Daniel Nestor

And today's update to the brflines site is one half of the Wimbledon men's doubles championship team, Daniel Nestor of Canada.

One of the members of the Y! group was courtside to witness the amazing spectacle that is Dan Nestor's ass. He said it was cute. I would have to agree with that assessment (pun intended). Whenever I see pics of him (that aren't brieflines pics) he always has some wedge action going on. Hmm...I wonder what that means?

Anyway, go have a look. Enjoy. Be safe. I'm out for today!

Jarkko Nieminen

Good morning, fellas. Today's update to the brflines site is Jarkko Nieminen of Finland.

It's a pretty big update, eleven new pics added, going back all the way to the Pac Life Open earlier in the year. I also made corrections to pics 15 and 16 (i think) that weren't loading when you browsed to the page.

Anyone who's read the blog knows that I'm a huge Jarkko fan, so I always make a special effort to find pics of him when I'm surfing the net for briefline photos. I guess that's why there's so many pictures of him, the volume of which is pretty disproportionate to his ATP ranking.

On another note, there was/is a chat thread in the Y! group about the championship game. I may download from the Wimby site and upload it somewhere else. Let me know if that's something you'd like me to do since it takes a lot of time to download and then manipulate it so that it's accessible to everyone.

Have a good one!

Paul Henri Mathieu

Gosh, what is it about Frenchmen that gets me all hot and bothered?

Oh yeah, maybe it's the fact that they love the white tennis shorts and almost always wear briefs when they're on court! :) Seriously though, I added eight new pics to Paul Henri Mathieu's page on the brflines site. Go check them out and love them.

I also fixed pic no. 6, which didn't seem to be displaying correctly from imageshack. And how much do you love pic no. 15, which is attached to this post? One of the best brieflines pic, EVER!!

June's Top 10

Okay, okay I know it's not June but I want to make the Top 10 feature a monthly occurance.

Besides, it helps you guys get a sense of who's hot and who's not because the amount of pics taken is usually directly correlated to how well a player is doing on the tour or in major tournaments. The recent uptick in Marat Safin photos is illustrative of how well he did in Wimbledon, for example.

Anyway, the major news this last month is Novak Djokovic overtaking Tommy Robredo as having the most pictures on the brflines site. Really, this was expected with the rise of Novak Djokovic and the fact that he LOVES playing in those white tennis shorts. You guys know how much I loves me some Tommy, but Novak is no slouch either...anyway, the list is below. Also, threw in a gratuitous nakey shot of Verdasco just to picque your interest in the post :)))

Frank Dancevic is sort of an anomaly on the list. He had a ton of photos from the Australian Open 2007, but is a rather minor player. I suspect after July, the number 11 player on my list (Federer) will easily surpass him and replace him at least as number 10, but maybe higher. In the coming months I suspect Henman and Johansson to fall of the list as well. Henman is retired, so unless I find a bunch of archival shots, he'll be surpassed by up and coming players and Johansson just isn't a top ten player, so the volume of pics of him won't be enough, I think to sustain his position.

1. Novak Djokovic (120 photos)
2. Tommy Robredo (116 photos)
3. Richard Gasquet (95 photos)
4. Fernando Verdasco (58 photos)
5. Jarkko Nieminen (45 photos)
6. Andy Roddick (37 photos)
7. Mario Ancic (34 photos)
8. Thomas Johansson (33 photos)
9. Tim Henman (31 photos)
10. Frank Dancevic (28 photos)

David Ferrer

This is the second update in a row that a Spaniard is featured...

That's not such a bad thing is it? This is a country that has produced countless brieflines wonders like Tommy Robredo, Rafa Nadal, Juan Carlos Ferrero, and Nico Almagro, amongst others.

I can't take any credit at all for finding the update pics. The four pictures that I did add to David's page on the brflines site are solely the result of TZ's find detective work over at the Y! Group.

Thanks TZ and I hope everyone has a great Sunday!

Nico Almagro

Hey guys, the update for today is Nico Almagro.

He had a nice little run at Roland Garros, so there weare a couple of more pics of him this year. I addded three new pics of him to the brflines site, one of which is attached to this post. I hope you guys like it and have a safe and pleasant Saturday!

Vidclips

Hey good morning boys. It's a beautiful morning in Chicago.

And happy Independence Day to my fellow Americans. I amde some video clips last night from a 2007 wimbledon match between two of my favorite players, Edouard Roger Vasselin and Richard Gasquet.

I am not going to post the links here. You'll have to join the yahoo group (if you're not already a member) to access them. Think of it as an incentive to join! Remember to set your settings to receive individual emails. And if you wonder if it's worth joining, the pic above is a cap TZ made of the clip of Richy Gasquet.

Trust me, it's worth it.

Nicolas Kiefer

Last update for today, boys.

I added one picture of Nicolas Kiefer to his page on the brflines site. I know that there are Kiefer fans out there, so enjoy!

Daddy!

Another update for today, still fit and good lookin' Todd Martin of the U.S.

Same deal as Dent, one pic added to the brflines site, but also attached to this post, so no need to surf over to see the pic.

Taylor Dent

Another update for today.

Taylor Dent of the U.S. I added one pic to the brflines site, but it's also attached at the top of this post.

Filippo Volandri

Another one of my finds during my drive recovery was Filippo Volandri.

I wish more people took pictures of him. That is seriously, one good looking man. Besides, how can you hate someone who wears Emporio Armani tennis gear?

I added the pic attached at the top of the post to the brflines site today. Enjoy!

I'm baack!

Well, the last two weeks or so have taught me a very important lesson....

As Juvenile says, "back that thing up". So, I spent the last two weeks or so recovering six months worth of uploads and pictures, and I can't say that I was 100% successful or completely done, but I'm at a point where I feel comfortable working on the site again and getting uploads for all of you.

I can't say that it was a useless excercise because I had an opportunity to go through all the subdirectories I have on the flash drive and discovered one or two pictures in about a dozen subdirectories (I have one for each player) that I thought had been posted, but had not. So, I'll be doing that today.

One of those players that I found pics for is Andy Murray of Scotland. I updated his page on the brflines site with three photos, one of which is above.

Again, thanks to TZ and the rest of you guys sending Wimby pics. I haven't begun working on the videos yet, but will let you know when those clips are avail.

Oh and yeah, I am going to try to back my $h*t up on a regular basis :0), after two meltdowns I hope I've learned a lesson!

Update and Wimbledon Live

Hey guys, just wanted to give you a brief (no pun intended) progress report on the flash drive calamity...

I recovered and formatted the code for the main page of the brflines site, so I'm a little bit relieved on that front. My next task will be to recover the pictures, which is the more time consuming and onerous task.

I'm betting a lot of you guys don't know that I run about three parallel systems to keep the site organized, one of which is an exhaustive excel database with the url for every picture I've ever posted on the site, meaning over 1100 urls! I will have to go player by player and go into the code and get the urls back. Hopefully, it's not that many :((((

On another more positive note, I shelled out the twenty or so dollars to watch wimbledon live on my pc. Okay, how is that the best twenty dollars I've spent in a while?!? I was watching the Robredo (heart) vs. Vliegen match this morning and it was brieflines heaven. They both were wearing briefs and it was like the camera man went out of his way to show Tommy Robredo bending over during switch overs and breaks.

The other reason I decided to buy the wimbledon live thing is that they promised archived matches. Hopefully I can download some of them and make some sweet vid clips for you guys. Anyway, that's it for today! Have a nice one!

Technical Difficulties

Well kids, two bits of bad news and one bit of good...

First the bad news. I discovered this weekend that my flash drive where I kept all of the pics, page codes, and tracking databases for the brflines site is corrupted. It won't even let me access it as a drive on my laptop. So, I'm going to have to pause updates until I'm back up to speed and have re-established all of the back-end stuff.

The good news is, that by some minor miracle, I actually had the forethought to back up the drive a couple of months ago, so I'm not starting from zero. I did lose the page code, but I can get that from google. The biggest loss is the sidelines content, which I hadn't put up yet, and my Novak Djokovic subdirectory, which had dozens of pictures that I hadn't posted yet. Otherwise the URLs for the pics and the pictures themselves are all online and it's just a matter of me saving them onto the new hard drive I have.

I will continue to send pics to the yahoo group and insted of making updates will spend the time everyday, slowling building back my library of pics. When I'm current again (I don't know how long that will take), I'll go back to updating. Sorry about that guys!

Guestbook Responses (Paul from New York)

Paul from New York wrote in my guestbook on May 28th that he wanted briefline pics of Andre Agassi.

Paul, man, I would like some of those pics too, but I can't find any. I remember back in the day, when he had the long hair, he'd wear those (back in the day) fashionable lycra shorts. Then as he matured, he switched to runks. The pics above show him circa 2007 with the trunks on. I hope they'll suffice.

Thanks for taking the time to write in my guestbook!

Guestbook Responses (Mikey from Amsterdam)

I love reading the entries in my guestbook. It's kind of a turn-on knowing that so many guys around the world are into brieflines as much as I am...

One of the most important pieces of information that I get from the guestbook is who visitors want to see more of.

Mikey from Amsterdam wants to see pictures of the Greek national team from Euro 2008. I'm more of a fan of the Dutch team, but Mikey since you asked I looked into your request. I posted some pictures at the top of this post of pics I found of not only the Greek team, but other teams in this year's tournament as well.

I can see why Mikey is a fan of the Greeks. Are they all wearing blue briefs under their shorts?

Dmitry Tursunov

Hey guys, I'm headed off to a conference tomorrow and Friday, so I'm going to do a double post today...

The first post is to announce that I added four pictures of Dima Turusnov to the brflines site this morning.

I heart Dima, except now that he's growing out his boroda, he's beginning to look a little mountain man-ish. Go to the site and check out his hot pics.

Richard Gasquet

Well I finally uploaded those pics of Richy Gasquet...

Imageshack is killing me this morning. It's taken me the better part of forty five minutes to upload twelve pics. That said, I did add those twelve pics to Richy's page on the brflines site, one of which is below.

Richy didn't do so well in the French--so let's hope he does better in Wimbledon.

Who's as excited as I am for Wimby? All those players in white....yummy.

Anyway kids, I hope you like the new pics of Richy. I know I do!!!!

Jeremy Chardy

I made a new addition to the website, Jeremy Chardy.

Four pictures of Monsieur Chardy made it in with the update, one of which is attached to this post. I was hoping to make a photo update to Richy Gasquet's page as well today, but imageshack is acting up again. Look for it tomorrow boys.

Well, it seems like I can't upload any photos to blogger this evening, so you'll have to surf over to the website to check this stud out.

A bientot!

Tommy Robredo

Today's my last post for the week...

And what a better way to end the week then with a Tommy Robredo update? I added five photos of Tommy Robredo to the brflines this morning. (EARLY!!).

See ya!.

Jonathan Eysseric

Barely legal.

Jonathan Eysseric is an eighteen year old tennis player from France who had a pretty good run at Roland Garros. In fact, a bunch of his countrymen had a good showing: Chardy, Monfils, Mathieu, Llodra, and Benneteau...

Anyway I put up a new page for Eysseric on the brflines site. I don't think the French Open tournament or the ATP expected him to do well, since they don't have any current ht/wt information for him. Both sites still list him as 139 lbs., which I'm sure isn't current at all.

I only have one photo of him thus far, but hope that as he progresses we'll accumulate more shots of him.

Ciao!

Florent Serra

Hey guys, another two update day...

The first update for the day is the addition of a single picture to Florent Serra's page on the brflines site. I hope you guys like it. The pic I added is also attached to this blog post.

Sidelines Update

Hey guys! I'm going on vacay over the weekend. I will be thinking of all of you while I'm lying on the beach, working on the speedo tan :). I'm going to try and push out as many updates (while keeping sane) in the next couple of days.

So, to give you guys as much to look at and keep traffic up I've been working to bring sidelines up in a hurry. I added a bunch of soccer (or for you non Americans, Australians, and Canadians, football) pics and the soccer page is now up. You can either browse to the site via the right navigation bar on the brflines site, or simply click here.

Tommy Haas

Good morning, gentlemen.

I'm doing a quick daily update before I head to spin class :0).

I added two pictures to the Tommy Haas page on the brflines site. I hope you guys enjoy them.

Have a terrific day!

1100 and Counting!

The brflines site now contains over 1,100 pictures (1,106 to be exact) with the addition of the Novak Djokovic update. I've also added some functionality to the blog with expandable post summaries (cuts). So to test it out, I'm going to post the exhaustive catalog of players and number of pictures after the cut....

Read more here...

Below is an exhaustive list of all the players on the brlines site, and how many pictures are on each player's page. Have fun surfin' guys!

Acasuso, Jose, 1
Almagro, Nicolas, 4
Ancic, Mario, 34
Andreev, Igor, 7
Baghdatis, Marcos, 2
Benneteau, Julien, 20
Berdych, Tomas, 4
Berlocq, Carlos, 1
Berrer, Michael, 5
Bjorkman, Jonas, 13
Bogdanovic, Alex, 2
Bozoljac, Ilja, 1
Bracciali, Daniele, 1
Bryan, Bob, 2
Butorac, Eric, 1
Calleria, Agustin, 3
Canas, Guillermo, 12
Cermak, Frantisek, 1
Chela, Juan Ignacio, 3
Cibulec, Tomas, 1
Cilic, Marin, 2
Clement, Arnaud, 9
Coria, Guillermo, 1
Corretja, Alex, 1
Costa, Albert, 1
Dancevic, Frank, 28
Davydenko, Nikolay, 10
Dent, Taylor, 3
Devilder, Nicolas, 2
Djokovic, Novak, 120
Economidis, Konstantinos, 1
Federer, Roger, 27
Ferrer, David, 9
Ferrero, Juan Carlos, 20
Fognini, Fabio, 4
Gambill, Jan Michael, 10
Garcia-Lopez, Guillermo, 3
Gasquet, Richard, 83
Gaudio, Gaston, 1
Giraldo, Santiago, 1
Gonzalez, Fernando, 4
Grosjeans, Sebastien, 4
Gulbis, Ernests, 3
Haa, Tommy, 14
Hanley, Paul, 1
Henman, Tim, 31
Hewitt, Lleyton, 24
Horna, Luis, 2
Hrbaty, Dominik, 5
Huta Galung, Jesse, 6
Ivanisevic, Goran, 5
Johansson, Joachim, 1
Johansson, Thomas, 33
Kiefer, Nicolas, 5
Klizan, Martin, 1
Knowle, Julian, 7
Knowles, Mark, 3
Korolev, Evgeny, 1
Koubek, Stefan, 1
Kubot, Lukasz, 1
Kuertan, Gustavo, 1
Kunitsyn, Igor, 3
Kuznetsov, Alex, 5
Lammer, Michael, 1
Lapentti, Nicolas, 2
Lipsky, Scott, 1
Ljubicic, Ivan, 12
Llodra, Michael, 16
Lopez, Feliciano, 10
Mahut, Nicolas, 4
Malisse, Xavier, 1
Marach, Oliver, 1
Martin, Alberto, 2
Martin, Todd, 2
Massu, Nicolas, 4
Mathieu, Paul Henri, 14
Melzer, Jurgen, 1
Mertinak, Michal, 1
Mirnyi, Max, 19
Monaco, Juan, 4
Montanes, Albert, 1
Montcourt, Mathieu, 2
Moya, Carlos, 2
Murray,Andy, 3
Nadal, Rafael, 2
Nieminen, Jarkko, 45
Parrott, Travis, 1
Phau, Bjorn, 3
Philippoussis, Mark, 2
Popp, Alexander, 2
Popp, Torsten, 2
Puerta, Mariano, 3
Robredo, Tommy, 111
Rochus, Olivier, 4
Roddick, Andy, 37
Roger-Vassellin, Edouard, 5
Ryderstedt, Michael, 2
Sa, Andre, 1
Safin, Marat, 23
Sanguinetti, Davide, 3
Santoro, Fabrice, 9
Schuettler, Rainer, 3
Seppi, Andreas, 1
Serra, Florent, 3
Srichaphan, Paradorn, 1
Stadler, Simon, 2
Stakhovsky, Sergiy, 1
Starace, Potito, 1
Stepanek, Radek, 9
Sweeting, Ryan, 6
Tecau, Horia, 1
Tipsarevic, Janko, 7
Tursunov, Dmitry, 10
Vacek, Jan, 1
Verdasco, Fernando, 58
Vizner, Pavel, 1
Vliegen, Kristof, 2
Volandri, Filippo, 2
Wawrinka, Stanislas, 5
Woodbridge, Todd, 3
Youzhny, Mikhail, 15
Zib, Tomas, 1
Zverev, Mischa, 1

Novak Djokovic

Good lord!

There's so many pics of Nole all up in here. TZ (of the brieflines group) found a TON. I found a somewhat less, but we've all been sending them through as emails in the yahoo group. SO, if you're not already part of the fun, go sign up (read the requirements first so you don't get rejected).

Anyway, I did a supplemental update to the brflines site this morning, with a second player page stacked with new photos. Novak's page had fifteen pictures added this morning. I had to sneak a Novak update into the rotation, the torrent of pictures flooding in from Roland Garros would have been too much to add in one update.

Anyway, I know that you guys are as big a fan of Nole's as I am so I know you'll love the update.

Ciao!