http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/post/Maria-Sharapova-could-be-yours-for-a-cool-10-00?urn=top,111671 Maria Sharapova could be yours for a cool $10,000 By Jay Busbee / Y! Sports Blogs This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head in disbelief -- first, that it happened, and second, that you didn't get in on it in time. Seems the lovely Wimbledon champ Maria Sharapova put herself -- well, a date with herself, anyway -- up for auction at a charity tennis tournament. The winning bid was $10,000, which seems a bit below market value. Lobbing up the awkwardness quotient is the fact that Ms. Sharapova's boyfriend apparently got outbid for the date. Think that was a comfortable ride home? Oh, and one other thing -- Ms. Sharapova took in $26 million last year, making her the world's best-paid female athlete. That means that for her, a $10,000 bid is the equivalent of getting taken out for a McDonald's Extra Value Meal. She's lovin' it! Now, in auctioning off the mealtime services of a beautiful athlete, some may see crass, thinly-veiled sexism. Me, I see opportunity. We've got ourselves a bit of a financial crisis in America these days, right? Well, if Ms. Sharapova is willing to let herself go for a mere ten large, how much do you think Tom Brady could fetch? Natalie Gulbis? Dale Earnhardt Jr.? Derek Jeter? Time to think outside the box here, people. We've given our athletes so much -- is it so wrong to ask them to start giving back in return? So, would you pay 10k, to have a date with her? What do you think?
$10,000!! He isn't even gonna get any! What a dork. Of course its for charity so it isn't a complete waste of money.
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I'd want a BJ for that kinda dough. And you just KNOW he's probably not even gonna get a smile from that cold b****.
For that much money I'd want her to do some really sick *****.....and let me tape it. I dont care how good looking a chick is, thats too much money to knock one out. And you know its not happening......
Ha. I thought it was awesome that you used the phrase "knock one out". Then I realised you were Australian, so it was slightly less awesome.
For $10000 I'd want a love game from her.. with a few good groundstrokes right on the sweetspot.. she won't be unseeded after her Grand Slam OK, I'm out
Nah, that's her 'on camera personality'. There is a reason all the other women on the WTA hate her guts, and it ain't all jealousy...
