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They were stretched all around, as far as the eye could see, at the BCS National Championship Game last night in Miami. The Florida Gators, and game MVP Tim Tebow, beat the Oklahoma Sooners 24-14 to capture their second National Title in 3 years. Florida was also voted the AP National Champion in the poll released this morning.

Experts expected the game to be a shoot-out with two of the best offenses in the NCAA going head to head. Oklahoma did not score less than 35 points in any game this season en route to a 12-1 regular-season record and Big 12 championship. The Gators were also an offensive juggernaut, also finishing 12-1 and winning the SEC championship. It was Florida’s #4 ranked defense that made the difference.

Despite having the Heisman Trophy winner in Sam Bradford, Oklahoma was not able to put the points on the board that they are used to. They were stopped at the goal line twice in the first half, once on 4th down and once with an interception. Still, the game was neck and neck in the second half until Florida blocked an Oklahoma field goal attempt. After that play one could feel the momentum swing to Florida, and they ran away with the game. Tebow and Percy Harvin, who had missed a month with an injury and stayed in Florida over Christmas to rehab for the game, put the Sooners away.

You’ve probably wondered to yourself, who is the hottest cheerleader of all time? Let’s take a look…

Wait a minute! Who is that stunning mullet beauty in the bottom row…?

That’s right. The most beautiful woman in sports history has a name. And her name is Paula Abdul.

Back in the 80s Paula attended an audition to cheer for the LA Lakers, and defeated hundreds of other hopefuls with her unique and dynamic dance style, and eventually became the team’s choreographer.

This former Lakers Visit Cheerleader is the hottest thing to ever where a miniskirt, but…

Did you see that?? She’s also a humanitarian! She is going to work you out Idol Style so that YOU can cheer just as hard as she can!

The last 6 years taught us that Paula can’t judge the vocal talents of others. Probably because the Visit 90s taught us that she can’t sing.

But apparently she can dance and… cheer.

Hot.

…have been alive a shorter amount of time than John Smoltz has been pitching for the Atlanta Braves. However, he was at Atlanta’s Turner Field this morning to clean out his locker. Smoltz has agreed in principle to a $5.5 million, 1 year deal with the Boston Red Sox, who saved a lot in picking up a great pitcher.

Smoltz had 210 wins and 154 saves while a member of the Braves. In the mid-to-late 90’s he was a member of the greatest pitching staff ever; including future MLB Hall of Famer’s Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine. The Braves won their division 14 straight years, but were only able to win 1 World Series.

Injuries and severe pain have hampered Smoltz the last few years, but, when healthy, he is still one of the most effective pitchers in the league. He joins a Red Sox team that is a perennial contender and on the short list of potential World Series Champions. While it will be strange to see him in another jersey, Smoltz career is old enough to make its own decisions.

If sexy sports women are your thing, the person to start and end the discussion is Anna Kournikova. She broke into the world of professional tennis as a 16-year old phenom on the ATP tour. She was quickly know world wide for her inescapable sex appeal more for her tennis play.

Kournikova never won a professional tournament during her career which ended due to severe back pain. She did however turn her other assets into a very lucrative modeling and endorsement career. Even though she never won, she did more for women’s tennis than anyone else in the last decade, besides the Williams sisters. Ratings for her televised matches were more than double than when other players played.

It’s been years since Anna played in a real tournament. Still, she is in the public conscience, having dated Sergei Fedorov, Pavel Bure, and Enrique Iglesias. Also, she is impossible to forget.

#5 : Jose Canseco Gets Juiced
For years, Major League baseball fans watched as Jose Canseco launched homers into the uperdeck. With homerun records falling year after year, nobody seemed to care that these athletes had bulging biceps, thick neck, and huge legs.
That all changed when Jose Canseco retired and published Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ‘Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. Revealing his steriod abuse during his record baseball history.

#4: SMU Football receives the “death penalty”
The “death penalty” refers to the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) power to force United States academic institutions not to compete in certain sports. It is the most severe punishment that a school can receive. Twenty years ago, money killed the SMU football program. The NCAA handed SMU the first and only “death penalty,” eliminating football for the 1987 season.

#3 : The O.J. Simpson Trails
Never has a professional athlete fallen from such heights to such depths as O.J. Simpson has. Simpson, a former Heisman Trophy winner, was arrested in 1994 and charged with the murder of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

#2: Tonya Harding
This skating scandal was so huge that it made Olympic women’s figure skating competition the sixth-highest rated program in history.Trying to eliminate her competition in the 1994 Winter Games, Tonya Harding asked her then-husband to hire an attacker to take a pipe to Nancy Kerrigan’s knee. This led Harding to a victory gaining the U.S. title.

#1: The 1919 Black Sox Fix
The Cincinnati Reds’ 1919 world championship banner proudly hangs at their current home, The Great American Ballpark. One of the players banned for life by Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis. Most importantly, a signed confession by Jackson was somehow “lost” during the trial. The scandal damaged baseball badly.

One of the many wonders of Google is there roaming cameras! Lucky for us these amazing camera captured some images of the clandestine high-altitude road test for the new set of Porsches. The images were unearthed by the Garage 419 blog on the Google Maps Street View feature.

The pics were of Mount Evans Rd in Idaho Springs, Colorado, it is the highest paved road in North America. These road test are deliberately kept a secret to ensure the no one gets a chance to grab some shots and spoil official launches. No one is for sure when the Google took these pictures, speculations suggest sometime in the past 6 months. The Porsches in these photos has been identified as Caymans, Boxsters, 911 Turbo, and Targa.

Rascal Terry, a French motorcyclist, was found today after he went missing Sunday during the second stage of the race, between Santa Rosa and Puerto Madryn, Argentina. He was found earlier today is an area of dense vegetation, 50 feet from his motorcycle, he had no helmet and no food or water beside him. Investigating the death are the Las Pampas regional police. It was Terry’s first time in this race and before the start he spoke about his dream of being part of the Dakar Rally “I’ve dreamed about being in the Dakar since it started,” commented Terry who has 29 years of racing experience. “I think it’s going to be great….I’m going to do all I can to take full advantage of all the legs of the race.”

Terry contacted organized early on Sunday and notified them that he ran out of gas, but stop another rider and got some. Some hours later an alert was sent by him an a search team was sent out. Due to the dense terrain rescuers had a hard time making their way to him. The search was called off briefly on Tuesday after on rescuers that he had spotted Terry and finally a team reach him overnight. In the 31-year history of the race there has been a series of deaths and injuries. Two died during the last race in 2007. The last day of the rally is Jan 18 in Buenos Aires.

We all love to watch The UFC. We get a lot of the fighters but not enough of the octagon round girls. Here’s the line up of the beautiful women of the UFC.

-Arianny Celeste

Hometown: Â Â Â Â Â Â Las Vegas
Height: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 5′ 5″ (165 cm)
Weight: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 105 lbs.

“Sometimes I get recognized and it’s really cool when you see people who just want to talk to you and get your picture, It makes me feel really good, like a little celebrity.”

-Rachelle Leah

Hometown: Â Â Â Â Bay Area
Height: Â Â Â 5′ 8″ (173 cm)
Weight: Â Â Â 115 lbs.

“When I was 16 I started modeling…it was more of a hobby than anything. When I was 18, I sent in photos to agencies and began working immediately. My first job modeling was with a real estate infomercial. It was a lot of fun and I got bit by the modeling bug.”

-Edith Labelle

Hometown: Â Â Â Â Montreal
Height: Â Â Â 5′ 8″ (173 cm)
Weight: Â Â Â 117 lbs.

“I’ve been a fan of the UFC for years, It’s action-packed and I love the excitement. These guys train so hard to do this and they’re so talented. I enjoy watching it a lot.”

-Logan Stanton (The New Girl)

Hometown: Â Â Â Â Niceville
Height: Â Â Â 5′ 10″ (178 cm)
Weight: Â Â Â 115 lbs.

” I love to UFC. Everyone is so nice here. The best part of the job is the whole experience, being able to travel and watch these great fighters, Plus all of this is real, so it’s just amazing.”

When accused of adultery, you can’t just issue a standard denial these days – you have to sue the bastards who gave a voice to the accuser. Tony Parker, the husband of star Eva Longoria, has shot back at reports he cheated on Longoria with French model Alexandra Paressant by filing a $40 million lawsuit against the gossip site and their false rumors.

The lawsuit claims the alleged affair never happened, and that Parker has never even laid eyes on Paressant, let alone slept with her. Photos published on the gossip site suggest otherwise. Parker and Longoria have been steadfast in the denial of the affair and have publicly made clear that their marriage is as strong as ever.

There is even talk of a possible baby. Longoria claims she has just gained weight, but photos would tell us differently. Hopefully this suit won’t cause difficulty for the unborn child.

Mark Teixeira spoke in the Bronx today to publicly announce joining the Yankees with an 8 year contract offering $180 million to the first basemen. He maybe the bread winner, but after the announcement today you can see who wears the pants in the relationship.

“Two weeks before Christmas, I talked to (my wife) Leigh about it again, and we kind of decided that, hey, the Yankees are where we want to be. Cash (Brain Cashman) might want t ogive Leigh a hug, because when I asked her during the process, ‘Where should I go, where should I go?,’ she’d always say, ‘I just want you to be happy. ‘Finally she said, ‘I want you to be a Yankee, ‘and it was a done deal.” Wonder where he would have gone if his wife let him pick. Who really cares about the team….I thought MLB and NLB players where only in it for the money anyway! Highest bidder would have gotten my vote.

- Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine threatens a law suit for gossip spread about his relationship with Maria Sharapova in the Moscow-based alt-zine Exile.

-Her loudest grunt was measured at 101.2 decibels (louder than a motorcycle or a lawnmower) on 21 June 2005 at Wimbledon Centre Court. Previously the loudest grunt was by Monica Seles at 93.2 decibels.

- Maria dated Adam Levine, Andy Roddick, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Juan Carlos Ferrero

-According to tennisreporters.net Maria Sharapova’s people have set the record straight. She was not offered a guest spot on the TV show Desperate Housewives.

- Maria has not vowed to avoid playing Fed Cup for Russia for the rest of her career.

Urban Meyer, head coach of the Florida Gators, stated that Southern California, Texas and Utah should fight to be recognized as part national champion.

He believes Pete Carroll, Mack Brown and Kyle Wittingham have good cause because all of them only lost one game and yet none of them are represented in the national championship game Thursday.

Teams like Utah have a reason to gripe due to being in such a small conference. It’s gotten so bad that Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who is not the lawyer for the University, but the lawyer for the state of Utah is investigating the BCS for possible antitrust laws in light of the type of schools that get to play for the national championship. College football does need to establish a playoff system so there can be one national champion, not multiple. It is the only popular sport that does not have a clearly defined system to determine its champion and that needs to change. Everyone cannot be number one in college football.

Sex tape-starring socialite turned E! reality show starlet Kim Kardashian is reportedly secretly engaged to her NFL-playing BF, Reggie Bush. We hear that this week’s edition of Life & Style Weekly will include inside information on the Kim K Reggie Bush proposal, as well as a few shots of Kim’s massive new engagement ring. If the engagement rumor is true, this will be Kim’s second marriage.

The socialite was married to record producer Damon Thomas in 2000. Their marriage lasted for four years before the two divorced in 2004. Talk of possbile reality show, maybe another leaked sex tape in the works.

As we continue in the NBA season, several rookies have stood out from among the pack as the more talented players in their class.

OJ Mayo, Derrick Rose, Greg Oden and Rudy Fernandez have all impressed for various reasons. OJ Mayo was expected to be a great talent on a losing team and this has happened as the Grizzlies are woeful, but he has been a great scorer for them. Derrick Rose was expected to be a talented player on a mediocre team and the Bulls have ingrained him into the offense.

Greg Oden, though, has been inconsistent, but his team is winning in the tough Western conference. Furthermore, Rudy Fernandez, his teammate on the Portland Trailblazers, has been an impressive spark off the bench. Rose and Mayo are on terrible teams and while they have impressive numbers, this has not translated to many wins and the odds of either making the playoffs this season, especially Mayo, are quite slim. Some voters will vote for the rookie of the year based on individual numbers while others will analyze the rookie’s impact on the team’s win-loss record. While you think about your decision, here are some NBA cheerleaders to view:

Steamy Sports is looking ahead in the new year to give you our list of the nine hottest sports star’s hottest wives in 2009. We’ve poured over lists and suggestions from readers to come up with a comprehensive list. If you have a dispute feel free to leave a comment. Without further delay here’s the list:

1. Vanessa Bryant (Kobe Bryant)

2. Victoria Beckham (David Beckham)

3. Cynthia Rodriguez (A-Rod)

4. Ingrid Vandebosch (Jeff Gordon)

5. Eva Longoria (Tony Parker)

6. Abigail Clancy (Peter Crouch)

7. Michelle Damon (Johnny Damon)

8. Jennifer Scholle (James Blake)

9. Elin Nordegren Woods (Tiger Woods)

1/06/08 - Janet - Sexy latino girl in tight bikini dancing to soft angel music while shaking her tight tomales.

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We love our lists here, so we decided to round up 2008’s top ten sports stories.

1. In Phelps We Trust. Who would have thought that a 23, an Olympic swimmer could take home seven world records, one Olympic record, and eight gold medals. This great moment even came with drama when in the 100-meter butterfly it Phelps had to catch up, touching out his Serbian rival by the narrowest possible margin of 0.01 seconds. Phelps achievement not only tops this list, but, arguably, stands as the greatest Olympic performance in history. Go America!

2. Giant Upset. It was one of the three greatest upsets in Super Bowl History, rivaling the Jets over the Colts in Super Bowl III and the Patriots over the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. Yet it was even more than that because the New York Giants‘ 17-14 win knocked the New England Patriots off an unprecedented perc.

3. Bolt Of Lightning. A bit ironic his name being Bolt, yet it still didn’t do justice to Usain Bolt’s astonishing Olympic performance. The gangly, 21-year-old Jamaican became the first sprinter to shatter world records in both the 100 and the 200 at the same Olympics. He won the gold in 9.69 despite slowing and beginning his celebration some five meters before the finish.

4. I Feel Like I’ve Been Here Before… In the 1980s, Magic Johnson’s Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Bird’s Boston Celtics would capture eight championships between them, resurrecting a storied NBA rivalry that had seen those two teams meet in seven finals between 1959 and 1969, and in the new millineum Kevin Garnett Ray Allen, and Paul Piercelead the Celtics to the league’s best record and a meeting in the finals with their old rivals the Lakers.

5. Tiger Limps To Victory. Well know that golf is hard, and that Tiger Woods is a god among mortals. For the U.S. Open Woods played the game coming out of a knee surgery. It would take to the 91st hold of play for Woods to finally out duel Rocco Mediate. Finally, Woods would do so in pain, capturing his 14th major overall (with one leg), getting him closer to Jack Nicklaus and his 18 Major Championships.

6. Three Times A Winner. Jimmie Johnson embarked into the 2008 NASCAR season as a two-time champion. He’ll enter the 2009 season as a three-time champion. Johnson, who drives the #48 Lowes Chevrolet, won his third consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship in November. The win allowed him to join Cale Yarborough as the only man to ever win three consecutive championships.

7. Nadal ousts Federer in “One of Greatest Matches Ever”. Federer was “The Master of the Grass”. Nadal was unbeatable on clay courts. Both tennis warriors would embark on the impossible. Nadal searched for his record setting sixth straight Wimbledon. Nadal wanted to prove to the world that he wasn’t just a clay court champion. Nadal would do just that, in a hard fought 4 hour and 48 minute barrage of power, accuracy, and intensity. Many consider it to be one of the greatest tennis matches of all time and there is no doubting that many tennis fans will never forget this 2008 epic for a long time to come.

8. Falcons, Dolphins experience HUGE turnarounds. A year ago, things looked dismal for both the Miami Dolphins and Atlanta Falcons. Now, both teams are experience amazing comeback seasons. Under new rookie sensation Matt Ryan (above) and breakout running back Michael Turner, the Falcons rocketed to an 11-5 record and nearly won the NFC South. The Dolphins on the other hand had the greatest turnaround in the history of the league, going from 1-15 a year ago to an 11-5 record.Â

9. Lesnar KOs Couture to win UFC Heavyweight crown. This was by far one of the most anticipated matches in UFC history. It did get a lot of slack because of Brock’s MMA record (2-1), but the fight lived up to the hype. After a rough first round with Lesnar, Lesnar, followed by a round of hammer fists to end the fight, hit Couture on the crown of the head. He will now wait to fight Frank Mir to crown an Undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion.

10. Danica Did It! While this may not be a big moment for a lot of people, it was a big one historically. Patrick becomes the first woman ever to win an Indy Car event. She also becomes the first one in recent memory to win an auto race.

Philadelphia Phillies left-handed specialist JC Romero has been suspended for 50 games by MLB because he tested positive for a banned substance.

Romero has denied the charge of cheating but won’t declare any formal appeals. MLB has had a problem with players such as Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds rumored to have taken steroids.

Give Romero credit for not doing something like driving drunk like Antoine Walker or rushing to receive sex like Charles Barkley, but Romero’s suspension starts as soon as the next MLB season starts in spring. And also good to see the World Series champions taking a firm stand.