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San Francisco’s annual Bay to Breakers 12k race is a 100-year-old tradition, complete with runners in wacky costumes. With the announcement today, just a week after the race, that sponsor ING is pulling out of the event, the recently formed Big Gay 10k in San Francisco could be the beneficiary. While nothing can replace the […]

With the World Cup starting two weeks from Friday, it’s time to kickoff our list of World Cup hotties. We do need your help though, since neither of us are huge soccer fans. So please post your football favorites and we will try to whip up a gallery. First up is French midfielder Yoann Gourcuff, […]

The New York Post, rag that it is, ran this headline on their website regarding the finale of "Dancing with the Stars," in which Evan Lysacek lost to one of the Pussycat Dolls: "'Dancing' Doll Beats Ice King." Yet, in their print edition, there was a slightly different headline… I'm not sure if this is […]

Here’s a Stanley Cup final that no one saw at the start of the playoffs — the Philadelphia Flyers vs. the Chicago Blackhawks. But it’s a reality after the Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games, a day after the Blackhawks swept the San Jose Sharks. This is an intriguing final from a historical […]

One in a series of first-person accounts by athletes attending the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, July 31-Aug. 7. By Brian Galyean I remember when I was 14 years old and sitting at home that hot Texas summer watching the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Carl Lewis was all over the news with his […]

The NFL made a dumb decision in awarding the 2014 Super Bowl to the new Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey. An outdoor stadium for a game to be played in February. When the temperature ranges on average from between 24 and 40 degrees (with a 6:30 p.m. local kickoff, it will be cold) and there […]

Tampa Bay Bucs rookie DT Gerald McCoy, the third overall pick in this year’s NFL draft, isn’t gay. Or, at least, his comment isn’t gay. He saw Dwayne Bowe’s “No homo” and raised him an LOL… "Man the rookie class of 2010 is cool as a fan!" McCoy said. "We had a blast this weekend […]

The New York Times this weekend ran a profile of Kirk Walker, the openly gay head softball coach at Oregon State. It’s a solid update of the original story we ran on Walker in 2007. As Walker stood before his team then, fumbling for words, he was surprised that none of his players had any […]

Jason Akermanis is tossing gasoline onto the fire he started a couple days ago when he said gay athletes should stay in the closet. Now he says he doesn’t want any gay people in the locker room, even though he said he’s already showered with a gay teammate: Maybe I've got a problem with it. […]

As athletes and teams gear up for the Gay Games in Cologne this summer, many location-based umbrella organizations are putting together their uniforms for the athletes march into the opening ceremonies. It’s cool to see people from cities and countries all dressed the same at the event – it’s very colorful. Out of Bounds in […]

Every two years the world cries in agony as the latest Olympic mascots are revealed. But these may take the cake. Wenlock and Mandeville are two…well, they’re space aliens. Or Cyclopes. Or one-eyed cats. Or, as one organizer said, “droplets of steel.” OK, whatever they are, they’re hideous. Maybe not as bad as “Izzy,” but […]

Mikey, the teenage hockey blogger from Minnesota, seems beyond a reasonable doubt a late-fortysomething man from a Minneapolis suburb who likes travel, food, was married and has sex profiles on two gay hookup sites. His deceit was discovered when he fell in love with Jimmy, a contributor to his blog, and his story started to […]

Jason Akermanis has been called a lot of things in the day since he said gay athletes should stay in the closet. But the most powerful thing he’s being called is “Wrong.” Akermanis’ own club, the Western Bulldogs, immediately distanced themselves from Akermanis in a statement: The club do not agree with the views expressed […]

Even though Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe referred to quarterback Matt Cassell as like a girlfriend, he wants us to know he doesn’t mean it in the gay way. Bowe told Nick Wright of 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City about starting his second season playing with Cassell: It’s like an extra year […]

Australian Football League player Jason Akermanis has a message for gay athletes in a column for the Herald Sun: Don’t come out. Some of his golden nuggets: But I believe the world of AFL footy is not ready for it. To come out is unnecessary for a lot of reasons. Imagine the publicity associated with […]

I’ve had trouble getting into the NBA regular season for the last 10 years. But inevitably, around early May, I get hooked on the playoffs. I start planning my evenings around them. The players seem to suddenly come to life. Whereas they slog through March, in May they turn on a switch. Defenses come alive, […]

Actor Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter”) is trying to buff out for a Broadway role and his physique idol is soccer’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Reports the Sun (under the headline “Daniel becomes Harry Hotter”), quoting a friend of the actor. “Daniel wants to completely re-sculpt his body and has taken Ronaldo as his inspiration. He envies his […]

Yahoo’s Michael Silver catches up with Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe, who has had more touchdown catches the past two seasons than all but two players. But what Shiancoe acknowledges he is most known for is a fleeting shot of his penis following a 2008 game. Fox was broadcasting the post-game locker room scene […]

Apparently, yesterday was the International Day Against Homophobia. And apparently the theme yesterday was Homophobia in Sports. I guess the U.S. isn’t part of “international,” because I barely heard a peep about it, and a quick Google search shows protests and statements from Europe, Asia and Central America…but nada in the U.S. The group tried […]

Keeping to his promise to fight against homophobia, Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke was the featured guest yesterday at Egale Canada’s launch of their new Web site, MyGSA.ca. Burke apparently asked cameras to be shut off as he tried to speak about his son, Brendan, so they did not capture his tears. From all […]