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Spain’s Alberto Cantador won the 2009 Tour de France on Sunday for his 2nd career Tour de France victory.  Cantador also won the 2007 Tour de France.  Fellow Astana team member – 7-time Tour winner Lance Armstrong – finished in 3rd place.  Cantador and Armstrong battled throughout the Tour as tensions grew over who would be the team leader.  Cantador had this to say about the win – “It has been an especially difficult Tour for me, but I savor it and it is more special because of it… We are totally incompatible.  In the end, Armstrong will go his way and I’ll go mine.”

Cantador is probably the best cycler in the sport today.  He has already won all 3 Grand Tours of France, Italy and Spain, and at the young age of 26 still has plenty of good years ahead of him.

As for Armstrong, he intends to return to the Tour de France with a different team in 2010.

ESPN’s Erin Andrews found herself on the wrong end of some illegal activity – - crazy to think that a hotel would allow something like this to happen.  Until we’re able to post a link to the nude video, here’s a link to the news article surrounding the occurrence.  The Florida Gators alum should definitely have a good lawyer to make somebody pay for this.  Oh yeah, here are some sweet shots of our favorite ESPN reporter – Princess Erin…

The Yankees were flying high after Hideki Matsui’s walk-off home run on Monday night gave the Yankees a big 2-1 win over the Orioles.  It was the Yankees 4th win in a row after the All-Star Break and at 55-37, the Yankees were in a 1st place tie with the Red Sox in the AL East.  The Red Sox had lost 3 of their 4 games after the break, and the Yankees took advantage of the opening.

It should be an interesting stretch run the last 2+ months of the season.  Kate Hudson seems to like the performance of her beau Alex Rodriguez – she’s been taking in Yankees games of late and seems to be bringing the team a lot of good luck…

Ana Beatriz Barros is our latest installment for our Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Models.  Barros is a 27-year old Brazilian bombshell.  Barros has worked for Bebe, Victoria’s Secret, Chanel cosmetics and Guess?  Barros has also appeared on the covers of the top fashion magazines, including Vogue, Glamour, Marie Claire and Allure.  Barros has been a lovely mainstay in the SI Swimsuit Issue since 2002.  Enjoy – I know I did…

Serena Williams defeated big sister Venus Williams in the Women’s Wimbledon Finals at the All England Club on Saturday July 4th.  It was a fairly easy win for Serena who won the 1st set tie-breaker 7-3, and then cruised to the match win with a 6-2 second set drubbing.  The numbers said it all: 12 aces, 25 winners and 12 unforced errors for Serena as opposed to 2 aces, 14 winners and 18 unforced errors for Venus.  It was Serena’s 3rd Wimbledon Title and 11th Grand Slam title overall.  Serena had beaten Venus in the 2002 and 2003 Wimbledon Finals, while Venus had beaten Serena in last year’s Wimbledon Finals.  Serena’s win prevented Venus from becoming the 1st women to win 3 straight Wimbledon titles since Steffi Gras did so from 1991-1993.

What a great day for American tennis in England on July 4th!

Any reason to show more pics of hottie Brooklyn Decker.  American Andy Roddick defeated Swiss player Andy Murray in 4 sets to advance to the Men’s Wimbledon Finals on Sunday morning.  It was a huge accomplishment for Roddick, as Murray had beaten Roddick 18 of the 20 times the 2 tennis players had met.  But Roddick saved a big break point with Murray leading 4-3 in the 4th set and then went on to make great plays in the 3rd and 4th set tie-breakers en route to the 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (5) win.  Roddick had this to say about reaching the finals:  “To be honest, the last couple of years I didn’t know if I’d ever get a chance to play for another Grand Slam title.  Now I get to.  It’s just a dream…  I had to play my best tennis out there to win today.  I can’t say enough good things about Andy’s game, but I can play some tennis sometimes, and not many people were giving me much of a chance at all and I knew if I could stay the course that I had a shot and that’s all you can ask for.”  Great and congrats Andy.  But now on to better things.  Enjoy our sensational friend Brooklyn – Roddick’s fiance…

Venus Williams and Serena Williams will meet in the Women’s Finals of Wimbledon at the All England Club on Saturday July 4th.  It is the 2nd consecutive year that the 2 Williams sisters will meet in the Wimbledon finals.  Serena defeated big sis Venus in the 2002 and 2003 Wimbledon finals, while Venus defeated younger sister Serena last year.  Venus has won the last 2 Wimbledon titles and is bidding to win 3 in a row – the first time a woman has won 3 championships in a row since Steffi Graf did so from 1991 through 1993.  A Williams sister has won 7 of the last 9 Wimbledon championships.

The 2 sisters reached the finals in vastly different semi-finals matches.  Venus defeated top-seeded Dinara Safina in just 51 minutes – 6-1, 6-0.  She had this to say about her win:  “Oh, my God, this is my 8th final, and it’s a dream come true to be here again and have the opportunity to hold the plate up…  A fourth [of July] final – it’s so exciting.”

Serena saved one match point and defeated Elena Dementieva in 3 sets (6-7, 7-5, 8-6) in 2 hours and 49 minutes.  It was the longest women’s semifinals match since records started being kept in 1969.

WOW – another Brazilian model hottie – not surprising.  Jeisa Chiminazzo is a 24-year old beauty from Mucum, RS, Brazil who currently lives in New York City when not doing her sepectacular photo shoots.  Chiminazzo originally signed with IMG Models and has been featured in the following fashion campaigns: Calvin Klein, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana, Hugo Boss & Armani.  She appeared in her 1st SI Swimsuit Issue in 2008.  We officially love Jeisa – we hope you do too – enjoy…

Boy do I love this idea.  Great, sexy pictures of hate chicks from all over the world.  It doesn’t get any better than this.  Melissa Haro is our latest beauty – while she mainly models in NYC, Paris and on location, she calls San Jose, California her home.  Haro works for Elite Model Management and has appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2008 and 2009.  Enjoy our sexy little pirate…

Our latest installment of the SI Swimsuit model collection features Ingrid Vandebosch – wife of successful Nascar race care driver Jeff Gordon.  The 40-year old still has what it takes to compete with the younger, more athletic models these days.  Vandebosch began her modeling career back in 1996 in the Netherlands.  She has worked on modeling projects for Christian Dior and Amway and has graced the pages of the following fashion magazines – Vogue, Glamour, Marie Claire and ELLE.  She also appeared in the “wives of star athletes” section of the 2008 SI Swimsuit issue, along with Carmella Garcia (wife of NFL Quarterback Jeff Garcia); Michelle Damon (wife of MLB center fielder Johny Damon).

Vandebosch and Gordon have been married since November 2006 and it hasn’t hurt her one bit – Enjoy…