It only lasted a fifth of a second, but Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe gained more exposure in that brief instant than he has this entire year of his breakout season.

Fox Sports televised a clip of Vikings owner Zygi Wilf’s postgame locker room speech after Sunday’s victory at Detroit.  Shiancoe was standing in the background wearing a towel that didn’t quite cover his privates. 

Fox Sports apologized, and NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said the league regretted the incident.  “It was unfortunate,” Aiello said.  “These are long-standing procedures we have.  The televising network, upon request and with the permission of the club, is allowed to record and videotape in the post-game locker room setting.  We’ll review the procedures with the networks this week.”

Shiancoe wasn’t thrilled to become famous for something other than football, but he joked about it with a Minneapolis Star Tribune gossip columnist, saying “How’d it look?”  Shiancoe’s agent, Tony Agnone, said his client was embarrassed and hopes fans understand it wasn’t intentional.

It’s October, which means it’s time for the MLB Playoffs.  After 162 games, 8 teams remain to fight for the 2008 World Series.

COED Magazine has created it’s own divisional series, with sexy fans from each team competing for the title of Baseball’s Hottest Fan.  Because, really, if you’ve got sports and babes, what else do you need?

MLB Playoff Preview: Hot Fans Edition

Little did we know, but the best gymnastics at the Olympics isn’t in the medal competition, it’s after the games in the Olympic Village.  A new article in the TimesOnline by Matthew Syed, former English table tennis champion and now Olympic commentator, describes a sexual free-for-all among athletes in the Olympic village.

"I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point," said Syed.  "That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle."

Syed says sex was everywhere backstage.  There were "gorgeous hostesses" that assisted the athletes, "indigenous lovelies" aka groupies who came to watch the competitions, and of course there were the female athletes, "literally thousands of them - strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh."

It was good to hear that most athletes abstained and remained focused until after their competitions.  But because the International Olympic Committee insists on holding the swimming events at the beginning of the Games, the inevitable result is a bunch of horny sex-crazed swimmers getting it on while other athletes are still competing.  At the Sydney Olympics, Jonathan Edwards, a triple jump champion, sparked a minor controversy by asking the other athletes to tone it down.  Although Edwards was a Christian, apparently his concern was more about being awakened by squeaking beds.

I’ve really enjoyed watching the Olympics this year, which are especially amazing because they’re broadcast in high-definition and have top-notch camera work.  But now I’m beginning to think that I’ve missed the best part of the Olympics show.

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