The two newest additions to the sports lineups of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were announced on Friday: Rugby and Golf. IOC President Jacques Rogge said, “Both golf and rugby are very popular sports with global appeal and a strong ethic. They will be great additions to the Games.”
This will be the first time rugby [...]
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Rio awarded 2016 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee, meeting in Copenhagen, awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, beating out Madrid, Tokyo and Chicago. The Chicago loss — the city was eliminated in the first round — was a bit of a stunner since it was the pre-choice betting favorite.
The choice of Rio makes a lot [...]
Cindy Brown losing home to foreclosure
The story in the 9/23 Orange County Register gives all the sad details. 1988 Olympic gold medalist in basketball Cindy Brown is losing the home that she owned since 1989. This after a bitter battle with the city of Villa Park over her dying landscaping — she lost all her money in an [...]
Thai boxer banned for gay-mag spread
Take a good look at the image to the right. We’ve seen something like it a thousand times, right? The man in the photo is Thai Olympic silver-medal boxer Worapoj Petchkoom, and Stage is a Thai gay magazine. Because Petchkhoom appears on the cover of said magazine wearing almost nothing, the Amateur Boxing Association of [...]
Gay Olympic silver medalist has died
Gay Olympic silver medalist Mark Leduc has died at the age of 47. He won his Olympic medal for Canada in boxing in 1992. He was apparently found dead in a sauna, and the assumption is that he died of heat stroke: A strange way to go for someone who made his career knowing the [...]
Sports Tweet of the Week: See-through shorts!
I know, it’s been longer than a week, but as I believe I’ve said before, I procrastinate. Plus, I’m occasionally lazy. Sue me. At any rate, the Portland Trail Blazers’ official Twitter feed is featuring updates from Team USA’s minicamp in Las Vegas, where the Blazers’ Greg Oden is one of 23 participants. Today, [...]
Olympian opens brothel to support training
Logan Campbell, a New Zealand taekwondo athlete, figures he needs to raise $300,000 to compete in the 2012 Olympics, so he’s opened a brothel with his 20-year-old business partner.
“When people think of a pimp they think of a guy standing around on a street corner with gold chains,” he told the Sunday Star Times.
“Pimps are [...]
Win wrestling gold, earn $250,000
USA Wrestling has really sweetened the pot to keep its best wrestlers from defecting to mixed martial arts: $250,000 if you win an Olympic gold, $50,000 for a silver and $25,000 for a bronze, the New York Times reports.
“This is bigger than just wrestling,” [U.S. wrestler Henry] Cejudo said Thursday in a telephone interview. “This [...]
Weekend hot jock: Fencer Jason Rogers
Jason Rogers is a fencer for the United States. His specialty is sabre, and he won a team silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing; He also competed in Athens in 2004. Previously, he had won bronze medals in sabre at the NCAA Championships in 2002 and 2003. He’s also smart, having graduated summa [...]
Welcoming space for gay Winter Olympians
Gay athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be able to relax and let their hair down at PRIDE house, a special area being set aside at the Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre Hotel. Whistler, 76 miles from downtown Vancouver, will host some of the prime events, including downhill skiing, the sled sports [...]
Tewksbury tweaks the media
Canada’s Olympic gold medalist Mark Tewksbury (1992, 100-meter backstroke) recently found a new niche as a sports commentator on the Canadian Broadcasting Centre. He’s doing a series called “Top of Your Game,” appearing every Wednesday on CBC News Morning with Heather Hiscox. Not only is the show newsy and chatty, but Mark shares inside tips on [...]
The great swimsuit debate rages in the NCAA
The battle between the haves and the have-nots has reached a fever pitch in the buildup to the NCAA Division I Men’s Championship Swim Meet, which opens Thursday in College Station, Texas. Those teams with it face far better odds of winning and setting new records than those without it.
Practice? Supplements? Training? Luck? Nah, nothing [...]
Michael Phelps, escape artist
The tough talking sheriff in Columbia, S.C. said Monday that he won’t charge swimming sensation Michael Phelps after all. Add escape artist to the Olympian’s already impressive resume.
“We had a photo and him saying he was sorry for inappropriate behavior,” Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said during a televised press conference. “He never said, ‘I [...]
Matthew Mitcham uncovered and unplugged
Can you ever get enough of Matthew Mitcham? We thought so.
The hunky Aussie swimmer and Olympic champion is the subject of a cover story in the Advocate. He captivated Olympic diving fans and became an instant gay hero with his come-from-behind win in diving gold last summer. But what does he do for an encore? [...]
Bolt is int’l press’ athlete of the year
While most Americans have been fawning over Michael Phelps since the Olympics, the International Sports Press Association has named Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt their Athlete of the Year. Phelps finished second. Both athletes had tremendous years, but I would have personally given it to Bolt as well. His world-record sprint in Beijing in the 100-meter [...]
