…On second thought, I guess the clip is more of a reward for us, the viewers, rather than the gorgeous ladies taking part in it.

Here it is.  Enjoy!

Hat Tip – [BNQT.com]

While many have moved on to “Peebowing,” there are still a few athletes in the sports world (besides Tim Tebow) who have chosen to keep the Tebowing fad going.  American skier Lindsey Vonn is among them, as she celebrated her victory at the World Cup Super-G event in Colorado by getting down on one knee and striking a prayer pose, à la Tim Tebow.

Before “Tebowing,” Lindsey did have the common courtesy to approach Tebow’s brother, who was at the race, and ask him if performing the act would be disrespectful.  He seemed fine with it and soon after another brilliant moment in Tebowing history was born.

Hat Tip – [The Score]

Well, it’s November, and there’s no basketball in the foreseeable future, so that means that the more esoteric winter sports will get more love than they normally do this time of year. It’s hard to keep up with winter sports athletes in non-Olympic years because there’s just not the exposure. Well, we strive to do our part here for winter sport athletes (the female ones, anyway), so we’ve got a handy little guide to nine of the hottest snow and skate bunnies gracing mountains and ponds near you.

9. Chemmy Alcott

This 29 year-old English lass is currently Britain’s #1 alpine skier, having competed in three Olympics and tackledall five disciplines in the World Cup (Downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, Slalom, and Combined). If you’re excited about having this one on the market – not so fast. She’s living with her male counterpart, British ski champ Dougie Crawford. I’m guessing that once you teach her how to Dougie, she’s yours forever. *Sigh*

8. Kiira Korpi

This Finnish beauty’s area of expertise is figure skating, having won the Finnish national championship and twice scored bronze in the European Championships (2007 and 2011).  Her nickname in Finnish translates to “Ice Princess” due to the 23 year-old’s resemblance to Princess Grace of Monaco. As of June, she was ranked #4 in the world. Expect her stock to rise as she enters the prime of her career.

7. Carmen Schafer

While “curling” is hardly synonymous with “sexy” (have you seen some of the pants they wear?), Carmen is doing her part to change the way we look at hot Swiss curlers, even if there’s only one of them…her. The 30 year-old has been curling since she was in her mid-teens, so don’t expect her to rest on her laurels with a fourth-place finish in Vancouver. Though she’s not the captain, she’s no slouch when it comes to “skipping the rock.” I made that idiom up, but it sounds real.

6. Julia Mancuso

The 27 year-old from Reno is arguably the most successful athlete on this list, having scored a gold in the giant slalom in the 2006 Olympics, and silvers in both downhill and combined in Vancouver in 2010. She has a plastic tiara that she wears over her helmet as a good-luck token. It sounds silly, but the gift from her coach was worn when she scored her silvers in 2010 (unexpectedly, it merits noting), so don’t knock it.

5. Sarah Burke

Sarah Burke is an Ontario-born freestyle skier In the 2001 US Freeskiing Open, she scored first in the half-pipe and second in slopestyle. She won the Skier of the Year ESPY in 2001 and regularly stars in skiing videos, which are by far the coolest sports-related videos in the genre (sorry, backyard wrestling).

4. Tanith Belbin

Yikes. Before we get to her accomplishments, let’s just admire that body for a while. A while longer. Longer. NOW! This American-Canadian icedancer scored a silver in the 2006 Olympics and was a five-time us champion from 2004-2008. She started skating at 3, so while she wasn’t born with skates on (that would have hurt her mom), she tossed them on as quickly as her parents could lace them up.

3. Lacy Schnoor

Lacy finished 9th in the Women’s Aerial’s in Vancouver in 2010, having qualified for the Olympics only a month earlier during a Christmas eve event. Her best finish has been 8th in a Canadian event in 2007, so while her resume may not sync up with others on this list, her body more than makes up for it.

2. Clair Bidez

Clair narrowly missed competing in the 2010 Olympics in freestyle snowboarding. The 24 year-old has competed and placed in both the X Games and the Vans Cup. Which is amazing, because I wouldn’t think she could perform well at all being so cold from wearing a bikini on the slopes. She must never crash or something. She’s THAT good.

1. Tina Maze

Tina is the reigning world champ in the Giant Slalom, and is no doubt counting the days until competing in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. She competed in the 2001 World Championships at the age of 17, having spent most of her childhood skiing in her native Slovenia. Since she has so many skis from sponsors, it wouldn’t be a big deal if I borrowed the ones she’s holding, would it?

If you could put together the ultimate ski team, who would it consist of?  Perhaps you would go with Bode Miller, Lindsey Vonn and Hermann Maier.  I, on the other hand, am quite impressed with the trio of Uncle Sam, Neil Armstrong and some other dude (if anyone can identify who that guy is supposed to be,  please let me know).

As strange as these guys may look, that probably isn’t the craziest choice of clothing we have seen from skiers in the past.  After all, that astronaut’s helmet looks awfully warm.

Hat Tip – [Gawker]

Though the following sports have gotten a lot more accessible over the years, and the word “exclusive” has lost its luster to a large extent, rich-person sports are still thriving. Of course they’re thriving. They’re played by filthy rich people. No matter how silly or how expensive the sport is, there will be a line of rich people longer than a private-jet runway queuing up to show that they’re well-off enough to get in on the action. While some of the sports may seem silly or, at the very least, financially irresponsible, sports of the wealthy hold a certain allure that many of us will never get to experience. Let’s face it. The only way many of us are going to get the opportunity to sink a sailboat is if we sneak into a marina with a bagful of C-4 explosive. So grab your ski mask and let’s run through some of the snottiest sports this side of Monaco.

9. Squash/Tennis/Racquetball

All three of these sports require certain courts that, for a very long time, could only be found at places called “racquet clubs” which are essentially urban country clubs that old businessmen went to after work to play their racquet sports. Then they sit around in leather chairs and drink brown liquors from over-sized glasses while discussing the Hang Seng index. That said, all these racquet sports require both a fair amount of skill and endurance, demonstrating that just because a sport is monopolized by rich people, it’s not necessarily a cakewalk. Permanently solidifying racquet sports as a bastion of the rich are a) the squash scene in “Wall Street” and b) the tennis scene in “Fletch.” If anyone asks, you’re a guest of the Underhills.

8. Jai Alai

Immortalized in American pop culture by “Miami Vice,” jai alai is a sport that may or may not exist only on television when they want to show the Colombian drug lord as a dynamic individual. With South American roots, jai alai, is a sport that is played by hurling a porcelain-like ball against a wall and then trying to catch it with device that resembles a ram’s horn. The ball gets going well over 100 mph, once more proving that what rich-person sports lack in interesting game-play, they more than make up for with unnecessary danger. See below for another example of a dangerous sport that’s boring as hell to watch.

7. Sailing

Some sports are popular among rich people because they require a shit-ton of money and free time. You better believe that sailing exemplifies that better than any other entry on this list. The discussion on whether or not sailing would make the cut on this list ended about a decade ago when Prada decided to sponsor a boat in the America’s Cup and introduced the world to their $400 sailing shoes. Anyone hoping to see waifish models get blown overboard by a stiff breeze would go on to be disappointed. Anyone hoping to see a bunch of rich white guys doing whatever the hell it is that sailing entails (pulling up sails and staring off into the sunset) walked away very fulfilled.

6. Polo

The Godfather of rich people sports. Not only insanely expensive with countless logistical barriers to entry, this sport also has the added bonus of requiring the domination of another species of animal in order to succeed. Double whammy. There isn’t much compelling me to further defend the inclusion of this entry, but I’ll keep going cause it’s so damn easy. Look at amateur basketball tournaments. Where are they held? Cabrini Green in Chicago? Harlem? Oakland? They’re held their because that’s where the people best at the sport live. Where do polo matches take place? That’s right. Santa Barbara. Aspen. The pampas of Argentina. Cause that’s where the best of that sport reside. There’s a pretty big gap between the two. Further, when a shirt bearing a little logo of a guy playing polo becomes a universal symbol for “rich asshole,” you’ve made the cut. Hell, you’re etched in stone by that point.

5. Riding

Here’s a little trick rich people use to tell if you’re one of them or not: If your dear friend Caitlin or Gordon turns to you and says, “I’m going riding,” and you reply back, “Riding what?” then you are NOT a rich person. “Riding” means riding horses. Why, how and where do you ride them? The answers are, respectively, “because I can,” “English style, you charlatan,” and “at the club.” If you are ever in doubt as to where a rich person does a rich-person activity, just guess “at the club” and you’ll probably be right. They have clubs for everything. Strangely enough, riding is just one in a long list of rich person sports that’s actually quite dangerous. It’s probably not as hairy as that other non-rich-person equine sport, rodeo, but the fact remains that you’re on a somewhat wild animal, and regardless of how much your boots cost, you can get tossed. Rich sports are generally pretty gender neutral, but if you’re a girl and you wanna get on a horse, you ride. If you’re a dude, you play polo. And you bang the girl. Both are wonderful sports.

4. Skiing

Skiing has recently overtaken heart disease as the number one killer of rich people. That’s not true at all, but it certainly seems that way with perennial celebrity deaths occurring every winter. While most people would consider skiing more of a hobby than a sport, it certainly requires more physical exertion than golf, which is widely regarded as a sport, so it stays on the list. The best skiers in the world are definitely not rich people, but the majority of recreational skiers are, unless they have made the decision to live in a ski town. Ski’s are a grand. Boots are a grand. Lift tickets are approaching the century mark as well, so there’s not much to say that subverts the argument that skiing is a rich person’s sport. Also don’t forget the fact that if the average Joe wants to hit the slopes, he will have to fly to a small airport in a mountain town and find a cozy little cabin or hotel somewhere. A good rule of thumb: if you have to fly somewhere to participate in a sport, it’s probably a rich-person sport.

3. Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a gateway rich person sport. It’s not entirely exclusive, but it’s one of the first conscious steps that a rich athlete can make towards engaging in rich-person sports. What’s funny about lacrosse is that there isn’t anything inherently “rich” about it other than its origins at Catholic prep schools in the mid-Atlantic states. It’s played on a regular ‘ole field, the equipment is pricey, but no more than football gear or an expensive baseball bat, but for some reason, it’s the official sport of entitled white kids who don’t want to be thought of as entitled white kids (but still actually do). Other ways lacrosse players in high school or college “break the mold” of being rich white kids are: listening to Widespread Panic, smoking lots of pot, driving an American SUV, having longish hair, and wearing leather necklaces that they got on near their parent’s friend’s winery in Spain.

2. Crew

Much as lacrosse players try to shake the connotation that they are rich kids, crew members take every opportunity to embrace it. If you’ve ever seen a picture of a crew team, it’s pretty apparent. They look like the poster boys for the Hitler Youth. All white, short hair, smug smiles. All the ingredients are there. Crew’s origins lie in England, so it’s no wonder that sport has gotten picked up on the mean streets of Houston or Albuquerque. Crew is an expensive sport, despite appearances. Those boats and oars ain’t cheap, but beyond that, you need boathouses, which means you actually need to buy real estate on an urban river, you need an arsenal of training equipment, and you need a school-sponsored program, which generally are assumed to belong to Ivy League schools, though the Midwest and Northern California have some killer ones as well.

1. Golf

Golf has become much more egalitarian in the past couple decades, thanks in large part to a mixed-race, feline-named adulterer. Golf is an expensive sport for obvious reasons, but we’ll rehash them here anyway because a certain writer has a certain word quota to meet. To play golf, you need clubs. Clubs can be cheap, but good clubs cost as much as a bad car. Unless you want to hit the ball up and down your neighborhood streets, you’re going to need a course. Public courses don’t carry the downmarket stigma they once did, but the best (read: most exclusive) are still the country clubs, which exist, as they always have, as monuments to conspicuous consumption. $25,000 per year is not unheard of to play a round of golf once a week, which works out to about $500 per round. Not cheap. Further, if you really enjoy golf, you’re going to want to check out the finest courses the country and world have to offer, so that means you’re going to need to fly places. And don’t forget to factor into your golf budget that golf clubs are often subject to exorbitant bag fees (thanks, terrorists!) so you get hit with another $100 each way just cause you love ‘merica.

I would love to talk about the prospects of this new sport, which combines the physical endurance of cross country skiing with the joy of being in the ocean, but I am simply too distracted by the granny in her bikini bottoms and wet t-shirt.

The first time I saw this, I was literally seconds away from puking in my mouth.  I couldn’t even force myself to eat dinner.  Call me weak, but there is something about old people in bathing suits that just doesn’t sit well with my stomach.  Had it been Kim Kardashian in her skimpy little swimsuit, skiing through the ocean waters, I would be much more attracted to the prospects of this sport.  Unfortunately, the image of her 90-year-old grandma doing the same will not suffice.

It may not be as hot as naked sled racing, but I swear if you look close enough you can literally see the snow melting under the blades and boards of these babes.

It is no secret that the sport of alpine skiing can be quite dangerous at times, as competitors are always at risk to experience rather disastrous tumbles down the hill, but rarely do we witness such a humiliating fall right out of the starting gate.  After all, there is barely a slope at that point.

Unfortunately, all that was needed was a tiny hill and some snow for Marion to take this rather awkward spill.  Maybe it is a good thing she didn’t make it through to the more difficult sections of the course.  The last thing the 2010 Vancouver Games needs is another horrifying tragedy.  One is already too many.

I guess that was the equivalent of a vertical clothesline or flag whiplash. I wonder if that hurt as much as Shaun White smashing his face during superpipe practice for the X Games. Maybe it was. I can tell you without a doubt that it didn’t hurt as much as the golfer who decided that his $2 golf ball was worth trying to get it back from an alligator.

Even so, nobody screams like that for nothing so it must have really hurt. Almost looked like she needed a cup for that crash. That slalom flag went right down the middle!