While Santa is away on a golf trip, the lists are starting to pour in.  Thanks to an elf who reads my blog, I was able to get my hands on a few lists.  Christmas can be a rough holiday when your brother or your sister is your competition in the world of sports.  The nephews and nieces always seem to run to the winner first and the less successful sibling is an afterthought.

Without further ado, here is what sibling athletes are asking Santa to bring their brother or sister for Christmas this year:

Wladimir Klitschko currently holds the IBF, IBO, WBO, and Ring Magazine world heavyweight championships.  His older brother Vitaly currently holds the WBC title.  These two siblings have said numerous times that they will not fight each other.  My elf found greedy Wladimir’s Christmas letter to Santa.  In Wlad’s letter, he asks Santa to bring Vitaly a trainer to teach him MMA hoping to convince Vitaly to be in next years Ultimate Fighter, Russia vs The UK on Spike.  If successful, Wladimir will hold all the belts and have sole commercial rights to do Absolute vodka commercials without having to cut in brother Vitaly.

Now that the 2009 Wimbledon Women’s Final will be Serena vs Venus, I asked the elf to dig for a letter from either Williams sister.  Low and behold, the elf came through with a letter from Venus.  In her letter Venus asks for free consultation with Michael Jackson’s skin doctors.  Venus figures if she can turn colors like that chameleon Jackson did, that she can change her name to Williamsky and represent Germany. 

Since Jordan Staal was on the 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins championship team and had to beat brother Eric and his Carolina Hurricanes to get there, the elf thought it weird that Eric has asked Santa to bring the cup to the Staal home.  He gets pretty graphic in the letter but says his plan is to destroy the cup and blame it on brother Jordan. 

The elf dug up a no brainer for these two brothers.  Seems Mark McGwire wants brother Dan to get bigger and stronger.  So he asked Santa to deliver a case of Shredded Wheat and milk.  He also told Santa to ignore Dan’s list and bring nothing stronger than One-A-Day vitamins.

Well, I hope Santa can accomodate these requests, I hate it when family becomes the enemy and these all seem like ways to eliminate the problems caused in sibling sports rivalries.

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