20 Celebrities With Surprising Sports Skills
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Fall is the time of year when most Americans unite to sit on their couches to watch current sporting events. While they all have different start dates and end dates to their seasons, fall is when football, basketball, hockey, and baseball cross over with one another. We celebrate these athletes this Autumn, but we here at Cracked want to extend kudos to the forgotten athletes: celebrities!
Believe or not (but you should believe), some of your favorite actors, musicians, and other performers from film and TV were lauded athletes before you knew them from *insert television show/movie/album here*. A stand-up comedian/political pundit was an all-state soccer player. An astrophysicist and show host was an undefeated high school wrestler. An actor may have fallen just short of being in the U.S. Olympic archery team, but won an Oscar.
Here are 20 well-known celebrities whose talents extend to the physical.
Steve Carell
![Sport Celebrities Steve Carell played Division II hockey at Denison University, and even considered a career in the NHL. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/8/870878.jpg)
Emma Watson
![Sport Celebrities Emma Watson never played quidditch, but she did play field hockey for Brown University. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/5/870865.jpg)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
![Sport Celebrities Neil DeGrasse Tyson pinned fools between equations as an undefeated high school wrestler. Не captained the team and went on to wrestle at Harvard. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/7/870877.jpg)
Jon Stewart
![Sport Celebrities Jon Stewart was a collegiate soccer player for William & Mary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/3/870863.jpg)
Jason Statham
![Sport Celebrities Jason Statham was on the national British diving team. Before becoming a Hollywood action star, he dove in the 1990 Commonwealth Games. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/5/870875.jpg)
Keanu Reeves
![Sport Celebrities Keanu Reeves was the MVP goalie for the De La Salle College hockey team. Не was nicknamed The Wall. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/8/870868.jpg)
Vinnie Jones
![Sport Celebrities Vinnie Jones was a veteran footballer (soccer player to you Yanks). Не played for several teams, including helping the Wimbledon club win the 1988 FA Cup title. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/1/870871.jpg)
Jason Segel
![Sport Celebrities merican ULI Airlines PIA Bank of Jason Segel played high school basketball for Harvard-Westlake alongside future NBA stars Jaron and Jason Collins. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/6/870876.jpg)
Robin Roberts
![Sport Celebrities Good Morning America host Robin Roberts played on the Southeastern Louisiana University basketball team and was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/4/870874.jpg)
Leslie Jones
![Sport Celebrities Leslie Jones played basketball for Chapman University and Colorado State University before pursuing comedy when she won a Funniest Person on Campus contest. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/9/870869.jpg)
Jason Lee
![Sport Celebrities Jason Lee was a professional skateboarder before getting into acting. DOUS ELB CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/3/870873.jpg)
Ellie Kemper
![Sport Celebrities Ellie Kemper was on the championship team for field hockey at Princeton University. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/7/870867.jpg)
Joel McHale
![Sport Celebrities EY THE ME PALEY CENTER CENTER FOR FEST ES FOR CENTER MEDIA CENTER! THI FOR THE Joel McHale walked on as a tight end for the University of Washington's football team, and has a Rose Bowl ring. R ME NTE CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/2/870872.jpg)
Stephen Hawking
![Sport Celebrities Stephen Hawking was a star coxswain on the University of Oxford's rowing team before contracting ALS. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/0/870860.jpg)
Ed O'Neill
![Sport Celebrities Ed O'Neill was a college football player and an undrafted free agent for the Pittsburgh Steelers. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/1/870861.jpg)
Denzel Washington
![Sport Celebrities Denzel Washington was a guard for Fordham University's basketball team. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/8/870858.jpg)
Geena Davis
![Sport Celebrities Geena Davis almost made the U.S. Olympic Archery Team. She impressively tried out at age 41 in 2000. STATE CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/5/9/870859.jpg)
George Clooney
![Sport Celebrities A talented high school baseball player, George Clooney tried out for the Cincinnati Reds. Не didn't make it past the first round, but he's doing alright. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/6/870866.jpg)
Uzo Aduba
![Sport Celebrities Orange is the New Black star Uzo Aduba ran track and field for Boston University. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/6/2/870862.jpg)
Mahershala Ali
![Sport Celebrities Mahershala Ali played for St. Mary's on a basketball scholarship. Не would do a graduate program for acting at New York University after his college b-ball career was done. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/8/7/0/870870.jpg)