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When I saw the U.S. Olympians enter the stadium at the Opening Ceremony with their funky hats on, I had to wonder: Who thought that was a great idea, and where did their inspiration come from? None other that the “elegant, refined and appropriate” Ralph Lauren/Polo Company. "It's not just a funky hat or shirt," […]

Every day during the Games, we will search the Net for the best 12 (or more if we feel like!) Olympic photos. If you see any you like, send us the URL. Among today’s crop is Germany’s Fabian Hambuchen, a star gymnast and national celebrity in his homeland. It is easy to see why. Links […]

Latvia’s Martins Plavins (right) and Aleksandrs Samoilovs, ranked 21 of 24 men’s beach volleyball teams, beat U.S. team Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers (ranked No. 1) 21-19, 21-18. Longtime Outsports photographer Brent Mullins, who has shot Dalhausser and Rogers for years, had this insight: "If anyone was a lock for a gold, I thought it […]

Fencing used to be one of those events that the Europeans owned, and the Americans got their. Tradition does tell. Europeans invented fencing, after all. Even though they exported it to the Americas with the Spanish soldiers, and the Virginia and Maryland colonial gentlemen, and even the Puritans, somehow the genie of the sport kept […]

So what makes tennis players such scrotums, and beach volleyball players such studs? And before you look for your lost balls, by scrotum I mean what advice columnist Dan Savage does after being challenged on calling somone a pussy: So what makes tennis players such scrotums, and beach volleyball players such studs? And before you […]

Every day during the Games, we will search the Net for the best 12 (or more if we feel like!) Olympic photos. If you see any you like, send us the URL. Among today’s crop is this rower. Links after the jump. Every day during the Games, we will search the Net for the best […]

Why athletes talk trash before an event has always been one of sport's great mysteries. All it ever seems to do is fire up an opponent and offer motivation. France's Alain Bernard learned this lesson, embarrassing himself before a worldwide TV audience watching the men's 4×100 freestyle swimming event. Why athletes talk trash before an […]

Los Angeles Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke, a frequent panelist on ESPN's Around The Horn, and the Chicago Tribune's Kevin Pang tasted the finer side of Beijing cuising while there for the Olympics and decided to head over to one of the city's penis restaurants. Said Plaschke of the ox penis he tried: "It's very […]

We’re bringing over something we started over on our Jock Talk blog: Would you sleep with? Every day we’ll give you some pics of an Olympian, and a little about them, and you decide if you’d sleep with them. Up today is South African rower Shaun Rubenstein.He’s 5-foot-9, 176 lbs., 23 years old. He has […]

A blog at the University of Texas Austin ranks out lesbian handball star Gro Hammerseng 5th on their “Top 10 Sexiest Female Olympians.” The list appears to have been assembled by and for horny college guys: Gro Hammerseng, the Norwegian handball player, can manhandle us whenever she isn’t too busy winning European championships. Good luck […]

Swimming is underway at the Water Cube, and something is missing. On the starting blocks for Larsen Jensen’s 400m freestyle heat there wasn’t a square foot of visible flesh between the eight athletes. This is unacceptable. In the name of advanced technology and faster times swimmers are dawning full body outfits that would have the […]

Lochte is a threat to Michael Phelps’ quest for eight gold medals when they race in the 400 IM later tonight. Lochte, 24, and Phelps are good friends, but not in the pool. Lochte, 6-2 and 185 pounds, sounds like a surfer and has a laid-back vibe. In this photo courtesy of the USOC and […]

With a gold-silver-bronze sweep in the women’s sabre (fencing) earlier today the United States has jumped to an early lead in the overall medal count. China, currently sitting in second, won gold in both the men’s 10m air pistol and the women’s 48kg weightlifting competitions. The medal counts of the United States and China will […]

1st day Eventing Dressage. An opportunity to glimpse the significant ripple made in a sport by one of its most distinguished out gay horsemen, namely Blyth Tait of New Zealand. Blyth has been out for many years and is held in high regard nationally in his country, much like Robert Dover here in the U.S. […]

For the Olympic swimmers at least the choice is crystal clear: shave! Michael Phelps will no longer display his Fu Manchu style when he does the first for-real dive into the Water Cube pool today. Excess body hair, in any part of the body, would make the decisive difference, were it just a tiny fraction […]

Michael Phelps won his first gold medal in his first Olympics race, blowing away the field in the 400 IM and setting a world record in the process. Watching underwater video, it appears as if Phelps is half-fish the way his legs act like flippers. He is stunning to watch in the water and his […]

The Curse of Dane Cook has claimed one final victim: Dane Cook. Last year I wrote about MLB's TV commercials featuring the annoying comedian/"actor" bellowing about how "There's only one postseason…there's only one October!" Of the four ads I saw that touted specific teams, three backfired as those teams' fortunes plummeted. The Brewers went into […]

Number twenty-three in a series. Broadcast: Sunday MLB on TBS, LA Angels at NY Yankees, 8/3/08; Announcers: Chip Caray (play-by-play), Ron Darling (analyst) Before we begin, I just want to say that I cherish the thought of writing these reviews. If you agree, feel free to express yourself. You may not like what I say; […]

How dare NBC’s Olympics site encroach on Outsports’ turf! The site today has a cool feature where you have to guess which male swimmer has which abs. Wish I had thought of it myself. After a few seconds, the closeup dissolves to show the swimmer and his name. One more reason to watch swimming and […]

It would be hard to top the hotness of the discus thrower in this GE ad: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULx0I0Pogo8 It would be hard to top the hotness of the discus thrower in this GE ad: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULx0I0Pogo8