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11 Popular Pop Songs That Name-Check Athletes
Sports and music go together like chocolate and peanut butter. Both professions garner notoriety, breed a culture of financial indiscretion, and both are just kind of awesome. So it’s no wonder that the two bleed together, like when LeBron James refused to acknowledge a beef with DeShawn Stevenson, saying that would be like “Jay-Z getting [...]
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9 Sports Record Holders Every Guy Should Know
There’s only so much room in our feeble human minds to retain all the knowledge we come across as sports fans. So how do we decide what to keep and what to throw out? That’s easy. Listen to us at TPS. There is no shortage of athletes who merit remembering, but since you can’t keep [...]
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The Breakfast of Champions: 15 Iconic (and, or Ironic) Wheaties Boxes
“Better eat your Wheaties,” was once a common response to a child saying they wished to be a professional athlete. Originally, it was a marketing slogan, but it became a popular refrain, which must have put the Wheaties ad guys on cloud nine. Few products are so closely linked with champions (sorry, Buick) as Wheaties, [...]
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Hey Four Eyes!: 9 Athletes that Seriously Rocked Goggles
Guys who need glasses don’t comprise a huge portion of the athletic community. These pointdexters are more at home in a library or science lab than on the playing field. However, every once in a while, a genetic freak comes along with athletic ability AND poor eyesight. However, in order to make this list, you [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 13th) – Michael Phelps
It was on this day in 2008 that Michael Phelps won his tenth and eleventh career gold medals. His tenth gold gave him the most Olympic gold medals for any athlete in both Summer and Winter Olympic Games modern history. It was the men’s 200m butterfly in which Phelps won his tenth career gold, setting [...]
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Michael Phelps and McLovin Party in Vegas (Pics)
Michael Phelps was out getting his party on in Las Vegas for McLovin’s 21st birthday. It was a huge bash for McLovin, real name Christopher Mintz-Plasse, and some stars were in attendance. But the big question is this: is McLovin kind of like Menudo? Now that he is officially grown up will we still think [...]
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Picture Of The Day – Balance
If you ever hear somebody giving swimmers crap about their sport, step in and call them an idiot. Swimming isn’t my first sport of choice, by any means, but it’s pretty physically taxing and I respect anybody who can do it well (especially smoke weed and do it well). After seeing this picture, I guess [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Have You Not Heard of Michael Phelps?
Interesting choice by the National Drugs Campaign to pick a somewhat chubby swimmer to serve as its “marijuana wastes potential” poster child. You know, because there’s this guy whose won a zillion gold medals and just so happens to smoke the reefer, too. I’m not entirely sure, but that guy certainly looks like the chiseled, [...]
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Shaq To Join The Cleveland Police Force
Shaquille O’Neal, also known as “The Big Shaqckle“, loves the limelight. He also loves dunking the ball, alienating teammates to the point of forcing a trade, challenging Michael Phelps in a swimming race, and Twitter. But there is one thing Shaq also seems to like as much as those other things: Being a cop. It [...]
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Michael Phelps New Mercedes SL63
Total Pro Sports – Michael Phelps, arguably the greatest swimmer ever has decided to splurge on himself and get a car that may or may not be faster then him. We just hope that this time he can control the speed and not end up crashing like he did his last vehicle. Following in the [...]
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Shaq Suffers Another Embarrassment After Losing To Phelps In The Pool
Total Pro Sports – The smack down on Shaq Vs. continued this week as the big man entered the pool looking to take on the worlds fastest man in the water, Michael Phelps. Previously Shaq was given a pink speedo to wear as he walked along the beach after being defeated by Misty May-Treanor and [...]
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Usain Bolt Sets New 100-meter Record At World Championships [Video]
Total Pro Sports – Call him a Cheetah, call him a Gazelle, or just call him the one and only Usain Bolt. This freak of nature out of Jamaica’s career has been one that would be read in a fictional novel, comparable to Michael Phelps in swimming. Today in Berlin at The World Championships Usain [...]
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Michael Phelps In Minor Car Accident
Total Pro Sports – Olympic gold medalist, and arguably the best swimmer ever, Michael Phelps was involved in a two car crash Thursday night in his home town of Baltimore. Phelps is said to be alright as are the two passengers in his car. The woman in the other car was taken to the hospital [...]
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New Swimsuits Take Down Michael Phelps And His 200-Meter Freestyle Record
Total Pro Sports – Back from a layoff after smoking some marijuana and banging some hookers, Michael Phelps seemed to have brought himself back to old form after setting a new world record in the 100-meter butterfly a few weeks ago. So how does one beat a top-flight Michael Phelps? Let’s just say the secret [...]
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Michael Phelps Breaks World Record In The 100-Meter Butterfly
Total Pro Sports – Remember that guy named Michael Phelps? He won eight gold medals back at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing, breaking seven world records in the process, but was then booked smokin’ some pot and bangin’ some hookers. Well now he’s back to breaking records again and not even Sherrif Lott can [...]
