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The pretty blonde was the subject of hockey player Sean Avery’s “sloppy seconds” comment that caused a lot of controversy last year. She was once involved with Avery when he was playing for the Los Angeles Kings, then she began dating current boyfriend, Dion Phaneuf of the Calgary Flames.

In December 2008, Avery told a Canadian reporter, “I’m really happy to be back in Calgary. I love Canada and I just wanted to comment on how it’s become a common thing for guys in the NHL to fall in love with my sloppy seconds, I don’t know what that’s about.” For the comments, Avery was suspended six games.

Let’s take a closer look at Elisha Cuthbert.

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I hope you all have a happy and safe day, with lots of great food and family (and no family drama. :)

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In no particular order: 

Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly
Hotness: 9.7  Pretty boy + cutie pie=A darn respectable score. 
Likability: 9.0 She OK but hey, he’s a member of the New York Yankees. We’re Boston Red Sox fans. ‘Nuff said.
Endurance Potential: 4.6 Playboy boy + cutie pie=A good time had by all. For a few months anyway.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen
Hotness: 9.9 Brady is a doll. Gisele is a supermodel (but we docked her .1  ’cause we think she’s overrated. So there).
Likability: 9.2 We’re all about the New England Patriots, but that Bridget Moynihan baby mama situation was U-G-L-Y. And does anyone really have a sense of Gisele’s personality, anyway?
Endurance Potential: 8.1 These two are jet setters and a paparazzo’s dream, but together forever? Meh, we doubt it.

Marko Jaric and Adriana Lima
Hotness: 9.6 She’s a Victoria’s Secret model (better than Gisele!) and he’s not shabby, either.
Likability: 9.6 She’s a od girl and he’s a good sport.
Endurance Potential: 8.8 They’re engaged, but they haven’t been in the game quite a year yet. We shall see.

David Beckham and Victoria Beckham
Hotness: 9.8 Men’s Health cover boy Beck gets a perfect score; points off for Victoria’s grumpy no-smile policy.
Likability: 9.1 We repeat: Beck gets a perfect score; points off for Victoria’s grumpy no-smile policy.
Endurance Potential: 9.6 They’re solid here, having weathered rumored affairs and dealing with the media. That smokin’ photo shoot they did last year was pretty convincing, too.  

Tony Parker and Eva Longoria
Hotness: 9.7 He’s not too bad and she’s an absolute doll, even with the weight gain and haircut for Desperate Housewives.
Likability: 9.8 He’s a good guy and, TMI tendencies aside, Eva sparkles.
Endurance Potential: 9.4 They’ve survived the rumor mill and crazy schedules. We never say forever in celebrity-land, but they’re A-OK for now.

Dion Phaneuf and Elisha Cuthbert
Hotness: 9.9 No complaints here. Even Elisha likes to check out her own rack.
Likability: 8.3 Maybe if Elisha’s character on 24 hadn’t become so annoying after season 1, we’d give them a higher score.
Endurance Potential: 4.5 Sorry, but PDA aside, Elisha goes through hockey players the way Paris Hilton goes through BFFs. 

Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker
Hotness: 9.8 She’s a swimsuit model and he’s a cutie, too, even if we do wish he’d ditch the baseball cap.
Likability: 9.7 We don’t really know her. We do, however, appreciate Andy’s great sense of humor and self-deprecating manner.
Endurance Potential: 8.6 They recently got engaged, but we can’t score them too highly. She’s only 19 and “time will tell” fits these two best.

Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson
Hotness: 9.6 She’s easy on the eyes with classic good looks. He’s not as hot as Tom Brady but is much better looking than Peyton Manning and his putzy little brother, Eli.
Likability: 8.7 Serious deductions here thanks to Jessica’s cheesiness and whining about what people read about her. Further points taken off for her claims to be just like the rest of us.
Endurance Potential: 7.3 Rumors abound about the status of their relationship, which has had more ups and downs than a shot glass in a Warsaw bar. Even if they tie the knot—another source of they will/they won’t rumors—we don’t see it as a forever kind of thing.

Mike Comrie and Hilary Duff
Hotness: 9.4 Decent, but they don’t exactly fog up the camera lens when a shutterbug catches them together.
Likability: 9.7 HD’s long-standing reputation as a good girl is appealing, and the recent interview we read in Allure confirms it. He seems like an OK guy.
Endurance Potential: 8.9 He bought her a Mercedes for her birthday last year, and the Duffster isn’t a serial dater. But forever AND ever?

Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian*
Hotness: 9.0 Reggie is fine. As for Kim, we don’t care what anyone says. We like curves, but her tush is not as great as she thinks it is.
Likability: 8.4 Again, Reggie is fine. Kim’s responsible for the point dip, between a why-does-she-even-have-it reality show and head-scratching fashion choices.
Endurance Potential: 7.6 They appear to fall in that “it’s fun for now” category rather than the “togethah forevah” one.

* Sadly, we had to include these two, despite our reluctance to refer to Kim Kardashian as a “celebrity.” If Lance Armstrong and Kate Hudson hadn’t taken the Last Train to Splitsville recently, they would have been contenders instead.

Quiet, please. The judge is tallying the scores.

And the winners are . . .

GOLD: Tony Parker and Eva Longoria

SILVER: David and Victoria Beckham

BRONZE: Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen

Congratulations to the winners! Everyone else: Better luck in four years. If you’re still a couple.

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Contrary to popular belief, Rafa has a girlfriend–and has for the past three years.

Rafael Nadal recreates the arm wrap move he uses with his girlfriend, as seen in paparazzi photos.

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People.com has snapshots of the erstwhile-undercover twosome frolicking on the beach. Beach bunnies Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf, eat your heart out.

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Veteran broadcaster and all-around sports media guy Ed Berliner runs the Speeding Bullet Network, a multimedia site (webcasts and audio clips) dedicated to what’s hot—or not—in the sports. Ed recently invited yours truly to take part in the fun, so once a week or so I’ll be dishing up the latest snarkworthy events via an interview presented in tiny little audio snippets.

In other words, the audio clips are bite-sized cattiness, just enough for a snack. And if you’re coming here via Speeding Bullet, welcome and have a look around. (Pipe down there, regular readers. Pretending to be polite to the new folks before they find out about the frozen solid heart and how it only thaws under extreme conditions is key. Don’t blow my cover!)

Check it all out on the main page of www.speedingbulletnetwork.com. The first six clips touched on Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo, Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf and the appeal of NHL guys, Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen, & the Emasculation Question, and (eep!) Star Jones and Dwayne Wade. (The clips are spread throughout the site, but all 6 can be found under The Ticket section).

Don’t worry, there will be constant whiny demands friendly reminders to come “see and hear” me—as well as other sports writers and bloggers—on Speeding Bullet. But we’re kinda hoping you get sweet on it and visit often anyway.

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Jeanne Dupuis at b5′s Hockey Beat has the photographic evidence (to complement an earlier round of Hawaiian beach frolicking) that changes the hook-up from wishy-washy query to a very definite exclamation point.

And we’re going to leave that double entendre exactly where it is, thank you. We don’t want to compromise our self-imposed PG-13 rating. 

Elisha Cuthbert looking to see what all the fuss is about.

Image: Used courtesy of www.newscom.com  

Is anyone else kinda rooting against them just to see if Cuthbert will keeping making the rounds in the NHL? Phew! We thought it was just us.

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To further prove the long-standing theory that Cuthbert’s dating pool doesn’t extend beyond a hockey rink, photographic evidence has sparked talk that her new flame is in fact a Calgary Flame, namely, Dion Phaneuf. Thanks to faithful reader Caesar for passing this along.

Can you imagine the locker room chatter about Jack Bauer‘s little girl? As an aside, what’s the deal with that anyway? Is she ever coming back to 24 or did they finally *wishes on a star* write her out of the show?

We’d like to see Cuthbert bring that blog up to date . . .

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