Sports Lists
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11 Biggest NFL Preseason Injuries of All Time
As the NFL preseason rolls into week three, the injuries are really starting to pile up. Thus, we’re once again starting to hear rumblings from people who think the league should just get rid of these meaningless exhibition games altogether. And, you know, they have a point. The games are boring to watch after the [...]
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The 11 Guys Who Played In Both The Little League And The Major League World Series
Every year when the Little League World Series is underway, you’ll see lots of stories about former LLWS players who went on to become big leaguers. I thought about doing one of these lists for today, in fact, until I decided it was kind of boring. So instead I narrowed my focus and looked for [...]
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50 Highest Paid Athletes in the World (2012 Edition)
Professional athletes get paid an obscene amount of money to do what they do. Or at least, they do if they’re good, and if they play the right sport. (Sorry, professional indoor lacrosse players.) But in addition to getting paid to play, many of them also get paid to endorse a variety of products and [...]
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25 Best GIFs From The 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics may be gone forever, but their greatest (and worst…not to mention their most hilarious) moments will live on forever. In what form will these moments live on forever? Well, it won’t be in video, that’s for sure. The IOC has already begun scouring the world wide web, looking for illicitly uploaded [...]
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The 9 Highest Paid Female Athletes of 2012
We just wrapped up an Olympics that some people have called “the Women’s Games” because there were more female athletes with considerably higher profiles than ever before. So obviously, with this increase in notoriety, female athletes are making tons of money these days, right? Well, that depends. Compared to you or me, sure, they’re making [...]
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The 15 Best Stories From The 2012 Summer Olympics
The Olympics always give us a wide variety of stories to tell—stories about legendary performances, human perseverance, or athletes overcoming adversity. And the 2012 Summer Olympics were no different. We saw athletes playing through injuries, inspiring nations, making entire stadiums laugh, and, of course, making entire stadiums erupt with deafening cheers. So today we take [...]
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Cash 4 Gold: What Countries Pay for Gold Medal Winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Well, the 2012 Summer Olympics are finally over. It was all a lot of fun but, unfortunately, now it’s time to pay the bill. What bill, you ask? Well, I’m not talking about the bill the taxpayers of London are going to be paying off for the next 20 years—the bill for the games themselves. [...]
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11 Sexiest Countries at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Well, after two solid weeks, the 2012 Summer Olympics are starting to wind down, with just a couple more days of action before the closing ceremonies on Sunday. And I don’t know about you, but I always find it a little sad when the Olympics are over. After all, they give us so many interesting [...]
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50 Hot Beach Volleyball Photos from the 2012 Summer Olympics
The women’s beach volleyball competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics wrapped up yesterday with Team USA defeating Team USA for the gold medal—Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh Jennings beat April Ross and Jennifer Kessey, earning their third consecutive gold medal. Of course, now that beach volleyball is all done, there’s pretty much no reason to [...]
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15 Olympians And Their Celebrity Look-Alikes
The Olympics have a way of radically transforming the lives of athletes. One month a 17-year swimmer can walk down the street and nobody knows who she is. The next she’s a bona fide celebrity appearing on cereal boxes and doing interviews on the Today Show. Of course, not every Olympian needs success at the [...]
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40 Funny Names from the 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics feature 10,500 athletes from 204 nations competing in 302 events in 26 sports. With that kind of diversity, you’re bound to come across some really interesting characters. But today we’re not looking at Olympic athletes with fascinating personal lives, hobbies, or appearances. We’ve done that already. Today we’re looking at Olympians [...]
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The 11 Dumbest Sports at the Summer Olympics
One of the best things about the Olympics is that you get to watch sports you don’t normally see. One of the worst things about the Olympics, however, is that some of these sports are just straight up dumb. What makes an Olympic sport dumb, you ask? Well, it could be any one of a [...]
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15 Biggest Summer Olympics Scandals
When you gather 10,500 athletes from 205 nations together for a major international sports competition, you can expect a good scandal or two. But the 2012 Summer Olympics are just one week old, and we’ve already seen four fairly historic controversies—two regarding the outcomes of events, and one that almost kept an event from happening [...]
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20 Gymnastics Fail GIFs
Yesterday we told about American gymnast McKayla Maroney and her jaw-dropping vault during the team all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was so good that it literally left the judges flabbergasted, and yet they didn’t award it a perfect score. Of course, losing a few tenths of a point didn’t hurt the USA [...]
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20 Hottest Olympic Gold Medalists (Summer Edition)
Two weeks ago we brought you a list of the hottest female athletes Olympians at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Then, last week, we brought you a list of the greatest female Olympians of all time. So what do we have for you this week? How about a combination of the two. That’s right. Today we [...]
