No. 2: Jessica Alba

Finally, now we're getting to the girls I would drop 12 pack of Miller Lite bottles to marry in a heartbeat.

No. 2 on my list of Top 10 celebrities is Jessica Alba.

Photo courtesy of Chickipedia.

And really, there a a million reasons why she should be at the top of the list. But when you get this far on the list, the difference between 1 & 2 is as slim as Nicole Richie.

Zing!

As for Alba, she's great. She is perfectly proportioned with a sparkling smile.

And that's all you can ask for.

So who's No. 1? Stay tuned to find out.

Daily Dosage: Snow Day Edition

I spy with my little eye someone who will be getting a day off.

And that guy needs to shave.

Jessica Alba is always gracefully beautiful. Always.

Sports. Snow. And midday naps.

That's what I'm talking about!

And of course your Daily Dosage.

Saluki tennis near the top. It's not every day where SIU tennis gets top billing, but when you get some preseason love (projected second-place finish in the MVC) and take home a couple of individual titles by Eric West and Anton Leonenko ... it means you've earned it. [Daily Egyptian]

3-ball doesn't fall, stalls SIU men. The Salukis men's basketball team has been one of the premier 3-point shooting teams in the nation. Yes, the nation. SIU ranks ninth in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage. But the team's inability to knock down the big three was one of the reasons it was unable to pick up a road win against Illinois State on Sunday. [Daily Egyptian]


Qualiy Linkage:

• Benchwarmers and blogging. [Redshirt Year and Beyond]
• A breakdown of Joe Torre's "controversial" book. [NY Times]
• Add Martellus Bennett to the list of athletes that can't rap. Some language NSFW [Landry Hat]
• The Stanford Tree is a P.I.M.P. [Deadspin]
• SLATE's big words aren't welcome in the sports world. [With Leather]

VIDEO LINKAGE presents objective reporting by the Big Ten Network:



"Big Ten basketball ranks right up there … arguably, could be the best conference in basketball right now. ... Tell you what, it's certainly the most entertaining.” [The Big Lead]

More on this to come...

Daily Dosage: Jessica Alba is pretty much flawless

Jessica Alba rocks my socks. She's an OK actress, her best work is behind her (like Dark Angel, yum!) But she could be a terrible actress, she's still delicious and I know many men that would drop their iPods, iPhones and other iThings at her beckon call. Heck, I'd be one of them.

Today's shameless cross-promotion: Members of the SIU football team "switch it up." And by switch it up I mean change positions. And by change positions I mean...hey, quit oggling Ms. Alba! [Daily Egyptian]

And remember visit siuDE.com, just do it and don't ask questions!

Cub slump busters put Pirates in the pits. Kosuke Fukudome and Jim Edmonds combined to go 6-for-9 with five RBIs and two runs scored in the Chicago Cubs' 12-3 victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Fukudome, now hitting .268 after hitting in the .100s for most of August, is 4-for-5 in his last two games with a home run and six RBIs.

Ted Lilly pitches seven strong innings, striking out seven while limiting the Bucco's to three runs on seven hits, improving his record to 13-7.

Sox 'split' in B-More, make Thome's Homies proud. Jim Thome belted his 535th career home run, giving him sole possession of 15th place on the all-time home run list, as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 4-3.

Earlier, the Sox and the O's played the end of a suspended game in which the Sox were the home team despite re-starting the game in Baltimore.

Rookie southpaw Clayton Richard pitched six innings of quality baseball, scattering six hits and limiting the Orange & Black attack to only three runs.

Quality Linkage:

• Remember that guy who was traded for 10 bats? He's got nothing on Eddie Guardado, who was traded to the Minnesota Twins for a Hamburger. [CBC Sports] No truth to the rumor that cheese or any other condiments were involved.
  
• Jobba and the Giambino suck at beer pong. [NY Post] They better get checked for the herp. [College On The Record]
  
• Are you ready to dance with stars? [Yahoo!]
• Not shown in this pic, an angry mob of Cubs fans [The Lennin Closet]
• Rudy Fernandez gets the highlight, Team USA gets the Gold. [You Got Dunked On] I'll take that exchange any day of the week!