The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been sitting around on the couch, watching the best athletes in the world compete for international greatness while you stuff your face with Funyuns and refill your beer helmet thinking, “Where the hell do all these amazing athletes come from?”

Well, if they’re from the United States, they probably come from these nine schools, where some of the best athletes in the 2008 Beijing Summer Games developed their medal-winning talent. No place provides for top-notch coaching like college. And these nine schools have provided more Olympians than any others in the country. So get ready to find out where you should have gone to school. Read More »

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The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: #1

#1 Stanford University

Number of 2008 Olympians: 31

This place is more an Olympian-making machine than a school. If you’re good enough to get into Standford, and good enough to play on their teams, chances are you have a good shot at getting to the Olympics. Topping off the list with a whopping 31 Olympians, Stanford earned their first medals of the 2008 Olympic Games with exceptional swimming performances in the preliminary rounds of the men’s and women’s 4 x100m freestyle relays. Ben Wildman-Tobriner brought in gold and  junior Julia Smit won a silver, bringing Stanford’s all-time Olympic medal count to 199.

Men (15)

Women (16)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

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#6 University of North Carolina

Number of 2008 Olympians: 14

Sunny North Carolina owns the U.S. women’s field hockey team, with six of their olympians in Beijing for that sport alone. In fact, every single Olympian from UNC is female. This is the first Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta that the U.S. has had a qualifying field hockey team. And they snagged the 11th spot out of 12 teams chosen. But don’t fret, field hockey players are sometimes super hot, so now we can oogle over those ladies, instead of just the volleyball players.

Women (14)

#5 The University of California - Berkeley

Number of 2008 Olympians: (15)

Sneaking in the fifth place spot, UC Berkeley arrived in Beijing with gold(?), sliver and bronze medal winners. And in 2008, swimmer Natalie Coughlin already has three medals under her swimsuit, winning bronze in the 200-meter individual medley, silver in the 400 free, and gold in the 100-meter backstroke, bring her total medal count, for ‘o4 and ‘08, to eight. And that’s just what one of these Golden Bears can do.

Men (4)

Women (11)

#4 The University of Texas - Austin

Number of Olympians (16)

With seven repeat olympians, look out for Texas to dominate–or at least make a splash–in swimming, and hauling-ass in track and field. Former Longhorn Garrett Weber-Gale already helped the US team bring in gold and set world records in the nail-bitting men’s 400-meter relay. And Texas-Ex Cat Osterman continues to help the US softball team blaze their way through the competition, on their way to total world domination.

Men (11)

Women (5)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

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#3 The University of California - Los Angeles

Number of Olympians: 17

In addition to providing 17 members of Team USA, UCLA has students or alumni competing for countries across the globe, from Canada to Belize to the Bahamas. UCLA comes into Beijing with multiple gold medal winners and eight return Olympians. How do they get so many, you ask? Well, if it’s summer all the time, training for the Summer Games is made a little bit easier.

Men (5)

Women (12)

#2 The University of Southern California

Number of Olympians: 19

If you want to win gold, go to USC. Former Trojans Erik Vendt and Klete Keller, two powerhouses of the U.S. swimming team, brought USC Olympic gold in the 4×200-meter relay this year in Beijing, continuing the school’s gold-winning streak, having secured that medal in every Summer Games since 1912. That’s since before television…

Men (5)

Women (14)

Source: NBCOlympics.com

These College Campuses Are U-G-L-Y!

ugly campus

Campus Squeeze recently put out a list of “The 20 Ugliest Colleges in the USA” as a follow up to their “The 20 Most Beautiful Colleges in the USA” list published back in August.

I’ve been to the majority of these campuses and for the most part I agree, although I was surprised to see Drew University and Ithaca College on the list.

If your school is on this list don’t feel too bad - I’m sure you make up for it by having crazy parties and good-looking babes. (But if you don’t, the joke’s on you!)

Check out the Top 20 after the jump! Read More »

The Daily Shocker: World War III

The Daily Shocker

President George W. Bush, in a last-minute attempt to drum up some sort of approval, states that if Iran goes nuclear we could be in for World War III. (Breitbart)

Rock of Love’s Heather talks about…being Rock of Love’s Heather. (College Candy)

According to Google studies the phrase “hangover” is searched more in Ireland, United States and United Kingdom than anywhere else on the globe. White, English-speaking societies: the most drunkest of them all. (Reuters)

“Baby Jessica” - you know, that little girl who fell down the well - 20 years later, passes go and collects over 1 million dollars. The countdown begins until the “Baby Jessica” Maxim photoshoot. (MSNBC)

Are you a skinny, short man at 5′0″ and 150 pounds who needs to hide his identity when robbing a place? I recommend cross-dressing. Are you a tall, burly man at 6′3″ and 300 pounds? Need to hide your identity when robbing a place? Uh… (WTMJ)

Hooters: Eat Fried Food, Feel the Misery

Hooters Girls

Hooters? Depressing? You don’t say. All I’ve ever had to do was take a look at the horrible orange and white paint job adorning the outside of most Hooters restaurants to know those places are a bevy of bad taste and depression.

Oh yeah, and fifteen year olds.

In my town, Hooters was the place adolescent boys with fake IDs and too much cologne spent their Friday nights when no one their own age would date them.

Hooters was the place high school’s biggest assholes went to feel superior to women who would never look at them in real life, as well as the place a friend’s friend once tried to work at but quit after some perv threw a popcorn shrimp at her boobs.

In conclusion: Hooters is drenched in grossness. Read More »

Dubya and Congress Numbers Hit an All-Time Low

George Bush

The approval rate of President George Bush and Congress has plummeted - again.

As of this morning, a Reuters/Zogby poll indicated that only a paltry 29 percent of Americans give Dubya the thumbs-up while a baffling 11 percent approve of the job Congress is doing. Both numbers are a record-low for each, leaving nothing short of complete doubt over the powers handling America’s policies. The country fears a recession within the next year - not good.

Stirring the pot even further was the release of a few more important percentages: only 27 percent of likely voters think that our policies are up to par while the vast majority (over 60 percent) is worried about the fate of our country at this time. Read More »