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Trying to taunt his upcoming opponent Ricky Hatton, Floyd Mayweather Jr. reportedly told Hatton that he wants to have his way with him in more ways than one. “I wish I was in prison with you. I’d make you my bitch,” Mayweather said when the two were in Los Angeles recently, according to The Sun. […]

Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor died this morning after being shot Sunday at his Florida home following his team’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It’s a bizarre story, and I can only imagine we haven’t even heard half of it. He was reportedly shot in the leg by an intruder, lost a lot of […]

A few months ago we reported the angry denials by tennis player Richard Gasquet to rumors that he might be gay. Gasquet is now denying it even when not asked the question. At the Tennis Masters Cup in China in mid-November, Gasquet made a point of asserting his heterosexuality once again (Complete interview here): Q. […]

With every passing year, HIV is becoming less and less a “gay” issue, as infection rates continue to rise in other sectors of American society and in Africa. Still, there is plenty of stigma attached to HIV, some of it coming from the days when it was known as a “gay” disease. It’s nice to […]

In case you missed it. A police dog (and obvious ‘Bama fan) bites an Auburn player during the Auburn-Alabama game: [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSpfyIaS6wE] In case you missed it. A police dog (and obvious ‘Bama fan) bites an Auburn player during the Auburn-Alabama game: [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSpfyIaS6wE]

Missouri’s football team has been whining all week that they have to play in the Big XII Championship before being given a ticket to the BCS title game. They claim it’s not fair that they have to play a conference championship while other teams (read: Ohio State and Georgia) don’t have to. What a bunch […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Miami Dolphins, 3-0, Monday night on a 24-yard field goal with 20 seconds remaining. It was the longest an NFL game had gone scoreless since 1943 and lowest-scoring Monday night game in history. The Steelers had laid new turf down over the weekend and heavy rains turned it into slop. […]

Australian Rules Football and Rugby League players have bared (mostly) it all for a 2008 calendar, Naked for a Cause. The proceeds go to breast cancer research. The athletes are naked for the calendar, but cropping or props hide the family jewels. The cover boy is William Zillman. DNA Magazine has a great interview with […]

LGBT athletes and sportspeople visiting Mexico to compete or enjoy recreational sport…beware. Americans going into that country are increasingly the target of brazenly public armed robbery and assaults by organized gangs. Mexican police reportedly do nothing. One sport that is now notorious as a target for these criminal activities is off-road racing in Baja. After […]

Kansas is no longer unbeaten in college football after the Jayhawks lost, 36-28, to No. 4 Missouri. With the loss, Kansas became the sixth No. 2 team to lose this season. The stage is now set for Missouri to play West Virginia in the BCS title game — if Mizzou beats Oklahoma and West Virginia […]

As depicted on the back cover of today's Philadelphia Daily News: We can only hope. — Joe Guckin As depicted on the back cover of today's Philadelphia Daily News: We can only hope. — Joe Guckin

LSU missed on a 2-point conversion try in the third overtime and lost to Arkansas, 50-48, knocking the Tigers out of the college football national title chase. Great! The BCS system is absurd and now another highly ranked team has fallen, throwing the national title game into chaos. One more piece of evidence that shows […]

The Washington Capitals had high expectations coming into this season but have the worst record in the league at 6-14-1, so head coach Glen Hanlon is now out of a job. Bruce Boudreau, coach of their AHL affiliate in Hershey, will take over on an interim basis starting with tomorrow's game. The Caps come to […]

Sports Out Loud this month has a story about former NFL bad boy Bill Romanowski, who plays a gay cowboy in the unreleased movie Wieners (whether it will ever be released is a 50-50 proposition). Says Romo in the interview: “I’m driving my pick-up truck and I get stopped by Kenan [Thompson] on the side […]

Jim Allen does a great job in the post below, summing up what happened in soccer today in England. I always love the English press when their team suffers a major loss at a sports event (there is a great compilation here). The end-of-the-world headlines and braying for blood and heads make U.S. sports media […]

Being stuck at work today, I couldn’t watch the England v. Croatia football match at the new Wembley Stadium that would determine whether England qualified for the Euro 2008 tournament (they needed only a tie). I followed the game on ESPN’s Gametracker, where a running commentary continually updates. I love whoever wrote the one today. […]

The 10-0 New England Patriots have been made 23 1/2-point favorites over the Philadelphia Eagles, the second-largest pointspread in NFL history. A spread higher than 10 points is considered major, and 23 1/2 is off the charts. (When I first posted the item, the spread was 22 points). The pointspread is not a prediction by […]

The Green Bay Packers are being investigated for players illegally offering bounties to other players for doing certain things on the field. The specific incident in question: Two defensive backs, including Al Harris and Charles Woodson, offered defensive linemen money if they held Adrian Peterson to under 100 yards rushing two weeks ago. In the […]

Sports’ A-list metrosexual, fading soccer star David Beckham, has signed a deal with Armani to model their underwear. According to Women’s Wear Daily (via Towleroad), Beckham shot some ads in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago, and we’ll get a full (we hope) glimpse of Becks in January. -Cyd Zeigler jr. Also: Tom Brady to […]

Last week, Phil Jackson, coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, made a joke comparing his team’s play to “Brokeback Mountain.” It caused a bit of a stir, but we opined that it was much ado about nothing. Not everyone agrees with us (shocker), and one of the them is Pat Griffin, a longtime coach and […]