We first checked in on the lifestyles of rich and famous athletes when we brought you a Super Bowl edition of Top Ten Real Estate Deals (www.toptenrealestatedeals.com). Well, it was so much fun that we've decided to expand those listings this week to include athletes from other sports.

Even horses.

The 800-acre spread in Ocala, Fla., where Silver Charm, who came within a length of winning the Triple Crown in 1997, was foaled recently went up for auction. The asking price had been reduced almost $10 million, to $24 million, and there were still no takers.

I guess a state-of-the-art horse facility that includes a 1-mile irrigated grass track, multiple homes and a 22-room dormitory doesn't have the appeal it used to.

Then again, the Virginia farm where the great Secretariat — who did win the Triple Crown — was born and raised sold at auction in May for $5.35 million.

Now, if baseball is your thing and you have a few million dollars hanging around, there are plenty of homes you can have that once belonged to players.

Hall of Famer Barry Larkin has a home in the Orlando area on the market for a cool $10.9 million. It's 14,500 square feet, sitting on 2.8 acres of waterfront property on Lake Chase.

What can you put inside 14,500 square feet of house? This home has six bedrooms, 13 bathrooms — don't ask me why — a gym, pool, stage room and disco lounge. That's right, a disco lounge. There are an outdoor kitchen, theater, fireplace, basketball court and tennis court. There is enough dock space to tie up a fleet of boats and jet skis.

Now that he has shipped out of Boston, former Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon has his Boston penthouse on the market for $3.1 million.

Former big-league shortstop Walt Weiss has a home in Arizona with an indoor batting cage and baseball diamond in the back yard going for $3.99 million, while former Red Sox third baseman Adrian Beltre is selling his Southern California digs for $19.5 million.

There is not enough room in this space to describe Beltre's mansion, except to say it has more bedrooms and bathrooms than the home Larkin is selling. OK, I will tell it has its own golf greens with bunkers.

While we're on the subject of golf, we have two words for you: Bubba, Lefty.

Any golf fan knows who we're talking about.

Masters champion Bubba Watson obviously is moving on to bigger and better now that he's won a major title. He's ditching his High Rock Lake home in North Carolina for $1.5 million. Not only is the 3,386-square-foot home on the lake, it also has a heated saltwater pool, hot tub, outdoor TV and — get this — three kitchens, including one that is outdoors. What is it with athletes and their outdoor kitchens?

Then there is Lefty, Phil Mickelson, who is selling his home in the San Diego suburb of Rancho Santa Fe for $7.1 million. And, yes, there is a putting green.

If that seems a bit pricey, you can always snag the La Quinta, Calif., home of Fred Couples. It's a mere $4.2 million.

If auto racing is your thing, the unfinished North Carolina mansion of former NASCAR champion Jeremy Mayfield was just up for auction.

Maybe you are into professional wrestling. And who isn't? Well, if that's the case, you just missed out on Hulk Hogan's Florida mansion near Clearwater. The waterfront property went on the market in 2006 for $25 million. It recently sold for less than $7 million.

And now, poor Hulk is slumming. He recently bought a home a third the size five miles away for $3.3 million.

Jim Fennell's “Just Checking In” column appears every other week in the New Hampshire Sunday News. Email him at jfennell@unionleader.com.