Sports

No team stands out, but watch for the Patriots and Steelers; Jay Cutler, human pinata; hot player of the week; the Chargers continue to suck and there are way too many dirty hits. How I saw Week 6 in the NFL: Call it a season with no theme. There appear to be a lot of […]

Drew Brees is a hero in New Orleans and beyond.

The first BCS poll will be out Sunday and the big question is who the top two teams will be. It won’t be Ohio State, 31-18 losers to Wisconsin. The Buckeyes became the second straight No. 1 team to lose, following Alabama a week earlier. Oregon, which was idle, will almost certainly be one of […]

So much for the Y-M-C-Gay chants at Yankees games that got a lot of publicity this week. The New York Yankees have said they will stop the chants and eject any fans performing homophobic chants at their games. According to GLAAD… Yankees spokesperson Alice McGillion told us “the Yankees have zero tolerance for this and […]

Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wound up with four silver medals at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India. The Games feature athletes from the 54 nations of what was formerly the British Commonwealth. Mitcham lost the 10-meter platform event to Tom Daley of Britain, who had one dive that had perfect 10s. Australian diver Matthew Mitcham […]

Personally, I would prefer to face Ian Kinsler’s balls but he isn’t a pitcher so that is for a completely different forum. The American and National League Championship Series is about to begin and all of the pitching match ups are intriguing. The Bear vs. The Twink: What better drama than Roy Halladay, the seasoned […]

Daniel Puder stands 6-3, weighs 235 pounds and has an 8-0 record as an MMA fighter (he was also a pro wrestler). It’s hard to believe, though, that he was once bullied. He is now reaching out and offering help to victims of bullies. As he told TMZ: Anybody that’s getting bullied in the whole […]

Towleroad has a disturbing report about a section of fans at Yankee Stadium who have been chanting for a decade about gays having a disease and being sinners. The group claims they will be meeting with Yankee management this week. The chant is done to the playing of the Village People’s YMCA… Gay man, get […]

University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong has come under attack recently from Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell simply for being gay (Shirvell’s hateful blog is now readable by invitation only). But athletes from football, baseball, hockey, gymnastics, rowing, softball and many other sports aren’t standing for it. Instead, they have posed for […]

Jim and I are back from Gay Bowl X, and we brought another championship with us. Our Los Angeles Motion team beat the New York Warriors, 19-18, in the final of the tournament. It was an amazing game with some great plays on both sides of the ball. You can read my notes on the […]

Los Angeles wins a record fourth Gay Bowl championship; Salt Lake wins Consolation title By Cyd Zeigler Thank you, Phoenix! First and foremost with these events always comes a special thank you to all of the organizers, volunteers and sponsors who made the tournament possible. Shawn Rea and Jared Garduno put together a fantastic team […]

Former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner has always been very public about his religion, citing God in virtually every interview. It’s also a popular topic on his Twitter feed. His overt religiosity was always annoying to me, but we never had a clear view of how he stood on gay issues. We got a bit of […]

Mike Chabala of the the MLS’s Houston Dynamo is the latest athlete to be photographed as part of the NoH8 campaign, a response to the passage of Prop. 8 in California in 2008. Subjects are photographed with duct tape over their mouths to symbolize being silenced by Prop. 8. “It was quite an honor when […]

Brian Burke, President & General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, will receive the inaugural “Stay Close” Sports Leadership Award from PFLAG NYC on October 11 and deliver keynote remarks on fighting homophobia and making sports more welcoming of young people who are gay. The award will be presented to Mr. Burke by former NFL […]

There's an excellent article on ESPN.com by LZ Granderson. All-Star point guard Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns speaks out, not just about bullying in general but specifically about kids who are being harassed because they're gay. On his official Twitter feed, Nash re-tweeted a link to a New York Times article on the recent […]

Jim and Cyd are in Phoenix so I’ll keep you up to date on the gay newz and notez for the weekend. (Or until they revoke my access! WHEE!) For the 2 of you left that hadn’t seen or heard about it, Brett Favre has allegedly sent pictures of his penis to Jenn Sturger. And […]

Until Wednesday, there had been only one no-hitter in the postseason history of Major League Baseball — Don Larsen’s perfect game for the New York Yankees in 1956. Make that two. Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies was masterful in pitching a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of their National League playoff […]

File this under “shocker:” The New England Patriots have traded wide receiver Randy Moss to the Minnesota Vikings for a third-round pick in the 2011 draft. Great, Randy Moss now with Brett Favre. The two NFL players I dislike the most in the same huddle. Pass the popcorn and let the show begin. Moss has […]

Golfer Camilo Villegas, soccer’s Tim Howard, skater Evan Lysacek, the NBA’s Amar’e Stoudemire, the NFL’s Patrick Willis and baseball’s Hanley Ramirez are among 40 male and female athletes who posed naked (tastefully, of course) for the ESPN the Magazine body issue that hits news stands on Friday. Villegas is shot in a Spiderman pose, Lysacek […]

The blog may be a little light on updating the rest of the week as Jim and I prepare for Gay Bowl X in Phoenix, Ariz. We’re both part of the Los Angeles Motion team that won the tournament last year in D.C. We’re also both on the national board of the NGFFL, and Jim […]