Month: October 2007

Please bear with me for this being several days late, but I’m still recovering from a wild Gay Superbowl we hosted here in NYC last weekend. It’s hard to really gloat, being a Stanford grad and fan. The team has been so bad for so many years now (can you believe the Cardinal was in […]

In a new book, New York Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan addresses rumors that he is gay, rumors that gained currency in his nasty divorce trial. Appearing on ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption,” Strahan told hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon why he addressed the issue: “Because they linked me to Tony Kornheiser and I said, […]

Mike Freeman, a writer for CBS Sportsline, pens a terrific piece about a panel last week on gays in the NFL. The event was held in New York as part of Gay Bowl VII, the gay flag football championships, and featured former NFL players Dave Kopay and Esera Tuaolo, Jackie Lepow, a lesbian who works […]

During one disturbing period in the long history of Monday Night Football, ABC hired comedian Dennis Miller as one of its color commentators. Miller's stint was a disaster. So it comes as a shock that a new weekly show hosted by Miller, Sports Unfiltered, will begin airing on Tuesday nights in November. It boggles the […]

Bud Selig is probably weeping about now, as is the rest of the people involved who give a damn about TV ratings for the baseball playoffs. Beelzebud's worst-case scenario for the National League came to pass on Saturday. Instead of the of the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, two teams with tales of woe that […]

4-0. 12-3. 10-5. 8-4. Those are some of the scores from a less than scintillating first two days of the baseball playoffs. Sadly for me, the 4-0 score is from the Red Sox beating the Angels and Ace John Lackey on Wednesday. As I told my friend who I go to Anaheim Stadium with "The […]

In my recent auto-racing piece featuring NASCAR racer Terri O’Connell, I wrote about women drivers battling their way into stock-car racing…one of the most machismo-drenched sports still left on Earth. Well, today 26-year-old Erin Crocker held her own in the ARCA RE/MAX 250 at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. She was driving the 98 car, […]

The commentators and experts are all atwitter today after the Patriots blasted the Cincinnati Bengals, becoming the first NFL team to beat its first four opponents by 20 since my great grandfather was 19. But the part of the game I watched over and over again were shots of Bengals coach Marvin Lewis’ “sideline assistant,” […]

The Germans may have won gold 2-0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, but the Brazilians impressed just as much in their scoreless silver. On the FIFA website, the interview with Marta says it all, as she analyzes the game clinically, recognizes her teammates’ spirited effort and the huge fan support for the Canarinhas, and […]

The San Diego Padres choked in Colorado tonight. That's all there is to it. Leading 8-6, in the 13th inning of their do-or-die one game playoff with the Colorado Rockies, the Padres had alleged ace reliever Trevor Hoffman on the mound. In the space of a few minutes the Rockies and their fans are going […]

Now that the opening games in London — London, England, not London, Ontario — between the defending Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings are done, the NHL season gets under way in full beginning Wednesday night. There’s a doubleheader on Versus that night, with the Ducks visiting Detroit followed by Dallas at […]