Eek! It’s the End of the World!
“I don’t see the sporting necessity of having Maria Sharapova’s breasts falling out of her top,” says Prof. Richard Powers, who teaches sports marketing at Canada’s University of Toronto. “Boy, oh, boy, what are they selling here?” he asks, commenting on a banner-sized photo of 18-year-old tennis star Sharapova created by Tennis Canada to hang at the Rogers Cup tournament. “I don’t think it’s in good taste,” Powers concludes. Yet her breasts are hardly popping out of her top, which is so high as to not even show cleavage. So what’s the fuss? Eagle-eyed viewers can see a little bulge in her tennis dress made by her nipple. Tennis Canada quickly printed a new banner with the offending body detail airbrushed out. Meanwhile, Sharapova pulled out of the tournament, citing an inflamed muscle — in her chest. (Toronto Star) ...And here you thought the U.S.A. was the most hung up nation on the planet.
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