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Tuesday Rundown: John McCain Is An Expert Bracketologist

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• TheDirty.com reveals some photos that show Matt Leinart having a rather typical evening with some underage girls; judging by the pics, the festivities included a considerable amount of alcohol and some quality time in the hot tub. (Well, it was a typical evening by Leinart’s standards, anyway.) Take comfort, Cardinals fans — your franchise quarterback is spending his offseason drinking with 19 and 20-year-old ladies. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve gotta tell Kurt Warner to start getting his throwing arm warmed up. (HT: Deadspin)
• Home Run Derby delivers some cool Lego models of baseball stadiums. It’s simply phenomenal work — I would have never guessed that someone could manage to create accurate models of stadiums with Legos.
• Cracked.com brings us a countdown of the seven ballsiest sports cheats of all-time, and it probably won’t surprise you to learn that Tonya Harding topped the list. But you’ve gotta hear about this dude, Hippolyte Acouturier, who found a creative way to gain a “competitive advantage” in the 1904 Tour de France. Basically, he attached a wire to the bumper of car, and tied the other end of the wire to a cork that he held in his teeth during the race…a not-so-sly way to grab a lift from an automobile while on his bike. Look, we throw around the word “cheater” pretty liberally with the likes of Belichick and Bonds, but Acouturier puts those guys to shame.
• Bloomberg informs us that deer penis, turtle blood and angelica root potions have been added to the list of banned drugs for Chinese Olympians. China’s athletes have previously used such substances in attempts to gain a competitive advantage, but the country is concerned about possible Olympic drug scandals that could embarrass them when Beijing hosts the Summer Games. I think China’s Olympic Committee is making the right call — having their athletes test positive for deer penis could definitely create an awkward situation during the games.
• Which presidential candidate has the best-looking bracket, now that the Final Four is set? Well, an old article from Deadspin states that John McCain picked all four top seeds to reach the Final Four — so, if some major smarts in the field of Bracketology are your main criteria for a presidential candidate, then McCain’s your guy. Barack Obama, meanwhile, correctly selected three of the four teams in the Final Four, and Bill Clinton also had 75% of the Final Four accurately predicted. Hillary Clinton, by the way, chickened out when asked to reveal her NCAA tournament bracket.

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