"Saint Andrew's Net" is With Leather's daily link dump, written by the bane of respectable journos and scrupulous primates alike, Michael Tunison. Expect sports and tits.

• The Sports Point has pictures of a shirtless Vince Young dancing among other shirtless dudes. And who says he has no receivers?
• Busted Coverage has a Preakness photo essay and East Coast Bias has a handy handicapping guide. Me? I have only the advice to stay very far away from Baltimore.
• The Sporting Blog's Spencer Hall sits down with Aqua Teen Hunger Force co-creator Dan Willis, who would like to let you know "Mike Piazza needs to step up!"
• Hashmarks (via SportsbyBrooks) reports Ricky Williams was invited to Cedric Benson's arresty boat party. Sorry, Ced, alcohol's not really the drug of choice there.
• Deuce of Davenport introduces us to cheese racing. I'd like to introduce my meat racer to September Carrino. (NSFW)

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Busted Coverage returns from its latest voyage from the briny depths of the tubes with this undated photo of Kyle Orton getting blitzed in the best way he can deal with while posing with a busty young lass from a Chicago radio station.

Okay, Orton may not be any more inebriated in this photo than he is at any other time, but he's always good for looking the part. And the fact that we don't know the date of the photo won't stop us from irresponsibly positing the question of why Orton can get drunk with impunity and Cedric Benson gets popped in front of his mom.

You might say it's the white skin but in actuality authorities just plain respect a good neck beard. 

Ms. Mammaries has a few other pics with prominent Chicago sports figures, including Brian Urlacher, Michael Jordan, Lance Briggs and Alfonso Soriano, but they aren't in varying states of intoxication and she's not in varying states of undress, so it's up to you to dig through them. She may have a face for radio, but those breasts are at least good enough for a webcam feed to my computer (nudge, nudge, fap, fap).

ChicagoSports.com published this photo from the boat party where Bears running back Cedric Benson was arrested for BWI and tased.  As noted  in the original post, Benson and the LCRA — water cops! — had strikingly different stories, with Benson's sounding like police brutality and the LCRA's sounding like dealing with an aggressive drunk.  This photo, supposedly taken a few hours before the arrest, shows that Benson is clearly guilty of partying with his mother (center), Sun Chips, and — the most heinous crime of all — white girls.  And, along with witnesses' reports, it's changing the way people are looking at the incident.

"I called my dad and told him, 'Call 911, my black friend is getting beaten up by police on Lake Travis,' " said Elizabeth Cartwright, 22, a friend of Benson's from the University of Texas. "It's more what I heard than what I saw. I have never heard or seen Cedric that scared."… She said her fiance also took dozens of photographs that help corroborate her claims. [...]

Cartwright, an English major at the University of Texas who is to graduate later this month, estimated she and her fiance had been boating with Benson six times this spring and each time a Lower Colorado River Authority boat pulled them over for a safety check.

One thing's for sure about this whole situation: it would be way more interesting if Benson was a semi-decent running back.

[FanIQ, SbB] 

Bears running back Cedric Benson, once a a top draft pick before blossoming into a runner who could get 2.5 yards a carry and 60 yards per game no matter what the stakes, was arrested over the weekend for boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest, the latter of which got him a faceful of pepper spray.  (Mmmmm… incapacitating.)  Benson, however, denies the charges.

According to the LCRA [Lower Colorado River Authority], an officer asked Benson, owner-operator of the boat, to do a "float" sobriety test. Detainees may be asked to follow an object with their eyes, do the alphabet and count down with their fingers. An officer said Benson failed. Authorities wanted to bring Benson ashore for more tests, the LCRA said.

Benson refused to put on a life jacket — a requirement on LCRA boats — and "presented himself as a threat to the officer and argued about whether or not he would be taken to land," authorities said. The officer arrested Benson, who kept arguing and "continued to present himself as a threat," the LCRA said. The officer then pepper-sprayed him.

Benson tells a much different story: "Even after they pepper-sprayed me, I have no idea why they did that. I was cooperative. I asked them several times why they did that, and they didn't give me an answer."

I don't really know who to believe here.  I want to throw my support behind Benson to prove I'm not racist, but the last time I took a chance on him he gave my fantasy team 60 yards a game before breaking his leg in November.  Maybe if he'd broken some tackles and scored more TDs I'd think he's innocent.  Either way, this is his penultimate headline.  He's got one more when the Bears cut him, and then we'll never hear from him again unless he does something really unexpected, like a double homicide or winning the National Spelling Bee.

Saint Andrew's Net" is With Leather's daily link dump, written by assistant editor/Chicago native KD a sexy simian blogger. Expect sports and tits.

• SportsbyBrooks gives the rundown of Cedric Benson's amusing, boozing run-in with the coppers. The Bears' disappointing back washed down his beers from the boat with some police pepper spray. Mmmmm, incapacitating.
• Awful Announcing discovered that Indiana Jones has a date with the Washington Nationals . Helpful tip for the Nats: Don't just flail your scimitar around menacingly, he'll just shoot you with his gun. I learned that the hard way.
• Deuce of Davenport awards the Parent of the Year honors to a Long Island couple who locked their 2-month old baby in their car for 20 minutes while they watched the Kentucky Derby. Abandonment issues aside, at least the kid will grow up with a healthy fear of rubes.
• Fanhouse has video of a soccer player on fire. On fire, like my loins! Near Danielle Lloyd! (NSFW) About as many kicks to the balls as well.

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The Chicago Bears signed Rex Grossman to a one-year contract Saturday because . . . well, the only reason I can come up with is that they want me to die from a lacerated ulcer. The leader of the Bears' vaunted brain-trust said:

“We wanted him because we feel like he gives us the best opportunity to be the best team we can be going into this next season,” general manager Jerry Angelo said . . . “With one-year deals you’re not solving anything,” Angelo said. “You’re still in the hunt, so to speak. We certainly feel good about the people who are contending at the position, but it’s not solved yet.”

I assume Lovie Smith drawled "Good idea Boss!", before he made the case that the Monsters of the Midway signed Grossman so that wide receiver Bernard Berrian would re-sign with the team:

“We’re using everything we possibly can,” Smith said. “Bernard has been a big part of what we’ve done. He’s come up through the ranks with us. We’d like to see him finish it at our place. Hopefully, signing guys like Rex will help.”

Yes, sexy Rexy can certainly bomb the ball deep to speed merchants. But just because Berrian deals in speed, doesn't mean he smokes crack. Run Bernard, run! -KD