If Only We Had A Better Reason To Be Up This Early ...

Good morning. Kristen Bell here to greet you, that and from her latest movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which we'll probably go see.

Real quick this morning, as your brain falls out of your skull:

Seriously, Joe Lunardi, get a life. When the tournament is over and the teams go home, do the same. Get in your overpriced car, to your overpriced house, to your wife with her overpriced fake boobs and let it go. No once cares what you think about a 2009 tournament bracket. A bracketologist is about as legit as a tow truck company. (ESPN)

And in the how-did-this-become-news-department, that pesky David Ortiz jersey buried in New Yankee Stadium that now been unearthed, here's some chick's four reasons why it should have been left in the catacombs of the new digs. Actually, we kind of agree with her. Maybe she wants to party, because, we don't know if she knows this or not, but, we're kind of a big deal. We have many leather bound books and our apartment smells of rich mahogany. (NEW YORK TIMES, GOSSIP ON SPORTS)

A short, but really cool story on a blind guy running in marathons. Who says there always needs to be a finish line in sight? (BBC)

We love The Smoking Gun. They're so good about getting mugshots that they picked up their own TV show on the former CourtTV, now known as truTV. Here's recent drunk-driving athlete Carmelo Anthony's mugshot. Good stuff, but Melo, really, you should be home with your soon-to-be-wife. LaLa is just too good looking to be left alone. (THE SMOKING GUN, SI.COM)

And since we were checking out the virtual Swimsuit Issue (we don't buy magazine anymore), here's one of our all-time favorite SI covers, straight from the vault. Perfect pose, gold cross and all. (SI.COM)

And on a quick note, thanks to SI's Extra Mustard for linking us in their Hot Clicks section last week. We appreciate it and the more than 6,000 hits it generated for us. Cha-ching.


Tom Brady popped the question to uber-hot girlfriend Gisele Bundchen? Tom, don't do it. Think of all the other hot women you can knock up and not marry or support? Think about it, seriously. We made this video in hopes that you'll call it off. It really comes from our hearts. (NY POST)

And from the glad-it-happened-to-them-department, especially for all you Florida State Seminole and the Ohio State Buckeye fans out there, seems the Florida Gators had a little accident at their athletic facility that Gatorade paid for. Okay, here's our gripe with this: the trophy was just sitting on a coffee table outside Urban Meyer's office. Really? Why not just put it on a old ladder behind a door? Why not just use it as a door stop? UF, AD Jeremy Foley, Urban: you guys have millions of dollars at your fingertips. Buy a freaking trophy case. The BCS crystal football isn't there to keep the recent issue of Good Housekeeping from blowing away. (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES)

That's it for now, but we know exactly what our pickup line will be for Jodie at Gossip On Sports: