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If everyone wants "to be like Mike," we wanted to know who Mike wants to be like. More specifically, we wanted to know which female athlete he would like to be. So we asked Michael Jordan, along with several other high-profile male jocks, which woman they would trade places with if they had the opportunity. The envelopes, please:
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Male Athlete: Michael Jordan
Female Athlete: Chris Evert
Reason: "Tennis is a lot like basketball in
physical terms, and she did everything with class.'' |
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Male Athlete:
Charles Barkley
Female Athlete:
Christy Martin
Reason: "Because I like boxing. And she's good.''
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Male Athlete: Mike Piazza
Female Athlete: Florence Griffith-Joyner
Reason: "She's bad. And she's been bad for a long
time.''
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Male Athlete: Tony Gwynn
Female Athlete: Saudia Roundtree
Reason: "She's a lot better basketball player than
I was [Gwynn, an ABL junkie, was a star point guard at San
Diego State from 1978 to '81]. She can dish, score, run the
break, penetrate.''
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Male Athlete:
Oscar De La Hoya
Female Athlete:
Gabrielle Reece
Reason: "She's good-looking, physically fit,
strong-minded and understands competition. She could take
my place and I could take hers.''
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Male Athlete: Sergei Fedorov
Female Athlete: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Reason: "She knew me! [The two met while taping a
segment of Little Penny's Super Bowl Party.] She knew me as
a hockey player. I couldn't believe
it!''
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Photos by, clockwise from upper left: Manny Millan (2); Brian Smith; George Tiedemann; Matthew Stockman/Allsport; Robert Beck; Manny Millan; Robert Beck; Richard Mackson; V.J. Lovero; Peter Read Miller; John W. McDonough
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