Nikolai Valuev and His Tiny Wife

Nikolai Valuev is a Russian professional boxer and former two-time WBA heavyweight champion. With his 7 ft (2.13 m) height, he is one of the biggest athletes in the world. Who would've guessed if Nikolai Valuev has a very tiny wife. His spouse, Galina/Galya, is only 5' 2" (1.55 m) tall!

Not just tall, Nikolai Valuev also has over 310 pounds of weight! Because of his huge body, Valuev is nicknamed as The Beast from The East, Rock Man, The Russian Bear, Lurch, The Russian Giant, and even Shrek!

But apparently this giant has a soft heart. He met Galina in friend's birthday party in 1999. To won her heart, Valuev wrote her love poetry! They later married in 2000. The couple have two children Grisha (son) and Irina (daughter).

It's a common thing that big athlete has a tiny girlfriend/wife. We also can see another boxer, Wladimir Klitschko, who's dating small actress Hayden Panettierre. Or NBA player Shaquille O'Neal, who's currently in relationship with reality show winner Nicole Alexander.

Laila Ali Pregnancy Pictures

The former undefeated boxing world champion, Laila Ali, is currently seven months pregnant right now. This is her second pregnancy after gave birth to her son, Curtis Muhammad Conway Jr., on August 26, 2008. Laila Ali is the wife of former NFL player, Curtis Conway. They married on 23 July 2007 in Los Angeles.

In joy of expecting her second baby, Laila Ali is accepting her body changes. “I do my research and I know what to expect. Your body changes. It’s such a short period of time that I know now after the first one that it’s going to come and go so quickly that you’ll get back to yourself. It takes a lot of work to get back to yourself,” she said during an interview with OK magazine.

Different from her first pregnancy, this time Laila Ali is surprised that she's having cravings, ”This time I really want sweets, sweets, sweets. I’ve gotta watch it. I’ve got two more months, and I’ve already put on 30 pounds, so I have to watch it.”

Although has been more than four years since her last fight, Laila Ali is never stated her retirement. In the age of 33, it's very possible that the daughter of Muhammad Ali will add more victory to her 24 wins - 0 losses - 0 draws professional record. She also known as one of the most beautiful athletes with perfect figure, even when on pregnancy.

Here are some of Laila Ali pregnancy pictures, not from her second child, but from her first one:

Laila Ali proudly shows baby bump for an advertising shoot for Palmer’s Cocoa Butter Formula pregnancy products.

Athelete as a Mother

Being a mother is the most noble job on earth. Many women chose this single profession and dedicated their life for their children and family. But how about a woman who happened to be a professional athlete?

There are only a few successful woman athletes who still managed to keep their determination even after giving birth to a baby. One of them is Kim Clijsters, which only a year after her baby girl Jada Ellie born, she was able to won the 2009 US Open Grand Slam. This made her the first mother to win a major tennis event since Evonne Goolagong Cawley won Wimbledon in 1980.

In this kind of situation, support from family is very important. In Kim Clijsters' case, she is lucky that her husband, professional basketball player Brian Lynch, also an athlete that understand well of her career. Besides family, a proper Mothercare equipment in the house also can be a great help.

Kim Clijsters and her daughter in 2009 US Open

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Kevin Prince and Jerome Boateng Stop Talking Because of Michael Ballack

Who thought that football can broke a brotherhood? Kevin Prince Boateng (23) and Jerome Boateng (21) decided to stop talking to each other due to the incident that caused German captain, Michael Ballack, injured.

Kevin Prince and Jerome are half-brother, both were born in Germany, that came from Ghanaian father and German mother. While Jerome chose to held his nationality and played for German national football team, Kevin Prince chose to joined his father bloodline by represented the Ghanaian national football team.

Jerome Boateng (left) and Kevin Prince Boateng

Clash between them occurred when Kevin-Prince made German captain, Michael Ballack, got injured in FA Cup Final on last May. Because of this injury, Ballack missed 2010 World Cup.


Jerome Boateng, Ballack teammate in German national team, decided to break-off contacts forever with his half-brother because of that.

“I don’t want any more contact with him. Kevin thought I should have defended him and criticized Ballack – and that I shouldn’t have said that he deserved a red card." said Jerome to Hamburger Morgenpost.

Kevin Prince also has something to respond, "Each one of us has his own family – you have yours, I have mine’. That was too much for me. Now I don’t care what he does. It really doesn’t interest me any more," said the Portsmouth midfielder.

However, Jerome got a bit softer later and said, "Kevin is also only a human who can make errors," he told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. "He didn't want to take the World Cup away from Michael Ballack. He is my brother and will always be my brother," he added.

It's fate that Ghana will meet Germany on 2010 World Cup group stage on June 23. Let's hope they're not going to bring their arguments to the field.

Phil Mickelson - The Real Family Man

Phil Mickelson managed to won the 2010 The Masters Golf Championship in Augusta National Club House that finished its 18th hole in April 11. Phil Mickelson received a nice surprise that also made the audiences on that golf course shed tears.

Everybody who already familiar with Mickelson must be sympathized to this 39-year-old golfer. Not just struggling for his existence in golf competitions, but also his fights with his beloved wife, Amy, who has a breast cancer.

Amy Mickelson diagnosed to have a breast cancer last year, and after that the couples were following so many therapies. Still unknown yet how much long Amy had to go with the treatment until she will fully healed. She has never accompanying her husband again from hole to hole because of her condition, and last week in Augusta she just waited for Phil in the 18th hole.

Phil and Amy Mickelson in 2008 Ryder Cup

"I'm glad Amy was there. With her condition I knew that she'll be watching, but wasn't sure that she will be coming. I didn't know that she was waiting in the 18th hole. When everything over, it was really emotional to be able to share happiness with her" said Phil.

After Tiger Woods adultery scandals, family matter has became a sensitive issue in golf course. People has suspecting that family man image of golf player merely just a cover. Fortunately, Phil and Amy Mickelson who has a 10-year-old daughter Amanda, still surviving. Their struggle inside and outside the match proves that Mickelson is really a respected family man.

Why The Chinese Worry about Yao Ming First Child?

There are some worrying moment to all basketball fans in China. Yao Ming's wife, Ye Li, is pregnant right now, and those Chinese affraid the baby gonna have a US citizenship.

Ye Li born November 20, 1981 is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Ye, 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, met Yao at the age of seventeen in 1998. Ye initially rejected Yao's many requests to go on a date, but softened her rejections, especially after he gave her team pins from many participants of the 2000 Summer Olympics.

The Houston Rockets center, Yao Ming, married his wife in 2007. At this moment, those couples already back in States due to the knee injury therapist process of Yao Ming. Yao and Ye Li expecting their first child, possibly a daughter, in July 2010.

The Chinese fans hope the child gonna have her parents citizenship, because they have high hope that the child gonna have as much talent as her mom and dad. If the baby going to be born in the States, automaticaly she's gonna have a US citizenship. She can also have a Chinese citizenship, although that country doesn't admitted dual citizenship.

Ted Terry, Like Father not Like Son

John Terry, Chelsea FC's and England Football Captain have great career in football games. As a center back he have had what all of a defender wanted, was voted best defender in the UEFA Champions League in both 2005 and 2008, the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005 and was included in the FIFPro World XI for four consecutive seasons, from 2005 to 2008. He was also named in the all-star squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only English player to make the team.

Now with The Blues, Chelsea he struggles to stick the team as league leader of English Premier League beside prepares his National Team, England, to have International Friendly Game versus Brasil in Qatar.

Now can you imagine that his father, Ted Tery, is a cocaine fixer ?

Off course as a footballer who earns £160,000 a week, John could buy anything for his father like a £15,000 Rolex watch that was weared by Ted as as an early Christmas present.

So why Ted Terry risks his son's reputation just for £120 ?

I HAVE NO IDEA !!!

Here is the tape of the transaction

The News of the World's Reporter who traped him, said the deal took place last Thursday at the Unit 4 wine bar in Chafford Hundred, near Grays.