Tag Archives: female athletes
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This Jump Roping Video Is Much More Awesome Than You Might Think (Video)
Most of the time, if you come across a YouTube video with the words “World’s Best” in the title, you’re in for some disappointment. There are a lot of delusional people out there with video cameras and access to the internet, and they post a lot of dumb videos. However, when I came across this [...]
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21 Female Sports Firsts
On Sunday, a 28-year-old woman from New York became the first female ever to try out for NFL teams at one of the league’s regional combines. It really was a historic moment, and the media treated it as such by turning out in droves,. The only problem, of course, is that the woman, Lauren Silberman, [...]
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A 28-Year-Old Woman with No Football Experience Tried Out at the NFL Regional Combine on Sunday (Video)
Did you know that anyone can take part in one of the NFL’s regional combines if they pay the entrance fee? Seriously, anyone at all. No connections, no invitations, no football experience necessary. If you pay the money and show up on time, you can basically try out for the National Football League. Well, a [...]
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75 Fittest Bodies in Sports
All pro athletes are incredibly fit. Well, maybe not all of them. But most. However, some pro athletes are even more fit than others. Maybe they are just genetically gifted, or maybe they are gym rats. But some of these people are physical specimens that just blow you away. And today we’re going to take a stab [...]
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The 50 Best Butts in Sports
When I was first handed this assignment, my first thought was, “50 best butts in sports? That’s easy. They’re all surfers and beach volleyball players.” However, while surfers and beach volleyball players did indeed make a very strong showing here—15 out of 50, or 30%—we ended with a pretty nice variety of sports, and the [...]
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The 50 Most Googled Female Athletes of 2012
Last December we told you that 2011 was a big year for women’s sports, and it was. We weren’t lying. But this year—and I say this without an ounce of hyperbole—was even bigger. In addition to another exciting season in women’s tennis, we had a couple of huge viral video superstars pop up, as well [...]
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15 Female Athletes You Should Follow on Twitter
Twitter gives the general public access to private lives and thoughts of celebrities like we have never had before. And to be quite frank, most of the time this is a bad thing. (Have you ever seen Heidi Montag’s Twitter feed? Yeah.) However, with a select few, such access can be enlightening and entertaining. This [...]
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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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13 Greatest Female Summer Olympians
The the 2012 Summer Olympics are now just a few short days away, and you know what that means: for the next 20 days or so, we’re all going to become experts on sports we previously knew nothing about, going on and on about how this diver arched her back too much as she entered [...]
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11 Female Sports Pioneers
You know what’s cool? Girls and young women today can play sports and have the same hopes and dreams as boys and young men: play professionally, become a hero, get their face on a serial box, make lots of money—all that stuff. Sure, there’s not exactly equality of the sexes in the world of sports, [...]
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12 Female Athletes To Watch In 2012
I’ll make this brief so we can get to the women. 2012 brings us the London Summer Olympics, a quadrennial event that introduces us to the next crop of talent across myriad disciplines. Also, the law of large numbers dictates that much of this talent will also be blessed in the looks department. You can’t [...]
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9 Female Athletes Who Competed Against Men
In 2011, female athletes are extremely popular and, more importantly, well respected. But this wasn’t always the case. For the last century or so, female athletes have had to put in a lot of hard work and perseverance to get the respect they deserve. And in some cases, this meant women actually competing against men [...]
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9 Female Athletes Who Don’t Just Get By On Their Looks (But Could)
Don’t hate them cause they’re beautiful. Hate them because they are beautiful and more successful than you are. And most of them could probably kick your butt on and off the court. Hate them for that. Though these ladies have looks, don’t write them off as eye candy, as they are among the most decorated [...]
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15 Female Athletes Who Belong in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
Sports Illustrated released its 2011 Swimsuit Issue, and like always, the women were ridiculously hot. And while I’m certainly not complaining about the models they used, I can help but think a magazine that’s all about sports could have better utilized some female athletes. From time to time, women like Danica Patrick and Anna Kournikova [...]
