Sports Lists
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15 Awesome Sports-Related Guinness World Records
Every sport has sacred records. In baseball it’s the home run records—career and single season—though the hitting streak is also pretty special. Football has career rushing yards, or touchdown passes in a season, just to name two. Basketball has career points and, maybe more impossible to break, points in a single game. And of course [...]
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22 Goofy Sports Faces (GIFs)
There are 43 distinct muscles in the human face. Thus, any time you exert yourself, any time you are emotionally invested in something, or any time something completely unexpected happens, your face tells the story. And since the world of sports produces a lot of exertion, emotions, and unexpected events, it also produces a lot [...]
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15 Hot Beauty Queens Who Dated Athletes
Did you hear the big news? Ryan Lochte, the notorious playboy and most eligible bachelor from the 2012 Summer Olympics, has finally settled on a girlfriend. Like, for realz. And the lucky girl? That would be none other than Miss USA 2012, Olivia Culpo. OMG, right? No? You don’t really care? Well, neither do I. [...]
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The 9 Longest Postseason Droughts in Major League Baseball
In case you hadn’t noticed, the 2012 Major League Baseball season is heading toward another exciting conclusion. Sure, it most likely won’t be as thrilling as the conclusion to the 2011 Major League Baseball season. (We’ll probably go another 50 or 60 years before we see anything like that again.) But it is looking like [...]
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The Billion Dollar Club: 20 NFL Teams Worth At Least $1 Billion
You want to know how well the NFL is going these days? Well, here’s one fact that says it all: there are 20 football teams worth a billion dollars. Twenty. Do you know how many baseball teams there are that are worth a billion? Three—the Yankees, Dodgers, and Red Sox. And soccer teams? Try five—Manchester [...]
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25 Best Real Animal Mascots in College Football
There are lots of reasons why some people prefer college football over the NFL—the traditions, the gameday atmosphere, the historic venues, the rivalries, you name it. But personally, what really does it for me are teh mascots. And I’m not talking about the guys dressed as in giant plush cartoons. I’m talking about the real [...]
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25 Awesome Football Catch GIFs
When you were a kid, September was an awful time of year because it meant one thing: going back to school. However, when you get older, September becomes the best month of the year. Why? Because that’s when football starts up again after a miserable six-month hiatus. Oh sure, the CFL starts up in mid [...]
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The 15 Hottest La Liga WAGs
When is comes to professional soccer, the English Premier League is the cream of the crop. Any impartial observer will tell you that it is the best and most exciting league on the planet, hands down. After that it’s Spain’s La Liga, probably followed by Italy’s Seria A and Germany’s Bundesliga—more or less. However, there [...]
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25 Best Dressed Tennis Players at the 2012 US Open
Wimbledon is great and all, with those cute grass courts and the Queen and the strawberries and cream. But when it comes to Grand Slam tennis events, I’ll take the US Open. The crowds are downright rowdy (thanks, New York) and they play matches at night on prime time television. In short, there’s just a [...]
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30 Classic Misspelled Sports Jerseys
When it comes to branding and marketing a sports franchise, it all starts with the jerseys. When people watch a team play, that’s the primary way in which they will become familiar with the teams logos and colors, which are the building blocks of advertising and paraphernalia revenue. That’s why it’s important to have a [...]
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20 Awesome Dancing Sports Fan GIFs
You know that quote that tells you to “dance like nobody’s watching“? Well, that’s great if your a hot chick having fun on a “girls’ night out,” but it doesn’t apply to sports fans. If you’re at a game, and you’ve had a few cold ones, and suddenly you feel the urge to stand up [...]
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20 Hottest WAGs of the 2012 U.S. Open
The 2012 US Open got underway on Monday, so all of the world’s biggest tennis stars will be hanging out in Queens, NY, for the next two weeks. For today’s list, therefore, I wanted to do something that celebrates America’s Grand Slam. However, I also wanted to do a list that features pictures of [...]
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The 13 Greatest Paralympians of All Time
If you thought the regular Olympics provided a lot of inspirational stories, wait until the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games get underway tomorrow. The things most of these amazing athletes have had to deal with make the trials and tribulations of regular athletes seem like that time you went to the mall and had to park [...]
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15 Best Athlete Excuses For Failing A Drug Test
Last week we discovered that the MVP of the MLB All-Star Game, Melky Cabrera, was caught using steroids and banned for 50 games. That was a big deal, but hardly shocking, since the guy’s numbers took such a huge spike over the last two seasons. What was shocking, however, were the lengths he seemed willing [...]
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10 Little League World Series Players Who Went On To Star In Sports Other Than Baseball
Every year during the Little League World Series, people do lists of all the players who have actually gone on to become Major Leaguers. But as I’ve already said, that’s kind of boring. You expect a lot of these kids to go on to become big league baseball players. After all, the teams that compete [...]
