Morning Link Dump

By Chris Dart

Obligatory Sports Babe

Our tribute to the lovely ladies of the Big Apple, in celebration of the Giants big win on Sunday, takes a turn for the retro this morning.

Phoebe Cates was born into a New York showbiz family in 1963. She was a major-league sex symbol in the early-to-mid '80s, thanks in large part to one scene in 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Even now, at 48, she's still pretty hot. She's married to actor Kevin Kline, who isn't gay, but I keep thinking that he is because he played a really convincing, hilarious gay character in a movie once.

Anyway, here she is in her Reagan-era prime.

Today's Sports Birthday

Football player-turned-street fighter-turned-MMA fighter-turned boxer Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson turns 38 today. I'm sure he'll spend the day planning his next career move. I'd like to suggest lion taming, if I may.

Quotable

Apparently hot girls can be creepy, too, they just have to work at it. Eli Manning's security wouldn't let '90s sex symbol Sarah Michelle Gellar speak to the QB when the two were both guests on Letterman on Monday night. Here's what Buffy had to say:

"His security wouldn't let me near him. It was weird. I was trying, like 'No, really. I'm just a big fan.' I think that's where I went wrong."

Listen, Eli, let me speak to you as a man of approximately the same age. You need to fire those security guys. You were just minutes away from having all your high school dreams come true, and they kiboshed it out of concern for your "safety."

That's not cool.

(Via Deadspin)

Quickly

Online pawn shop Pawngo sent 1000s of Butterfingers to Boston's Copley Square, along with a sign reading "Thank you Wes Welker." (Black Sports Online)

The Pats have re-signed wide receiver and hair model Tiquan Underwood just days after cutting him. (MTR Media)

Tom Brady's teammates are less-than-pleased with statements from the QBs model wife, Gisele Bundchen, blaming them for the Patriots Super Bowl loss. (Pro Football Talk)

Las Vegas sports books wound up being up a collective $5 million as a result of the Giants victory. (Larry Brown Sports)

Congratulations to Ricky Williams on fulfilling a lifelong dream and retiring from professional football. (SB Nation)

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