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The gay movie featuring a couple of surfers who fall in love, Shelter, finished last weekend making $28,210 on six screens, according to Boxoffiemojo.com. But according to John Cleland in the marketing department at here!, the film actually grossed around $31,000 on seven screens because some tracking numbers don’t count a theater in New York […]

Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny has become a YouTube hit after hitting himself three times in the head at the Miami Masters moments after losing a point to Spain’s Nicolas Almagro. He was a bloody mess, but went on to win the match. I see coaching in his future. —Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=0AEfCQxVmxM] Russia’s Mikhail Youzhny has become […]

Jose Canseco’s second tell-all exposé of MLB’s steroid culture hits the shelves today and the media is shamelessly parading him around as if he’s breaking some salacious news story. I’m in full support of discussing the harmful and underexposed issues in sports (which steroids certainly is), but Canseco, who is clearly swinging for the fences […]

I can’t think of a worse thing than four number one seeds in the Final Four … well, maybe watching Kelvin Sampson join me in a Sprint family plan. But outside of that, nothing worse. Four ones is so bland, blase, mundane, unsurprising. Who wants to see that? Problem is these guys – Kansas, North […]

Miami Dolphins star defensive end Jason Taylor is tearing up the dance for this season on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. But the NFL hasn’t exactly embraced their star’s stellar appearance on the show, says Yahoo Sports columnist Michael Silver. He offers several reasons this might be, one of which harkens back to a particular […]

Already feeling the let down that comes post-opening day when you realize that there are still about 100 days until any of these games begin to matter? Few early-season story lines have emerged. The transitions of Joe Torre and Joe Girardi have been uneventful; no historical records are in imminent danger of being broken, and […]

The Women’s Final Four is headed to Tampa Bay this weekend, and following suit will be scores of lesbian basketball fans. At least, so says the St. Petersburg Times, which said in an article that local businesses are banking on it. Starting Friday, Tampa will become a national epicenter for gay women, thousands of whom […]

No, guys, Big Brown is not a well-endowed UPS guy. He’s a current favorite among colts pointing at the Kentucky Derby, which is just a month away. But you might take your attention off KOTH for just a minute and catch a look at this spectacular hunk of horseflesh, because the buzz about him is […]

After enduring two weeks of generally boring basketball and few compelling stories, this news is no surprise: This year’s [NCAA men’s] tournament might become the lowest-rated ever, or at least the lowest without an asterisk. Heading into Thursday’s games, CBS’ ratings were off 9% from last year, which was the lowest-rated ever except the 2003 […]

Orlando, Fla, seems to have a problem with men’s nipples. A giant billboard in the city for WrestleMania XXIV yesterday featured some of the top draws of the event – including John Cena, Big Show and boxer Floyd Mayweather (right) – with their nipples airbrushed out. -Cyd Zeigler jr. Towleroad: Orlando orders male nipples erased […]

Today is the Cool Orange 500 at the Martinsville short track, but I did my motorsports thing for the weekend yesterday. It was the Kroger 250 in the truck series, also at Martinsville, and Chrissy Wallace was racing. The 19-year-old daughter of veteran stock-car driver Mike Wallace has been a stand-out in Late Models and […]

It always helps to have inside information when gambling. Here's some more proof: at the start of spring training, New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui made a bet with teammates Derek Jeter and Bobby Abreu about which of the three would get married first. Matsui said that Jeter, who claims not to have a girlfriend, […]

The 2008 Major League Baseball season begins tomorrow night with the Atlanta Braves helping the Washington Nationals open up brand-new Nationals Park. (Yes, I know that Boston and Oakland played two regular-season games in Tokyo this past week, but I don't care. Any game that starts at 6 am ET/3 am PT that isn't an […]

The NFL is set to for a couple announcements about their kickoff game that has traditionally been the Thursday after Labor Day for the last few years. It seems the game will feature the Washington Redskins at the New York Giants this year; the last Super Bowl winner has hosted the last few. But the […]

The director of Eleven Men Out, the 2005 film about a soccer player who reveals that he’s gay and is promptly kicked off his team, is among the judges of a poster competition spotlighting homophobia in soccer. (The DVD was recently reviewed by Cyd Zeigler.) The contest is being conducted by an Austrian group to […]

I want to go to Davidson College. Like right now. Not a second later. You see, the school is going a little crazy with this Sweet 16 stuff, and now wants its students to be in Detroit for Friday’s showdown with Wisconsin. How badly? Well, badly enough: The school sent out this email, one reported […]

So I realize there’s a lot of Joe Alexander fans on this board, many disappointed his Mountaineers are out of the tournament. For you, I’ll allow a moment of silence. Ok, moment’s over. Here's why you should root for the scrappy bunch of ballers that knocked off Joey A and his mountain men, the Xavier […]

By Cyd Zeigler jr. Shelter(3 stars out of 4)here! FilmsRunning Time: 88 minutesRelease Date: March 28 in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Palm SpringsThere are enough shallow, stereotypical, light-on-character gay movies out there to line Southern California beaches from Malibu to San Diego. Since its inception, here! TV has brought us a […]

The San Francisco Rock Dogs, defending Gay Games gold medal team, took on the San Francisco Rumble of the American Basketball Association Tuesday night in an exhibition game at Kezar Recreation Center in San Francisco. The game was taped for the LOGO cable channel’s documentary series “Rock Dogs: Shirts & Skins,” due to air this […]

Diana Taurasi makes a reported $49,000 a year as a star for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. That’s walking around money compared to her salary playing in Russia before mostly empty arenas of non-paying customers. Her Russian team pays her 10 times her WNBA salary. Shabtai von Kalmanovic, who spent time in an Israeli prison on […]