With the 15-hour time difference between Beijing and our fair Bay Area, there will be occasions on which today's Hot Bay Area Olympian has already competed by the time you read this. But the contest has not yet been broadcast, and this is some action that is rather likely to be televised. It's that unapologetically soft-porn invention called Beach Volleyball... known for it's skimpy outfits and provocatively-placed hand signals. And it's such the rage......

If you haven't been to comedy club as of late, you might be curious about the overabundance of women-and-yogurt commercials. Well, here's a delightful look at the attempts to get females to consume abnormal amounts of this sweet, cultured milk product. Enjoy.......

Pictured: Rock N' Roll, Arizona marathon where she qualified for the Olympic trials with a time of 2:46 This weekend is the US women's olympic trials for the marathon in Boston. It's really tough to qualify to get into the trials and the team that has the most members that qualified for the trials is the the San Francisco Impala Racing team-- a team that was formed specifically for competitive women racers. Best of......

Complete with heartwarming ultrasound images of a bouncy baby juxtaposed by a stern, deep, and concerned-sounding voiceover warning that babies are dying, a new KTVU teaser began playing this morning for a special report they're airing on Monday at 5. After women were again chastised warned about drinking coffee during early pregnancy last month in a Kaiser study, it looks like the media is ready to strike again, but now taking it to the next......

This is a bit dorm-room wall, but: didn't Sybil's mother give her Lysol douches? Maybe it was bleach? Not sure. But the point is: she was clean, ladies. She was very clean. Find out what happens when you Lysol your flower after the jump.......

Before heading to a more pristine setting in Atherton, Barack Obama was in the Mission today at the Women's Building, stumping for votes before California's Feb. 5 primary. Over plastic cups of water, he met with four Dr. Laura-unapproved single mothers--two of them staunch Obama supporters, two "on the fence"--and we're loving the one on the left, school teacher Kara Daillak, 38. (Ditch the kid, and let's go get smashed in 'loin tonight.)...