Melanie Adams: We're Afraid Allison Stokke Has Some Very Stiff Pole-Vaulting Competition

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NEW FAVORITE POLE VAULTER
Published 3/18/2008 at With Leather
In the endless wake of a lingering fascination with some female pole vaulter comes another, much cooler female pole vaulter.  Her name is Melanie Adams, and I will happily get in line with all the other sports bloggers to lavish the 20-year-old with praise, attention, and phone calls that consist of nothing but heavy breathing. She's Australian, therefore born to sweat, and she's been vaulting since the age of 11. She has her sights set on the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and indeed on the 2012 London Olympics, and she looks up to the aboriginal Aussie Cathy Freeman and Tatiana Grigorieva, the Russian-Australian pole vaulter who won gold at the Commonwealth ...

Link Whores
Published 3/19/2008 by Mac G at Mac Gs World
Stacy Keibler will get your day started in the right way. Hottie Hunter I went to the US Tennis Open in 2005 and yelled "Maria" over and over. I was that guy and these pictures prove why I made a correct decision. Busted Coverage Move over Allison Stokke because you have STIFF competition in pole vaulting hotness. Fan IQ The band Pavement is totally underrated. Brahsome Hilarious music video that will make you want a glass of milk. Tasty Booze Tiger paused from his domination of the PGA to drop 65 mil on a new phat crib. On 205th Video of the ...

Blog-O-Rama: Meet The Australian Allison Stokke
Published 3/19/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
• Move over, Allison Stoke - WITH LEATHER via FAN IQ finds a new pretty pole vaulter that’s raising the bar - awesome Aussie Melanie Adams . • YOU BEEN BLINDED feels the love, as Venus & Serena’s dad once again professes how much he hates whitey . • Rob Drake trades his chestplate for a laptop, as he blogs about life as an MLB umpire . • RED AND BLACK HOCKEY checks out footage of Leafs goalie Vesa Toskala letting one in - from 174 feet away . • Now everyone can get a taste of Dale Earnhardt Jr. , as the racer’s now in candy bar form . • THE REALESTS spits out their Kool-Aid, as the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS thinks killing 900 people makes a ...

THE AFTER PARTY
Published 3/19/2008 by DCScrap at EPIC CARNIVAL
Interview with Voros McCracken. (Brock For Broglio) Red Sox tell MLB to beat it. (Don Chavez) The "other" Red Sox demands. (Next Round) Revisiting Starting Lineup action figures. (End Zone Buzz) The (Mark) Cuban Boycott. (The Serious Tip) Tom Brady sacked by baby drama. (TMZ) Bracketology 102: The break-down. (I'm Writing Sports) Enjoy your 15 minutes, Mount Saint Mary's. (The Sports Lounge) The 2-Year-Old Bracket Challenge. (Five Tool Tool) Dickie V doesn't believe in Cinderella. (SimonOnSports) The 10 greatest mascot fights of all ...

Everything But the Tourney: Stokke Competitor, More Knicks Love , A.I. Gridiron Highlights, the Other-Other College Hoops Tournament and More!
Published 3/19/2008 by Cecilio's Scribe at The Legend of Cecilio Guante
Happy hump day, ye loyal followers. Our last boatload of posts has been NCAA Tourney-related, and we simply need a break. Here's what we're finding intriguing from the rest of the blog universe. The madness will commence soon enough. Calm yourselves... Stokke Competition? (Fan IQ) The fine folks at Fan IQ have managed ...

Pole vaulter Melanie Adams is Australia's Allison Stokke
Published 3/20/2008 by DCScrap at on 205th
The sports wizards over at FanIQ has unearthed a lady soon to rival that of Internet legend Allison Stokke for the title of Hottest Female Pole Vaulter. Right now the list stands is composed of Stokke and uh, well, no one else. The woman we speak of is named Melanie Adams, she is from Australia... rowrrr... and she is a V8 Supercar Grid Girl (whatever the hell that is, I'm in favor of it). And I would like to take this moment to scold the Web site MyFreeSport for the following paragraph, which appears in an article on the lovely young athlete... She's Melanie Adams, a pole vaulter by trade - and, although that isn't instantly evident from the picture, you should have seen some of ...