Apparently, Ferrari STILL does. Hey, they don’t have much of a choice anyway.

Ferrari President Luca Montezemolo (yep, the big boys have intervened already with Ferrari’s somewhat poor showing this season…) still believes in their latest acquisition and is now urging the Finn to start proving why he is ”one of the most feared drivers in Formula One.”

Kimi Raikkonen WAS this young and promising talent at the McLaren – Mercedes side. He was right on the thick of the action when Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso were switching paint at Monaco and Magny Cours.

This 2007 F1 season, after making the switch from McLaren – Mercedes to Ferrari, the young Finn failed to live up to all the hype after his one and only win at the 2007 Australian Grand Prix to kick off the new season.

Since then, his second string teammate, Felipe Massa, has been keeping Ferrari afloat. Barely.

STILL, Ferrari has not lost hope for their new ace driver, Kimi Raikkonen. They still believe he is the one who’ll be carrying the red scarlet after the Michael Schumacher era. Screw Masa. He he…

”We are waiting for the real Raikkonen, the one that…”

Yep, it seems there is some sort of soccer fever going on in the United States as the country’s soccer team takes on Argentina on Thursday.

The United States’ campaign at the 2007 Copa America begins Thursday when they take on Argentina. And probably in support of Team USA, coming off their 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup final win over Mexico, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees, and Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, are all taking the rest of the week off probably to watch some soccer.

Team USA will be having all the momentum they want once they take on Argentina to kick off their campaign in the 2007 Copa America.

After that 2-1 victory over Mexico to win the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, you can’t really blame the United States team for feeling like gods on a soccer field.

However, with the big names in sports like Derek Jeter and Manny Ramirez probably watching them kick a soccer ball around, the team itself will be lacking their OWN big names, ironically.

Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Clint Dempsey, Carlos Bocanegra and Tim Howard were left off the 22-man U.S. roster for the 2007 Copa America opener. Donovan is back with the…

JUNE IS ALMOST OVER. That could be the reason why the Mets are winning again and the Yankees are starting to suck… again.

Yep, after the incredible nine-game winning streak that saw the New York Yankees within a few games of the AL East division leaders, Boston Red Sox, the Yankees fell below the .500 mark after dropping back-to-back games at San Francisco.

And while the New York Yankees were losing games, the Mets, all of a sudden, are winning again after the dismal performances they had early June. Go figure.

It seems that karma made its way back to the Bronx after it decided to go get the bombers’ city rivals. Now that the month of June gets ready to make way for July, we’re back to where we were a few weeks ago, the Yankees SUCK while the Mets are hot.

The New York Mets, after sweeping the Oakland Athletics, now hold a three-game advantage over the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East.

The Mets will host the defending MLB World Series champions, St. Louis Cardinals, for a four-game season series starting…

That’s all that matters. Screw everybody else.

Apparently, that was the mindset Juan Pablo Montoya was in coming to the Toyota / Save Mart 350 at the Infineon Raceway. Montoya was known for his somewhat ”dirty” racing tactics to get ahead of a race back when he was racing in Formula One and last Sunday, it was no different.

Juan Pablo Montoya bumped, pushed and weaseled his way to win his first 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup race Sunday. This was big for Juan Pablo with NASCAR looking for its next big superstar and Lewis Hamilton making all these headlines in motor sports.

Lewis Hamilton filled in Juan Pablo Montoya’s McLaren – Mercedes seat when Montoya decided to leave the world class competition in F1 racing to drive around in circles with NASCAR. (I still can’t figure that one out…)

Juan Pablo Montoya’s victory also is a shot in the arm for NASCAR’s diversity effort. It’s comes on the heels of Formula One making international headlines with McLaren – Mercedes rookie Lewis Hamilton, the first black driver in series history, earning back-to-back victories in Montreal and Indianapolis.

”I think this [victory] is really good for…”

Obviously, he’s not. He’s Yi Jianlian.

For all ya’ll uninformed, Yi Jianlian is the seven-foot Chinese player who could very well be the overall No.1 pick in the coming 2007 NBA Draft. Yep, that’s ahead of Greg Oden of the Ohio State Buckeyes and Kevin Durant of the Texas Longhorns.

Of course, Asia is still milking on Yao Ming’s successful stint in the NBA and we couldn’t stop them from virtually treating what many are saying as the ”next Yao Ming” a God.

Then again, the guy has not even played his first NBA game yet and for all we know, he could just be as pathetic as that ”other” Chinese fella who became the first Asian to enter the league once this Yi Jianlian gets drafted in the 2007 NBA Draft.

You forgot already? It’s Wang Zhi Zhi of the Dallas Mavericks. Formerly of the Dallas Mavericks anyway because I heard he works in some gasoline station now.

So, with that said, is this Yi Jianlian fella’ the next Yao Ming?

For starters, he dresses like Shaquille O’Neal. He wears Seven jeans and Sean John shirts, listens to hip-hop, (yep, he does…) and grew up playing pickup basketball in…

With the annual Wimbledon championships ALWAYS played on grass, we can already say that it’ll be Federer winning the damn thing in the end.

As good as Rafael Nadal is, (he’s that guy who has been giving Roger Federer all sorts of problems on the tennis courts lately…) the guy just can’t be as invincible on grass as he is on clay. And we all saw Nadal’s command of clay courts at the recently held 2007 French Open at Roland Garros.

Now that the tennis world is back on grass with the 2007 Wimbledon championships, Roger Federer should be back annihilating every single guy he sees on the other side of the net, and it shouldn’t matter if it’s a Rafael Nadal.

Roger Federer will start his 2007 Wimbledon campaign on Monday when he meets Teimuraz Gabashvili in the first round. (Jeez… Where do they find these guys? Teimu who?) Teimuraz has never played Federer. Of course, being the No.85th player in the world should have something to do with that.

Andy Roddick, the same guy who just became the ”most QUEENEST guy” on Earth at the Stella Artois Championships, is seeded No.3 and could face the tennis Swiss sensation…

Yep, from June 25 to July 8, we’ll see the best tennis players of the world compete in the most grandiose competition in the game, Wimbledon.

Oh yeah, we’ll probably see the hot and sexy Maria Sharapova flashing us with her cute little panties too whenever that itsy bitsy little skirt of hers flies open. I just hope Maria Sharapova gets to the final this time after being eliminated in the semis at Roland Garros a few weeks ago.

Maria Sharapova will be seeded No.3 behind Serbian Jelena Jankovic. Of course, the No.1 seed belongs to now the three-time French Open champion, Justine Henin. Henin will come into the 2007 Wimbledon championships fresh from a hat-trick on clay and will be looking to extend her domination of women’s tennis with a win at Wimbledon.

Amelie Mauresmo, last year’s queen of Wimbledon, is seeded No.4 and will stop at nothing to stop what is now turning out to be the Justine Henin era. (If Henin was not so fuckin’ ugly, this would be okay…)

As for the Williams sisters? Serena Williams, the two-time Wimbledon winner, will be the No.7 seed and her sister Venus Williams dropped to as low as No.24 after having probably every single injury there is to have this year.

As for the men’s side of things, Roger Federer is Wimby’s No.1 seed (surprise… surprise…) as he will try to bounce back from his disappointing loss at the 2007 French Open final to his rival and STILL king of clay, Rafael Nadal.

Rafael Nadal, obviously, is seeded No.2.

Andy Roddick, the same guy who became the ”most QUEENEST guy” at…

David Beckham finally won his first major trophy for his pals from Real Madrid.

After Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes watched the final game David Beckham will ever play in a Real Madrid uniform where he won the 2007 Spanish La Liga title, Becks now begins his road to Hollywood where he will attempt to have the same circus he had with Madrid for his new team, the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Of course, we all know MLS soccer ain’t shit compared to the major soccer leagues we have like the La Liga and the English Premiership.

Of course, David Beckham has been through ‘em all (Beckham played for Manchester United in the English Premiership for all ya’ll who doesn’t know…) and with the Englishman in the United States, getting MLS Soccer to the same level as these international football worlds will be a rather difficult task.

An impossible one at that. Besides, the Los Angeles Galaxy is a rather pathetic step coming from a powerhouse team like Real.

While David Beckham celebrated their Spanish La Liga conquest with Real Madrid, Los Angeles just ended a five-game winless run with a 3-2 victory over last place Real Salt Lake in the MLS Western Conference. That kinda’ changes the perspective a bit huh?

The win at least puts the L.A. Galaxy three points ahead of…

No, they won’t be swallowing horse shit from Curlin.

The HORSE tournament at the 2007 World Series of Poker is this Sunday and it will be the most expensive tournament to enter in the WSOP with a $50,000 price tag.

The HORSE event, with each letter in the acronym standing for the form of poker played in a rather dizzying rotation of games, is expected to draw the toughest professionals in poker and will last a grueling five days.

So why do these sick bastards enter the damn thing considering the steep buy-in and the nasty five-day marathon? Well, in poker, whoever wins the annual HORSE event is considered the best all-around player of the game. Of course, it has more than a few bundles of cash waiting for you too.

Because of the rather expensive entry fee, and of course the relative obscurity of some of the games involved like razz, the HORSE event figures to attract a relatively compact field.

From the uncontrollable chaos we like to…

Apparently, Ferrari had just about enough of Kimi Raikkonen.

After an offseason full of promise when Kimi Raikkonen, McLaren – Mercedes’ young rising star then, signed with the red scarlet Scuderia Ferrari, it has been nothing more but pathetic finishes or no finishes at all.

To say that Kimi Raikkonen failed miserably to carry the Ferrari brand after the Michael Schumacher era would be an understatement. Heck, his second string teammate Felipe Massa has done better than the young Finn has and Ferrari can only hope for this godforsaken 2007 F1 season to come to an end.

So is it time for them to bring Michael Schumacher back inside a cockpit of a Ferrari? Apparently, there are rumors that say that exactly, that Schumi might make a comeback with the prancing horse. Schumi’s manager however, says otherwise.

Michael Schumacher’s manager Willi Weber and spokeswoman Sabine Kehm have both strenuously denied rumors that the seven-time F1 World Champion, Michael Schumacher could be set to make a return to a Ferrari cockpit in the future.

Yeah, sure, Schumacher is going to race again later this…