| Some ground rules: let us define "slutty" as either a spectacular single display of sexuality, or a track record thereof. We don't mean it to be pejorative. We think sluttiness can be great. Conversely, we don't necessarily endorse some of the behaviors on this list Ñ i.e. having a dozen children out of wedlock, putting carrots in orifices other than one's mouth, or posting sex tapes online as revenge. But we do believe that, for the sake of accurately documenting humankind's rich athletic heritage, these accomplishments should be collected in one place. Ñ the Nerve editors |
| 30. Evgeni Plushenko When he was sixteen years old, Evgeni Plushenko became the youngest male figure skater to ever receive a perfect score in a senior competition. The Russian later competed in the 2006 Olympics, dancing to music from The Godfather and winning the gold by an unprecendented margin. But his greatest accomplishment to date is the elaborate ice striptease he performed to Tom Jones' "Sex Bomb" at the 2005 Winter Skating Championships in Lyon, France. Thanks to Plushenko's fake torso and gold lame G-string (not to mention the hilariously uncomfortable announcers), it's one of the best YouTube clips of all time. — Gwynne Watkins |
| 29. James Hunt The leading icon of Formula One's playboy era, Hunt was a randy Brit whose celebrity extended well beyond winning the drivers' championship in 1976. When pressed to sign a contract stipulating an appropriate dress code, he sewed a badge to his racing uniform that read "Sex — Breakfast of Champions." His habit of surviving messy driving accidents earned him the vaguely dirty-sounding nickname "Hunt the Shunt," but that didn't deter a bevy of gorgeous women from pursuing him, including supermodel Jane Birkhead and Playboy centerfold Suzy Miller. He reportedly seduced Dutch journalist Alissa Morriën when she visited Hunt in his Spanish villa for an interview on (surprise!) the world's most eligible men. — Annsley Chapman |
28. Bjorn Borg The first sex symbol of tennis, the Swedish star abstained from intercourse during Wimbledon — all five times he won. Since leaving the sport, he's more than made up for it. His first marriage, to the tennis player Mariana Simionescu, failed when he met a seventeen year old while judging a wet-T-shirt competition and fathered her child. What's more, in 2001, Borg became the first celebrity to endorse . . . screwing. That's right: he took out a full-page ad in Sweden's biggest newspaper, imploring Swedes to "F--- for the Future!" so there would be enough youngsters around to care for senior citizens. "Get to it!" goaded the ad. "If nothing drastic happens, soon there won't be anyone who can work and put up for our pensions. Luckily there is a simple solution that is both enjoyable and relaxing: the Swedish model." More recently, Borg was spotted doing a "model search" for his new line of men's underwear. |
27. Jim Palmer A pioneer in the field of celebrity exhibitionism, the Baltimore Orioles pitcher put it all out there in his infamous ads for Jockey shorts. Whether by coincidence or consequence, he was slapped with a paternity suit and swarmed by groupies everywhere he went. Hey, it's one guy in a million who can pull off a purple-and-turquoise string bikini. — Ada Calhoun |
26. David Cone Whenever anyone talks about "action in the bullpen," minds wander to David Cone, the beloved pitcher accused of numerous indiscretions in his day — most famously jerking off in front of a groupie in the bullpen in 1989. The woman who accused the celebrated player (he pitched a perfect game in 1999 and is the subject of Roger Angell's 2001 book "A Pitcher's Story") claimed that, as she quickly exited the bullpen, Cone said to her, "You're a big baby. You're not invited to showtime anymore." — A. Calhoun |
25. Jason Kidd It's probably best not to trust allegations from someone's former spouse, but if Jason Kidd's ex-wife is even half credible, the dude slept with at least half of the eastern seaboard. After the Nets point guard filed a divorce suit, she countersued, claiming infidelity; among her list of Kidd's dalliances: strippers in Arizona, Sacramento, Dallas, Indiana and Miami; a Nets season ticket holder; a cheerleader in New Orleans; and two women from D.C. I think that's another triple-double. — A. Chapman |
24. Cristiano Ronaldo There are at least five legendary footballers named Ronaldo (plus one Ronaldão and a Ronaldinho). Only one, though, attracted international headlines for having group sex in a $4,000-a-night London hotel room: Cristiano Ronaldo, of Manchester United. The October 2005 incident — in which Ronaldo and his cousin attended to two young women on a "king-sized sleigh bed, painted in silver leaf" in a ritual known as "roasting" — resulted in assault charges, later determined to be bogus. Today, when not being photographed in his underwear, Ronaldo is the subject of tabloid rumors that he's having "sizzling" sex with British soap star Gemma Atkinson. Does the word "sizzling" imply roasting? Was roasting involved? What is it with these footballers and roasting? (See #17.) — Peter Smith |
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23. Jack Johnson The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World (1908-1915), Jack Johnson bedded untold numbers of white women, flaunting a major taboo of the era. Sex conquers all! When asked the secret to his staying power by a reporter who'd seen flocks of ladies going into and out of his room, Johnson reportedly said, "Eat jellied eels and think distant thoughts." (A list of Johnson's major conquests is available here.) — A. Calhoun |
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22. Chipper Jones Conservative, clean-cut Braves third baseman Chipper Jones, or as he's known to Mets fans, "Laaaarrryyy," was, with first wife Karin, the toast of Atlanta . . . until the late '90s, when he admitted to various affairs, and to fathering a child with a Hooters waitress. He's since remarried and remains beloved by Atlanta fans — and by Atlanta's enemies, who will be making Hooters jokes about him until the day he retires. — A. Calhoun |
21. Roscoe Tanner The golden boy of '70s tennis had a 153-mph serve, but off the court he relied on the assistance of a wingman, cruising singles bars and Playboy Clubs with his doubles partner, Arthur Ashe. He wrote about the resulting sexual buffet in his 2005 autobiography, Double Fault, including the time Ashe procured him a Playboy bunny and planted her in the stands for a post-game rendevous: "I witnessed beautiful women gravitating toward [Ashe] like James Bond, and all I had to do was pick up the leftovers. I told myself I shouldn't be doing this — ending up in hotel rooms with beautiful women I had met earlier that evening. . . at tour stops in Chicago, Washington and Houston." Later years were not so hospitable: twice divorced ("I think he has a sex addiction," his second ex-wife helpfully told ESPN.com), he impregnated an escort in the mid-'90s and has spent time in jail on theft and child-support charges. — Michael Martin |
20. Alberto Tomba Who knows if Alberto Tomba was all talk, but it was certainly memorable talk. "Tomba the Bomba," who famously howled "I am a beast!" as he crossed the finish line in the 1987 Alpine Skiing World Cup (adding, "I am the new messiah of skiing!"), demonstrated similar humility with regards to the opposite sex. At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, he remarked, "I used to have a wild time with three women until 5 a.m., but I am getting older. In the Olympic Village here, I will live it up with five women, but only until 3 a.m." When asked in 1994 if he preferred Witt, Nancy Kerrigan, or Tonya Harding, he replied "All three, together." It's hard to say whether Tomba was putting his penis where his mouth was, but at least one report suggests he was actively trying. Former U.S. World Cup skier Eva Twardokens remembers running into Tomba in Japan, in 1989: "Walking back to the ski rooms. . . he was saying things like, 'Come back to my room, we'll have fun, it's no problem.'" Good times? Not really. "He was just joking and flirting, but it really kind of scared me." — PS |
19. Kazuhito Tadano Japanese pitcher Kazuhito Tadano was a rising star in his home country until it was revealed he had starred in a gay-porn movie, in which he wore a leash and was jerked off by another guy. Slutty! Shunned by Japanese teams, Tadano signed with the Cleveland Indians. While he rose in ranks during the season, Tadano was repeatedly put before the press to "apologize" and explain that he's totally not into dudes: "I'm not gay," he said. "It was a one-time incident that showed bad judgment and will never be repeated. I was young, playing baseball, and going to college and my teammates and I needed money." Everybody leave the poor guy alone! From the looks of the video (still at left), he's suffered enough. — A. Chapman |
18. Dikembe Mutombo The oldest player in the NBA, Mutombo gives millions to eradicate childhood disease in the Republic of Congo and is a married father of six, but he's better known for his (urban-) legendary pick-up line, "Who wants to sex Mutombo?" Rumors vary, but the gist is Mutombo walks into a Georgetown bar/random strip club/Best Buy parking lot, throws his arms wide, and delivers his signature line. Although there's no verified recording, we choose to believe it exists. During a trial over shady business practices at infamous Atlanta strip joint The Gold Club, a dancer testifed that she was one of three women who performed oral sex on him at once. Whatever line he's using, it's working. — Nicole Ankowski |
17. Sunderland AFC British football clubs always make us think of Monty Python ("The Hammers, Karl Marx, the Hammers!") and Iron Maiden, but recent misbehavior by certain players challenges those innocent associations. Now, talk of "strikers" and "halfbacks" fills our minds with lurid images of "roasting" — U.K. slang for a gang of men penetrating a "bird", as on a spit. The dedicated truth-seekers at the Sun are still trying to ID the blue-haired strumpet roasted on a recently leaked video (available here, for now), but the identity of the roasters is not up for debate. Liam Lawrence, Chris Brown, Martin Woods and Ben Alnwick all took turns double-teaming the lass, with Brown providing football-themed commentary ("That is classic intercourse!") for an extra touch of prurience. Apparently feeling inspired, married West Brom goalie Russell Hoult and a friend roasted a woman this January, then lost the cellphone they recorded it on (The Sun, naturally, was shocked). — PS |
16. Stefan Postma Sex enthusiasts owe Dan Savage for a lot of things, two of them explicitly related to his capacity as a neologist. One is his celebrated reclaiming of the word "santorum", the other was his drive to give a name to the sex act wherein a man is anally penetrated by a strap-on-wearing woman. The resulting verb, "to peg," allows us to quickly summarize this sex tape: it's Dutch football goalie Stefan Postma being pegged by his girlfriend. He was then supplementally pegged when said girlfriend, jilted, put the video on the internet. — PS |
| 15. Minnesota Vikings "sex boat" squad Prince enthusiasts seeking to purify themselves in the waters of Lake Minnetonka may reconsider upon learning of the orgies held thereupon by Minnesota Vikings players, annually, until 2005, when word got out and scandal ensued. Seventeen Vikings players rented two cruise ships for the night of October 7, 2005, and flew in strippers and prostitutes to join them. Crew members were apparently horrified by what ensued: what the lawyer they subsequently hired described as "masturbation, oral sex, woman-on-man, woman-on-woman. . . toys. . . middle of the floor, middle of the couches, middle of the rooms." The players then disembarked and peed on the lawn of a local woman, who called 911. (In football terminology, this is known as a "foul"). — PS |
| 14. Boris Becker The youngest winner of Wimbledon men's singles (at a mere seventeen) may also be the sluttiest. Sure, Boris Becker and his wife, actress Barbara Feltus, posed nude on the cover of Stern magazine. Doesn't everyone? But in 2001, Becker fathered a child with a model he nailed in a closet at Nobu — while Feltus was in labor. Oops. DNA testing proved the model's child was Becker's, but Becker claimed he'd only had oral sex with the model, Angela Ermakova. In his version, Ermakova had covertly retained his seed in her mouth after the encounter and fiendishly used it to impregnate herself. The life of a former tennis star is certainly rife with intrigue. We see a Will Ferrell movie in here somewhere. — PS |
13. Oscar de la Hoya In the universe of boxing, Oscar de la Hoya's sperm seems to be just as ambitious and far-reaching as the rest of him: he's sired four kids by four different women. Unfortunately, not all of de la Hoya's conquests have been consensual, and he's racked up several sexual-assault charges. When the man did manage to keep it in his pants, he earned a gold medal and world titles in six weight classes, aided by spirit-rejuvenating pre-match non-ejaculatory sex (seriously). — A. Chapman |
12. Derek Jeter |
11. Anna Kournikova The Russian tennis sexpot confirms all suspicions that sports are just an excuse to get naked for FHM, act all sexy in commercials and make out with Enrique Iglesias. Bonus slutty points: appearing in ads for Berlei's sports bras, whose tagline was "only the ball should bounce." — A. Calhoun |
10. David Beckham Sure, the bronzed soccer god claims he's faithful to his wife, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham. But even if you overlook the stories from his alleged extramarital conquests — such as those of the Australian model who claimed that, while text-messaging, Beckham called himself "Peter Pan," her "Tinkerbell," and then-pregnant Posh "Wendy" — you can't ignore Becks' ongoing sexual obsession with himself. Anyone who hangs out on his balcony and yacht in tighty whities, poses for photos while kneeling topless on a bed (ass toward the camera lens, jeans pulled down just-so, keeping the boots on), and stars in his own 168-page coffee-table book is asking for it. Posh and Becks have moved to L.A., where Beckham has signed a $40 million contract to play for the L.A. Galaxy. This summer, they'll star in their own NBC reality show, Life With the Beckhams. You can't get much sluttier than that. — NA |
9. Babe Ruth The legendary slugger's teammate Ernie Shore liked to tell a story about Ruth bringing a woman into their hotel room. Sex noises kept him awake for hours; after he finally fell asleep, Shore later awoke to find Ruth asleep and the woman gone. He also noticed four or five cigar butts next to the bed, about which he inquired when Ruth woke up. To which Ruth replied: "Oh, that! I like a cigar every time I'm finished." (Buh-dum-bum.) The story may be apocryphal, but Ruth's sluttiness is a known quantity; he often boasted of having slept his way through the entire staff of a St. Louis brothel in one night. — KG |
8. Tonya Harding Famous for conspiring to knee-whack her alpha-female rival, Nancy Kerrigan, the former figure skater makes this list on the strength of her star turn in the Citizen Kane of celebrity sex tapes. Known colloquially as "The Wedding Video," the tape shows Harding getting it on with her ex-husband/high-school sweetheart/fellow conspirator, Jeff Gillooly. Penthouse published stills around the tape's release in September 1994. Fun fact: Harding claimed she was "drunk as a skunk" while the tape was being made. — KG |
7. Mickey Mantle Peter Golunbeck's forthcoming "inventive memoir" of Mickey Mantle, titled 7, has been criticized as salacious, but Golunbeck, a long-time sportswriter, swears the stories therein are all true: Mantle and teammate Billy Martin traded wives; Mantle slept with Marilyn Monroe; Mantle preferred the company of twin sisters, and so forth. If these tales seem far-fetched, you might first consult Jim Bouton's legendary tell-all, Ball Four, which depicts Mantle and his fellow Yankees as unabashed pussyhounds, often found hanging out on roofs, trying to catch women changing in adjacent windows. Then you should check out what the self-proclaimed "All-American Boy" wrote back to Yankees HQ, when the latter party solicited his most outstanding memory of Yankee Stadium for a 1973 anniversary celebration. Needless to say, said recollection was not celebratorily employed. — PS |
| 6. Dennis Rodman Dennis Rodman's autobio, Bad As I Wanna Be (alternate title: "As Typographically Erratic As I Wanna Be") features, unsurprisingly, a significant amount of sexual content, starting with the cover picture of a nude Rodman on a motorcycle, daintily cradling a basketball in his crotch. Besides chronicling Rodman's initial astonishment (and subsequent boredom) with women asking him to fuck them in front of their husbands and so forth, the book also goes into depth about Rodman's high-profile affair with Madonna. In their initial encounter, reports Rodman, Madonna asked him to eat her out ("Aren't you going to eat my pussy first?"), and he declined (Sixteen-point, bold: "I said NO to Madonna.") Luckily, he reports, "she got over it. She started stroking my shaft and getting into it, and before long I was inside her and we were fucking." But the relationship eventually fell apart, partly because Madonna was always talking about having Rodman's baby ("All the time, bro!") — PS |
5. Steve Garvey With a photogenic family and well-documented trips to church every Sunday, San Diego Padres first baseman Steve Garvey built a reputation as baseball's gentleman — until it was revealed that he was everyone's padre. Within two years of his 1987 retirement from baseball, it was revealed he had fathered nine children by various women, inspiring a bumper sticker that read "Steve Garvey — father of our nation" and landing him a frequent spot on David Letterman's Top 10 lists (Example: "Top 10 Provisions in the New Baseball Contract:" 5. New expansion team made up of Steve Garvey's kids.) Ex-wife Cyndy Garvey, the Kelly Ripa of her day, came out with an autobiography that fed the scandal. A further note: we just tried to register www.sonsofstevegarvey.com; alas, the URL is already taken. — A. Chapman |
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger . California's governor spent his younger years as the gropingest bodybuilder in history, a legacy that's preserved thanks to the miracle of YouTube. Check out this video of the shirtless wonder as he grabasses his way through Carnival in Rio. He begins by getting drunk and remarking on the athleticism of the gyrating dancers, and it goes downhill from there as he tries to sodomize a woman with a carrot. Besides that, he holds the distinction of being the first American elected official to have posed nude. This is a man who every day is referred to as "the honorable." A lesson in how little the world really cares about how slutty you are. — A. Calhoun |
3. Shawn Kemp The Seattle Supersonics forward had no shortage of ladies; condoms were another matter entirely. A 1998 Sports Illustrated cover story reported that Kemp had fathered seven children by six different women. At that time, he was twenty-eight and single. As the years went by, the estimated number of children grew, with quoted figures ranging from twelve to nineteen. The reports gave life to a wave of blog jokes that, like Kemp's virility, seem to know no bounds. Now married with (more) children, Kemp says he's given up his dalliances with drugs and other women. As far as the SI article goes, he told Jet magazine, "A lot of it was true, and some of it wasn't," leaving both his fall from grace (and his number of heirs) a mystery. — NA |
2. Joe DiMaggio Where did he go? Everywhere! Besides his legendary tryst with Marilyn Monroe, Joltin' Joe was a frequent visitor to New York brothels (one whorehouse kept a special set of linens called "the DiMaggio sheets"), and an enthusiastic romancer of Misses America. In Richard Ben Cramer's biography Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life, 1951 Miss America Yolande Betbeze remembers finding a trashed DiMaggio sitting on a hotel staircase late one night, trying to talk a friend of hers into bed, with his pants open and (Cramer's words) "his member lying exposed upon his leg. Betbeze adds "And that was the biggest thing you ever saw." Cramer's footnote only betters the story: "I told Yolande that I had always heard Joe's 'Louisville Slugger' ranked only second to the big shtick of Milton Berle. But on this subject Yolande was firm. 'Oh, no,' she said. 'Milton's was never that big.'" (We like a biographer who digs for the extra detail). Cramer also reports the recollections of burlesque artist Liz Renay, who remembers DiMaggio as "not only a good lover but a nice, likeable guy. He was a once-a-night lover, but as he so nicely put it, 'I only come once, but I last a long time.'"— PS |
1. Wilt Chamberlain He's that guy who slept with 20,000 women, right? Didn't he play a sport, too? In his autobiography A View From Above, Wilt Chamberlain cites the five-digit figure "not to impress. . . It's like when I played basketball — many of my numbers were so unbelievably high that most people dismissed them as fables or found them impossible to relate to. Hell, I've done a lot of things that are hard to believe." As he himself notes, the 20,000 figure works out to 1.2 women a day every day since he was fifteen. So how did he do it? Ah, you're thinking conventionally, Chamberlain fan! Sure, banging 20,000 women would take a while — if you banged them one at a time. The typical Chamberlain encounter seems to have been significantly more efficient; he describes a birthday party where he "was the only male in the company of fifteen ladies of, how shall i put it. . . of dubious taste." (We're imagining the ghostwriter pulling out a backup tape recorder at this point). "Yes," he goes on, "I got all but one before the rising of the sun. I wasn't able to enjoy the fifteenth birthday girl, but I did muster enough strength to sing her 'Happy Birthday.'" What a guy. — PS |
