Beard calls posing her latest “outside adventure” and is unapologetic: Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard is on the cover of the July issue of Playboy, billed as “The World’s Sexiest Athlete Nude.”
Inside the magazine, there are eight pictures of the 25-year-old Beard with her clothes off.
Beard is unapologetic about what she calls her latest “outside adventure.” She has modeled in men’s magazines, including FHM, before.
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WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Danica Patrick may be small, but she’s not about to back down on the track or off.
Patrick, one of two women in Sunday’s ABC Supply/A.J. Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile, had an on-track collision with the car driven by Dan Wheldon and then made a beeline for the Englishman in the pits after coming back to finish eighth.
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*In demand: Claudio Ranieri was reportedly wanted by Manchester City*
Claudio Ranieri threw Manchester City’s well-laid plans into confusion yesterday when the former Chelsea manager rejected the Eastlands job to take charge of Juventus.
Ranieri, who quit as boss at Parma last week, was lined up to succeed sacked City manager Stuart Pearce when Thaksin Shinawatra’s summer takeover of the club has been completed.
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Serena Williams seems to have joined the heavyweight division of tennis players as she pummels her way towards another tournament victory at the French Open.
Big-boned Serena has never been one to glide lightly across the court, but the extra-short skirts the US superstar has been wearing on the famous courts at Roland Garros this week have shown off the kind of killer thighs more often seen on the women’s wrestling circuit.
But the way she has stormed into the quarter-finals in Paris shows she is not lacking in fitness and stamina.
Her once willowy figure has given way to muscles and bulk, but it’s also served her well, having fought her way to a berth in the last eight.
All power to the big stars of women’s tennis.
Maria Sharapova has also turned heads at the tournament with a fuller frame.
*Serena showing a whole lot of thigh at the 2007 French Open*
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David Beckham is having second thoughts about ending his playing career in the footballing backwater of the United States.
The former England captain, 32, signed a five-year contract worth £125 million with LA Galaxy in January after being sidelined by Real Madrid as well as Steve McClaren’s England.
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LAS VEGAS — Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted to give Oscar De La Hoya a beating. He had to settle for just getting a win. Mayweather won one of boxing’s richest fights ever Saturday night by using his superb defensive skills and superior speed to take a 12-round split decision and win the WBC 154-pound title in his first fight at that weight.
The fight was billed as one that would save boxing, and while it didn’t do that, it was an entertaining battle between two proud champions who fought hard from the opening bell through the end of the final round.
The fight ended with the sellout crowd on its feet roaring and two fighters trading punches wildly at the final bell. They then stopped and embraced each other.
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PARIS, France (Reuters) — Lyon’s Czech striker Milan Baros was handed a three-match ban by the French professional football league (LFP) on Thursday for pinching his nose in front of an opponent.
Former Liverpool and Aston Villa player Baros pinched his nose in front of Rennes’ Cameroon-born midfielder Stephane M’Bia and waved his hand as if he were repelling an offensive odour during the French champions’ 0-0 draw at Rennes on April 18.
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LOS ANGELES — A veteran sports writer for the Los Angeles Times said in his column Thursday that he is a transsexual.
Mike Penner told readers of his struggle to embrace his gender and said when he returns from vacation in a few weeks he will be known as Christine Daniels. He did not say whether he was having surgery or why he’s changing his last name.
“I am a transsexual sports writer,” Penner wrote. “It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words.”
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PERTH, Australia – Former Chicago Bulls center Luc Longley and his family barely escaped a fire that destroyed their home and possibly some basketball memorabilia.
Longley said he managed to get his girlfriend, two children and their two friends out of the home, a converted industrial premise, before it went up in flames Friday night.
“I was asleep and heard a bang, an explosion, and it was already on fire and got the kids out,” Longley said Saturday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai inmate Samson Sor Siriporn boosted her chances of freedom by beating Japan’s Ayaka Miyano to win the vacant women’s WBC light flyweight title at the notorious “Bangkok Hilton” prison on Tuesday.
Under the gaze of dozens of prison guards, Siriporn, a convicted drug dealer, battled through the unforgiving Thai heat to score a unanimous victory on points and kick-start parole proceedings for her early release.
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