My latest top-five women list!

Hey everyone, its time for me to update my top-five list!

For those of you new to the concept, these are the five women in the world that I would like to hang out/date/share a hug/attend an epic box social with and everything in between.

Ashley Judd has been on my top-five list since the late 1990’s but it was time for new blood. So, Ashley is the head coach/general manager of the team.

Here's the criteria.

1) All women are eligible. I don’t care how you look, your age, your race, whatever. Anyone is welcome. I don’t care if you’re married, have kids, single, a lesbian, it’s all good. This is all taking place in make believe land.

2) To be in the top-five, you must serve time on the bench. There are no direct promotions into the starting lineup on my watch.

3) The bench can only have 30 women on it. I have to have a limit.

3) Even this is mostly based on looks, you have to seem to have some personality about you. Multi-talented women are always welcome.

OK, some ladies were on the bench the last time I made this list, but they have been demoted to the minors. They won’t get kicked out of bed, if you know what I mean, but they just isn’t room for them. Here are the following women off the bench:

-Sasha Cohen (figure skater)
-Logan Tom (volleyball player)
-Jennifer Aniston
-Morgan Fairchild
-Aisha Tyler
-Swin Cash

Ok, folks. Enough with the foreplay, here’s the list:



1) Maria Menounos. Physically, she’s amazing. Nice body, dark hair, nice skin tone and a thousand other attributes that I don’t want to get into. This is a family-friendly Blog. She’s Greek, from the northeast and has the ability to be on all types of TV shows from Today to Entertainment Tonight. She’s a decent actress and a good interviewer. Maria is also a producer and director, so she’s multi-talented. She’s into charity work and actually has a cool story of her getting into shape because she was unhealthy in her younger days. Also, she’s an athlete and competed in an AVP (professional beach volleyball) tournament.


2) Sarah Chalke. I usually don’t go for blondes, but I had to have Dr. Elliot Reed from Scrubs, one of my two or three favorite shows all-time, on this list. While it’s important to have diversity in your career like Maria did to make the top-five, I also respect growth. If you watch the first season or two of Scrubs, you wouldn’t call Sarah a hottie. However, as the show developed, she went from dorky stick figure to cutie in good time. She’s Canadian and just became a US citizen, which is awesome because our kids would have dual citizenship. We could watch hockey and curling while listening to a Rush album! Very happy about that. She’s fluent in German. She was on Roseanne back in the day, which I don’t know is a good or bad thing. A negative is that she’s in those crappy Hanes commercials now, but she looks good in them so whatever. She’s into charity work as well.


3) Gabrielle Union. She’s definitely the star and would serve as team captain. She is stunning, has a sick body and the best skin I’ve seen on a woman in a long time. I’ve been a fan of hers since Bring it On. Oh come on, all of you have seen this movie, don’t hate. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, so you know we could go to a college football game together, it’s in her blood. Doing research on her, I found out that she dated Jason Kidd. Interesting. Anyway, she has a degree in sociology from UCLA, so she has brains. She was in Love and Basketball, respect. Her acting resume is solid and everytime I see news on her lately, she’s at some party so you know she can get down.


4) Mila Kunis. She’s definitely the defensive stopper on our team and our glue player who makes everything else go. Born in the Ukraine, she was not only funny on That 70’s Show, she is the voice of Meg Griffin on the funniest show on TV, Family Guy. She was just in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, a funny movie. She’s Jewish, which is cool. She speaks several languages as well.



5) Ciara. Welcome back to the list! She was off the starting lineup last time, but she has worked hard and gotten her spot back. I’ve mentioned her before on my Blog and has always been a favorite. Maybe this was the reason I kicked her out of the starting lineup:



However, this recent picture redeemed her:


Her musical career speaks for itself. She’s from Atlanta, my former residence, so she gets points for that. She’s an excellent dancer and is in Nelly’s new song, Stepped on my J’z (that’s actually how the song is spelled) and looks tremendous in the video. Her acting is OK. I even sat through that volleyball movie she was in on MTV called All You’ve Got (I had to look it up). To be real, she’s in the starting lineup mostly for looks.

As owner of the team, you have to make some tough choices. Here were the ones who didn't make the starting lineup but are on the bench for the future:

Serena Williams
Katherine McPhee

Let’s welcome the new bench players! They will pick up their uniforms in the locker room:


-Vanessa Williams. I saw her in Nashville recently and she was naturally beautiful in person.


-Candice Parker. Look, I know that she’s a Vol and that should get her eliminated from any list of mine as a Commodore. However, she is beautiful, an excellent athlete and my niece’s favorite player, as documented here: http://pourtoutpancakes.blogspot.com/2008/04/why.html. She does get docked some points for being engaged to Sheldon Williams. That dude, really?!?


-Sarah Evans. Solid choice and she’s engaged to a former national champion-winning quarterback. Roll Tide! I can’t believe that I said that.


-Selita Ebanks. Docked some points for being engaged to Nick Cannon at a point but now she’s dating my boy, Osi Umenyiora of the SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS, THE NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS! Major, major points for that. Oh yeah, she’s a Victoria’s Secret model. That counted for something too.


-Rosario Dawson. I feel bad that she was not on the original bench. I just forgot about her. Tall, tan skin, funny, she is definitely a candidate for the starting lineup next time around. She kicked butt in Sin City, has a multi-cultural background, born in the NYC, very active in community service and just see the movie Alexander for the rest of the reasons she’s a winner.


-Nikki “Hoopz” Alexander. I hate having a reality star on this list, but she is cute and does play basketball. She will definitely be on the end of the bench and will only be used in blowouts if we’re winning or losing by a bunch of points.


-Persia White. Very underrated woman on an underrated show. Girlfriends is a good show and Persia plays my favorite character. The tattoos are hot, beautiful skin tone, excellent hair, I’m a fan. She is also strong into human and animal rights, so her head is in the right place. She’s also a musician. Good qualities all around.


-Diane Lane. First, I love older women. She seems to have that quality of a dignified woman who knows what she wants. Also, Unfaithful was a tremendous film.

-Julia Louise Dreyfus. Another older woman that I wouldn’t mind spending time with. I had a huge, huge crush on her when she was on Seinfeld. I don’t know what it was. I think it was seeing a funny woman on television. Humor is such an underrated quality in a woman and it’s a turn-on for me. She’s doing a great job on her current show on CBS, which is a funny watch BTW. Plus, she’s loaded financially both from her career and her family, so she’s got money. Can’t argue with that.


- Yvonne Strahovski. She may be unfamiliar with many of you, but she crossed my radar recently from being on one of my favorite shows, Chuck. She’s Austrailian and has the sexiest accent. The trip is that on Chuck, she plays an American and hides the accent. I remember the first time I heard her speak on a talk show and I flipped out. She plays a secret agent and yeah, she’s hot. Also, she’s fluent in Polish. Please watch the show or look at some episodes online and you will understand why she’s on the bench.


-Kate Beckinsale. She should have been on the original bench.


-Charlize Theron. I just saw Hancock and she makes the bench just on that performance alone. Being from the motherland, aka Africa, is a plus.


-Kristin Kreuk. Underrated. Another Canadian, so respect there. Potential sleeper to move up on the team, but I need so see some more from her.

Here’s the rest of the bench:
Rachida Jones (actress on "The Office" - toughest omission from the list)

Eva Mendez-actress

Sophia Bush (second toughest omission from the list)
Jessica White-model

Alicia Keys (was on my original top-five list several years ago)

Stacey Dales - basketball analyst ESPN

Michelle Kwan- figure skater

Bonnie Bernstein- sports analyst

Tatiana Ali (original crush from "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air")

Lucy Liu- actress

Kelly Hu- actress

Amy Lee- lead singer Evanescence

Jaclyn Smith - actress from Charlie’s Angels

Jada Pinkett-Smith - actress

That’s it. I would love to hear your opinions on my list and suggest some women for the team.

My Sunday Reflections

Here are my Sunday Reflections:

-US Swimming and Track & Field trials are over and it was thrilling television for the past week. As I stated earlier, I love the Olympics. I know it’s easy to be cynical of the Olympics with cheating, commercialism, the fact that China is hosting the events and a lot of other things in between. But let me tell you this. I saw people literally crying real tears of joy and pain trying their hardest to win a spot to represent this country. I saw a 41-year old woman out swim competitors literally half her age and set records. I saw Tyson Gay run the 100 Meter Dash in 9.68 seconds. That’s beyond sick. I thoroughly enjoyed the hammer throw. I saw Gary Hall, Jr., two-time defending Olympic champion, come out to his swim in the 50 Meter Freestyle in a cape, swim an amazing race and still finish fourth to not make the team.

That’s the crazy thing about the US Trials in these two disciplines. People were setting personal, year and American records and still not making the team. Not to be overly patriotic, but the fourth or fifth-best runner or swimmer in many of these races could make another country’s team easily. That’s what makes it crazy. Also…


That’s LoLo Jones. She won the 110 Meter Hurdles. I’m a huge fan of her now. However, she hasn’t replaced the current champion of my track and field crush desires.



Allyson Felix could get it, that’s all I got to say. She won the 200 Meter Race and I’m been a fan of hers since 2004.

OK, for the ladies and non-traditional male readers of my blog.



This guy is a freak as well. Phelps sets world records and looks pissed. His interviews with Andrea Kramer after his races were unintentional comedy as well. Kramer is a pro and asked him some good questions, but Phelps is such a competitor, he would be unhappy with his performance even though he dominated the entire field. It would come off like Phelps was a bit of a jerk, but I know that he’s a perfectionist.

I got mad at people when in 2004, Phelps won I think five gold medals and that was disappointing because he was going for seven or eight. You get in a pool and try to win a medal, any medal! That’s no joke.

I’m hyped about the Olympics and I haven’t even hit on men’s basketball or soccer yet.

-So this is our new UFC light heavyweight champion?



That’s right. Forrest beat Rampage and is now the champ. I didn’t watch the fight, so I can’t give my complete analysis of the fight yet. However, as much as I like Rampage…

War Forrest! Representing Athens, Georgia! I love it.

It’s an amazing story that I will get into in another post because I try to make these reflections short. The key word is try.

-Saw Hancock and Wanted this weekend.

I thought Hancock wasn’t bad. Solid movie. Will Smith did an excellent job of playing a superhero that has fallen on hard times. Charlize Theron puts in a solid effort.



She is definitely a candidate for the bench of my top-five. And she’s South African, respect to the motherland indeed.

Jason Bateman steals the movie though. He’s a talented actor. Also, the little kid in the movie is so cute. There was actually a potential teary eye moment or two in the movie. I don’t want to give too much away for those who want to see it. I liked it and recommend giving it a view.

Wanted was OK, not great. The concept was a little much for me. Lots of stuff gets shot, but you already knew that because it’s about assassins. The ending was a little much and left me kinda confused. I recommend giving this a view as well.

-Sorry for all of the pictures.

-I spend a few hours today on an excellent website called What White People Like. The link is here: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/. Some of the funniest stuff that I’ve read in a long time. It’s a satirical site, so if you get all uppity about race, don’t read it. But if you want a laugh, check it out.

And you know that there’s a Black version of this type of site as well. It’s called Stuff Educated Black People Like. Link here: http://www.stuffebplike.com/. There’s some funny stuff on this one as well.

Is it a bad thing that I may like more White people stuff then Black people stuff?

-I found this post interesting from another blog in relation to rock music and Black people: http://www.catsandbeer.com/music/the-top-10-rock-songs-black-people-love-a-post-written-by-a-black-person. It’s a different spin of what I was trying to say in my post: http://pourtoutpancakes.blogspot.com/2008/07/so-black-people-dont-listen-to-rock.html. The other post is solid, accept replace Duran Duran with Depeche Mode and throw some Bad Brains in there and then we’re getting it right.

-That’s all for now. I’m proud that I discussed all of the topics I wanted to this past week like I promised. First time. Anyway, here’s what I’ll hit on this upcoming week:

>An updated top-five list

>Five most painful sports moments of my life (one of them involves the Kentucky football team with my alma mater and happened my freshman year of college. It was a nighttime game. See if you can guess it. And another one has me secretly rooting against the California/Anaheim/whatever Angels every year as long as they keep their former weak-hitting catcher as a manager. This one involved my Mets, the playoffs and my childhood hero.

>Top five-Family Guy moments, even though I’m waiting for my favorite head of sports operations at a certain school in Nashville to give me her list. Don’t try to guess who that person is though, actually I don’t care, she knows who she is.

>Is pimping easy and if not, how can you make it work for you.

>My thoughts on the Griffin/Rampage fight and what it means for the UFC after I actually see the fight.

>Interracial dating, down with it or not? I’m a guy, so you can probably figure out my opinion on it or can you. I’m the same guy who was told by two major women family members who I love greatly to, and I quote, “don’t bring home a white girl.” If they only knew the identity of some of the girls I discuss on this blog.

One of those topics will not be discussed in a post or maybe all of them, I get bored.

Have a good week. I leave you with some Depeche Mode. The album Violator is the truth, cop that immediately.