Happy birthday Gianna Michaels!

We'd like to wish a happy birthday to the beautiful Gianna Michaels!

Happy birthday Yelena Isinbayeva!

Today, we're wishing a happy birthday to one athlete we'll be sure to watch at the London Olympics: the greatest female pole vaulter in the world, Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbayeva!

In 2005, she became the first woman ever to vault over five meters, and that was in London, so we're expecting a good showing this time around as well!

She's brilliant, inspiring, and, if I may say so, quite attractive. Happy birthday, Yelena! You rock.

Happy birthday Enni Rukajärvi!

Happy birthday to Enni Rukajärvi, from the village of Rukajärvi in Kuusamo.

She's a snowboard slopestyle world champion and Winter X Games gold medalist, which is awesome.

Happy birthday Laura Lee!

So Freeones tells me today is the beautiful Laura Lee's birthday.

Freeones also tells me she's Swiss, so I feel properly patriotic posting this.

Happy birthday!

Ice hockey world championships preview 2012

Shit, I don't know. It's not like we'll be seeing them now that they're on pay-tv. No way am I paying for Viasat for the NHL and MTV3 MAX for F1 and a third provider for this.

Did I mention it's Susana Spears's birthday?

I still don't know why the sight of her hit me like a ton of bricks, but it still kinda does.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Ashley Judd!

Question: how cool is Ashley Judd? To start, here's what is apparently a gratuitous picture of her in a hockey jersey.

Seriously though, she was in Darmok, one of the greatest pieces of science fiction ever.

She also recently wrote a brilliant takedown of the way the media objectifies and demeans women. I love it when someone writes a well-articulated, thought-out and thought-provoking fuck you. Ms. Judd, we find you awesome. Happy birthday!

The hottest pro wrestler ever

Because today is her birthday, let's watch some matches from my favorite pro wrestler of all time, the stunning Amy Dumas, a.k.a. Lita. If you have a problem with pro wrestling, read my defence of it, coincidentally posted on this very day some four years ago. Here's the first match:

This next one is a particular treat, as it features two of the most beautiful women on TV from the previous decade, and let's face it, Molly Holly's pretty hot, too.

Check out the pop Lita gets in both of these matches. That isn't piped in or cooked up as an angle for this storyline, it's real. She was awesome, and being awesome is damn sexy.

It's only proper to finish with a main event, and this sure is one. Refereed by none other than the legendary Earl Hebner of Montréal fame, this is pro wrestling the way it was meant to be. Admittedly the ladies play second fiddle in this one, but it's just such an awesome match.

Say what you like about Triple H, but he sure can sell.

Watching these clips reminded me all over again of what a huge crush I had on Lita when she was still wrestling. And I'm not sure that past tense is warranted. Happy birthday Amy! Wrestling was never the same without you.