Early last month we shared with you a 55-image strong gallery of Kate Upton in her underwear at the circus, modeling the entirety of the LOLA Cruise 2012 Collection. Some of the comments, as we’ve come to expect, read like this:

While nearly every professionally-shot photo that appears on the Internet or magazines is touched up in some way these days, the implication here, as it has been before, is that Sports Illustrated model and America’s Best Girl™ Kate doesn’t look in real life like she does in these photos.

To disprove that implication, I present to you the live-action video from the LOLA Cruise shoot, courtesy of my favorite place to watch the Mr. Skin Minute, Egotastic. You can still claim that it’s all about angles, or that the black and white footage washes out 19-year old girl’s imperfections, but I think a more realistic theory is that she’s perfect and you should shut up.

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Today, With Leather readers, is one of those wonderful days when I get to share with you a brand new Kate Upton photoshoot. This one is for the LOLA Cruise 2012 Collection, and the pictures are so good I am going to buy a gross of swimsuits and leave them to rot in a storage unit somewhere just to say how grateful I am to the designers.

What you need to know:

1. Kate Upton was once in the “Sports Illustrated” and swimming can be a sport, so this counts as sports.

2. The gallery features Kate modeling every swimsuit in the collection, and she makes sure to give you a clear view of the front and a clear view of the back, so you’ll have an educated opinion on what to purchase and/or pass out and wake up with your credit cards maxed out.

3. Near the end of the collection it stops being about swimsuits and turns into circus cosplay, which is still not great for animals, but is a step up from sexily milking a cow.

4. Clicking the pictures takes you to a bigger version. You should click every single one.

Hopefully you’ve ignored this list and are already clicking through. The gallery comes to you by way of our friends at Popaholic, so please take a moment to patronize them when you’re done, uh, patronizing yourself.

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Complex Magazine just put up an interview with and photo gallery of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and Official Everywhere On The Internet poster girl Kate Upton, and despite my aversion toward animals as a food source I am undecided in my feelings toward animals as busty teenage modeling props, so I’m sharing it. Also, as the editor of a sports blog I am legally obligated to freak out every time this girl puts a new picture on the Internet. Legally obligated and gleefully cooperative.

Anyway, most of the interview reads like it might if Kate was filling out a middle school worksheet about barnyard life:

Have you milked anything before?
No, I have never milked a cow before. It was really cool. I told everyone I learned how to do it.

Would you do it again?
Yes.

But there’s one wonderful gem right at the end, and you shouldn’t miss it.

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Yesterday, 19-year old Simona Halep breezed through her first-round match against Serbia’s Bojana Jovanovski at Wimbledon. Why is this an important thing to share with people on the Internet? For the reason you didn’t start reading this paragraph until you’d stared at the picture for five minutes. Simona got popular a couple of years ago on the reactionary part of the Internet that flips out (in both the good and bad ways, which are open to interpretation) about 17-year olds with humongous boobs, and her success this year is due to losing them; Halep got a massive breast reduction, and it seems to be making her awesome at tennis.

By way of The Daily Mail:

Halep was first noticed on her way to becoming junior champion at the French Open in 2008. In a bid to boost her game, she spent much of the following year recovering from the surgery, which took her cup size down from 34DD to a more modest 34C.

At the time she explained her decision to fans, saying: ‘It’s the weight that troubles me. My ability to react quickly, my breasts make me uncomfortable when I play.

‘I don’t like them in my everyday life, either. I would have gone for surgery even if I hadn’t been a sportswoman.’

I’m going to play the “women are people too” card and say I’m happy for her, even if the loss of such magnificent breasts is sh:tty to the awful, judgmental part of our brain that can only praise women for their beauty or condemn them for looking like steroid monsters. I think those are the only two reactions I’ve ever heard about women’s tennis outside of Ron Swanson: Player X is hot, or Player Y is on drugs and looks like a man and has a penis and could rip off yours. In this example, we’ll say Player X is Martina Hingis, and Player Y is any tennis player with her picture on Fark.

We wish Halep a successful Wimbledon, and now are heads can go back to looking back and forth instead of just straight ahead and slightly down.

In case you go to bed early and a sports comedy blog is the first thing you see or hear when you wake up, Osama Bin Laden has been killed by U.S. forces. This should make a lot of people feel much better about not being able to go to a doctor or get married or find a job. Somewhere Prince William is sitting around pissed, kicking his feet, complaining about how he only got like two days to be the most important thing in the world.

Because “dancing on grave of monster” is the only thing anybody’s going to be Googling for today (sorry, Kate), I’ll stand at the bottom of this website and direct you to political stories of interest. Note: whatever you do, don’t search for “Osama” on Twitter. You will die.

Osama Bin Linken

What I Did Instead - Jason Fry knocks it out of the park (baseball reference) with his honest and touching thoughts on 9/11, and how the New York Mets sometimes actually have something to do with something. [Faith and Fear]

Pakistani Man Live Tweets Attack on Bin Laden - He didn’t know what he was doing at the time, but Sohaib Athar of Pakistan (pockiston) accidentally Live Twought about helicopters and bomb blasts in Abbottabad. Read about him, then follow some links and read about a guy who eats tampons. [BroBible]

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In case you haven’t been privy to the last two weeks of hype, With Leather’s free fantasy baseball contest with a gracious $300 cash pool from the folks at DraftStreet.com happens tonight. If you haven’t signed up and drafted your team by now, come on, man, there are only so many sexual baseball pictures I can use to entice you until I’m posting Jeter-A-Rod candids and sexy Halloween costumes. I know “Sexy Chone Figgins” from 3Wishes.com isn’t going to work.

Click here to register and join the fun. The fun starts at the beginning of tonight’s first game. Don’t wait!

I know you’ve already read this paragraph, but it’s free, you can win money, and you get to laugh at my terrible ass for exclusively drafting Cleveland Indians all the people I liked in 2006 regardless of their recent performance. Come on, Ryan Garko, you can do it! I’m pretty sure the Samsung Lions of the Korean Baseball Organization are included in this contest!

Here’s how you play: Fill your roster (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, 3 OF, 2 U, 2 SP, RP, P) while staying within the budget of $100k. Player salaries are set by DraftStreet based on fantasy production. So, if you want to put Roy Halladay on the mound it might cost you $16k, which means you’ll have to find some bargains to fill out the rest of your squad.

Note: Ryan Garko cost me $14.