Being from the Midwest, I’ve heard story after story about Tommy Morrison.  The fights in Kansas City area bars, sexing up multiple women every night, the drugs and the dumb ass ‘I’m the Champ’ attitude he displayed to everyone he met.  There was a time in the late ’80s and early ’90s when ‘the great white hype’ was extremely popular.  My high school girlfriend’s mom actually had a huge poster of Morrison sitting in her room.  Not my girlfriend, mind you, her mom.  A little creepy, but okay.

Today, Morrison is the shadow of the man he once was – both physically and mentally.  Once on top of the world, he’s no longer allowed to fight in the ring due to the HIV he contracted years ago during one of his many love fests.  He still trains, however, hoping to get one more chance at a championship.  And every couple of years, someone does an interview with him just to hear the crazy sh*t that comes out of his mouth.

This time around, Morrison claims that HIV doesn’t exist.  No, he’s not talking about his HIV like it doesn’t exist, as if it were miraculously cured by self-actualization or some wonder drug.  He’s talking about HIV in general.  Oh, and teleportation.  Confused yet?  The Kansas City Star’s Sam Mellinger explains:

Tommy wants to talk to you about HIV. It’s a farce, he says. An invention by a scientist who wanted to make money, a lie kept alive by a government that wants to scare people. He doesn’t have HIV, never did, and besides, it’s not the deadly disease it’s been made out to be.

What he says sounds crazy, but there is an obvious and undeniable fact sitting in front of you: Tommy Morrison is still alive and apparently healthy, 15 years after testing positive for HIV. Magic Johnson tested positive five years before Tommy, but Johnson has wealth and the very best medical care.

He speaks with such certainty, such conviction, and even has a negative HIV test from last year to show you. That test has been disputed. It could be someone else’s blood, and his name is on failed tests, too. Still, it’s hard not to wonder enough to call a doctor.

Joel Gallant is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading HIV specialists in the country. He says there are slow progressers, people who do fine without treatment, so Tommy’s apparent health “doesn’t tell you much one way or the other,” and that “he’s not cured; that’s not one of the possibilities.”

Regardless of the good doctors words, Morrison takes it a completely different way.  There seems to be some odd filter in his mind that turns logical, straightforward information into crazy.

“You have just confirmed to me that there does not exist a test that confirms or dispels whether I or anyone has the HIV VIRUS 100%,” he writes to Gallant.

It’s interesting to note that Morrison has a steady girlfriend with whom he practices unprotected sex.  Well, there’s something to be said for sticking to you’re convictions.  I just don’t know what in this case.

Morrison is ready to fight, or so he says.  He’ll never get the chance.  But in his mind, he’s almost as healthy as he was at 24 when he won the WBO Heavyweight title.

“I think about boxing more now. I’m better,” he says. “They’re not used to that. A white guy that has hand speed, power, charisma, and can talk in complete sentences? (Shoot). Sounds like a gold mine to me.”

He also claims he once teleported out of an area bar.  Pretty cool, if you ask me, but I doubt that statement is going to help him much with the boxing commission.  I wonder what Morrison will have to say in another couple of years.  He hasn’t yet played the ‘abducted by aliens’ card.

[Photo Source: KC Star]

The Cinncinnati Bengals never looked so good…EVER.  Playboy’s perfect NFL playmate – and Sportscasm’s favorite redhead – Jaime Edmondson again shows off how absolutely hot the NFL can be in this tiny Bengals tee.

The series of photos is part of the NFL’s attempt to market football apparel to women…and, more to the point, the men who buy apparel for women.  So for that we say “Well done, NFL.”  You may have screwed up the seating, National Anthem and half-time show at Super Bowl XLV, but you’re quickly making up for it with amazing scenes like this.

Check out our Jaime Edmondson category to see much more.  Enjoy.

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Former ESPN personality Sean Salisbury was on hand to call the game. So, if you were wondering how he’s doing these days, the answer is, “Things could be worse.”

Ron Kantowski of the Las Vegas Journal-Review had this expert analysis of the game:

The blocking was crisp; the tackling fierce. There was a flea-flicker and two double reverses. Salerno threw a tight spiral from one end of the T&M to the other that a saucy little tyke named Melissa Marguiles hauled in over her shoulder in full stride for a touchdown.

So there you have it, folks.  Another tough Lingerie Football League season is in the books with the LA Temptation taking the coveted, eh…I have no earthly idea what they call the trophy for this thing.

That’s right, kids.  Green Bay – the town synonymous with professional football over the past century – is getting a new franchise.  The luscious Lingerie Football League (LFL) is about to expand to the land of the frozen tundra.  And why not?  Nothing says hot young women running around in lingerie and pads like seven months of winter every year.

According to LFL 360:

Lingerie Football League (LFL) officials are excited to announce LFL Football will be coming to Green Bay, Wisconsin in Fall 2011. Green Bay will be joining the already announced Cleveland Crush and Las Vegas Sin, along with one more market for the 2011 expansion teams.

‘It’s simple, when you think of football, you think of Green Bay. There is no better base of passionate football fans anywhere in the country like there is in Green Bay. We are thrilled to name Packers legend, Gilbert Brown, as our head coach and to call the incredible Resch Center our home. LFL Football is fast-becoming a LIVE sports phenomenon and we cannot wait to bring our exciting brand of football to the birthplace of football’, said Mitchell S. Mortaza, Founder & Chairman, Lingerie Football League, LLC.

No one knows who Gilbert Brown paid off to get this gig, but whatever he paid, it wasn’t near enough.  Brown, the former defensive tackle, was a beast for the Packers and has a serious soft spot for Green Bay.  But coaching in the LFL will be real challenge.  In fact just paying attention to the down and distance with all those distractions on the field will make things..er..hard enough.  Let alone managing a team of women who are constantly getting their panties and bra straps snapped by opposing players trying to make a tackle.  Oh well, you take the half-naked with the bad, I suppose.

*UPDATE* The LFL may be moving to Sunday afternoons (PHOTOS)

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Here’s a classic video of Mickey Mantle appearing on the old Late Night Show with David Letterman from back in 1987. Who needed steroids when the Mick’s Homeruns are powered by booze and women. Here Mantle tells a hilarous tell about Whitey Ford, walking up on someone’s front porch and playing baseball while hungover.