Sports Lists
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9 Restaurants Owned by Athletes
Athletes owned restaurants rarely succeed. Like athletes and music, or athletes and acting, or basically athletes doing anything but athletics is a recipe for disaster. Sadly, this list proves that, with few exceptions, athletes should stay the hell out of the kitchen. “The kitchen” being a metaphor for “any aspect of hospitality development.” Prepare yourself [...]
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9 Coaches With Trademark Fashions
At most sporting events, there is little opportunity for the principals to really flex much muscle in the arena of fashion because, quite simply, all the players are wearing uniforms. Well, the coaches don’t have to. Except in baseball. And baseball managers look ridiculous in uniforms. In the more advanced sports, coaches don’t have to [...]
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10 Female Athletes That Get By On Their Looks
The title of this piece probably sounds harsher than it is. Of course, everyone who appears here is an extraordinary athlete. But being an extraordinary athlete is not necessarily enough to give you a boost to international stardom, which is smack dab where all these ladies reside. Now that I’m done covering my ass, let’s [...]
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5 Reasons to Kill the BCS
The reasons to drop the BCS system have been bandied about since the program was instituted. I’ve never heard a compelling argument in favor of the current system. In fact, I’ve never heard anyone except athletic administrators and BCS “officials” (whatever the hell they do) even try to validate the system. And their reasons stem [...]
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9 Olympic Flash-In-The-Pans
It’s hard to call any Olympic athlete a “flash in the pan.” First off, they clearly had a lot of success to get to the Olympic games. Secondly, the inability to achieve Olympic success doesn’t necessarily mean that one hasn’t achieved lot of success in other venues. However, there have been plenty of athletes that [...]
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9 Athletic Scandals We Couldn’t Make Up If We Tried
These might not all be the worst scandals in sports, or the funniest, but they’re pretty damn crazy. A few are within the realm of possibility, but would require a crack writing team to craft the stories any better than fate did. Some of them are funny, some are sad, all are weird as hell. [...]
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9 Greatest Athletes-Turned-Analysts
The leap from pro athlete to studio host or analyst is something of a no-brainer. “Hey, this guy played sports. He should have no problem talking about them in front of a national audience.” Of course, anyone who watches sports knows the success ratio here is like 14%. Becoming successful in this arena usually takes [...]
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15 Sexiest Workout Girls of All Time
The days of the hot fitness guru may have come and gone. But to a generation of boys without cable or internet, daytime workout shows and ads for workout videos were as hot as it got. They died out a few years after sexy flight attendants did, so this career path is not the bastion [...]
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9 Classic Sports Biographies Every Fan Should Read
It can be really hard to find a good book about your favorite athlete. In the past, someone would write a book about what they loved with nothing more than a hope that, just maybe, their book would find an audience. Today, giant bookstores figure out what kinds of books people buy the most, then [...]
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9 Saddest Horse Racing Tragedies
In few sports is tragedy both more instant and prevalent than in horse racing. Corruption and shady characters off the turf, along with inherent dangers on it leave both horses and riders exposed to risk. Here, we would like to focus on nine horses that met an untimely end under extraordinary circumstances. Some are recent, [...]
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12 Sexiest Korean LPGA Golfers
The LPGA doesn’t get enough respect. Sure, you’ve probably heard that conventional argument dozens, if not hundreds of times before, but there’s another angle that transcends athletic ability. There are some bona fide hotties on the LPGA tour and elsewhere. And a disproportionate amount hail from South Korea. Why is that? I don’t know. We’re [...]
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9 Professional Athletes With Extremely Weird Hobbies
It can’t just be about sports. It can’t. Sure you can focus on just sports, but then you wind up boring and creepy, like Kobe Bryant. Variety is the spice of life, and these guys certainly have variety in spades. It’s hard to get further away from the world of athletics than bow ties, S.W.A.T. [...]
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9 Funniest Kiss-Cam Moments
The Kiss-Cam might be the single best innovation of the live sports experience in the past 25 years…or at least since the dot races. No other spectacle provides such opportunity for humiliation, lust, comedy, and humiliation again. I’m sure when that camera focuses on you and yours, the adrenaline starts going and that little voice [...]
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9 Insane Sports of the Ancient World
The sports that we decry as violent today really aren’t so bad in the context of historical competitions. Sure, a fat drunk Phillies fan threw up on a little girl, but, on the bright side, at least he didn’t ritualistically sacrifice her to the baseball gods. Football might be facing a concussion crisis, but until [...]
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9 Greatest Athlete Music Video Cameos
Nothing gets my “inessential cross-promotion” engine going like a good athlete cameo in anything, be it TV show, film, or music video. Music videos are the best avenue for athletes because the allow them to appear their athlet-iest, looking like big shots, wearing sunglasses indoors, and just looking awesome. And athletes like their cameos cause [...]
