To celebrate the dawning of 2011 here at Cup Check, and because fresh ideas are hard to come up with all the time, I've decided to dedicate this week's column to a far less than comprehensive list of 2010's dumbest jocks. These are the sports figures that made last year a great year for Cup Check, and the names and faces that accompanied all of 2010's dumbest sports stories. Enjoy, and feel free to cuss me for the ones I missed in the comment section of this column at weeklyvolcano.com.

BEN ROETHLISBERGER - quarterback, accused rapist: After serving a four-game suspension for the "Milledgeville Incident" at the start of the season - reduced from six by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell because of Big Ben's "maturation" during the off-season (he didn't rape anyone) - Roethlisberger returned to once again lead the Steelers to the playoffs this year. Oh, and word on the street is he became engaged over the holidays! Good for him! Cup Check will be sending the lovely couple a hand-engraved stool as a wedding present, the words, "It's OK" etched on the seat.

LEBRON JAMES - basketball player, diva, Cleveland's most hated man: Remember that stupid-ass TV special LeBron did when announcing he was headed to the Miami Heat in free agency? Of course you do. It was epic dumb. Has there ever been a more senseless, self-promoting act in the history of sports? Probably not. Should karma ruin the rest of King James' career? Absolutely.

REX RYAN - New York Jets head coach, foot-fetish fanatic: Sorry. I just had to mention Rex Ryan, the words foot fetish and probably his wife, Michelle Ryan, at least one more time. When we ran the story in late 2010 of the videos that had surfaced of a woman (allegedly Ryan's wife) in self-created, self-posted foot-fetish videos, we literally received a massive website bump quadrupling our average unique visitors for the day. So, moving forward, the words "foot fetish" will be worked into at least one Volcano story a week - and I should probably credit Ryan and his obese, mouth-breathing, freaky ways for the success this will bring weeklyvolcano.com.

TIGER WOODS - golfer, fan of crazy Ambien sex: If you work at a Perkins Restaurant anywhere the PGA Tour has stopped in the last 14 years, chances are you've been propositioned for crazy Ambien sex by Tiger Woods. This is unfortunate. Our great nation's pancake servers simply don't deserve this type of misogynist treatment. Still, it made for a lot of fodder here in Cup Check over the last year. Plus, Log Cabin syrup is quite a turn-on.

BRETT FAVRE - (retired?) quarterback, Wranglers model, penis-texter: What was more disturbing last year? That Brett Favre apparently has made a habit in the past out of texting pictures of his odd-looking junk to attractive women ... who also happen, in various ways, to be co-workers? Or that he did this, much of the time, while wearing Crocs? It's a tough call - but suffice it to say 2010 simply wouldn't have been the year it turned out to be without Favre and his nether region (which looks like it may have spent a little too much time on the frozen tundra, if you know what I mean).

GOLDEN TATE - Seattle Seahawks wide receiver, doughnut thief: God bless Golden Tate, drafted to Seattle from Notre Dame this year and quickly a household name thanks to his Top Pot Doughnut-snatching ways. As you surely heard, Tate was busted during the off-season after snatching a few fresh-baked, Top Pot Doughnuts without paying - while the store was closed. Apparently there's a Top Pot Doughnut in the building where Tate lives, which seems like just about enough to inspire any decent human being with a sweet tooth into a little late night thievery.  You're  forgiven, Golden. But that shit was still pretty funny.