SNL-LEBRON JAMES STYLE

Tomorrow night, the freshly Lasiked Lebron James will host Saturday Night Live. NBC held a conference call today, in which the Cav’s forward discussed his strategy for hosting the show: “This is definitely the biggest thing that I’ve done,” James said, “I think I’m going to just wing it.” Should be very interesting, seeing as Lebron has an abundance of confidence in his skills and said “everything that comes out of my mouth is going to feel comfortable for me. I’m not going to put myself, and I don’t think the writers are going to put me in a situation where it doesn’t feel comfortable and where it’s not authentic to what LeBron James is.” Obviously, he doesn’t watch SNL….

ASTROS SAVE THE ANIMALS

Hotties and dogs are just a few things that Im a sucker for. Combining the two are the Houston Astros players who joined the Saving Animals organization to produce the 2008 Astros Player and Pet Calendar now available at http://www.astros.com/petcalendar or http://www.savinganimals.org. The $15 donation for the calendar benefits the adoption of homeless animals at Saving Animals’ Pet Adoption Center in Houston and community service programs of the Astros in Action Foundation. If any of you live in the Huston area, get your butts over to the Pet Adoption Center Saturday, September 29, 2007 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon to get your pet calendars autographed by the hotties. Astro’s Pitcher Dave Borkowski spearheaded the project. “My wife, Jill, and I have three adopted pets so promoting adoption of homeless animals from shelters and spaying or neutering are very important to us. We started the Astro’s Player and Pet Calendar to raise funds for Saving Animals and to raise awareness about the beautiful dogs and cats available for adoption at both the City of Houston’s and Harris County’s animal shelter. The city and county shelters are often overlooked when looking for a new family member; collectively they admit around 50,000 animals a year, the majority of which are euthanized simply for lack of a home.” Astro’s babes in the calendar include Brad Ausmus, Brandon Backe, Dave Borkowski, Adam Everett, Jason Jennings, Jason Lane, Brad Lidge, Carlos Lee, Mark Loretta, Trever Miller, Roy Oswalt, Chad Qualls, Chris Sampson and Woody Williams. All donated their time for the cause.

WANNA BE A WALLBANGER?
Once again, its time for me to bang the wall. Ya all know I love the life-sized wall mountable hotties made by Wallbangers. Waking up to the likes of Allesandro Del Piero, Andriv Shevchenko, and now my beautiful Didier Drogba running at me from the bedroom wall makes for a great way to start the day. Now, in a cool new twist to the product, Wallbangers are offering personalized Wallbangers. Yeah, I made a Delinda Wallbanger, because, well, I guess I’m an egomaniac who wanted to ‘test’ the product before exhaling its unique and creative way to solidify your place in Wallbangers history.

Basically, you send them a photo of yourself, your kid, husband, boyfriend- whoever, and Wallbangers will create “the coolest, most thoughtful gift you can give away this year.” (Mine is reserved for Camilo Villegas -since Ian Poulter got married he doesn’t get it-, or I just may sneak in and hang it in the clubhouse for the U.S. Open?) In any case, which one of my fabulous readers would like to win a Free Custom Wallbanger? Yeah, free. Starting today through October 15th, send me your photo, and I’ll select one winner to receive a free custom Wallbanger. Photos must be NOT be blown-up, and it needs to be a full-body shot. Only photos that contain “all your limbs” will be considered. No head shots or missing feet, plus the higher resolution the better. Send all photos and a brief summary of why you should be immortalized as a Wallbanger to Delinda@athlebrities, subject line: Wallbangers Contest. The winner will be announced on October 15th and will have their Wallbanger included in the Wallbangers gallery. In addition, anyone who purchases a Banger through my site will receive free shipping. (They’re from the UK, so shipping is pricey). And take note- I do not collect or sell email addresses. Im just a lowly writer who loves to give away free stuff to my readers, its that simple.

CANCER FOR COLLEGE

Fourteen years ago, Craig Pollard (L), a two-time Hodgkin’s disease survivor, started a charity golf tournement to create scholarships for other cancer survivors, and today, the 2007 Cancer For College Golf Tournament was held at the Temecula Creek Inn. Special celebrity guest Will Ferrell was on hand for the fifth or six year in a row, to help raise money for this worthy cause. Ferrell, Craig’s longtime friend and fraternity brother said: “Each year I’ve gotten more and more involved directly, I think Craig first just invited me as a friend, you know a former fraternity brother to come and have a good time, and each year we started thinking of more ways to give time to charity and so you know its grown…There is such a sweet nature to this whole event, and its really only run by Craig and his wife Stacey, so to see how far its grown- it just makes you wanna help people in any way you can, and also to meet the kids it effects and also the fact that they don’t turn any applicant away.” While 240 or so golfers were eagerly waiting to tee-off, Ferrell was quick to remind us that we really don’t have it so bad. “Craig is one of the more special individuals you’ll ever get to meet. Between surviving cancer and having the amputations and things like that, it’s just someone that you really look up to. If you feel sorry for yourself for some reason one day, you kinda think about someone like Craig Pollard and you don’t really have a reason to (feel bad for yourself).” Indeed. Pollard has both legs amputated below the knees, but dude took to the greens and hit a line drive that seemed to disappear into space. Not only does he have a wicked swing, but a fierce spirit that inspires anyone who meets him.

While here, Ferrell will also be taping an interview to air on The Golf Channel during this weekend’s Presidents Cup. Assuming his “George Bush persona,” he’ll answer questions such as: “If you won the cup, what would you fill it with?” and “What’s your favorite cup – Presidents Cup, Ryder Cup, Stanley Cup or some other cup . . . Coffee Cup?”
And in efforts not to ignore the wonderful world of sports, Ferrell was asked about last his three roles and lightened up a bit.
Q: “You’ve done a couple of sports roles. Ice skater?”
Ferrell: “Right.”
Q: “Stock car driver?”
Ferrell: “Right.”
Q: “What’s next?”
Ferrell: “Basketball player. 70’s basketball player. Big Afro, tight shorts. Semi-Pro. It’s a comedy about the old ABA, I play the owner, head coach and power forward from the Flint Tropics.”
Q: “Do you enjoy the sports genre?”
Ferrell:” Yeah, I do. It just kinda happened by chance that I did three movies in a row of it, but of course, I love sports and to do comedies about it is kinda the best of both worlds.”
Q: “Do you think performance-enhancing drugs are a problem in golf?”
Ferrell: “Ah, well it’s pretty apparent, I mean you can tell the golfers are juiced, yeah from ah, all their massive physiques and slight potbellys yeah. That’s one of the after effects of performance enhancing drugs, a potbelly.”
For more on Ferrell’s involvement with Cancer for College, please check www.Looktothestars.org for my review next week.

As always, thanks for reading.
delinda@athlebrities.