BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Lindsey Vonn is Hot Copy


Someone again took affront to this cover of the latest issue of Sports Illustrated. What do you think? And in a week or two the annual swimsuit issue is going to be out again so we'll hear more complaints albeit from other quarters as well.

As for me, Lindsey Vonn's pose my slightly be exaggerated, but it's still close to the sport and I think it's cool. I seem to recall a shot of Michael Phelps prior to the 2004 Summer Olympics and he was in his trunks. Only the malicious will see something wrong here. Back to this issue of SI, the fact that Vonn didn't complain about it means it's okay. But I do understand the sensitivity issue here. However, WOMEN TALK ABOUT SPORTS, you just about turned this issue into another sold out copy for SI. Okay, now bring on the dancing horses.

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