Athletes and the Crazy Girls that Love ‘Em
June 13, 2007
Major League Baseball makes you wait five years after retirement for induction into its Hall of Fame. But when you’re talking Athletes’ Lunatic Ladies, immortality’s only a six-pack and a Saturday night away.
Pro sports is rife with tales of unbelievably hot chicks going totally batshit crazy in fits of jealousy or rage. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg question: did the money and fame send these women over the edge, or — if things had broken a bit differently — would they be taking a steak knife to a boyfriend who’s a night manager at Applebee’s?
Here is the top 10 list of all those crazy chicks and their dumb men…
10. Christina Fernandez Rice: Griped about her husband Glen’s lack of playing time in the 2000 NBA Finals. Glen himself stayed quiet about the whole matter, but his scoring that season was doubtless hampered by the fact that he said nothing but â€shutupshutupshutUP†through clenched teeth for weeks.
9. Brenda Warner (right): See above. Had her own radio show, and used it to call out the Rams for not playing her husband more. The Rams decided to sack the ex-bag boy (ha!), at least in part because of the headaches his wife caused…which, as you’ll see, is something of a recurring theme on this list.
8. Tami Anderson: After she divorced point guard extraordinaire Kenny Anderson, she drove around in a Hummer with the license plate HIS CASH. Why didn’t she just pull a Phil Leotardo on the poor bastard and be done with it?
7. Janet Jones: Nearly tanked her husband Wayne Gretzky’s career by allegedly participating in an underground gambling 
ring. (Allegations that she wore a tie bandanna around her head and shouted “Di di mau!†during Russian roulette games remain unproven.) Still claims to be an ’80s movie star, though no one alive can recall seeing her in any flick ever.
6. Anna Benson (right): Another hottie who took the “we had to burn the village to save it†approach with her husband Kris, hectoring the Mets enough that they dealt him to Baltimore to get rid of her yappy-but-fine ass. Threatened to sleep with the entire Mets team, including grounds crew, if Kris ever strayed from his vows (though we bet she’d call out the name of her website in the throes of passion). Knowingly ironic — her self-proclaimed theme song is Kanye’s “Gold Digger†— she simultaneously celebrates, subverts, and embodies the sacred feminine as…aw, just quit teasing and show us your rack, willya, Anna?
5. Tawny Kitaen (right): Gets a free pass from male juries for everything up to and including murder thanks to her Jaguar-hood gymnastics from the Whitesnake days. Tested the bounds of that theory by allegedly kicking the ass of husband/pitcher Chuck Finley. Of such crime reports are teen fantasies made.
4. Joumanna Kidd: The ultimate in psychotic XGFs, she’s threatened to rain hellfire down on Jason Kidd and the Nets organization. (Of course, if Kidd is half the skeeve she portrays him as, she may have a point.)
3. Jackie Christie (right): Even Caligula didn’t cut off a guy’s goods this efficiently. Followed her husband, onetime NBA star Doug, on road trips, forced him to wave to her on pretty much every possession down the court, and call
ed their marital bliss “tulumptuous,†whatever the hell that means. After finally leaving the NBA behind, Christie now comes off the bench for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA.
2. Sherrie Daly: Did what John hasn’t been able to do for years now: made the cut. [UPDATE: Ms. Daly’s spot in the Pantheon is now under review.]
1. Lisa “Left-Eye†Lopes: She’s passed on now, which is sad. But she set the all-time standard for crazy girlfriend behavior when she torched former Falcon receiver Andre Rison’s house in 1994. People laughed when he took her back, but damn, you don’t want that kind of lunacy out wandering loose, now do you?
 As mentioned above: did the money and fame send these women over the edge, or — if things had broken a bit differently — would they be taking a steak knife to a boyfriend who’s a night manager at Applebee’s?
Of course it is the money…we all know how spoiled rotten chicks can be…throw some fame into and they reach levels never sought before!
The List in the article taken from ~SI and an affiliate blog…
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