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2,300 people registered, 45 countries already represented. By Ross Forman Early indications show that the 2009 World Outgames in Copenhagen will not only meet pre-event participation predictions, but they very well may surpass them. And the U.S. will have a major impact on the second-ever Olympic-style gay sports and cultural showcase, first held in Montreal […]

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. One of the most important things in picking games against the spread isn’t just making the right choices with the spread, but rather picking which games you’re actually right on. Every […]

University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he posted this message on his Facebook page: "all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse" University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he […]

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones (photo right) took a shot at Joey Porter of the Miami Dolphins, after Porter criticized Jones’ felony cocaine charge. This is the same Porter who was fined two years ago for calling another player a “fag.” "I don't even know why he's even thinking about me," Jones said. "I […]

Apparently, Ryan Leaf has been a quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M. And apparently, he has left sooner than anticipated. He was reportedly suspended from his duties for asking a player for painkillers, and today he resigned as coach. As Yahoo! Sports wrote, he had allegedly been asking players for “something a little stronger than […]

Despite the passing of Prop. 8 in California, it’s still nice to see how many prominent people were against it. Add former NBA player Doug Christie to the list. The guard, who played in California with the NBA’s Clippers and Kings, and his wife had hoped to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary next July with […]

Several athletes are among those being honored by Out magazine in their 2008 Out 100. Out editor Aaron Hicklin had asked us a couple months ago if we knew any athletes who would be worthy of the honor, and we pointed them to two: Ivy League runners Jamal Brown and Corey Benton. Friends and competitors […]

Great goaltending, strong steady defense and a potent offense have let the Minnesota Wild jump to a 7-2-1 start. All this without their star winger Marian Gaborik who’s been sidelined for the last five games with what’s been called a “lower body” injury. No matter because the line of Mikko Koivu and Andrew Burnette has […]

How are sports dealing with that new game in town, called recession? That depends on whom you talk to. Some are optimistic, and think that sports will weather the storm. According to John Moag, investment banker who specializes in sports, “It’s kind of like booze and movies. Psychologically, people do not want to give it […]

One athlete advocates the end of gender-based sports By Dan Woog {jumi [story2.html]} If Jesse Ream has her way, terms like "men's sports" and "women's hoops" will one day seem as archaic as leather football helmets and basketball bloomers do now. Everyone who plays sports is an athlete, Ream says; separating them arbitrarily by gender […]

For the last 17 presidential elections, the Washington Redskins have determined the outcome of the popular vote. When the Washington Redskins won their last home game before the election, the party that won the last popular vote in the presidential election repeated their win; when the Redskins lost, the party winning the last popular vote […]

Brady Quinn, who got my vote as the 2007 hottest player in the NFL despite throwing only eight passes, will get his first start Thursday night at home against the Denver Broncos. Quinn replaces an inconsistent Derek Anderson, who has become the fall guy in the Browns' disappointing 3-5 start. I have been calling for […]

I've never been a Kobe Bryant fan, but he's won me over with this great TV commercial for Guitar Hero IV. He is the perfect lead singer in the ad for a four-man band with Alex Rodriguez, Michael Phelps and Tony Hawk. The earnestness and enthusiasm Bryant pretends to bring to the performance is just […]

The firing of Phil Fulmer as the University of Tennessee head football coach reflects the ugly underbelly of sports. Fulmer has the third highest win percentage (.746) of active coaches in Div. 1 college football. He just signed a seven-year contract extension. But the university is letting him go. The university will point to his […]

Tennessee leaves Jim unimpressed, though. A player kisses his coach, the Colts get a needed win and the Raiders really stink.How Cyd and Jim saw NFL Week 9. E-mail Cyd Big kudos to Baltimore and Atlanta. No one, and I mean no one, predicted this. Two teams who won a combined nine games last season […]

Opposition to Proposition 8 in California, which strips away marriage rights from same-sex couples, is getting a big boost from the support of two Hall of Fame athletes: Steve Young and Magic Johnson. Former NFL quarterback Steve Young has posted several signs at his house urging people to oppose Prop. 8. The proposition’s biggest supporters […]

If you missed the end of the Texas Tech-Texas game, you missed one of the great endings in recent college football history. Texas Tech scored on a 28-yard touchdown pass from Graham Harrell (right) to Michael Crabtree with one second left to lift the Red Raiders over No. 1 Texas, 39-33, in Lubbock. The Longhorn […]

We featured a video a while back of Charlton, a 400-meter runner from Britain, flexing in his bedroom. He's back with an even longer video. We featured a video a while back of Charlton, a 400-meter runner from Britain, flexing in his bedroom. He's back with an even longer video.

I was at the Wachovia-soon-to-be-Wells-Fargo Center for the 76ers-Knicks game tonight, as was Jimmy Rollins of the 2008 World Series Champion Phillies. (No, not together — he sat courtside while I was, well, not.) With so many people in the sports complex for the finish of the Phillies' parade, the 76ers came up with a […]

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. This week is the midway point for the season, and it's time to start taking stock. Some teams that were out of it three weeks ago (the Browns) are suddenly back […]