When reading through Rick Reilly’s recent ESPN.com column, my eyes darted straight to the line that said, “Michael Jordan’s girlfriend is scorching.” I wasn’t quite sure what kind of taste Reilly had in women. He certainly doesn’t have any taste in hats.

So I did what anyone would do. I gave my Reebok sneakers three pumps each and jumped onto the train of America – the Google train. What I came up with was a MiamiHerald.com article posted about a month ago. With a little more searching, I came up with some photos of Ms. Yvette Prieto, a Cuban model.

Turns out Reilly’s babe-o-meter hasn’t rusted over. Jordan’s still got game. TSC approves. Do you?

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With the NBA Draft just days away, we can pretty much predict the first five-to-10 players to be chosen in the first round. It’s a little bit tougher to determine what kind of endorsement deals the top players will get, but shoe contracts will surely be signed and the biggest restaurant chains will get new spokesmen.

Then there will be the guys who get paid to endorse the products that you can only scratch your head and wonder, “Why on earth is he sponsored by this company?” It’s happened before and you know it’s going to happen again. Hopefully, for the sake of the athlete’s dignity, they don’t end up endorsing products like these:

We know now that Raph was shootin’ the juice, but did he really need help, you know, shootin’ the juice? A sponsership with a major company like Viagra will put bones in your pocket — in more than one way — but this is the most degrading product you could endorse. It shows that you’re washed up and you just don’t have it anymore.

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