you can see, all those balls look exactly the same. … Other balls, they change color [when wet], they have different flavors” – Lakers F Lamar Odom, on the league’s new Spalding basketballs…

FREE TOM BRADY FATHEAD
In the spirit of sharing, I’m giving away a Tom Brady Fathead. Yes, 100% free. If you are not familiar with these wall-mountable-life-sized edible shrines, check out www.fathead.com. Starting today, through October 31st, send me an email telling me what turns you on about this NFL hottie. I’m looking for that one special reader who can best describe why Tom Brady is worthy of our love, on & off the field. The winner may also have their “observations” published on my site. So, write-away my hungry little sporn kats, and Tom Brady might just end up being mounted on your wall. (This promotion is not affiliated with Fathead…just me being nice)

As always, thanks for reading. Delinda
delinda@athlebrities.com