Adriana Lima to Marry Marko Jaric

Never thought I'd be linking to People magazine from this site, but here you go:
Supermodel Adriana Lima Engaged to Basketball Star.

Like the rest of you, I suspect, I find two things deeply troubling about that lead.

1. It was depressing enough when we learned she was dating Jaric in the first place. She didn't need to go and marry the guy.
2. "Basketball Star?"

C'mon, People. You're part of the same company that owns Sports Illustrated and TNT. Couldn't someone place a call to Ian Thomsen or Charles Barkley and get a more... accurate description of Jaric's basketball prowess for that headline?

This is exactly the sort of half-assed corporate synergy that caused the AOL Time Warner merger to fail. (But I'm not bitter.)

Of course, I'd be remiss if I posted a blog entry on any Victoria's Secret model without a photo:

Here's the soon-to-be Mrs. Jaric, re-enacting a scene from Grease with some of her hot friends. Plenty more like it over at Askmen.com.



And here's more on the incredibly, blindingly lucky Mr. Jaric:

Hoops Fantasy

The word "fantasy" takes on a whole new context in the basketball blogosphere this week with the news that Marko Jaric is dating Victoria's Secret model/goddess Adriana Lima.

This is easily the most impressive accomplishment of Jaric's NBA career.

(For more analysis, er, hot pictures, check out Give Me The Rock.)

Note to Ms. Lima: the last Victoria's Secret model to run around in public with an NBA player chose an All-Star. You're doing all of the angels a vast disservice being associated with a backup point guard on a terrible team. Now every scrub in the NBA is going to think he can get love from an underwear model.


Wait... NBA scrubs do get love from underwear models?

Eh. Forget I said anything.