Tom Brady and Mario Chalmers named on People's sexiest men alive list

Chris Chase, USA TODAY Sports | USATODAY

Joining teen heartthrobs Tom Brokaw, Patrick Duffy and Lance Bass, four athletes, including Tom Brady and Apolo Anton Ohno, were named on People's annual list of sexiest men alive.

This year, the magazine chose the sexiest man from each 50 states. The spread was called the "United States of Sexy," probably after an intense newsroom debate over other names like "U.S(exy).A", "Stars, Stripes and Sexy" or "Any Excuse to Show Channing Tatum shirtless." It included stars like Jon Hamm (Missouri), Patrick Dempsey (Maine) and Ne-Yo (Nevada).

Brady got the nod from Michigan, Ohno won from Washington, Mario Chalmers was the representative from Alaska and, in the biggest upset of all, Tim Tebow was not named Florida's sexiest man. We'll have to wait for ESPN to release its own list, I guess.

A huge bravo to the biggest winner here: Mario Chalmers' publicist. There's not exactly a stacked field from Alaska (it's either Bristol Palin's baby's daddy, Mark Schlereth or a 1995 photo of Trajan Langdon) but getting Chalmers on the list is impressive nonetheless. If I'm Chalmers, I'm walking into the Heat locker room reading the magazine and casually asking LeBron and DWade where he can find their photo spreads.

Oscar Pistorius also made the list in a non-United States of Sexy feature.