Queen of sarcasm and deadpan, Aubrey Plaza isn’t as mopey as she is on TV. The Parks and Recreation actress is super into basketball and has been playing for an L.A based recreational women’s team called the Pistol Shrimps for many seasons now. In fact, the team got so much attention (it’s filled with entertainers and writers) that in 2016, it became the subject of a quirky little documentary.
The actress has been very vocal about how much she loves her team, getting quite excited over promoting it on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Steve Carell
According to an interview with ESPN, it sounds like Steve Carrell halted a potentially decent career in ice hockey. In high school, the Office star was faced with going to a Division I college hockey program and fight for his position of goalie. The thought of going all out was turned him off, and Steve decided to continue with Division III throughout his Denison University days.
He got his shot later in life when he played a killer game in the episode "Michael's Birthday" on The Office .
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck would rather not be known as the sex symbol of a generation, yet the sex symbol appeared on the cover of Playgirl magazine four times. Driving a red-hot Italian sports car as a private detective on Magnum P.I. created this appeal, but not before he won a scholarship to USC to play basketball. There, the show biz bug bit hard, and Selleck quit the Trojans to study acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
After some modeling, some small television parts, and a few commercials, he scored the lead role as Thomas Magnum. His film career surpassed his basketball career by a long shot, but he still loves athletics and is an imposing beach volleyball player. He’s also serious about ice hockey and baseball. At one point, he part-owned his favorite baseball team, the Detroit Tigers.
Jason Lee
Way too cool for school, Jason Lee dropped out of high school to become a professional skateboarder. Now the Huntington Beach local is a boss in three coveted professions. After Mallrats and Chasing Amy, Lee’s a famous slacker actor who is known worldwide as Earl in My Name is Earl. His success in TV and film and shredding professionally apparently wasn’t enough. Lee took on photography as a passion and a profession—his book sold out, pre-production.
As Earl, he’s been nominated twice for Best Actor. And, he’s the co-founder of a skateboard company heavy in merch appeal. In his day, Lee’s street tricks, like kinked rails, varial kickflips, and 360-flipping over any available surface, were nothing short of phenomenal.
Jon Stewart
Jon Stuart Leibowitz (just call him “Leibo”) was a William & Mary men’s soccer walk-on. With high expectations for varsity placement as an all-state player straight out of high school in 1980, the coach promptly rerouted Jon Stewart to the JV team. Coveting the varsity team’s “NCAA Regional Champs” hoodies, Stewart added this reminiscence to his former coach’s book, “I wanted only one thing at that point in life: to earn one of those damned sweatshirts . . . and to lose my virginity . . . but I assume that is for the foreword of a very different book.”
He played hard and won a spot on the varsity team as a tenacious wing. “Leibo” became a team star for his feisty athleticism on the field and for his rousing locker room pep talks off the field. A year before Stewart’s Daily Show launched, the William & Mary soccer program commemorated his contribution by creating the annual “Leibo Award.”