Rihanna became the first female pop singer to have achieved seven number one songs on the Billboard pop charts.
That’s an impressive accomplishment for anyone. But to top it off, Rihanna is also a well-loved WAG in the sports world. She’s been dating Matt Kemp since early this year.
As a result, she’s been chosen as Bleacher Report’s WAG of the Week.
Get to see more of Rihanna in this slideshow. Enjoy!
Brad Penny, a veteran right-handed pitcher who played for the St. Louis Cardinals in 2010, is engaged to the stunning Karina Smirnoff, a professional dancer on Dancing With the Stars.
According to People Magazine, the two have been engaged since Oct. 4, the day after the end of baseball’s regular season.
Smirnoff, 32, who has gained popularity on the hit ABC show, is a native of Ukraine. This season, she was paired with Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino of Jersey Shore fame, and the duo was recently eliminated from the competition.
Penny, also 32, went 3-4 with a 3.23 ERA for the Cardinals this past season—after also having spent time with the Marlins, Dodgers, Red Sox and Giants over the course of his 11 years in the bigs—and struggled with an injury to his back. He is a free agent this winter.
But given Smirnoff’s beauty—not to mention her moves on the dance floor—Penny probably isn’t minding spending a little extra time off the field.
In fact, Smirnoff is just one of the beauties the 6-foot-4, 230-pound Penny has been lucky enough to shack up with.
San Francisco Giants closer Brian Wilson was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday. And, as usual, the man with the mohawk did not disappoint.
Following hilarious postgame interviews with Fox’s Chris Rose, an impressive performance during Wednesday’s victory parade in San Francisco and a great speech in front of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, the black-bearded reliever with an attitude took to the late-night talk-show circuit on Thursday.
He did not disappoint.
Baseball Wives: The next VH1 reality show!
If Basketball Wives and Football Wives were worthy of their own shows, why not Baseball Wives?
In fact, shouldn’t Baseball Wives have come first? The national pastime has the richest tradition of hot baseball wives, ranging from Marilynn Monroe to Anna Benson. (Yes, that’s probably the only way to connect Joe DiMaggio and Kris Benson).
Factoring in personality, background, ability to stir up drama for the show, and (of course) hotness, here are some great candidates.
Congratulations to the San Francisco Giants, the 2010 Major League Baseball champions.
By wiping out the Texas Rangers, the Giants won their sixth World Series and first since moving to San Francisco in 1958.
It has been a long time coming for the San Francisco Giants. Just how long has it been?
Let’s have a look.
Many, many times in the past, I’ve heard about how pro sports are fixed. Super Bowls, NBA Finals, Stanley Cups, Auto Racing. You name it, somebody, somewhere…more often than not on the barstool next to me, has said..pro sports are all fixed. It’s about the money and the TV Ratings. TV wants the big market teams like the Celtics, Lakers, Yankees and Red Wings.
Prior to 2004 (IE The End of the Curse of the Babe), I used to actually give a small amount of merit to that theory. Not any more though, and the 2010 World Series is first hand proof of that.
New York vs. Philadelphia would’ve pulled in huge ratings. Two of the biggest ratings-getters in all sports. Yet, as fate would have it, that’s not what the baseball gods had in mind. Instead, the matchup is Texas and San Francisco.
Now, we’ll see if the REAL baseball fans stay with this series from start to finish, or if we get another fan base that turns the station and their attention to college football, the NHL or about-to-being NBA season.
I’d like to think the vast majority of the fans out there are going to see this 2010 season through till the end. Sure, many of them might be band wagon fans (IE Red Sox, Yankee or Phillies fans who have jumped on either the Rangers or Giants bench after there teams were eliminated). While the diehard might not appreciate those fans, at least they’re going to watch every game, which is okay with the head honchos at Fox and Bud Selig to boot.
Tonight’s opener should merit great ratings. Cliff ”I Own the Post Season” Lee against Tim Lincecum. Could you get a bigger contrast in style than that out of the two starters? The lone thing they have in common is that they’re both darn good.
In any event, I’ll be watching each and every game from start to finish, and enjoying the heck out of it, even if my team isn’t playing.
Hopefully, I won’t be alone.
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It’s down to four teams for the World Series Championship. The Phillies, Giants, Yankees and Rangers are going to duke it out in their respective championship series.
We can sit here and talk about baseball games and potential matchups. But there’s already plenty of that going around. We’re here to talk about WAGs.
Which team has the most beautiful WAGs in baseball? View the slideshow to find out.
Here are the hottest wives and girlfriends of the MLB Championship series.
Just the other day, a buddy and I were lamenting the lack of hotness in sports.
Yeah, sure, there are cheerleaders and ball girls and stuff like that, but what the sports world needs is real hotness.
And while we probably can’t force all professional athletes to marry Playboy babes, like quarterback Jeff Garcia and Carmella DeCesare, we came up with a few ideas that might help the movement along nonetheless.
According to an article in Esquire Magazine, Minka Kelly, also known as Derek Jeter’s fiancee, is the hottest woman in the world.
Kelly is an actor and model, but what else do you need to know about her? Well, here’s your Minka Kelly guide, with everything you could want to know about this starlet.
With the MLB Playoffs underway, we’ve experienced a baseball overload, and now it’s time to get to the most interesting part about America’s pastime…
The women who date our Major League Baseball players.
Scott Podsednik might not be making an appearance in the postseason, but who cares?
That just means he gets to spend more time with his beautiful wife, Lisa Dergan Podsednik.
You may recognize Lisa from her appearance in Playboy or her work with FOX News Sports Net, but today marks her greatest accomplishment.
Lisa Dergan is Bleacher Report’s WAG of the Week!