who are your top five favirote athlethes(any sport)

[duckdud07]

Bobby higginson (mlb)
Eduardo Najera (nba)
Vinnie "Microwave" Johnson (nba)
Jerome Bettis (nfl)
Curtis Granderson (mlb)

[cards918]

Albert Pujols(baseball)
Kobe Bryant (Basketball)
Dwight Howard(Basketball)
Champ Bailey (Football)
Tim Lincecum (Baseball)

Honorable mention

Scott Rolen(baseball)
Chris Paul(basketball)
Mark Sanchez(football)
Knowshon Moreno (Football)
Rafael Nadal (Tennis)
Josh Hamilton (Baseball)
Evan Longoria (Baseball)
Pau Gasol (Basketball)
Kevin Garnett (Basketball)

Felt those last ten should be mentioned

[theman27]

Well, there are so many athletes great in so many sports. NO ORDER For sports:

Baseball:

Derek Jeter
Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez (really nice in person)
Jose Reyes
Hanley Ramirez

Football:

Eli Manning
LaDanian Tomlinson
Brett Favre (though it annoys me how much he is on and off retired)
Adrian Peterson
Santonio Holmes

Basketball:

Steve Nash
Jason Kidd
Jason Richardson
Danny Granger
Amar'e Stoudimare

Tennis:

Roger Federer
Rafael Nadal
Novak Djokovic
David Ferrer
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Soccer:

Lionel Messi
Cristiano Ronaldo
Wayne Rooney
Miroslav Klose
Michael Ballack

Hockey:

Alex Ovechkin
Sidney Crosby
Marion Gaborik
Olli Jokinen
Evegini Malkin

Woman's Tennis:

Jelena Jankovic
Samantha Stosur
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Maria Sharapova

Olympians:

Michael Phelps
Usain Bolt
Shawn Johnson
Misty May-Treanor
Nastia Liukin

[mastergladiatus]

1. Juan Martin Del Potro
2. Ernstes Gulbis
3. Thiemo de bakker
4. Novak Djokovic
5. Tomas Berdych
(all tennis).
My favourite Football player is Lionel Messi)

[cd4242]

In no order

Basketball:
LeBron James
Kevin Durant
Chris Douglas Roberts
John Wall
Evan Turner
Wes Johnson

Football:
Ed Reed
Darren Sharper
Andre Johnson
Patrick Willis
Chris Johnson

Baseball:
Alfonso Soriano
Dustin Pedroia
Kevin Youklis
Johan Santana
Francisco Rodriguez

[canadagraphs1]

ACTIVE athletes

HOCKEY
1- Hayley Wickenheiser
2- Brad May
3- Sedin Twins
4- Terhi Mertanen
5- Jennifer Botterill

ALL OTHER SPORTS
1- Kobe Bryant
2- Usain Bolt
3- Jenna Daniels
4- John Isner (only since his marathon match have I noticed him)
5- Dirk Nowitzki


RETIRED athletes

HOCKEY
1- Alek Stojanov
2- Igor Larionov
3- Brendan Shanahan
4- Jeremy Roenick
5- Kevin Hodson

OTHER SPORTS
1- Donovan Bailey
2- Deion Sanders
3- Andre Agassi
4- Danny McManus
5- Pete Sampras

[Sun Devil]

(1) Jim Everett

(2) Phil Mickelson

(3) Pat Tillman

(4)Rod Brind'Amour

(5)Jake Plummer


Honorable mention: Aaron Cox, Henry Ellard, Flipper Anderson, Ricky Craven, Eric Dickerson, Tim Salmon, Chuck Finley, Tom Chambers, Dan Majerle, Andrew Walter, Eric Allen, Shawn Patterson.......way too many to list!

[tyd65]

1 Carlos Ruiz
2 Roy Halladay


3Chase Utley

4 Roy Oswalt

5 Jimmy Rollins



(Oh yeah and if you couldn't tell I'm a Phillies fan!)

[astrosfan4life]

1. Jeff Bagwell
2. Craig Biggio
3. Hunter Pence
4. Derek Jeter
5. Troy Tulowitzki

And for all of you Jeter haters out there. Kiss it! Y'all only hate him because he is the best player in baseball!

[miami6]

1. Chauncey Billups (NBA player)
2. Miguel Cabrera (MLB player)
3. Peyton Manning (NFL player)
4. Austin Jackson (MLB player)
5. Isiah Thomas (retired NBA player)