Okay, I admit, I watched a season of Dancing With the Stars solely because my favorite athlete Hines Ward was a contestant. And he ended up winning the whole shebang! Just like his NFL comrade Donald Driver -- a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers -- who took home the mirror ball trophy in the most recent season.

But that got me thinking -- there are so many athletes who are fantastic on the show. Perhaps all their athletic training and natural coordination give them a leg up on the rest of their competition? That's probably a given, seeing as athletes like Kristi Yamaguchi, Apolo Anton Ohno, Helio Castronoves, Shawn Johnson, and Emmitt Smith have all won in previous seasons. Many athletes have been runners-up, too.

So, let's check out some of the best dances performed by professional athletes, shall we? Okay! Cool! Let's go!

Plenty of actresses are eyeing the role of Anastasia Steele in the Fifty Shades of Grey movie, and now it looks like Selena Gomez could possibly be thrown into the mix as a contender. Yes, Selena Gomez. As in the Disney star. As in Justin Bieber's girlfriend. I don't know whether to laugh or cry out of sheer panic at the thought of her innocent reputation being smeared by mommy porn.

At 19 years old, Selena is no baby, so I guess it really won't be a huge shock if she's toying with the idea of being Christian Grey's love slave. If nothing else, she's definitely interested in the book, judging from the new Funny or Die spoof she made called "Fifty Shades of Blue."

Lexi ThompsonLexi Thompson, an LPGA teen sensation from Coral Springs, Florida, hasn't had the most typical teenage experience growing up. She had to be home-schooled due to her insanely busy schedule and she has to miss graduation because she'll be out on tour. So it's great she'll get a little slice of "normal" teenage life by being able to go to her prom.

But what makes this story even sweeter is that she chose her date by creating a contest to honor Wounded Warriors, which provides services to injured servicemen and women. She first thought to ask another athlete or actor, but instead gave an all-expenses-paid weekend of fun to Lance Corporal Mark Scott, a Marine active reservist and Purple Heart recipient from Naperville, Illinois. 

From going go-kart racing to appearing on "Fox and Friends" to taking a trip to the gun range then the golf course, it sounds like a weekend both of them will never forget!

Well here's something you don't see every day. Nick Mangold, the center for the New York Jets, got his chest waxed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Of course this is something you're gonna want to see.

Jimmy does a segment on his show called "Wax On, Wax Off." A "randomly chosen" audience member was asked a set of trivia questions to win some money. Why is "randomly chosen" in quotes? Because the guy they picked happened to be a self-proclaimed New York Giants fan. If he got any questions wrong, Mangold would pay for them with his chest hair.

Since the questions involved Lithuanian Prime Ministers and filling in quotes by Chaucer, Mangold's chest hair was doomed from the start.

You may not have heard of Joe Haden, but after reading about what a supremely cool guy he is, you might become his newest fan. He's a professional football player for the Cleveland Browns and recently signed a five-year, $50 million contract. But even with that jaw-dropping salary, he seems to be an all-around, super-nice guy. He's also on Twitter quite a bit, and that definitely worked out for Joyce Grendel, an 18-year-old high school senior at Independence (Ohio) High. 

Because poor Joyce went through the stuff teenage nightmares are made of: getting jilted at the last-minute by her date to her senior prom. 

Any mom who is in the midst of trying to potty train a toddler will tell you that when they've gotta go -- they've gotta go. And nine times out of ten, they pick the most inopportune times to announce that they need to do their business. But a 3-year-old little girl named Emmelyn Roettger definitely wins the award for the most awkward time to announce that she needed to go poop after doing it on a live Today show appearance.

Emmelyn went on the show with her parents because at the tender age of 3, she's a genius who is already a member of Mensa. But being one of the smartest kids in the world doesn't mean she isn't still a kid -- and when nature called, she just couldn't ignore it.

Every mother's worst nightmare is for her baby to be born with a disability that will prevent him from leading a normal life. And sadly, one mom named Lacey Buchanan was beyond heartbroken when her baby boy, Christian, was born with such a severe cleft palate that it left him unable to close his mouth -- and also blind because his eyes never formed in utero.

Lacey wanted to share Christian's story with the world, and since she was too emotional to talk about him on camera, she instead made a video, lasting a little over seven minutes long, where she's seen holding up flashcards telling all about her journey with her beloved little boy, and how hard the first year of his life has been for them both. They've had to deal with nasty comments, lurking stares from strangers, and Lacey even had one person scold her for not terminating her pregnancy to spare Christian from having to live with a physical deformity. (It's amazing just how cruel people can be.)

Claire LomasNow here's a story that'll make you feel supremely guilty about how lazy you are when it comes to any form of long-distance running (or maybe that's just me?). Claire Lomas, 32, finished the London Marathon in a bionic suit, 16 days after she first started. Oh, and she is paralyzed from the chest down.

She walked in the suit two miles a day to complete the 26.2-mile race. Her husband, Dan, walked behind her during the whole thing, and her parents and 1-year-old daughter also joined her through most of her journey. Watching Claire cross the finish line has seriously inspired me to dust off my running shoes. I act like I'm having a wheezing heart attack after going two miles on two good legs.

She has made history too -- she became the first person to complete a marathon using a bionic ReWalk suit. Wow, what an inspiring woman! Talk about someone who defied all the odds and made her dream a reality.