Jim Buzinski

As usual, we like the Patriots and the Colts Welcome to our annual NFL season preview picks. We know we sound like a broken record, with Cyd picking New England and Jim Indianapolis, but it's hard not to. These are the two winningest franchises this decade and are always in the title hunt. For once, […]

Sam Bradford Well, that was sure a fun 2009 college football season for the Oklahoma Sooners. One and done. The Sooners, who eight months ago played for the BCS title, almost certainly saw any chance of a repeat visit vanish after losing to BYU, 14-13, in their opener, More importantly, they lost Heisman-winning quarterback Sam […]

Blount being restrained. How boring was Boise State's 19-8 sloppy win over Oregon in the college football opener? The lasting impression will be Oregon running back LeGarrette Blount punching Boise State's Byron Hout after the game. It was a shocking display of a player who seemed to have gone nuts and will lead to at […]

The Gay Softball World Series is underway in Milwaukee (see our blog posts here), and Ross Forman is shooting the event for us. We will be posting an extensive photo gallery in the days ahead, but here are a few shots to give you a taste of the athmosphere: The Gay Softball World Series is […]

Whatever your opinion is of Buffalo Bills receiver Terrell Owens, there is no denying his amazingly sculpted body (he says he has 6% body fat at 220 pounds). A lot of it is great genetics, plus the time as a pro athlete to devote to working out (and the money to hire personal chefs for […]

A member of the Seattle Stonewall gay soccer club. It is still not that common when a mainstream columnist tackles head on homophobia in sports. So it was refreshing to read a strong piece by John Leicester, AP's international sports columnist, where he decried the treatment of gays in soccer. He used as his jumping […]

A professor and an economist have ranked the handsomeness of NFL quarterbacks using their facial symmetry to determine how attractive someone is perceived. The winner? Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons. Writes Reed Alborgotti in the Wall Street Journal online: According to researchers, [Ryan’s] face is almost perfectly symmetrical-a trait that shows a strong correlation […]

Deadspin has been running various college football team photos leading up to the 2009 season. They posted two from the Division II Colorado School of Mines Orediggers. In one of them it’s hard to tell if two of the players were posing for a team photo or for a casting call of “High School Musical: […]

Stanford University’s athletic department is facing a revenue shortfall, has had to eliminate 20 positions and may have to cut fencing. What a perfect time for a rich alum to spend $50,000 to $70,000 to build head football coach Jim Harbaugh a private bathroom. Jim Harbaugh, former NFL quarterback, did not want to walk 20 […]

Heisman winner Tim Tebow of top-ranked Florida. The 2009 college football season starts a week from Saturday and every one has an opinion on who will play in the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl in January. Florida is an overwhelming favorite to win its second straight BCS title, but teams such as Texas, […]

Italian national soccer coach Marcello Lippi, who in January said there were no gay players in the Italian league, now says he would never pick two players for the national team if they were a gay couple. Reports AFP: “In the current climate, two national team players could never be involved in an open relationship,” […]

Stephanie Wei writes the “Wei Under Par” blog and she captured this shot of golfer Sergio Garcia at the Barclay’s event. Stephanie’s caption: He's currently exploring patent opportunities to develop the PGA's first "dick mount." Stephanie Wei writes the “Wei Under Par” blog and she captured this shot of golfer Sergio Garcia at the Barclay’s […]

Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn hasn’t done a whole lot yet in his NFL career and still might not be the Browns’ 2009 starter. But this still has not stopped him from getting product endorsements and being regularly featured on the cover of magazines. His latest cover is the upcoming issue of "Muscle & Fitness," […]

The totally hot Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen wins the 2009 world championships in Berlin and gives us an added bonus by showing some skin: The totally hot Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen wins the 2009 world championships in Berlin and gives us an added bonus by showing some skin:

For only the second time in Major League Baseball history, a game ended on an unassisted triple play. It was turned by Eric Brunlett of the Philadelphia Phillies in a 9-7 win Sunday against the New York Mets. The only other one occurred in 1927. Video: For only the second time in Major League Baseball […]

Our Weekend Hot Jock can arguably be called the “world’s greatest athlete.” American Trey Hardee won the decathlon gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Berlin. Hardee, 25, is a perfectly sculpted 6-5, 210-pounder from Texas. On his Twitter feed he tells us he "loves Jesus, oatmeal, naps, his dog Dignan, pole […]

Via the Wiz of Odds, we find that Danny Sheridan of USA Today has made Florida a 73-point favorite over Division 1-AA Charleston Southern on Sept. 5, believed to be the largest pointspread in college football history. Ignoring whether teams like Florida should be allowed to schedule such cupcakes, if you had to bet $100 […]

The awesome college football site The Wiz of Odds (a must bookmark for any college fan) has the schedule posters put out by pretty much every team. They are all fairly standard, using some phrase to sum up the team and featuring key returning players. There’s not much skin evident, though Duke (photo below) shows […]

One of the stranger sports stories is occurring in Berlin, where an investigation has been opened into the gender of the winner of the women’s 800 meters at the World Track and Field Championships. Reports Phil Hersh in the L.A. Times: At least two of the seven runners who lost to Caster Semenya are convinced […]

Via Deadspin comes word of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s photo spread in GQ. The photos GQ posted online include one of Tebow shirtless (below), but Deadspin reports on one it says is only found in the print magazine: The lurid full-page centerfold of a sweaty, shirtless Tim Tebow is positively filthy …. and comes with […]