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Caught in the Net: A Sporting Chance

I’ve written about the obvious intersection between sex and athletes before, so just to recap: people who excel at endeavors involving their bodies tend to have really beautiful bodies, and there’s no shortage of websites devoted to the enjoyment of such bodies. Let’s tee off:

Sports blog Winning the Turnover Battle compiled a list of Sports Hotties You Don’t Know . . . Yet. Sorted by sports (including golf, basketball, soccer, softball, gymnastics, and tennis), this is an admirable round-up of up-and-coming ladies who win at their chosen professions and also win at being hot. That same blog hosted an NFL Rookie (Cheerleader) Preview that’s . . . um . . . that is . . . sorry. Lost my train of thought. Cheerleaders. Mmmm. That’s what I meant to say.

Naked Fitness Models is just what is says: hard-bodied fitness models who, at some point, took off their clothes and got photographed. Does that count as sports-related? Well, one of the women featured, Zdenka Podkapova, was a professional gymnast before she became a nude model, so I say yes! (My criteria are rather loose, it’s true.)

The unpleasantly named Sports Bitches Blog brings together cheesy porn photos with sexy pictures of real athletes, and there are some nice ones here here, including lovely shots of Anna Kournikova, America’s longtime favorite hot tennis player.

I’m American. I don’t claim to understand cricket, though I know some Australians who swear it’s the best sport ever. If all the games were played Bikini Cricket style, I would be more easily convinced. (There’s even a video of the athletes in action that you can download.) Yum. That’s a sticky wicket. (Yep. The term “sticky wicket” comes from cricket. See? Read this column and you learn things.)

I don’t know if he’s actually a professional athlete, but the guy pictured in Fantasticmag’s “Support Your Local Athlete pictorial is gorgeous enough that I doubt you’ll care about his possible amateur status. Sure, it’s basically a catalog spread for athletic underwear, but I’ve got no beef with commerce when it involves that much beefcake.

A team in the women’s Spanish handball league recently found itself strapped for cash, and made the reasonable decision to pose naked for a magazine to raise enough money to finish the season. (I’ll leave “handball” and “handjob” jokes as an exercise for the reader.) Game on!

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