A couple of crazy sports kids, in love for all the (hopefully) right reasons

From the once-upon-a-time era:

10. Babe Didrikson and George Zaharias:

She, of course, was the most famous female athlete in U.S. history. Five gold medals in the '32 Olympics at L.A., for starters. Professional golfer later, winning 82 tournaments. She married a former pro wrestler, George, in 1939. Rumor then was that she met Betty Dodd, a golfer far younger than she, and they had a relationship until Didrikson died in 1956.

9. Chris Evert and Andy Mill:

The former two-time Olympic downhill skiing champ met the ex-tennis champ at a New Year's Eve party at the Hotel Jerome in his home town of Aspen, Colo. They married 19 months later in 1988, and he kept her for 18 years until she filed for divorce in 2006, agreeing to pay him $7 million in the settlement. They had three sons together.

8. Chris Evert and John Lloyd:

This came after Evert's 1974 wedding to Jimmy Connors was called off, just months after they both won the singles titles at Wimbledon (and made the cover of Sports Illustrated) and were runner-up as a mixed doubles team at the U.S. Open. After that, she was linked to Burt Reynolds, Geraldo Rivera, Vitas Gerulaitis and President Ford's son, Jack. In 1979, she married Lloyd, a British tennis star, becoming Chris Evert-Lloyd. This one lasted until 1987 - or just about when she met Mill.

7. Anna Kournikova and Sergei Federov:

Were they ever hitched? We're going by the report that the former NHL star said he married in 2001 - and then divorced in '03 - the tennis starlet in secret while he was with the Detroit Red Wings. It then became even messier when Kournikova reportedly agreed to a proposal from another NHL player, Pavel Bure. And then Enrique Iglesias came into the picture, claiming he married her. We don't know whom to believe any more.

6. Emil Zatopek and Dana Zatopkova:

Born on the exact same day - Sept. 19, 1922 - the Czech Olympic stars won seven medals (five gold) between them from 1948 to '54. He was almost unbeatable in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters and marathon (the first time he ran in the event was when he won gold in it at the '52 games in Helsinki). She won gold in the women's javelin in those same Games. He died in 2000.

5. Marion Jones and C.J. Hunter:

The Olympic sprinter married the shot putter in 1998, and he was her main body guard during the 2000 Games in Sydney, when she won five medals (three gold). But that's also where wasn't allowed to compete because of a failed drug test. They divorced a year later, which led to Jones finding someone more her speed - Tim Montgomery. The were never married, but had a child together in 2003. Then he was slapped with a drug ban, and the former 100 meter champion wa sout of the picture. These days, Jones lives in Austin, Tex., when she's not incarcerated, to another athlete - Obadele Thompson, a bronze medalist from Barbados in the 100 meters at the Sydney Games.

4. Al Joyner and Florence Griffith:

They met at the 1980 U.S. Olympic trials - he was a triple jumper and she was a sprinter. He ended up winning gold at the '84 Olympics in L.A.. By marrying Griffith in '87, she had the new nickname - FloJo - when she broke the 100 and 200 meter world records at the Olympics in Seoul in 1988. Ten years later, she later died in her sleep at age 38, from an epileptic seizure. Joyner remarried, in 2003, to Alisha Biehn. His sister, Olympic heptathlon champion Jackie Joyner out of UCLA, married her coach, Bob Kersee.

3. Terry Bradshaw and JoJo Starbuck:

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback married the Olympic figure skater in 1976, after a season that ended with a loss to Oakland in the AFC title game. This was Bradshaw's second marriage (his first was to former Miss Teen USA Melissa Babisch that ended in 1973 after 18 months). "I got married the first time strictly because I was depressed," he'd later say. "I got married the second time because I was madly in love with my wife." This one lasted four years. "She didn't love me and she left me," he said. She said she was bored sitting around the house feeling neglected. At the 1993 Sports Emmy Awards show, Starbuck was the presenter for the best studio series. CBS' "The NFL Today" won. Bradshaw ran up to accept the trophy.

2. Hal Connolly and Olga Fikotova:

He was the American gold medallist in the hammer and she was the Czech gold medallist in the discus at the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne. At the height of the Cold War, they developed a famous courtship and were married, as her home country considered her a traitor. She competed in four more games for the U.S., even carrying the US flag at the opening ceremony at Munich in 1972. Hal represented the U.S. in four more Olympics as well. They moved to Culver City for most of their lives until a divorce in the early '70s.

1. Don Drysdale and Ann Meyers:

The former Dodgers star pitcher met the former UCLA basketball star, 19 years younger than him, in 1979 when he was a broadcaster on the ABC show "The Superstars," and she was a competitor. He supposedly proposed to her on their first date. She actually thought he was Don Meredith. They married in 1986, two years after Drysdale was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame. In '93, Meyers was the first woman inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame -- it was the first time a married couple were members of their respective sports' Halls of Fame. The couple had three children together. Drysdale died in 1993 from a heart attack.

The modern-day romances:

Honorable mention:

= Kristi Yamaguchi and Bret Hedican:

The reigning "Dancing With The Stars" champion and former Olympic figure skater met this hockey player at the '92 Winter Games, and they became married in 2000. Hedican, an NHL player since 1991 who has been with the Carolina Hurricanes the last six seasons, has two daughters with Yamaguchi.

==Mary Decker and Richard Slaney:

We'll remember the former being carried off the track at the '84 Olympics by the later after she tripped and fell during the 3,000 meter final. Slaney, a British discus thrower, was her fiancé at the time. They married a year later. Decker ended up setting 36 U.S. records during her distance running career. She and Slaney live in Eugene, Ore.

==Ray Knight and Nancy Lopez:

The former big-leaguer baseball player and manager, and the Hall of Fame golfer were married in 1982 -- four years before he scored the winning run in that World Series Game 6. "I was at that game," she said. "I thought it was all over and we had lost. But then the ball went through Bill Buckner's legs and Ray scored, and I couldn't stop crying I was so happy. It was just awful what happened to Buckner, though."

10. Jennie Finch and Casey Daigle:

The U.S. Olympic softball pitcher, on every magazine's "Most Beautiful People" list, and former MLB pitcher (Arizona, Minnesota) were married in 2005 at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. They have a son named Ace.

9. Curtis Conway and Laila Ali:

The former USC and NFL receiver married the former boxer (and Muhammad's second of nine children) in July, 2007, and brought three of his kids (12-year-old twins and an 8-year-old) to the relationship. They met in 2005 at a party at Conway's home, and he proposed at Thanksgiving, '06. Which was convenient since Ali divorced her husband and former promoter, Yahya McClain, in '05. According to US! magazine, she's expecting a baby boy in September who'll be named Curtis Muhammad, after the dad and her father. Maybe you've noticed the preganancy while she's co-hosting "American Gladiator" for NBC.

8. Jamie Sale and David Pelletier:

The Canadian pairs figure skaters who got caught on the wrong end of a scandal at the 2002 Winter Games - although they ended up with the gold, and everyone's sympathy - were engaged on Christmas, 2004 and married a year later in Alberta. They've been a pair on broadcasting for NBC's Olympic coverage, and had a son born in 2007.

7. Casey Jennings and Kerri Walsh:

The king and queen of the beach were married in 2005 in Palm Springs, five years after they met. Jennings (6-foot-3) said he met Walsh (6-foot-3) on the day she was trying out Misty May as her new beach volleyball partner in 2000. Walsh and May, the '04 gold medallists in beach volleyball, are heading back to Beijing as the top seed. Walsh has 59 career AVP wins; Jennings has five.

6. Misty May and Matt Treanor:

Walsh's partner met Treanor while both were in the gym rehabbing injuries in Orange County. "She initiated all of the contact," said Treanor, the Florida Marlins catcher. "It wasn't flirting. It was more being inquisitive about each other. We had both gotten out of relationships. I wasn't looking to dive into one." They married in 2004, and she uses his name hyphenated as part of hers on the AVP Tour, where she recently won her 100th event.

5. Todd Zeile and Julianne McNamara:

The retired baseball slugger out of Hart High (11 teams, including the Dodgers, in 15 seasons) and the 1984 Olympic gold-medal winning gymnast met while both were at UCLA in a folklore class in 1985. "I spotted him the first day," she said. "I didn't know he was on the UCLA baseball team." Todd said he was "shy and was afraid to talk to her. When I heard her name during the class roll call, I realized who she was. Then I was really afraid to talk to her." Four years later, they were married. And four kids later, they're probably the Valley's most known sports couple -- involved in many charities, including juvenile diabetes, which daughter Hannah deals with on a daily basis.

4. Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci:

He was 18 and she was 14 when the first met at a gymnastics meet in New York in 1976 (check out the photo taken of them after they both won their events). Was that not love in the making? It only took them 20 years to get married. Comaneci, the Romanian pixie who became the first to register a perfect 10 mark - six of them - at the '76 Olympics in Montreal. Conner competed for the U.S. men's gymnastics team in '76 and was on the '84 gold-medal winning team, winning individual gold in the parallel bars. Comaneci (and coach Bela Karolyi) defected in '81, when she and Conner reconnected. While living in Montreal, Conner contacted her and invited her to live in Oklahoma. They were engaged in 1994 and were married in her home country, in Bucharest, in 1996. Together, the run his gymnastics camp in Oklahoma, and have a son born in 2006. "Most guys brad that their waves are a 10," said Conner. "My wife is a the 10."

3. Laird Hamilton and Gabrielle Reece:

The big-wave surfer and the one-time beach volleyball competitor out of Florida State - both 6-foot-3 -- married in 1997. It was Hamilton's second marriage, after his first to Brazilian bodyboarder Maria Hamilton ended, producing a daughter in '95. Reece met Hamilton while interviewing him for a TV show, and she hooked him up with her talent agent to launch a marketing career for himself. The next year, Hamilton was among People's 50 Most Beautiful People. Hamilton and Reece have two kids and split living in Malibu and Maui, where they continue to do many fundraisers as well as, well, just keep looking bitchin'.

2. Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm:

The then-Boston Red Sox shortstop and three-time U.S. Olympic and national team soccer star met at a charity event in 1998 at Harvard, when they were taking penalty kicks against each other. Hamm won, 4-3, and she also found out he played soccer in high school at St. John Bosco. Hamm eventually divorced her college sweetheart, Marine Corps pilot Christian Corry, after six years in 2001, and Garciaparra proposed at Thanksgiving, '02. "You know I'm a traditional, old-fashioned guy so I think you can assume that happened," he told the Boston Herald at the time. "It was a private moment between me and the person I love. I don't really want to share it." They were married a year later and their twin girls were born in March, 2007.

1. Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf:

He had been married for two years to Brooke Shields. She had a seven-year relationship with German racecar driver Michael Bartels. After both won the 1999 French Open (in their respective divisions), they started dating - at Agassi's persistence. A couple of months later, she was wearing an engagement band and rumors started flying. Two years later, they were married (minus the big hair, and no more Barbara Streisand sightings), a week before she gave birth to their son, Jaden. Since then, they've added a daughter, Jaz, in 2003. They are still the only two to ever win all four Grand Slam titles, as well as an Olympic gold medal, in their careers. How much do they love each other? She really wasn't all that upset after he smacked her in the face with his racquet (by accident) during a charity event in 2007: