Chang is one of 10 women receiving the award from cosmetic giant but only one of them will walk away with a big sack of cash ($25,000!) to donate to their charity of choice.

You can help put $25,000 in Skate Like a Girl's coffers by going here and voting for Chang.

Sure, you could vote for some lady who passes out shoes to poor kids on Navajo reservations, but will that woman teach those kids how to ollie? Nope.

Voting starts today and runs through November 24.

Also? 98.1% to 1.9%:

I am resorting to superstition and statistics. This is the peak of my anxiety.

I was under the impression that the interviews w be live. Instead, I got two bland, obnoxious taped interviews with questions like "What did you learn about yourself [on the campaign trail?" and "if you could change one thing in sports, what would it be?"

Guh.

Here's a rundown of the Q&A:

Berman: What did you learn about yourself?

Obama: "I don't get too high when things are going well and I don't get too low when things are tough. We just try to run our game plan and don't get distracted too much."

I was getting a beer and missed McCain's answer. Sorry.

Berman: "If you could change one thing in sports, what would that be?"

Obama: "I think it's about time we had playoffs in college football."

I actually kind of dug this answer and he said it like he meant it and it's a legitimate point of debate amongst sports nerds. McCain, on the other hand, got all crazy and hawkish.

McCain: "I'd take significant action to prevent the use of performance enhancing drugs. Right now...someone's trying to develop something that can't be detected. I think it can attack the very integrity of all sports going down to high school."

Wooooo! War on drugs!!!

On top of the general craziness of the answer, McCain said it in a way that seemed to imply that steroid manufacturers are just below Al-Qaeda on the totally-fucking-evil scale.

Berman: "What's the best piece of advice you've received in the sports world?"

Obama, talking about his college(?) basketball coach: "He said to me, look, it's not about you, it's about the team. It took me awhile to really understand that."

McCain:"I think the most important lesson was, you've always got to do the honorable thing. Even when nobody's looking. Maybe nobody will know, but you'll know."

Berman also asked Gramps—but not Obama—what the one personal quality McCain wanted people to know about:

McCain, in Chris Berman's obnoxious sportscaster style: "He. Could. Go. All. The. Way. To the White House."

The whole thing ended with Berman telling McCain that the Arizona Cardinals' rise to the top of the NFC West could be an omen for his chances tomorrow. Then Gramps quoted one of his contemporaries:

McCain:: "Hope springs eternal in the human breast."

UPDATE: The Steelers D punched traitorous Jim Zorn in the dick for four quarters. Final score: 23-6. It absolutely killed my fantasy team, but if it means a win for Obama I'll cope.

The Steelers/Redskins game—which could predict the outcome of the election—just started.

According to football lore, if the Washington Redskins win on the eve of an election, the incumbent party holds on to the White House. The 'Skins election mojo has only been off the mark once since 1948.

On Monday night, the 6-2 Redskins go head to head with the 5-2 Pittsburgh Steelers.

Obama—who was endorsed by Steelers owner Dan Rooney in April—and Gramps will be interviewed on ESPN at halftime. Maybe Tony Kornheiser will ask Obama about his fantasy team.

Now, I'd never suggest that anyone should ever root for the Steelers. But, just this once, it might be OK.

Photo via KSK

There is one bright spot: 93-year-old Jamie Moyer—a former Mariner and auto glass magnate—started his first World Series game and cried on the field when the Phillies clinched their 4-3 win over the Rays.

Awww.

They have filed a formal objection with the city, saying the city should not allow nude dancing a home-run's distance from a place where there have been 3.9 million visits from children between 1999 and 2007. ...

The Mariners are looking at "all the available options" to keep the club from opening, said Rebecca Hale, a team spokeswoman.

In a lengthy letter to the city, the Mariners maintain the issue involves more than just a ballpark. Children gather outside Safeco Field before and after games and the stadium hosts nongame events, including back-to-school rallies, junior and senior proms, high-school graduations and hundreds of school and public tours, the letter says.

Oh, yes, think of those impressionable children! You've got thousands of juvenile eyeballs staring for hours at gigantic billboards for beer--while sitting in bleachers packed with people drinking out of supersized, logo-emblazoned beer cups--and at their overpaid sports idols standing around and chewing tobacco. And in case their little Play-Doh brains can't make it down the the ballpark, television networks are clamoring to blast the beer logos along with a few extra beer ads into their homes on television. That's all hunky-dory with the Mariners. But heaven forbid a few hundred of the kids would walk past a building that they aren't allowed to enter where there's nudity. That might send the wrong message.

It's not as if beer should be hidden from kids--they should have limited exposure to certain adult activity so they know how to handle themselves once they grow up. But it's such a sanctimonious double-standard for the Mariners to shove one adult activity down these kids' retinas--taking millions of dollars for it--while lobbying the city to push another adult activity that happens behind closed doors out of existence.

Fuck you, Mariners.

The newest Major League Soccer team, the Seattle Sounders, is expected to announce on Tuesday that Swedish soccer sensation, homolicious Freddy Ljungberg will be part of their team...

Delish!

Quarterback Matt Hasselbeck will miss his third consecutive game, coach Mike Holmgren said on his radio show this morning on 710 AM (KIRO).

That means Seneca Wallace will start his second straight game, in San Francisco on Sunday. If Seattle loses, it will be 1-6 for the first time since 1992, a year the Seahawks finished 2-14.

I think I've figured out why the Hawks' season is as fucked up as Willis McGahee's eye:

God's wrath.

Mack Strong already got his ass smote last season. I guess it was Hass's (and everyone else's) turn. This is also why Leonard Weaver never gets the damn ball.

See also: Peyton Manning.

Brady Quinn, you're next.

God is a democrat. Fact.

Well, according to NFL Network blogger Adam Schefter, Holmgren—for better or worse—won't be setting up shop in Candlestick Park anytime soon.

Even before the 49ers dismissed head coach Mike Nolan this week, speculation had run rampant that Seattle head coach Mike Holmgren could surface in a Bill Parcells-executive-type role in San Francisco next season.

And it might happen one day.

But one day certainly does not sound like next season.

One source close to the Seahawks said Wednesday that, short of the 49ers offering Holmgren a stake of ownership in the team — and even that might not change the circumstances — Seattle’s head coach will not be working for San Francisco next season.

“Under no circumstance could I see him doing that — zero, none,” the source said. “It would be absolutely shocking to me. It would be extraordinarily difficult for (Holmgren) to ever entertain that idea.”

Holmgren has worked for the 49ers, watched how they have operated, and is well familiar with the York family that owns the team. Right now, according to those that know him, Holmgren has little desire to work there again.

Holmgren even has vowed to his family that, after this season, his last with the Seahawks, he will spend 2009 out of football. What happens for the 2010 season is a different story and issue. But who can say what one man will be thinking two seasons from now when it is difficult enough to get through this season?

The only thing certain about Holmgren’s thinking is that he will not wind up with the 49ers in 2009, despite the rampant speculation to the contrary.

Who knows how good Schefter's source is, so take what you will from that what you will, but the Hawks definitely need to make some changes soon, lest this season get any more embarrassing.

Owen Schmitt for quarterback!

PS-The Mariners hired Jack Zduriencik as their new GM. Baseball is still boring.

HOCKEY GAME DELAYED BY DILDOS

And you gotta love this photo...

Unfortunately it's all about mocking a Swedish athlete who likes getting pegged. More at With Leather.

This season keeps finding new ways to suck.

Forsett was immediately snatched up by the Indianapolis Colts, but was dropped from the team earlier this week.

Forsett, the 'Hawks seventh round draft pick, was a tackle-breaking monster in the preseason so this could be great news for the Seahawks' punt-return game.

The 'Hawks also added quarterback Travis Lulay to the practice squad, because Charlie Frye is a fucking liability.

Wanna see a mess of pictures of this scorching hot French Olympian totally and completely naked? Of course you do.