Sports Lists
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25 Hilarious Basketball Fail GIFs
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been so preoccupied with the NFL, the MLB postseason, and the fact that there is no NHL that the 2012-13 NBA season kind of snuck up on me. It seems like just yesterday we were watching the USA All-Stars romp at the London 2012 Olympics and talking about [...]
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35 Sexy NFL Cheerleader Halloween Costumes
Everybody knows that, for a lot of women, Halloween is an excuse to dress a little sexier than they normally would. But what about women who already dress pretty sexy on a regular basis—like, say, NFL cheerleaders? Do they dress conservatively on Halloween? Yeah right. If you happened to catch any NFL action over the [...]
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Hometown Heroes: 15 Pro Athletes Who Played For Their Hometown Teams
Yesterday TotalProSports told you about Brandon Crawford, the San Francisco Giants’ starting shortstop who, as it turns out, grew up in San Francisco rooting for the team with which he just won the World Series. And I don’t know about you, but I happen to think that is awesome. So I got to wondering: what [...]
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25 of the Most Unusual Trophies in College Football
Every sport at every level has its cherished rivalries, and often those rivalries turn into major events. In baseball, for example, you have the Yankees-Red Sox and the Cubs-Cardinals. In the NFL you have the Cowboys-Redskins and the Giants-Eagles. In soccer you have Real Madrid-Barcelona and Lazio-Roma. And in college basketball you have Duke-North Carolina [...]
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30 Fantastic Baseball Fan GIFs
Well, the 2012 World Series is officially underway. And since the games are once again being telecast on Fox, you know what that means: out of every four-hour broadcast, a good forty-five minutes will be dedicated to close-ups of fans nervously biting their nails and covering up the bottom halves of their faces with their [...]
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The 12 Hottest WAGs of the 2012 World Series
The 2012 World Series gets underway tonight in San Francisco, with Tigers ace Justin Verlander going up against Giants stud Matt Cain. Obviously, with that kind of matchup, and with the way both teams are playing, this could be a pretty awesome series. However, I’m not going to make even the mildest prediction for how [...]
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The 13 Greatest Comebacks in MLB Postseason History
Well, last night the San Francisco Giants became only the 12th MLB team to come back from a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series. So the topic for today’s list was a no-brainer: best postseason comebacks in MLB history. It includes all twelve 3-1 comebacks, plus one comeback from a best-of-give series, and while a [...]
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9 Disgraced Sports Heroes
We love turning sports stars into heroes. Is it fair or rational to do so? Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand, pro athletes are just people like you or me, the only difference being that they were born with innate abilities the rest of us don’t have. Why do we expect them to serve [...]
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9 Random Countries Where You Can Still Watch NHLers Play
Earlier this week, the NHL commissioner Gary Bettman surprised the hockey-loving world by presenting the locked-out NHL players with their first reasonable contract offer to date. Thus, while no one expected that offer to dissolve the impasse entirely, it seemed like it might move negotiations along and possibly salvage a full, 82-game season. Of course, [...]
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21 Awesome College Football Fan GIFs From 2012
We’re now a little more than halfway through the college football season, and if there’s one thing you can say about it, it’s that the fans have been crazier and more entertaining than ever. I mean, seriously, have you seen the keg-standing LSU grandma? What about the keg-standing Arizona State baby? Thus, with college football [...]
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25 Celebrities Who Were Cheerleaders
Here at Total Pro Sports we’ve done lots of lists about celebrities, and lots of lists about cheerleaders. But you what we haven’t done? A list that combines the two. So today I decided it’s time to do a list of celebrities who were cheerleaders. Some of the women on the list will make you [...]
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The 11 Greatest Daredevils Ever
Over the past several months, we’ve seen two different daredevils performs highly publicized stunts. First, back in June, we had Nik Wallenda walk across Niagara Falls on a tight rope. That was broadcast live on ABC. Then, just Sunday, we had Felix Baumgartner set a new world record for highest skydive and fastest speed of [...]
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15 Unlikely MLB Postseason Heroes
One of the best things about postseason baseball is that you get to expect the unexpected. You never know what it will be, but you can count on seeing something completely unpredictable. And the 2012 MLB postseason is certainly no exception. On Friday night, not only did we witness yet another historic comeback by the [...]
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The 9 Best MLB Players To Be Pinch-Hit For In The Postseason With The Game On The Line
You may not have realized it, but something pretty rare happened at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night: one of the game’s greatest hitters was pinch-hit for in the bottom of the 9th inning with the game on the line. I’m talking, of course, about Joe Girardi’s decision to lift Alex Rodriguez and replace him with [...]
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21 Amazing Baseball Catch GIFs
The other day I was watching a little postseason baseball—totally not while I was at work—when I saw St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Jon Jay make a fantastic catch up against the left-center field wall during Game 2 of the NLDS. At the time the Cardinals were up 7-3, but it was only the 6th [...]
