NFL Tennis

Here is a video from earlier this year of the lovely Maria Sharapova winging a football in preparation for Israel in Fed Cup 2008. The Israelis must have been a formidable group (just in case you're interested). I don't follow tennis, but I watch enough football to know that one of the world's best tennis players has a better arm than Rex Grossman or Kyle Orton, and better hands than anybody listed on the Bears' depth chart at wide receiver.

Sure, that sounds like a knock on the current crop of "skill" players on the roster (and maybe it is). But the fact that a professional tennis player looks more comfortable throwing and catching a football than a group of guys who get paid to throw and catch a football ... well, let's just say 2008 probably won't be the year the Bears make it back to the Super Bowl. Luckily, the running game is shaping up nicely.

Hat tip: Busted Coverage via Shutdown Corner

Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart, who is Father to USC basketball player Brynn Cameron's son Cole, has been connected to quite a few luscious ladies over the past year. The former USC standout has been seen out on the town with pop star Britney Spears, linked to Hollywood party girl Paris Hilton, caught swapping spit with professional athlete hop-scotch artist Alyssa Milano, as well as actress Scarlett Johansson.

But the list doesn't stop there! Oh no; this is Matt Leinart we're talking about. In the never-ending battle within himself to constantly one-up the previous woman, he's now been caught arm-in-arm with tennis champion Maria Sharapova.

Another week, another photo of Matt Leinart with an attractive female. This time the Cardinals QB was spotted this week with Maria Sharapova at a charity event organized by Leinart.

To Matt's credit, at least he's significantly improved his company. He's gone from the bottom of the basement (Paris Hilton) to the middle of the mountain (Maria Sharapova). It's a long fall from the top, but I believe Matt with reach the summit of Mount Everest soon enough.

Any wagers on who is next?

Serena Williams serves up some fast times with a tennis racket and some yellow felt, but can she get up to speed in a race car?

We'll find out tonight when she and 11 fellow celebrities dreaming of life in the fast lane join six NASCAR drivers in the new reality show, "Fast Cars & Superstars -- The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race."

In tonight's first episode, Kurt Busch pushes NFL Hall of Famer John Elway to the limit in the cars.com car, Surfer Laird Hamilton confirms that nothing scares him and Williams screams her way to shattering her own personal challenge.

The show will explore the interaction of top young stock car drivers with stars from the world of sports, music and entertainment, featuring drama and competition on and off the race track. In each episode, viewers will watch celebrities train with a Gillette Young Guns driver.

"Fast Cars" culminates with a one-hour finale where the celebrities will be coached from the pits by their Gillette Young Guns instructors and compete against each other during a time-trial race.

The series will be hosted by ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne and co-hosted by former Cleveland Cavaliers center and current ESPN NASCAR analyst Brad Daugherty.

*Sigh*

Can't ESPN give Daugherty a job in a sport he knows?

Tonight on ABC (8:00-8:30PM, ET).