Posts under ‘Politics’

This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, sports figures had a role on both sides of California’s Proposition 8. And Texas Tech’s hot QB Graham Harrell.

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University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he posted this message on his Facebook page:
“all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse”

Having been totally bummed all day about Prop. 8 passing here in California, this e-mail from a friend gave me a laugh and some hope. She and her husband, Bill, are dear friends and live in Southern California:
Today was street-sweeping day, and as often happens, some of our neighbors forget to move their cars to [...]

Despite the passing of Prop. 8 in California, it’s still nice to see how many prominent people were against it. Add former NBA player Doug Christie to the list. The guard, who played in California with the NBA’s Clippers and Kings, and his wife had hoped to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary next July with [...]

Here is a good link to follow the fight in California over Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage. Use the drop-down menu to find Prop. 8.

For the last 17 presidential elections, the Washington Redskins have determined the outcome of the popular vote. When the Washington Redskins won their last home game before the election, the party that won the last popular vote in the presidential election repeated their win; when the Redskins lost, the party winning the last popular vote [...]

It’s the stretch run of a hotly contested political season and even athletes, historically non-political, are getting into the presidential race.
“We spend an hour a day talking about this exact subject - in meetings, on the plane, in the locker room,” New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita told the AP. “I think it’s just because [...]

The other day, Sarah’s Palin’s handlers thought her ”hockey mom” image would get her an easy goal at at the Philly Flyers game, where she’d been invited to drop the puck.   But the sports spin really backspun on the vice presidential candidate.  The minute her name was announced, the crowd erupted into loud boos and whistles, almost drowning out [...]

San Diego Charger Jacques Cesaire (left) was a featured highlight yesterday at an anti-gay-marriage rally sponsored by iprotectmarriage.com, we have learned from Good As You blog. They have an audio recording of the event in which Cesaire and NFL free agent Akbar Gbaja-Biamila (right), brother of Packer Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (KGB), encourage everyone in attendance to [...]

Last year, during the early days of the presidential campaign, Time magazine interviewed the spouses of the candidates from both parties (in other words, 16 women and Bill Clinton). Joe Biden dropped out of the race after finishing 5th in the Iowa caucuses, but he’s now Barack Obama’s running mate.
So it’s good to know that [...]

The IOC announced Wednesday that Chicago is among four cities still in the running to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. The other cities in contention are Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo. Only Tokyo has hosted a previous Olympics (1964). Ever since the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, Chicago has joined San Francisco and New York [...]

There is an interesting article on Reggie Love, 26, a former Duke basketball player, who is Barack Obama’s “body man” on the campaign trail. In this capacity, he has probably spent more time with Obama the past 15 months than the candidate has with his wife.

He makes sure that Obama gets up on time [...]

Soon-to-be former President George W. Bush used to be the managing general partner of the Texas Rangers. This in itself doesn’t mean he knows his baseball — after all, how many championships have the Rangers won? — but he was asked this week who would be the first position player he’d want if he owned [...]

Not sports-related, but as a California resident and gay man, wow!:
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory.
The lead attorneys in the case were from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, whose Homophobia in Sports project has done great work [...]

The Summer Olympics keep growing and growing. The newest Olympic sport is called Flame Dousing. So far the French are winning. They managed to extinguish the Olympic flame five times during Monday’s glorious torch procession through Paris. On Sunday, the Brits made several daring swipes at the flame as it passed through London, but their brightest hope, a man [...]