In honor of the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing, we decided to award a few medals of our own. The event is Athlete-Celebrity Couples, and they will be judged on Hotness, Likability, and Endurance Potential (each category is worth 10 points; a perfect score would be 30 points).
In no particular order: 
Derek Jeter and Minka Kelly
Hotness: 9.7  Pretty boy + cutie pie=A darn respectable score. 
Likability: 9.0 She OK but hey, he’s a member of the New York Yankees. We’re Boston Red Sox fans. ‘Nuff said.
Endurance Potential: 4.6 Playboy boy + cutie pie=A good time had by all. For a few months anyway.
Tom …read more

Sigh. Tennis player Andy Roddick’s fan base is dwindling by the day.
First, he dashed the hopes of teenyboppers and twentysomethings holding out hope that maybe, just maybe, he’d stay in bachelorhood long enough for fate to intervene and throw them into coupledom. Alas, his engagement to Brooklyn Decker changed all of that.
And now, Roddick has alienated a likely small yet no less worthy demographic of his fan base, the NASCAR lovers. Why so? Because he doesn’t see the spectator appeal in a sport where “you turn left for four hours.”
Well, it’s a dis alright. But it in the grand scheme …read more

Or rather, where the tennis player will nest, at least sometimes, with his swimsuit model wife-to-be.
He has two houses already, but these digs in the Gramercy section of NYC are purportedly the newest addition to his real estate collection. (Other celebrity real estate listings are on that site as well, should you be inclined to see How the Overpaid People in American Culture Live).
So what does Roddick—who’s already fallen victim to the dreaded name blend, he and Brooklyn Decker having been dubbed “Broddick” in some media outlets—have to say about his impending domestic bliss? The Good A-Rod (as opposed to the Evil …read more

The other day we reiterated our theory that when professional athletes hook up with models, good things happen on the field/court. (And we’re pretty confident “good things” happen in other, more private locales, too).
In case you needed visual evidence of the case we made for Andy Roddick, here’s a special-for-YouTube 2008 Sports Illustrated video of his swimsuit model fiancee Brooklyn Decker (1m, 13s) on a shoot in Israel.
Warning: If you’re a man, you might need a cold shower after this. If you’re a chick, you might not be in the mood for bathing suit shopping until your memory of this video fades …read more

We made this observation way back in November, when Marko Jaric’s on-court numbers with the Minnesota Timberwolves spiked as things were heating up with his arm charm, Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima.
And Super Bowl aside, European jet-setter Tom Brady had a season for the QB record books. It also marks his first full NFL season with Gisele Bundchen at his side.
Now we can add Andy Roddick to the list of Athletes Who Improved After Getting a Little Something-Something From a Model. Just days after his engagement to swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker, Roddick broke his 11-game losing streak to Roger Federer …read more

Wow, is that a hokey title or what?
Anyway, it’s true: The 25-year-old tennis player snagged Brooklyn Decker, a 20-year-old swimsuit model and decided she’s a keeper. Andy Roddick decided to make his cradle-robbing legal popped the question (”Will you marry me?” and not “You mean you’re not even old enough to drink?”—though you’d be forgiven for guessing the latter). 
And we aren’t kidding about “snagged.” People.com reports that he spotted her in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and had his agent get her number.
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We could make some naughty tennis puns …read more