A real flip flop

A major fashion debate is erupting after Northwestern University's championship women's lacrosse team visited the White House: YOU WORE FLIP-FLOPS TO THE WHITE HOUSE????!!!!



Whether or not flip flops are a faux pax, more recognition for women lacrosse players is certainly a good thing:





It's especially impressive that NU's women's lacrosse team went from a club team in 2001 to NCAA champions in 2005.

You may have missed it

I don't know if there's a way to add a list of recent comments or a feed of recent comments in blogger, so here's a comment posted to a 2-month old post about rowers:

Rowers are tough, but not necessarily lean. An article in a Washington, D.C., newspaper a few years ago quoted one of the local college woman rowers lamenting that she had a hard time getting clothes to fit. Anything she could get her shoulders into was way to big around the waist, and any jeans she could get her thighs into was also . . . too big around the waist. Woman rowers are built like gymnasts but a LOT bigger.

And via Petechons, here's a Flickr photostream from the Wesleyan Women's Crew team:

In the year 2000 2525

Happened to see, via TV Squad, that Cleopatra 2525 is coming out on DVD. I'm not sure I would recommend buying a DVD of a mediocre syndicated TV show, except that it starred Victoria Pratt's abs:



In addition to Pratt, the show also starred Gina Torres (Firefly/Serenity), so the show was worth watching even if the rest of the show itself was unwatchable.

This review from IMDB sums up well:

This really is what schlock TV is all about. A stripper wakes up in the distant future bringing along with her a ton of pop culture references to describe the future world. Of course, as anyone versed in the future, all women are remarkably sexy and wear revealing clothing as they do battle with evil robots. Anyone watching this would have to come away shaking their head and muttering about how this is easily the silliest TV show on the air; and then find themselves checking the TV guide to see when its on again. It's totally and irredeemably mindless entertainment, but entertainment nevertheless.

Subtle Lesbianism in Female Sports

Here's a photo gallery of Subtle Lesbianism in Female Sports, something that we highly approve of here at Riffr Central.





Kerri Walsh and Misty May are, not surprisingly, well represented, as are Anna Kournikova and Martina Hingis.

The Great Outdoors

I turned on the TV this afternoon while eating a late lunch to see if any of the British Open was still on. I missed the golf, but did find ABC's Great Outdoors Games, which started with The Launch, where dogs leapt into a pool of water while trying to grab an object hanging in the air. It was more entertaining than it sounds.

But following dogs jumping into the drink was the women's boom run event:


The first competitor eliminated was fitness model (and blogger) Shana Martin:



And here's another gratuitous photo of Martin, just because:

Herbiceps photostream

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Originally uploaded by HerBiceps.

Another feed to add to the aggregator: Herbiceps photostream

(via petechons)

Annika

The Rocky Mountain News profiles Annika Sorenstam: Pursuing perfection:

Sorenstam, intent on being the best female player in the world and cognizant of what fitness did for Tiger Woods, dived in.

Though she could not do one pull-up at first, she now can do 15 or shorter sets with 35- to 40-pound weights around her waist.

Crunches? Try 750.

She also can bench-press 150 pounds and squat 300.

Nothing to see here

I will be ridiculously busy until the end of the month and probably won't be posting. OK, I shouldn't be posting. Knowing my love of procrastinating, I wouldn't count it out.

Unfortunately, Lingster's former webhost sent Transvigor to the big bit bucket in the sky and he's decamped to new territory at the unfortunately named Amaz0ns using some tragically confusing "content management" software, whose motto is, ironically "power in simplicity." After searching for a few minutes to find a commenting facility, I gave up and am calling him out here. I'm not entirely sure what advantages this software has over WordPress, well, besides coming out of the box with more boxes than a Mondrian painting...

Lingster still runs the best blog in this space, even the software confuses the f#&% out of me....