For U.S. Independence Day, we’re going with an athlete who has literally wrapped himself with the flag: Sprinter Walter Dix. At the Beijing Olympics, Dix was the standout American sprinter taking bronze in the 100m and 200m and then doing laps with Old Glory. The former Florida State sprinter has eight individual NCAA sprinting titles. At 5-foot-9, 196 pounds, at 23 years old you know he is a powerhouse of muscle. Plus, he wears lots of very tight outfits.
More pics after the jump.
Andy Roddick still has some surprises left - just ask Andy Murray.
The former top baller pulled the biggest upset of the tourney taking out the third seed and second fave for the title 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (9), 7-6 (5) avenging his third round defeat to the Brit in 2006. And even though Muzz cracked more winners (76-64) and hit more aces than A-Rod (25-21) his overall game was undone by his inability to get the first serve in play (52%).
He may have been ousted by Roger Federer in straight sets in the semifinals, but Tommy Haas was still one of the hottest things at Wimbledon. Photographer Brent snapped some shots of him as he warmed up (shirtless, of course) at a tournament in Los Angeles during his “ponytail” phase. More pics after the jump.
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That’s right, according to the crew of Fox & Friends, the recent cold bug that’s been going around the Yankees clubhouse is because they all get naked and shower together.
I believe the word I’m looking for… is Fail.
Footage courtesy of Fox & Friends (via The Daily Show)
International Jock has had the good fortune to have just completed a photo shoot with 20-year old British model Harry Tucker. Photographer (and International Jock founder) John Sievers thinks that the young model has a big future ahead of him. After the shoot, Sievers chatted with Tucker about sports, swimwear and his background.
International Jock: Harry, I’ve really enjoyed working with you on the two shoots we’ve done. But I know that you’d never done any underwear or swimwear modeling before. What was it like for you?
Harry Tucker: Well, it seemed a bit weird at first. Made me a little nervous. But I’m got used to the idea and it was actually quite a good time. Wearing the briefer, skimpy items was a bit odd but no matter, the pay was great.
More pics after the jump.
In response to the problems created by people pretending to be celebrities (not the least of which was the Tony LaRussa lawsuit), Twitter has instituted a program (still in beta testing mode) to verify that the pages of famous people or the entities they represent are legitimate. One such “Verified Account” is that of San Diego Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman. So I’m confident that his portion of this exchange with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad “Don’t Call Me Johnson” OchoCinco is real.
I’m confident about OchoCinco’s page as well, although it has yet to become “Verified,” because he posted a video as part of their back-and-forth. Chad’s Twitter page is interesting in that he replies, voluminously, to his followers — some of whom, at least, are definitely not fans. (I’ve included a couple of OchoCinco’s posts with them as well.) On my own blog (shameless plug alert!) I wrote about how he recently riled people with a poor comparison between the 9/11 attacks and the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett. The following (after the jump) all took place on June 24th… Continue reading →
News flash: Homophobia lives on in Chicago baseball. At the recent Cubs-White Sox series, fans of the White Sox apparently decided that it would be fun to point out how Gaaaaay the Cubs are. Some wore t-shirts with the image to the right, produced by Chi-City Tees. The company’s delightful pitch for the shirt:
THE HOTTEST AND TRUEST T-SHIRT ON THE SOUTHSIDE…WE ALL KNOW THE CUBS HAVE THEIR PARADE…GAY…AND THE SOX HAD THEIRS…CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE…
They have other lovely homophobic and racist shirts. Pics and more after the jump.
EPIC.
In a rematch of their semifinal in Oz, Serena Williams + Elena Dementieva met up in the Wimbledon semifinals and put on the best ladies’ match of the YEAR and maybe the best match since Venus Williams defeated Lindsay Davenport to raise the Venus Rosewater Dish in 2005. A round of applause please! *clap, clap, clap, clap*
If you’re a golfer, you’ve no doubt had those occasional downhill shots on the edge of a bunker that just killed your score. Phil Mickelson has a way around it: The backward shot. You turn around with your back to the pin and aim AWAY from the hole, making it an uphill shot. And you still make the ball head toward the hole. You gotta see it to believe it.
Tommy Haas made good this time against one of the big boys.
At the French Open last month, the German baller was up two sets and held a break point against eventual champ Roger Federer and caved in five. And today, HotHaas was up two sets on Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon quarters, lost the third but closed out an impressive 7-5, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3 over the fourth seed.
I find it kind of funny when I see companies pop up trying to wrap themselves in athletic nomenclature so they can better market their wares to gay men. The most glaring example is surely Jock Soap. Today I stumbled across an underwear company in Australia called TeamM8 that’s doing just the same. Don’t get me wrong, I ain’t mad at ‘em. I mean, at the very least they’re giving me some photos to look at. I think it reflects how much gay culture has changed when more and more gay-targeted companies, magazines and Web sites try so very hard to “butch it up” with an athletic feel. And with the photos and models they’re using, I’m sure it’s working just fine!
Do you get sucked into buying clothes and other items because the company gives a jock image? Or do you just look at the pretty pictures?
Pics and Video of one of their latest photo shoots after the jump.
It’s a good thing Serena Williams wins a ton because I’m sure she needs the storage space.
The 10-time Grand Slammer revealed she has an interesting use for all the hardware she’s accumulated over her long career.
For the first time since 2006, the top four seeds in the ladies’ draw have made the semifinals at Wimbledon.
In the top half, top seed and World No. 1 Dinara Safina will battle 5-time defending champ Venus Williams after the Russian escaped a messy quarterfinal against unseeded German Sabine Lisicki. Dina hit 15 double faults and 38 unforced errors in her 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-1 win. We’re talking F-UGLY. On the other hand, it was smooth sailing for third seeded V who crushed tricky Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 6-2 hitting 5 aces and 29 winners against only 6 for her opponent.
Los Angeles Unified School District officials are upset, the L.A. Times reports, that members of the Birmingham High football team participated in a photo shoot with “Bruno,” the flamboyantly gay character played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. (Some photos below).
A slide show on the GQ website shows Cohen cavorting with the uniformed players while wearing shoulder pads, tight red shorts, an athletic cup and little else. In one shot, the “Borat” star is lying on top of a player he has evidently just “tackled.”
District officials, beginning with Supt. Ramon C. Cortines, were not amused. “We’ve allowed our students to be used, and not in the most glamorous circumstances, either,” he said. Continue reading →
What does tennis smell like? Lacoste will soon be trying to define it as they release their new fragrance for men called Challenge. The campaign revolves around tennis, and the bottle is even modeled after the handle of a tennis racquet (pic after the jump). The cologne itself (why does no one use the word “cologne” anymore?) is the color of tennis balls. The front man for the new product: actor Hayden Christiansen. Andy Roddick already has his own cologne, but Christiansen is a bona fide tennis player himself having played at a very high level in high school (he also played hockey) and was angling for a college tennis scholarship when George Lucas came calling about Star Wars (Christiansen had been acting long before that).
There’s a Facebook page but not much else about the fragrance at this point. It’s timed to come out right around the U.S. Open in August, so we’re looking forward to finding out what Lacoste thinks Flushing Meadows should smell like in late summer.
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