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Matthew Mitcham must feel like China is a home-pool advantage for him. First, he won the gold medal in the 10-meter men’s platform at the Beijing Olympics, coming from behind on the final dive. And Sunday he won the 10-meter event again at the FINA World Cup in Beijing. And he needed a perfect score […]

Edge magazine has done a nice job reviewing the Gay Games’ new anti-doping policy and previewing the random drug testing that all Gay Games athletes will be subject to in Cologne. The issue has supporters and critics, benefits and potential pitfalls. While athletes in certain sports were randomly tested in Chicago in 2006, this is […]

Thanks to Trackpic for these shots of American decathlete Bryan Clay at the Hypo-Meeting at Goetzis, Austria. Clay, the gold medal winner at the 2008 Olympics, won the Hypo meet. We will have more from Trackpic from the meet, but here are two nice shots of Clay: Thanks to Trackpic for these shots of American […]

Talk about a program in disarray. The Oregon State women’s basketball program has been ravaged by the departure of 23 people in the last four years, all apparently because of the alleged brutal actions of head coach LaVonda Wagner. According to the article and a great analysis by Pat Griffin, she is accused of… • […]

Mackenroth with Cullen Jones Editor’s note: Swimmer and former Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth will blog regularly leading up to his participation in the Gay Games. My last post was last month just after I had finished a week of intense training at swimming boot camp at the Hall of Fame pool in Ft. Lauderdale. […]

Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was asked how he felt about Portugal legalizing same-sex marriage: The Portuguese man that I am, I try to keep informed about what is happening in my country. I know the law was passed and the comment it deserves is that we must respect the choices made by anyone, because, after […]

Since the day the First World Outgames were announced, there has been a segment of the gay community that sought first and foremost to destroy the Outgames. The latest installment is a press release from Team San Francisco publicly refusing to support the Outgames or athletes attending the event in 2013. From Team San Francisco’s […]

Editor’s note: This article first appeared more than two years ago, but with the World Cup a week away, it seems appropriate to reprint it. It consistently gets passionate (and often over-the-top or jingoistic) comments. Weighing in on the tired debate over why Americans fail to love soccer as passionately as the rest of the […]

Most people expected the Los Angeles Lakers to be in the NBA Finals, but few thought the “aging,” “tired”, “banged-up” Boston Celtics would be their opponent. And after knocking off the top two seeds in the Eastern Conference, the men in green are underdogs again to win their series. You’re currently getting 5/2 odds for […]

Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was chasing a perfect game Wednesday. He had retired the first 26 Cleveland Indians he had faced, and the 27th batter, Jason Donald, hit a ball down the first base line. Miguel Cabrera, fielded it and tossed to Galarraga, whose touched the bag first. Perfect game? Nope. “Safe,” yelled umpire […]

One in a series of first-person accounts of athletes attending the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, July 31-Aug. 7. We invite anyone to send their story, along with a photo to: [email protected]. By David Cisneros I am 23 years old and live in San Francisco. I play soccer and will be traveling to Cologne to […]

Despite all the work to open minds that John Amaechi has done in front of the camera and behind the scenes, some people in the gay community had turned a little sour on him because of a perception that he was being too dour in his assessment of homophobia in sports. A couple recent media […]

Jason Akermanis has been demoted to a lower league by his Aussie Rules Football League team for two weeks for saying in a newspaper column two weeks ago that gay athletes should stay in the closet. In addition, he is stepping away from his media work for the next three weeks to reconsider his commitment […]

Novak Djokovic certainly has a great sense of humor. In his latest video he puts on a blonde wig and lip syncs to Shakira’s Gypsy as his his shirtless doubles partner, Viktor Troicki, strums a ukelele. Djokovic gets hot and bothered, rubbing Troicki’s bare chest and getting a little spanking from his doubles partner. You […]

After reading the Indiana University article on the Advocate Web site, I figured I’d read some of the comments from the Advocate readers. To say I was appalled, disgusted and angry would not be overstating it. While many commentors were positive, many on the article about the open-mindedness of a big-time college athletic department said […]

The video game “Backbreaker,” a football simulation, is coming out with a customizable engine the creators say is so realistic that you can design Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” in the end zone. But one producer told the video game blog Kotaku that he expects something one another level. “Let’s face it, the first two days […]

I have often wondered why more players don’t get hurt in those wild baseball celebrations after a game-winning hit. We saw such a thing happen to Kendry Morales of the Los Angeles Angels, who had just hit a game-winning grand slam home run Saturday. As he rounded the bases, a sun-splashed crowd cheering his every […]

Oscar Pistorius (aka “The Blade Runner”) has caused quite a stir over the last few years. Missing the lower halves of his legs, the sprinter has put up times that are near Olympic-qualifying. While the IAAF ruled him ineligible to compete in the Olympics, a court overturned it; And Pistorious’ times made him barely missed […]

The North American Gay Volleyball Association championships kicked off today in Portland, Ore. For those of you who complain about playing your sports leagues and tournaments in the morning, this one kicked off at 8am. One of the cool things about the tournament is that Adidas is an official sponsor (their D1 ball is the […]

The wonders of the Internet never cease. Over at the website Boston Barstool Sports is a post that links to a picture allegedly of the penis of Tampa Bay Rays star Evan Longoria (link below). If true, this continues a glorious tradition of jocks showing their stuff. Writes the Barstool Blogger: Anyways, few years back, […]