1. The 20 Best Blink-and-You-Miss-It Moments in Sports

    Pitchers can hurl baseballs up to 105 mph. A slap shot can send a puck flying at 90 mph. Football players can sprint 40 yards in under 5 seconds. An F1 car can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 2 seconds...

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  2. Trash Talkers Who Couldn't Back It Up

    You won't see Michael Jordan or Larry Bird or Joe Namath on this list. Trash talkers they were, but they backed it up. They were legends. The athletes on this list are the ones that talked up a big game and then screwed up a big game...

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  3. Dumbest Sports Inventions Ever

    Hey, give inventors their props. Their protective designs have saved countless athletes from injury. Their technological advances enable us to watch sports from afar...

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  4. 15 Worst Voices in Sports

    Professional sports are about skills, strength and agility, but also communication. Team huddles, postgame interviews, taunting barbs directed at opponents, commercial endorsements, ...

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  5. Ben Roethlisberger and 10 Biggest Male Athlete Fashion Fails: The Hat Edition

    Renowned journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn once wrote: "Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats and shrapnel...

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  6. 20 Most Unimaginable Flukes of Nature in Sports

    Call her Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Mama Pacha , Gais, Terra, Tellus, or what you will. We're all talking about the same lady. The one that rules the tides and the rains, the birds and the beasts...

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  7. 25 Biggest Wedgies in Sports

    As the ancient adage goes: Wedgies are like friends: they know your inner self; they're intimately close; and, it feels great when you pick out a good one. No one has noted the analogy more than athletes and spectators...

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  8. 10 Athletes Who Own Way Too Many Guns

    Pro athletes are very much in the public eye. Some get attacked by crazed fans. Some get targeted by criminals looking for a big score. Many get endlessly harassed and heckled...

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  9. 25 Craziest Fan Attacks in Sports

    Watching a sporting event makes you a spectator. Being devoted to a team or a player makes you a fan. Punching, tackling, thrashing, stabbing or gunning down a player? Well, that makes you a whack job...

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  10. 15 Female Athletes Who Look Great out of Uniform

    Gentlemen, sports fans, not every female athlete can be a 24/7 goddess like Maria Sharapova. Once the sweat is washed away, the contorted faces allowed to relax, the grungy uniforms ...

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  11. In Memoriam: Athletes Who Passed on in 2011

    This is a tribute to the careers of beloved athletes and sports personalities that, in the past year, made the transition from stadium to Elysium...

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  12. The 20 Biggest Cheerleader Takedowns in Sports

    Cheerleaders get their share of worship for their curves, their moves and their hotness. But what we don't give them credit for is their grit, their courage or their resilience. Folks, these gals are on the front line and in the line of fire...

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  13. Athletes Gone Ballistic: The 20 Most Intense Episodes

    This is not a list of athletes who fell into drug abuse, gambling, alcohol or crime. This is not a list of accused and convicted rapists, harassers, gropers...

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  14. The Most Famous Gifts and Fine Jewelry in Sports

    What good is a multi-million dollar salary, if you don't indulge? Diamonds come in as many colors as Lucky Charm marshmallows, you have 32 teeth (unless you're a hockey player) ...

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  15. The Biggest Surprise Stars of the Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games have produced many champions. Of those, the majority were already rising stars or proven pros. This list is not that majority. The following athletes were the unknowns, the underdogs, or the has-beens...

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  16. The Biggest Pukers in Sports

    puke (v.) —1600, probably of imitative origin (cf. Ger. spucken "to spit," L. spuere); first recorded in the "Seven Ages of Man" speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It...

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  17. The Most Grossly Overpaid Athletes of 2011

    Athletes earn big money because they generate big money. In many cases, the ginormous salaries are justified—pro athletes are the best in the world at what they do, and every ...

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  18. Hidden Messages in Athlete and Team Names

    Rearrange the letters in Tom Landry and you might come up with "Try, old man." Rearrange the letters in Hines Ward and you just may stumble on "Shared win." Jumbles, anagrams, word scrambles, call them what you will...

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  19. The Best Sports Movies to Buy for the Holidays

    So you've decided to buy a sports flick for a sports fan buddy. Congratulations! A big step. A bold one. A good one. Now comes the hard part, though. Which flick? It's holiday season so you don't want a real downer, or anything too intense...

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  20. 20 Athletes Who Should Have Played Other Sports

    At times, athletes show a scintillation of an unused super talent. A talent that, woefully, is not necessary in their chosen sports. It makes one wonder how things might have gone if they had chosen differently...

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  21. 20 Worst 'Superteam' Fails in Sports History

    Einstein proved that the speed of light is a cosmic constant and thus can never be broken. So it is in sports with "dream teams...

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  22. The Most Empty Promises in Sports for the Last Few Years

    Back in the day, it took some potent talent-backed hubris to guarantee a goal, a win or a championship. Babe Ruth did it and we were in complete awe. Joe Namath did it and we were somewhat in awe...

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  23. The 25 Most Astounding Athletic Career Comebacks

    The athletes on this list have been maimed, shot, scorched, stabbed, grenaded, banned, crippled, stricken with poverty and stricken with cancer. No one imagined they would, or could ever return to their athletic endeavors...

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  24. Renee Richards and the Most Controversial Athletes in Sports History

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  25. 10 Most Amazing Stadiums That Were Never Built

    Green, glitzy, towering, domed jewels of sports-venue architecture—they're out there, folks. Er, on paper, at least. These stadium proposals once had fans slobbering like Pavlovian hounds...

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