
SI.com, probably recognizing the need to quietly execute Peter King (quote from yesterday's MMQB: "[It] only took me nine years to see Saving Private Ryan. Memorable movie. Incredible job by Tom Hanks. That's the best I've seen him. And were you as stunned as I was to see Matt Damon show up two-thirds of the way through the movie as the title character?" Ummm, no. He was on the movie poster), has aligned its On Campus section with the powerful swimsuit-and-Jenn Sterger wing of Sports Illustrated.
Last week's SI On Campus featured athlete was Kari Klinkenborg, a once and future model who also happens to play volleyball for Florida.
"What finally got me to do it was one of my friends kept saying 'You need to model. You need to model. I know an agent,'" said the 6-foot-2 Klinkenborg. "I was always like, 'Just drop it. I'm not going to do it.' My friend just kept nagging me. I finally went and met with (an agent)."
Tell me about it, Kari. Every day is an endless series of calls and emails. "You're too good-looking to spend all that time behind the computer." "Why won't you model our underwear?" "Why can't we get shirtless pictures of you?" "If we see you on the premises again we will be forced to take legal action." But I'm too caught up in my world of volunteer work and sit-ups to devote my time and my image to people's sexual fantasies. I'm more than just a pretty face, dammit. I also have buns of steel.
Also see Kari's profile at Max Talent Agency. It says she's only 5'11". Scandal!
Update: Our Book of Scrap has a screen capture of SI's first go at the story, complete with spelling error and less sexy picture.


I’m picturing you in your diggies, saying, “I have buns of steel.” Now, I’m seeing you beaten mercilessly by your fellow Marines.
I’d spike it.
Note to Kari: There’s always some second rate friend pushing her 1st rate friend so she can get the free ride. You’re the free ride.
I’d pay for that ride.
5’11″, 6’2″, at that point, what’s the difference? Only more legs, which is no reason to bitch.
I would like to point out that this site is already soft-core, much more so than Maxim- well done sir!
Blackcapricorn – I think Matt was referring to SI.com, not With Leather.
With Leather is what we thought it was! (is that getting old yet?)
Why can’t we get shirtless pictures of you?
Oh, wait…I know.
My eyes, my eyes – the horror!
So does SI owe WL some sort of royalty rights now?
“Why won’t you model our underwear?” “Why can’t we get shirtless pictures of you?”
How many times does 289 email you that in a day?
I don’t email him. I make my own.
Um, prove it.
[www.stardoll.com]
Nice work, 289. Ladies, make sure you put the hoodie underneath the sports jacket. That’s how I roll.
Nice. Dreamboat Jr.
Holy underwear, Peter King may be retardeder than his brother Larry. He didn’t expect The Departed to be violent? He covers football and he complains about gratuitous (fake) violence in a movie? He’s paid to write about sports and he can’t think of anything better than to call the Mavs 50-5 run “compelling”? Any old dude who hasn’t seen Private Ryan until now isn’t a real man anyway.
How in the f#$k did she fit into Bear Bryant’s hat?
Huge bitches are hot.