Alan Valdez is a rising Adonis in the modeling and bodybuilding world. With a face you’ll never forget, a charming voice and the body of a Greek warrior. Alan has placed himself in the high ranks of the following competitions as well as getting the front cover of a magazine — Wences Classic 2008, 1st [...]
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Speedo’s LZR Racer creeps into college ranks
While international swim officials struggle to deal with the high-tech swimsuits made popular during the Olympics, Georgia Tech’s men’s swimming team is going to great lengths to make sure they are packed firmly inside them. With the ACC Men’s Championships opening today, Tech swimmers want any advantage they can get, even if means sleeping three [...]
Fifteen worst basketball uniforms ever
A guy over at FanIQ searched the globe to compile his list of the 15 worst basketball uniforms ever. Not surprisingly, they’re almost entirely from the United States. Only two college — Oregon and Syracuse — made the list. Charles Barkley wore two of the uniforms in his NBA career. The biggest surprise has to [...]
Swimming tackles the high-tech swimsuits
Here is a sports headline that warmed my heart: “Swim officials want more skin, less suit in the pool.” FINA, the governing body of international swimming, is discussing new rules to restrict the use of high-tech swimsuits of the kind that led to a ridiculous 108 world records in the past year. Some critics have [...]
Memphis uniform PR disaster averted
The Memphis Tigers quite nearly became the targets of some jovial ribbing and some nasty, targeted attacks when they pushed to wear uniforms of FedEx’s colors (orange, purple and white) in their upcoming game this Wednesday night, instead of their usual blue and white. The NCAA actually gave them permission to do so, but officials [...]
Eagles LB interning at Elle
Let’s hope his career doesn’t follow Sean Avery’s path: Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Stewart Bradley has begun an internship at Elle magazine, the Philadelphia Daily News reported Monday. The item says Bradley wanted to learn more about the fashion industry and is one of a handful of NFL players who have interned at fashion magazines. The [...]
Montreal wears throwba…OH GOD MY EYES!
In proof that we in 2009 have progressed immeasurably in the last hundred or so years, the Montreal Canadiens wore some truly awful throwbacks Sunday night in their 3-1 loss to the Boston Bruins. They wore uniforms inspired by their 1912-13 counterparts in what can only be some sort of test of Quebec-area HD televisions’ [...]
Rafael Nadal takes a powder
Via Rich at Down the Line tennis comes a series of shots sent by a reader of Rafael Nadal getting powdered up for a new Nike clothing campaign. With the Australian Open starting, the timing is perfect. Check out Rich’s preview of the tournament for Outsports. Below is a larger image of a powdered Nadal. [...]
A-Rod wears a cup
In a recent podcast, Jim and Cyd discussed athletes’ use of cups and Jim followed up on this blog by asking the immortal question, “Who should wear a cup?” Thanks to the ever-enterprising paparazzi, we now have photographic evidence that at least one pro athlete wears one. Alex Rodriguez, New York Yankee and Madonna’s latest [...]
Fashion faux pas: A Graham Harrell Christmas
Yes, I know Lubbock, Texas, isn’t exactly Milan or Manhattan when it comes to fashion. But star Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell should get his clothing tips from somewhere other than the local feed supply store. This is Harrell in a 2008 Christmas card unearthed first on a Texas Longhorn site that quickly found its [...]
Army and Navy’s SWEET Alternate Uniforms
If you didn’t see the Army-Navy game this weekend — and judging from the ratings, you didn’t — you missed a friggin’ sweet set of alternate jerseys the Black Knights and Midshipmen wore. Dubbed the “Enforcer” jersey, this marketing ploy/fun idea made an otherwise boring game more entertaining. Navy’s uniform is pretty standard 2008 uniform [...]
Who should wear a cup?
In our latest Podcast, Cyd and I discussed whether athletes wore cups or even needed to. We received this thoughtful response from a listener who provided some terrific information: I enjoyed listening to the podcast about cups and jocks. Who SHOULD wear a cup? As a former EMT who took care of many athletic injuries, [...]
USC, UCLA show NCAA what class is
It is great to hear about the cooperation being exhibited this week between USC football coach Pete Carroll and UCLA’s Rick Neuheisel, and how they gave the big middle finger to the NCAA. For years, both USC and UCLA wore their dark home jerseys in their annual end-of-season rivalry game. But the big, mean NCAA [...]
Lions fans think positive about 0-16
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D&G’s shameless use of Italian rugby jocks
You just gotta love those ad execs at Dolce & Gabbana. They’ve enlisted five rugby players from the Italian National Team for a new D&G underwear ad campaign that was shot in Paris. They will be pitching several D&G styles, including Skin Sensation, 24 Fit, Sport Camp, Olympia, Fresh and Highlight. There’s a link to a D&G [...]
Under Armour’s new image problem
Under Armour, the hyper-masculine line of workout gear, might just have muscled its way into an image problem with the same gay men who wear it proudly at the gym. A piece from the New York Times explores the company and its meteoric rise since former college football player Kevin Plank launched it in 1996. [...]
Sean Avery, still gayer than me
We have had a couple of posts about New York Rangers hockey thug and fashion maven Sean Avery, which prompted me to joke that, given his tastes and interests, he is gayer than me. A summer intern at Vogue, Avery has a fashion photo slideshow, where he has the good sense in some shots to [...]
Sharapova to don shorts and a T
Wimbledon has long prided itself on the purity of the dress of its participants, who must be clad in “almost entirely white.” Enter Maria Sharapova, one of the top contenders this year, who has announced she’ll wear shorts and a T-shirt this week. “I’m going with the traditional shorts, believe it or not”, she said. [...]
David Beckham, again in his underwear
Soccer stud David Beckham likes it big and on top. His Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer sits atop the Western Conference, a position Beckham likes, according to his blog. And he towers above adoring fans in a billboard plastered across Macy’s in San Francisco’s Union Square that will soon be coming to cities [...]
More countries opt for high-tech swimsuits
The swimming arms race continues unabated as the national teams from Japan and Germany have decided to use the newest high-tech body suits. Japan will use Speedo’s LZR suit, which was unveiled this winter, while Germany will use one being developed by Adidas. Other companies are also working on their versions of the suits, which [...]