Fifteenth in a series. Broadcast: Cleveland Indians on SportsTime Ohio (STO), Tampa Bay at Indians, 7/10/08; Announcers: Matt Underwood (play-by-play), Rick Manning (analysis) The bottom of the 4th inning was all about…golf. Brian Whitcomb, president of the PGA, was in the booth (along with a big trophy — why they needed to show the trophy [...]
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The unsporty side of the All-Star Game
Historic night. Longest All-Star Game ever. AL gets home field advantage – again. Yeah, yeah. Nice and touching moments from MLB’s All-Star Game last night, which really didn’t end until this morning. But I’m more interested in the tidbits that didn’t take place on the field. You know, those special moments when sport crosses celebrity [...]
‘Borat’ creator’s gay wrestling match
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, aka “Borat,” apparently has duped Arkansas fight fans by promising “hot chicks, cold beer, hardcore fights,” but delivering a show that had two male wrestlers kiss and make out. The unsuspecting audience who turned up for the Blue Collar Brawlin’ event, lured by the promise of $1 beer, expected a [...]
World’s fastest man: Tyson Homosexual
I was doing a Google News search of “Olympic + homosexual” to see if there was any news regarding gays and the upcoming Games. It was then I learned that sprinter Tyson Gay had actually changed his name, at least on one website: OneNewsNow, where these links point to, is an online new site run [...]
The man with the 27-inch biceps
I wrote a review of the excellent new documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.” One of the subjects is Greg Valentino, who sports freakish 27-inch biceps. As he says in the film, women aren’t exactly flocking to him. Here is a trailer for the film, with Valentino in the beginning of the clip. –Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=b7bS6FWiOcs] Share [...]
Make a bid for Beckham
Got at least $10,000? Then you can win a charity auction with soccer star David Beckham. With this complete LA Galaxy package, you will receive: · An intimate meet-and-greet and photo op with David Beckham · A David Beckham autographed jersey · 2 VIP field seats to an LA Galaxy game · A pregame tour [...]
Baseball is in Bizarro World
The cover of the May 26th Sports Illustrated is just that — illustrated. The cover story discusses strange happenings in the 2008 baseball season, such as the New York Yankees being in last place in the American League East and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays near the top of the division. SI features a cover [...]
‘Sex and the City,’ the lesbian sports angle
Don’t tell those sports-loving New Yorkers this, but Cynthia Nixon doesn’t much care for sports. In fact, she doesn’t even own a television. And she calls herself a lesbian? Her partner, though, makes her watch. You gotta love couples. This tidbit is courtesy of a Q&A with Nixon in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. And [...]
More naked in the news
Naked is the news today. And it’s sports related. On Sunday, about 1,800 people bared all for photographer Spencer Tunick, no stranger to mass nude events. They stripped naked at the stadium in Vienna that will host several stages of the Euro 2008 soccer finals in late June. Tunick says on his website that he [...]
Fans after death
More examples of people who need to get a life: Even though he’s only 37 and in good health, Nathan Davis has already made out his will. In it, he bequeaths money to the University of Alabama athletic department and his ashes to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Davis, whose heavily tattooed body is a living tribute to [...]
Gay hip hop exec and a closeted pro jock
Former MTV producer Terrance Dean claims in an upcoming book on gays in the hip-hop world that he has had a sexual relationship with a closeted pro athlete he calls “Preston.” On his blog, he describes their first meeting: He was across the room standing against the wall with a drink in his hand. He [...]
Where is Secretariat now that we need him?
At Churchill Downs yesterday, Derby fever was already starting to peak as the Oaks was run before a capacity crowd of 100,000, in pouring rain. As the ladies gave sneak previews of their fabulous hats under umbrellas, ten fillies took on the sloppy track, with Proud Spell romping home in front. The media are working [...]
A streaking hockey player in Scranton
There’s not a whole lot going on in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I know this from firsthand experience — I used to date a guy who was born and raised there and tagged along a few times when he went to visit family. It’s not a bad place. It’s an old industrial town that used to be [...]
Joe Cole: Hotter than Becks
English soccer star Joe Cole has surpassed David Beckham as the biggest icon among gay male soccer fans, according to a gay and lesbian dating website. Joe Cole and his Chelsea namesake Ashley’s wife Cheryl have scored a remarkable double in a popularity poll – for a gay website. JC has leapfrogged over David Beckham [...]
If only it were the NFL…
Imagine this: this coming Monday night. National television. A football game featuring 7-0 Dallas at 8-0 Philadelphia. The Eastern Division lead at stake. Sounds just perfect, right? Unfortunately, it’s not the Cowboys at the Eagles. Or even (alert: Simpsons reference) a WNFL game between the Cowgirls and the She-gles (“No love lost there!” said Bart). [...]
Gay football story line on ‘SVU’
Bailey Chase (right) plays a closeted pro football player who is outed when his lover is murdered on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” which airs Tuesday April 22 at 10 p.m. EDT. Ken Storer, a writer on the show, told Outsports in an e-mail how he came up with the idea: I wanted to write [...]
“Work Out,” reality TV normalizing gays
The third season of Work Out, Bravo’s mostly-gay gym drama, premieres this week. AfterEllen.com has an insightful article on the reality show and its star, Jackie Warner: Warner is a unique personality on the television landscape – a lesbian, an athlete and a businesswoman. In a medium where elite female athletes are not given much [...]
Rock Dogs basketball team plays ABA team
The San Francisco Rock Dogs, defending Gay Games gold medal team, took on the San Francisco Rumble of the American Basketball Association Tuesday night in an exhibition game at Kezar Recreation Center in San Francisco. The game was taped for the LOGO cable channel’s documentary series “Rock Dogs: Shirts & Skins,” due to air this [...]
It’s not gay, it’s “bromance”
An intrepid reporter at azcentral.com has uncovered the edgy and increasingly acceptable phenomenon known as bromance, defined in this article as “the complicated love and affection shared by two straight males.” I read this and thought, why does it have to be between straight males? I’d say I’ve been wrapped up in a few bromances, [...]
Bad sports arena name no. 263
So late last night I tuned into ESPN2 in time for the second half of a West Coast Conference men’s basketball semifinal between San Diego and St. Mary’s. San Diego pulled off a 75-69 win in double overtime despite trailing the Gaels by 15 midway through the second half; the Toreros finished the second half [...]