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There was talk from the Baltimore Orioles braintrust that they wanted to scrap the current incarnation of their logo in order to go with a more aggressive version of the "swinging bird" logo. Of course, in today's world of steroids and growth hormones, you can't exactly have the bird incarnation of Barry Bonds on your […]

Warren Sapp apparently wants to be the only former Buc doing reality TV. Sapp, who’s currently on Dancing with the Stars, was asked on Inside the NFL about Keyshawn Johnson’s new interior design show. Said Sapp: Me, watch Keyshawn on an interior decorating show? Keyshawn, I knew you were a bitch. And thanks for making […]

Big kudos to the NFL for showing some sensitivity about the worsening economic situation. First, the league is lowering the playoff-ticket pricing guidelines for this season. According to NFL.com, the average ticket prices for playoff games should be about 10% lower this season, and for the first time the league has authorized lower prices for […]

In 2003, Out magazine named Eric Millegan “Hottest Up-and-Coming Openly Gay Actor of 2003.” He’s best known for playing Zack Addy, a regular character during the first three seasons on the Fox TV series Bones. Millegan is now indulging his passion for the NBA — and his beloved Portland Trail Blazers — with “Eric Millegan’s […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I'm putting them on our blog. It's the week of must-win games like not before this season. And it starts Thursday night; the Loser of the AFC East pole position has a steep hill to climb to […]

This is getting a lot of attention and shows what happens when a drunken University of Florida coed rushes to get the next bathroom stall. Hilarity ensues at the 1:10 mark of the video. This happened in 2004 but is just seeing the light of the Net now. Note: No stalls were injured during the […]

I have always been a big fan of running back Ricky Williams (now with the Miami Dolphins) for years since he thanked all his fans “straight or gay” during an interview. He posed for a famous ESPN the Magazine cover when he was drafted by coach Mike Ditka of the New Orleans Saints wearing a […]

Via Deadspin, we learn that the fomer Dodgers and Mets catcher Mike Piazza is writing his autobiography. Piazza is perhaps most well known for his bizarre 2002 press conference where he declared he was not gay. Piazza started a bit of a trend among jocks publicly declaring their heterosexuality, then marrying Playboy Playmates (see also: […]

Over the last two weeks, we've followed the story of two youth baseball coaches who allegedly use name-calling and homophobic slurs to motivate their young baseball players. The two coaches were suspended for a year and then un-suspended. And now, they are suspended for a year again. In another surprising turn of events, the Park […]

Sports Out Loud has been the only printed gay-sports magazine (as far as I know) for a couple years. We got wind that they would be changing their name a couple weeks ago. I had lunch with a friend last week and we talked about whether the mag’s new name had to somehow say “gay.” […]

Oh the blonde jokes that are popping into my head. Caitlin Davis was a New England Patriots cheerleader. Until she and some friends (allegedly) decided to draw penises and swastikas all over the body of someone Davis says she didn’t know, and then (not allegedly) take pictures of her holding a marker over the body […]

I am thrilled that rugby player Ben Cohen is incredibly gay-friendly and held a celebration last year for his gay fans. I also think it’s appropriate that he did not win the sports award from the London Stonewall gay rights group. The sports award instead went to the Stonewall Lions Football Club, an English gay […]

You could forgive Philadelphia Eagles fans if they thought coach Andy Reid took the red-eye to Arizona and was calling plays Monday night for the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers lost to the Cardinals, 29-24, in a wild and weird game that saw their last drive die at the 1-yard line as time expired. The […]

Earlier this summer, a producer friend of mine was pitching a gay-football TV show to, among other networks, A&E. He was told that they didn’t want to do football shows. Apparently, they’re OK with a loud-mouthed football player doing an interior-design show: A&E Network has two real-life original series in production. The new series Keyshawn […]

Ryan, Flacco playing like vets; Will the Lions go 0-16? Colts come back to win a thriller; which D-lineman almost had abs? How Cyd and Jim saw Week 10 in the NFL: E-mail Cyd What are the chances the Lions go 0-16? At this point, they’re pretty good. The Lions have seven games left. All […]

I loved this little article about a 6-foot-2, 185-pound Zeigler who loves to get plenty of sleep and is getting his first action in the NFL Monday night. Unfortunately, not even the 49ers need my services; This is Dominique Zeigler from Baylor. While my niece is half-black, and while my partner is from Michigan, this […]

Two coaches who allegedly used homophobic slurs to taunt pre-teens they coached in baseball, and who allegedly encouraged other kids to do the same, may soon see their overturned suspension reinstated. We originally reported about these two coaches and their overturned suspension last week. Now the city council is not pleased (probably after outcry from […]

In a fight last month that was televised on HBO, a boxer with the entertaining name of Trenton Titsworth kissed his opponent, Jesse Vargas, while the two were in a clinch. An angry Vargas threw a punch when the referee broke up the clinch. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ91N5dzIE] In Titsworth's defense, he only kissed Vargas behind the ear […]

Over the last two years, I have been drifting more and more away from ESPN. I find the conversations terribly insipid and usually focused more on style than substance. Plus, I just think many of their NFL analysts suck. Take Mark Schlereth for example. This was his analysis of the NFL’s fine on Justin Tuck […]

This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, sports figures had a role on both sides of California’s Proposition 8. And Texas Tech’s hot QB Graham Harrell. This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, […]