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Seventh in a series. Broadcast: Milwaukee Brewers on FSN Wisconsin, Toronto at Brewers, 6/18/08; Announcers: Brian Anderson (play-by-play), Bill Schroeder (analyst), Trenni Kusnierek (reporter – and the second woman on a broadcast thus far) It isn’t news that every sports broadcast is inundated with advertising. Perhaps the event itself is named after a corporation. Often […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ESPN is in talks with the NFL Network to carry some NFL Network programming on its ESPN Classic channel. The NFL is at war with Comcast and other cable carriers over financial terms and placement of the network on the cable systems. The NFL wants their network on […]

Actor Romany Malco (“40-year-old Virgin,” among others) has a way to improve pro hockey’s image and visibility — feature all the hot players. He gave an interview to Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. “I don’t know if I’m going to get myself in trouble here, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I […]

Soccer stud David Beckham likes it big and on top. His Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer sits atop the Western Conference, a position Beckham likes, according to his blog. And he towers above adoring fans in a billboard plastered across Macy’s in San Francisco’s Union Square that will soon be coming to cities […]

The oddsmakers hit the nail on the head as the favored Sydney Convicts won the Bingham Cup rugby championship with a decisive run through the tournament. The Convicts beat the Kings Cross Steelers of London, 18-3, in the finale of the event in Dublin, Ireland. They ended the tournament unbeaten at 6-0 and outscored their […]

That would be me. When I got notification last year that I won tickets to the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, I was ecstatic. Finally, I’d get within 10 feet of Padraig Harrington! So, there I was, last Saturday morning, waiting in the stands at the first hole for […]

I’m going to be on a panel tonight (Wed., July 18) discussing 25 years of gay & lesbian sports. It’s going to be at the Gay & Lesbian Center on 13th Street in Manhattan tonight, 6pm-8pm. If you’re in town, stop by – RSVP info is after the break. -Cyd Zeigler jr. I’m going to […]

Tiger Woods has been lauded for several years now as possibly the greatest golfer of all time. He’s won Athlete of the Year awards. He’s No. 2 on the all-time list for Majors titles. But what he did this past weekend brought him from sports hero status to Sports Legend status. His victory in the […]

From Gay.com comes a nice story and gallery of Greg DeStephen, an All-American diver at the University of Missouri. His coming out story mirrored many we have written about, and despite support in high school, the initial reactions of his Mizzou teammates were less than positive. “It was uncomfortable,” Greg says. “A lot of the […]

I did not watch a second of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but recorded it. After seeing that the Boston Celtics crushed the Los Angeles Lakers, 131-92, I figured I just saved myself two-plus hours. The Celtics won the series, 4-2, and the 39-point margin is the largest ever in a series-clinching NBA Finals […]

While the same-sex wedding frenzy dominates headlines from California, it’s important to note that Saturday, June 14, 2008 was a red-letter day in same-sex sports history. The Gay Polo League played in its first real tournament. I lucked into attending because GPL’S moving spirit, Chip McKenney, gave me a heads-up on the event. Chip, who […]

All star balloting is happening for Major League Baseball and two unbelievably hot and talented guys are trailing in voting in the American League. Joe Mauer of catcher for the Minnesota Twins and Ian Kinsler, second basemen for the Texas Rangers are in battles for a starting spot in the line up. I would never […]

For one author, the gym is the subject of an intriguing new book By Dan Woog Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is a wide-ranging, insightful look at exercise, gay-male style. It roams through history, sociology, fashion and porn, stopping to dissect topics like the Internet’s effect on body image, and the difference between gay and […]

Becky Hammon, who plays for the WNBA’s San Antonio Silver Stars, has stirred up controversy with her announcement that she’ll play in the Olympics for Russia. Born and raised in the U.S., she also plays professional basketball in Russia and became a Russian citizen to help her basketball career. Now the U.S. women’s basketball coach, […]

Somehow I missed this news: in January Major League Baseball announced that this year's Hall of Fame Game would be the last. The annual exhibition was held each year at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown. The first one was held in 1940. Of course, the tradition started fading years ago. The game used to be played […]

Nothing like a rain delay to get New York Mets fans cheering for the other team. On Saturday night, rain delayed and ended up postponing the New York Mets home game against the Texas Rangers. So the Ranger’s Milton Bradley and Ian Kinsler rallied the troops. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbEypE2d2g] So there were the six of them — […]

In case you missed it, the U.S. Open is going to a fifth day on Monday as Tiger Woods hit a 12-foot birdie putt (that nearly missed the hole) on the 18th hole to force a playoff with 45-year-old Rocco Mediate. It was another memorable fourth round on Sunday. Tiger entered up a shot, but […]

Cristiano Ronaldo can’t keep his jersey on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The soccer stud helped lead Portugal over the Czech Republic on Wednesday, scoring his first goal in eight months and moving on to the quarterfinals of the European Championship. Portugal plays Switzerland on Sunday. “If we’re carrying on playing like this […]

I’ve gotta say, I’m loving the controversy that Tim Donaghy’s confession about the NBA telling referees to cheat is stirring up. For anyone watching the NBA over the last eight to 10 years, this can’t be much of a surprise. It seems everyone remembers that Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals in which […]

Edwin Poots, who called gay sports “apartheid,” has been fired from his job as Northern Ireland’s minister for arts and culture. Poots lost his job in a cabinet reshuffle and it apparently had nothing to do with his anti-gay remarks, according to news reports, but rather with his support for a controversial stadium proposal. Earlier […]