Here's Rex Ryan Wearing An "I'd Hit That" Shirt [Rex Ryan]

We've long known way more about Rex Ryan's dietary exploits—and his sex life—than we ever wanted to. We recently learned that he had lost over 100 pounds, which evidently means he can flaunt his frame in T-shirts with naughty puns on them. Congratulations?

But wait! A tipster named Jared emailed us over the weekend with the subject line "Rex Ryan is gonna get fat again." He wrote:

As everyone knows by now, Rex Ryan has lost a lot of weight. I saw it firsthand when he sat down next to my table at Garcia's Mexican restaurant in Cortland, NY shortly after a Jets training camp practice. He proceeded to order beef nachos, chimichangas and xango (cheesecake in a tortilla fried w/ sugar and cinnamon), so I'm thinking he won't keep it off.

Rex's love of Mexican fare is well-documented. A 2010 story in the NY Post said that Ryan partakes in south-of-the-border cuisine so often, his assistants refer to it as "Rexican." So it should come as no surprise that he treated himself to an enormous Rexican feast.

I know what you're thinking. There's no way Rex could have put away nachos, chimichangas and a decadent dessert after having his stomach stapled. Maybe he's just daintily sampling each item, reveling in the beefiness of his nachos and moving on to the next item, thus retaining his slender physique. But if Rex keeps eating deep-fried, sugar-coated cheesecake, Jared might be proven right. He'll be looking like his brother Rob in no time.

h/t to Alex

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Here's Video Evidence That Lolo Jones's Teammates Straight Up Do Not Like Her [Lolo Jones]

When we last talked about the Lolo Jones backlash, it was easy to get the impression that the New York Times had gone rogue, drumming up an antagonism where none truly existed, and repackaging quotes from Jones's teammates and an "expert" to serve as a mouthpiece for their own gripes.

Well, if that was the intention, it looks like the Times didn't actually have to look very hard to find people willing to throw Jones under the bus. In Michelle Beadle's NBC interview with Dawn Harper and Kellie Wells (the former of whom was quoted in the Times piece saying, "I've had family issues as well, but I'm not willing to say all of them just so it can be in the papers. I don't want that for myself or my family") the medal winners dispensed with the standard palaver about unity or the sort of inclusive pride the Olympics is theoretically about. Instead they made it pretty clear who they were racing against: Lolo Jones.

There's a little media criticism in there at first: Harper calls Jones "their favorite," and says her feelings were hurt when her story wasn't told. The people who tell stories tend to be the media. But after Michelle Beadle says "we're talking about Lolo Jones if you can't figure this out," Wells follows up some pretty standard athlete speak ("...the three girls that earned their spot and they got their medals and they worked hard and did what they needed to do, prevailed") with "And that's all that really needs to be said." Harper follows up with, "Boom! Just like that."

They're obviously pretty pleased with themselves, and hey—they just won medals at the Olympics by beating (among others) someone they apparently don't care for. Athletes talking shit is fun, and for all we know, Jones is a terror behind the scenes. In many disciplines, an Olympic delegation strains the traditional notion of "team"; hurdling requires no teamwork whatsoever and unlike sprinters, hurdlers at the Olympics don't even run relays. Still, it bears repeating, with all this discussion of "earning a spot" and "working hard", that Lolo Jones (described as having "only a slim chance of winning an Olympic medal in the 100-meter hurdles and almost no possibility of winning gold" on Sunday) qualified for the 100m finals after two heats, and came in fourth out of, you know, every female hurdler in the world. She was .23 seconds out of the gold, .21 seconds behind Harper for the silver, and an agonizing .1 seconds behind Wells. For the second straight Olympics, Jones has reason to look back on these games and regret a near miss, but this time she'll also have to confront the fact that her presence apparently wore very thin for her teammates.

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Here's A First-Hand Account Of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s Olympic Triumph That You'll Never Forget [London Olympics]

Jul 31, 2012 11:00 PM  

The third set today between France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Canada's Milos Raonic featured 257 points, 91 winners, and 45 unforced errors. Tsonga won the third set, 25-23 — the longest in Olympic history. The National Post's Bruce Arthur was there, watching the entire match and becoming more incredulous by the point. Here is his account, preserved for posterity. Enjoy.

Bonus: If you've never read the Guardian's Xan Brooks and his live-blog of Isner/Mahut at Wimbledon 2010, drop what you're doing and go read it. (Even if you've read it before, check it out again. It holds up extremely well.)

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Here's The Opening Ceremony Tribute To Terrorism Victims NBC Doesn't Want You To See [Video]

The major transitional element of today's London Olympics opening ceremony was a downtempo performance of adoptive sporting anthem "Abide With Me" by Scottish singer Emeli Sandé. The song and accompanying dance were a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 terror attacks in London that claimed 52 victims days after the 2012 Summer Olympic hosts were named. (It's also been suggested the performance was a memorial to the war dead.)

Regardless, it was a rather significant and emotional moment in the opening ceremony, coming just before the parade of nations—and it wasn't aired in the United States. Instead, viewers were treated to a lengthy and meaningless Ryan Seacrest interview of Michael Phelps. NBC regularly excises small portions of the opening ceremony to make room for commercials, but we've never heard of them censoring out an entire performance—especially to air an inane interview. We've asked NBC why they didn't air the tribute, and if they get back to us we'll let you know what they say. In the meantime, enjoy the performance everyone else in the world saw. [BBC]

Update (12:25 a.m.): Some readers have commented the official media guide to the opening ceremony makes no reference to 7/7. The sheer number of news stories that cite the performance as a tribute to its victims (as well as the performance itself) gives us pretty good confidence that the memorial was its theme. Here's the prepared BBC remarks as aired:

Ladies and gentlemen, please pause silent for our memorial wall for friends and family who can't be here tonight. The excitement of that moment in Singapore seven years ago when England won the games was tempered the next day with sorrow from the events of July 7th that year. A wall of remembrance for those no longer here to share in this event.

Metro reporter Cassandra Garrison told me the segment's choreographer Akram Khan did not mention 7/7 in his press conference on the performance, explaining it instead to be about "mortality."

SEE ALSO: Opening Ceremony Choreographer "Disheartened And Disappointed" NBC Cut His Entire Performance Out Of Their Broadcast

For a handy master schedule of every Olympic event, click here.

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