It is your duty, as a patriotic American, to celebrate the glorious Fourth by checking out hottie American athletes in all their USA-licious best. Fortunately for you, TheStarterWife and I have done all the leg work- and you only have to sit back, scroll and enjoy. Land of plenty, indeed. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!
(Updated for Joey Chestnut goodness!)
Huston Street
Tons more lovely red-white-and-blue goodies after the jump…
Your new world record holder in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, Joey Chestnut.
Be sure to check out the Gothamist’s hot pic of Joey.
Tiger Woods
Scott Donie
Allen Iverson
Michael Phelps
Apollo Anton Ohno
Ken Griffeys – Senior and Junior
Lance Armstrong
Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler
Chase Utley
Jeremy Bloom
Justin Gatlin
Alex Rodriguez
Dwyane Wade
Joey Cheek
Andy Roddick
Chad Hedrick
Jeff Francoeur
Maurice Greene
Lenny Krayzelburg
Chipper Jones
2004 USA Olympic Rowing Team
Rick DiPietro
LeBron James
Roger Clemens
Ladies... 
The Clemens photo looks photoshopped to me.
Does Phelps have a tattoo of the Olympics rings?
I was told by a pretty girl that I resemble Apolo Anton Ohno.
Ladies…
Who Apolo Anton Ohno is, I have no clue.
However, I do resemble Apollo Anton Ohno.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America…
Wow for a second I thought that was Miguel Cabrera and not AROD.
Happy 4th of July Ladies….
This is a great post to celebrate our great country’s birthday. I question the inclusion of Clyde Drexler but laud the choice of Andy Roddick. There are a lot of good looking guys in tennis (including my future husband, James Blake) but I feel that they don’t always get their due.
Aaaaand I realized I said great twice. Sorry for the idiotic repeat.
Chutley, Joey Cheek and Lenny Krayzelburg?
[drops dead]
Fantastic beginning. Scary ending.
Justin Gatlin, steroid user included?
Good pics of Roddick, Maurice Greene, and DiPietro :)
Jeremy Bloom usually doesn’t do it for me, but he has a nice smile.
the rowing picture: the guy standing up is Jason Read and the guy in the front (stroke seat) is Bryan Volpenhein. And those are gold medals from Athens, not too shabby!
Clare – I love Joey Cheek but it was Texy who went for Lenny K.
DP – I’ve been in the mood for hot rowers lately, mostly because I’ve been trying to get ready for a good piece on Henley which started this week. I used to coxy men’s 8’s.
I was a huge fan of The State, TSW, so of course I have to root for Michael Showalter’s doppelganger. Joey Cheek is the cutest, and a real classy guy too.
Yeah, one of the photos I found of him at a “Save Darfur” event.
America – Home of the coolest speed skaters.
Because it can’t be said enough:
America! Fuck yeah!
A-rod, and Roger? You know I love the USA but, Yankees look great in anything.
Oh, and Chipper looks grrreat too!
Is there any picture out on the interwebs where Huston doesn’t look hot?
And God bless the USA indeed.
StarterWife – I LOVE Henley! I was lucky enough to compete in the women’s Henley a few years back, but the men’s Henley definitely takes the cake. Plus, plenty to look at while wearing fancy clothes.
jeremy bloom
enough said
(and wtf happened to kobayashi?!? viva l’america and mr joey chestnutt, i suppose…)
Sheena – I don’t know, but it took forever to get finally get the flag photos.
DP – You mean hot guys walking around in suits eating strawberries and cream? Yeah, there is nothing wrong with that at all.
Yuck…I just checked out the hot dog contest. You could have warned me the other guy ralfs it all back up. So much for my 4th of July Bar-B-Qed hot dog.
Thanks for that AI pic….I can never get too much of that man
Well, if this post doesn’t make me proud to be an American, I don’t know what does.
Especially Chase and that Phelps fella…think he could pull that speedo down a bit so we can see the WHOLE tattoo?
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Almost makes me want to move… But I like the “free” healthcare.
The best thing about putting these posts together, other than overcoming the absolute drudgery of going through tons of photos of hotties, is that I get to pick the pictures and the hotties and what order they go in.
So, of course I bookend my darling Texans at the top and bottom, with a nice Chutley chaser in the middle.
What happened to Kobayashi? Wisdom teeth. Those hurt like a bastard when they get impacted… & depending when the oral surgery was, I might be shocked that he could even compete, let alone better his own top mark by ten, & the (previous) world (but not Nathan’s) mark by four-plus.
But congrats to Msr Chestnut, all the same. He seems a fitting Hakeem Olajuwon — save for the whole “eating pork” thing — to Takeru’s Michael Jordan.
That shot of Huston Street may be the only thing that keeps this ridiculously hungover girl from crawling under her desk this morning. Thanks, TG.
Isn’t he GORGEOUS? Seriously, the man does not take a bad picture, ever.
No Xavier?
I totally LOVE Chase Utley which is so hard cuz he is a Philly ugh! But I wish there was some Xavier Nady!
Check out the hunk here… http://www.starscapes.com He’s on the back covers of all the business opportunity magazines too! Yummy!
Michael Jordan. Smoking hot for a black athlete!