Burton Snowboards is introducing a new line of snowboards featuring images of vintage Playboy models. Burton's 2009 Coalition line of snowboards features a model called the "Love" that uses vintage Playboy magazine photos as the main design element. As you would expect, some parents aren't thrilled about having images of nude models attached to a sport that appeals to teenagers.

A Sports Illustrated bigwig revealed on Bloomberg TV that the mag’s famous swimsuit edition accounts for 11 percent of Sports Illustrated’s annual revenue. A little math done by the Silicon VAlley Insider whiz-kids reveals that the issue filled with hot chicks in bikinis is five times more profitable than the average sweaty man catching some sort of ball issue.

Sports stars have it made big time. They earn tons of money, they get paid to play a game, and they score the hottest women in the world. These women even have their own category of hotness: WAGs – which stands for wives and girlfriends. COED Magazine has scouted all the sports in the world and created a list of the top 50 hottest WAGs of world sport. The list is impressive and includes Adriana Lima, Gisele Bundchen (in picture), Brooklyn Decker, Hillary Duff and many more. It might be time to take up a sport!

For the second year in a row the fans have voted Erin Andrews as the Playboys 2009 Sexiest Sportscaster of the year award. The voting took place online at Playboy's website where users could vote on 30 of the Sexiest Female Sportscasters. In January, the vote got down to 5 finalists Charissa Thompson (Big Ten Network/Fox), Molly Sullivan of the Mountain West Sports Network, Lauren Shehadi of CBSSports.com, Bonnie Bernstein of ESPN and Erin Andrews of ESPN.