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 including [...]
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David Beckham, again in his underwear
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Billie Jean King gets honorary degree
Tennis legend Billie Jean King has been honored by Boston University with an honorary degree for her contributions to society. King’s resume could fill this blog, but this sums up her importance: Life magazine named her one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century.
King is also an out lesbian and is on [...]
Honoring a gay football hero
The New York Times has a terrific article about Jackie Walker, a star linebacker for the University of Tennessee in the early 1970s who was known at the time to be gay. The story deals with his seemingly inexcusable absence from the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame.
Walker was gay, which he made no [...]
Sir Ian McKellen singles out closeted athletes
At a speech Thursday for Stonewall’s annual Equity Dinner in London, Sir Ian McKellen ended his keynote remarks with an interesting question: “Where are the sports people who will brave the ragging in the changing rooms and the heckling from the terraces?” Coming from him, this is more than a fair question. McKellen is openly gay. He participates [...]
Gandalf inspired Amaechi’s coming out
Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi, who came out as gay a year ago, says he was inspired to make his move by Sir Ian McClellan.
“I nearly just decided not to ever go back to America and just stay here and say “let them froth around in their own mess,” but I went to Manchester [...]
Martina a Czech once again
Martina Navratilova fled the then-Czechoslovakia in the 1970s for freedom in the U.S. Now, 33 years later, she has regained her Czech citizenship, 19 years after the Berlin Wall fell.
“I lost it at the time I defected. I got it back on Jan 9,” Navratilova, 51, said during a visit to Tokyo. She defected to [...]
Supermodel news: Tom Brady, Carol Alt
News is heating up that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will soon be a model for Calvin Klein. Reports Page Six of the New York Post:
MOVE over, David Beckham - Tom Brady may soon strip to his skivvies. Calvin Klein Inc. is in talks to turn the hunky Patriots quarterback into an underwear model. [...]
Gay Bowl participant in football Hall of Fame
I was thrilled to hear Saturday that former New England Patriots linebacker Andre Tippett was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. I had always been a fan of Tippett for his tremendous play for New England in the 1980s, but he cemented his reputation when he tossed the coin to open the 2003 [...]
Weir loses a heartbreaker
Johnny Weir and Evan Lysacek had a finish at the United State Figure Skating Championships in St. Paul, Minn., that was unbelievably close.
Defending champion Evan Lysacek and former three-time champion Johnny Weir did the near impossible: they finished the competition with exactly 244.77 points each. The tie was broken and the championship awarded to [...]
Cheers and tears in Torino
In the women’s figure-skating race yesterday, I bet Carolina Kostner to show, and that’s what she did. Her Italian home-town crowd went wild when she delivered a personal-best skate that won bronze in the ISU grand prix finals in Torino. I’m really pleased for this 20-year-old Italian skater. It’s her first world-level medal. Her hard work, grit [...]
David Beckham enhanced?
The London Daily Mail has an article about a photo shoot from a new Armani campaign that suggests that certain body parts might be, uh, digitally enhanced:
The former England captain stares sternly from the poster as if defying anyone to suggest a little computer enhancement might have contributed to the chiselled six-pack or, indeed, to [...]
Ben the Barbarian
Ben Cohen, the English rugby player who will be holding a gay appreciation day next spring, is back on the pitch. This from his publicist, Jill:
The latest pics for you from the Barbarians Match on 1st December. Barbarians is an invitation squad which has players from all over the world. It was a great match [...]
Congressman: Kopay my hero
Washington congressman Jay Inslee supported the Employment and Nondiscrimination Act that passed the House in November and would offer job protection based on sexual orientation. In arguing for the bill’s passage, Inslee, a Democrat, talked about David Kopay, a former star for the University of Washington who came out as gay after a nine-year NFL [...]
Power Behind the Throne
Often we put such importance on the “star athlete who is out” that the importance of coaching is sometimes overlooked – especially the out stars who retire from competition in order to coach. Example of the moment: Canadian world champion figure skater Brian Orser, eight times Canadian national champion, who retired from intensive competing and touring in [...]
