All-time famous sports couples
Like it is with many famous people, the public is enamored with athletes and their love lives. Pair a celebrity and an athlete, and the interest level only rises.
Here we lay out 50 of the most famous sports couples ever:
Laila Ali and Curtis Conway
The two former athletes married on July 23, 2007. They have a son and a daughter twho were born in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Conway also has three children from a previous marriage.
Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf
After dating Barbra Streisand and marrying Brooke Shields, Agassi tied the knot with Staffi Graf in 2001. They have a son and a daughter and are living in Las Vegas with Graf's mother and brother.
Carmelo Anthony and La La Vasquez
Anthony and Vasquez have been together for almost 20 years. They became engaged in 2004 and officially tied the knot in July 2010. In between, they had a son in 2007.
Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow
Armstrong started dating Crow following the divorce from his first wife in 2003. The couple announced their engagement in September 2005, but they broke up in February 2006.
David and Victoria Beckham
Beckham met Victoria when she attended a Manchester United match in 1997; she was part of the Spice Girls at the time,. They were married on July 4, 1999, and have four children — three sons and a daughter.
Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen
After a two-year relationship with actress Bridget Moynahan, who has a son with Brady, he began dating Bundchen in December 2006. The two were married a little more than two years later, and Bundchen has become more visible late in Brady's career. They have a son and a daughter.
Eric Decker and Jessie James
Just before the best NFL season of his career, Decker married country singer Jessie James in 2013. They have three children, who were born in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
DiMaggio and Monroe were one of the original celebrity power couples. They married in 1954 but were divorced by the end of the year. However, the two remained close friends until Monroe's death in 1962, and DiMaggio never remarried.
Zach and Julie Ertz
The soccer star and Pro Bowl tight end met at Stanford University and became engaged in February 2016. They were married in March 2017. During 2018, each won championships in their respective sports.
Chris Evert and Greg Norman
The third time was not the charm for Evert, at least in marraige, as she won Wimbledon three times during her tennis career. Norman was her third husband, as the couple married in 2008 but divorced just 18 months later.
Roger and Mirka Federer
The two tennis players have been married since 2009. They first met during the 2000 Summer Olympics and have two different sets of twins.
Jennie Finch and Casey Daigle
Finch and Daigle are two former pitchers, who married in 2005. The couple have three children: two sons and a daughter.
Mike Fisher and Carrie Underwood
Fisher met Underwood after one of her concerts during 2008, and they were engaged about a year later. They held their marriage on July 10, 2010, and then gave birth to their first child, a son, in February 2015. In January 2019, they had their second son.
Rick Fox and Vanessa Williams
Williams has been married three times, the second of which was to the NBA basketball player. Fox and Williams were married in 1999 and divorced five years later. They had one daughter.
Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones
Gretzky and Jones began dating when they met at a Los Angeles Lakers game in 1987. Gretzky proposed in January 1988, and the two were married in July of that year. The couple have five children: three sons and two daughters.
Mia Hamm and Nomar Garciaparra
First meeting at a promotional event in 1998, Hamm and Garciaparra became one of the top power couples in sports around the turn of the century. After getting married in November 2003, the couple had twin girls in 2007 and a son in 2012.
Phil Jackson and Jeanie Buss
Jackson was married twice before beginning a relationship with the daughter of the Lakers owner in 1999. They dated for a long time and became engaged in 2013, but they broke up in December 2016.
Derek Jeter and Hannah Davis
Derek and Hannah Jeter have been married since July 9, 2016. Hannah gave birth to their first child, a daughter, in August 2017, and the couple had a second daughter in January 2019.
Dustin Johnson and Paulina Gretzky
The golfer became engaged to Gretzky, the daughter of the famous hockey player, seven months after they started dating. They have two sons, who were born in 2015 and 2017.
David Justice and Halle Berry
Berry gave her phone number to a reporter to give Justice in 1992 after she learned the baseball player was a fan of hers. The couple were married shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 1993 but separated about three years later and made their divorce official in June 1997.
Wladimir Klitschko and Hayden Panettiere
Panettiere sat ringside for one of Klitschko's knockout victories in 2010, and the two began dating shortly after that. They were engaged in 2013 and then had their daugther in December 2014, but the couple broke up in August 2018.
Anna Kournikova and Sergei Fedorov
This is a weird one. Fedorov claims he and the tennis star married in 2001, but Kournikova denies she was ever married to the hockey superstar. However, she did turn over her South Beach condo as part of the divorce.
John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal
McEnroe married the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, Tatum, in 1986. The two were married for eight years and had three children — two sons and a daughter. They finalized their divorce in 1994.
Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki
McIlroy and Wozniacki dated from 2011 to 2014. They were engaged on New Year's Eve in 2013, but then about five months later, the couple called it off.
Alex Morgan and Servando Carrasco
The two soccer stars, who met at UC Berkeley, married on Dec. 31, 2014. In October 2019, the couple announced they are expecting a girl. Morgan still wants to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics despite the fact her due date is in April.
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian
After just one month of dating, Odom and Kardashian married in September 2009. The couple became famous through their own television series, "Khloe & Lamar," but they divorced in 2015.
Tony Parker and Eva Longoria
Parker and Longoria became engaged in 2006 after two years of dating. The two were married in July 2007, but just a few months later, tabloid rumors reported Parker was having an affair. They were divorced by November 2010.
Gerard Pique and Shakira
Pique and Shakira share a birthday, but she is 10 years his senior. They aren't married, but they've been together since early 2011. The couple have two children.
Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird
Rapinoe came out publicly in July 2012 and took center stage with a few of her relationships. Bird announced she was a lesbian in July 2017 and said she and Rapinoe were dating. In 2018, the pair became the first same-sex couple on the cover of ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue."
Andre Rison and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
Rison and Lopes dated on and off from 1993 to 2001, creating a tremendous amount of headlines with their rocky relationship. The couple had a son, who is a college football wide receiver.
Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker
After Roddick arranged to meet Decker through their agents, the couple began dating in 2007 and were married two years later. Decker gave birth to a son in 2015 and then a daughter in 2018.
Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick
After dating actress Olivia Munn for three years before breaking up, Rodgers began seeing the former race car driver. Rodgers and Patrick were together for a few years before breaking up in the summer of 2020.
Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra
Rodman married model Carmen Electra in November 1998, but the marriage didn't last long. Electra filed for divorce in March 1999.
Dennis Rodman and Madonna
The two-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year wasn't with Madonna long either. Their relationship lasted about two months during the 1990s. Rodman said late in 2019 that Madonna offered him $20 million to impregnate her.
Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez
Rodriguez has dated a couple of different famous women, including Madonna, but in February 2017, he began dating Jennifer Lopez. In 2019, they announced their engagement.
Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson
Romo and Simpson began dating during the 2007 NFL season. Just a year after Romo dropped a snap on a field-goal attempt, which resulted in the Cowboys losing in the NFC wild-card round to the Seahawks, Dallas suffered an upset loss as the No. 1 seed to the New York Giants in January 2008. Prior to the game, pictures surfaced that Romo and a few teammates spent their bye week before the playoffs at Cabo San Lucas and Simpson was there. Romo and Simpson broke up in July 2009.
Ronda Rousey and Travis Browne
Their relationship began somewhat controversially, as a picture of the couple appeared on Twitter while Browne was still married and under investigation for domestic violence. The two admitted to seeing each other and became engaged in April 2017. They were married later that year.
Pete Sampras and Bridgette Wilson
Sampras married American actress and former Miss Teen USA Bridgette Wilson on September 30, 2000. They have two sons and live in Lake Sherwood, California.
Maria Sharapova and Sasha Vujacic
The famous tennis player and Slovenian basketball star dated for two years when they announced their engagement in 2011. However, the two called it off in August 2012.
Jarret Stoll and Erin Andrews
The former hockey player began dating the sportscaster in 2012. Late in 2016, the pair announced they were engaged and were married in June 2017.
Misty May-Treanor and Matt Treanor
May and Treanor began dating in January 2004 and were married in November of that year. After winning a third straight gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, May retired, and the couple had a daughter in 2014. In November 2017, the couple added twin daughters to the family.
Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
Tyson and Givens were married for just a little more than a year (1988-89). The relationship made headlines after her allegations against Tyson of violence and spousal abuse. They had no children and were divorced in February 1989.
Justin Verlander and Kate Upton
Verlander and Upton began dating in early 2014 and were engaged about two years later. The couple married two days after the Astros won the World Series in 2017. They welcomed their first child, a daughter, in 2018.
Lindsey Vonn and P.K. Subban
Vonn has dated several different athletes, including Tiger Woods for two years. In June 2018, she began a relationship with Subban. In August 2019, Vonn reportedly proposed to Subban, and the couple became engaged.
Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union
The divorce from Wade's first marriage was finalized in 2010, and he started dating Union just prior to that, in 2009. The couple briefly split due to their careers, but they became engaged in December 2013 and married the following August. The couple had a daughter in November 2018.
Kerri Walsh and Casey Jennings
The pair of American pro beach-volleyball players were married in 2005 and have three children, two sons and a daughter. Walsh was five weeks pregnant during the 2012 Summer Olympics when she won her third straight gold medal.
J.J. Watt and Kealia Ohai
Watt and Ohai have been dating since 2016 and became engaged last year. The two both played their sports in Houston for six years, but Ohai was traded to the Chicago Red Stars in January of 2020.
Russell and Ciara Wilson
About a year after his first marriage ended, Wilson began dating American R&B singer Ciara. They were engaged in March 2016 and married less than four months later.
Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren
Nordegren met Woods during the 2001 Open Championship, and they married about three years later. The couple had two children, but after Woods' longtime extramarital affairs surfaced in November 2009, they divorced in 2010. She received $100 million in the settlement.
Caroline Wozniacki and David Lee
On Valentine's Day in 2017, Wozniacki announced she and Lee were in a relationship. The two were engaged in November of that year and then married in June 2019.
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