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Michael Phelps Too Naive To Cash In On Stardom?
Michael Phelps Too Naive To Cash In On Stardom?
Michael Phelps has it pretty good. After singlemindedly training for the Olympics his entire life, he won, and won and won and won, and hoisted himself alongside the greatest Olympic athletes in history. And now he gets to make money. The problem with all of this? It’s possible that Phelps is so clueless, there’s nothing really there to market. Or so says SLATE’S Troy ...
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MICHAEL PHELPS IS POPULAR, OR NOT
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — ... about dating this guy, she was included in a story that tried to list all the celebrities wanting to date Phelps.  And because bloggers are retards who run with every non-story that has a famous name, Beard had to deny the allegations: "Eww, that's nasty... I have never, ever hooked up with Michael Phelps."  Well la dee dah, your naked higness.  Not all of us can snag a guy with such super-cool tattoos. Also see: Deadspin, Sports By Brooks 

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