Jim and I are back from Gay Bowl X, and we brought another championship with us. Our Los Angeles Motion team beat the New York Warriors, 19-18, in the final of the tournament. It was an amazing game with some great plays on both sides of the ball. You can read my notes on the [...]
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Brett Favre. Naked. (Allegedly.)
Jim and Cyd are in Phoenix so I’ll keep you up to date on the gay newz and notez for the weekend. (Or until they revoke my access! WHEE!) For the 2 of you left that hadn’t seen or heard about it, Brett Favre has allegedly sent pictures of his penis to Jenn Sturger. And [...]
Quarterback Henry Burris looks good in bra
Birthday photos of Henry Burris, quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, are making the rounds and he is laughing it off as a prank. The photos show Burris and a woman who is not his wife wearing bras. “It’s not a big deal,” he said Tuesday. “Basically, it was a birthday [...]
Parke & Ronen butch it up, dude
There was a cool “fashion” event on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles and West Hollywood last week for which many of the boutique clothing stores opened their doors after hours. We headed to the event at Parke & Ronen, who specialize in casual wear like shorts and (very small) swimsuits. The theme at the store [...]
Gay football player on “Degrassi”
We mentioned yesterday that the show “Glee” will have a character who is a gay quarterback. We now hear from a reader that the show “Degrassi” already has introduced a character, Riley, who is a gay football player. “Degrassi” is a Canadian show that can be seen on Teen Nick in the U.S. Never having [...]
Glee, Kurt Hummel to get gay quarterback
It looks like a gay (or at least curious) athlete will soon be a part of the hit show GLEE. The uber-gay Kurt Hummel is about to get a boyfriend, and it’s going to be the quarterback of the football team. According to E!: Rumors that new cast member Chord Overstreet [right] will play Chris [...]
Design end zone penises for video game
The video game “Backbreaker,” a football simulation, is coming out with a customizable engine the creators say is so realistic that you can design Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” in the end zone. But one producer told the video game blog Kotaku that he expects something one another level. “Let’s face it, the first two days [...]
Video: Homoerotic fantasy football
For your Friday viewing pleasure, Broadway dancers perform all sorts of homoerotic acts wearing football gear. I am not sure who created it, but the video even begins with a brief snippet of the CBS NFL theme and Hank Williams Jr. singing “Are You Ready for Football.” Music is “Let It Rock” by Kevin Rudolf. [...]
Should women (and gays) coach football?
It’s a small sorority, only a handful strong. But the number of women coaching high school football increased by one two weeks ago when Natalie Randolph was named the head football coach of a high school team in Washington D.C. It brought to mind a question I remember asking some fraternity brothers of mine who [...]
Gay sports storyline Thursday on Fox’s ‘Bones’
Many months ago my friend Josh Berman, consulting producer on Fox’s hit show Bones, started asking me questions about gay football players for a storyline he was working on. That story hits the airwaves Thursday (Jan. 28) in the Bones episode, “The Dentist in the Ditch.” The story centers on the investigation of the murder [...]
Prince sings for the Vikings
The Artist Formerly — And Currently — Known as Prince has written a theme song for the Minnesota Vikings. The Minneapolis native was at the Vikings’ 34-3 NFC Divisional Playoff rout of the Dallas Cowboys and, inspired, went home immediately after the game and wrote “Purple and Gold,” which you can listen to in its [...]
Amazing story of trans former high school QB
Details magazine has a fantastic story about a former high school quarterback who is now a lesbian filmmaker. Kimberly Reed was Paul McKerrow in high school: Starting quarterback and valedictorian in Helena, Montana. Beneath the surface of Paul’s seemingly placid Rocky Mountain life was the feeling that, though he was attracted to girls, he wasn’t [...]
Changing Lanes (2010 Edition)
UPDATE: There are reports of riots on the University of Tennessee campus. If you are in the area, please be extremely careful. The earthquake who’s epicenter was the Seattle Seahawks firing Jim Mora Jr. has now plowed into Knoxville. The sudden hire of USC’s head coach Pete Carroll (enjoy that one Seattle fans), left a [...]
Sports Tweet: Jay Feely on Chris Henry
The subject of today’s Twitter lesson: when to keep your mouth shut. New York Jets’ kicker Jay Feely describes himself, on his Twitter page, as “Christian, with political aspirations.” In a profile for the online Sporting News Today, the number one item on his Bucket List: “Be elected president.” None of this stopped him from [...]
Go see ‘The Blind Side’
Rocky. The Natural. Hoosiers. Field of Dreams. Million Dollar Baby. Remember the Titans. Sports have given us great movies. Some have been uplifting, others depressing. But whether they’ve been about boxing or baseball or football or basketball, these sports films that have broken through have resonated because they’ve shown how sports teaches us about life. [...]
Time’s great invention: The no-punt offense
While most of the sports media is falling over themselves to say how stupid Bill Belichick is to go for it on 4th and 2, Time Magazine came out last week with their 50 Best Inventions of 2009. Number 31: The No-Punt Offense… As Sports Illustrated explained in a recent story, Kevin Kelley, coach of [...]
World’s tallest teenager plays football
I always find it humbling to see a story like this that puts life into perspective. No matter how bad my day is, no matter what goes wrong, no matter how much back pain I have, my life isn’t nearly the struggle that this kid’s life is. Brenden Adams seems like such a nice kid, [...]
Behind-the-back pass
What’s the worst slap in the face you’ve seen in a high school football game? Mine is now the behind-the-back 2-point conversion pass that took place in Baton Rouge a couple weeks ago. What was the coach thinking? Up 13-0 (en route to 58-0), why is the coach letting these kids go for 2…and throwing [...]
Is holding hands ‘hazing’ in football?
What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting [...]
Worst way to lose a football game ever
This might be the most excruciating way to possibly lose a football game. I can’t think of a worse one I’ve ever seen, though the commentators said something about an Iowa-Northern Iowa game. To make the play of the year and then to forget one crucial detail…I feel so bad for the white team and [...]