Month: November 2007

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 […]

The Houston Dynamo beat the New England Revolution 2-1 in the Major League Soccer championship game today. The Revolution previously reached in the MLS finals in 2002, 2005 and 2006 and lost all three. Today New England led at halftime 1-0. Normally that's a final score in soccer but Houston exploded for two second-half goals. […]

The Cleveland Browns beat the Baltimore Ravens in one of the most improbable of NFL endings (read about it here). Watch the video of the field goal that was no good, then good. The Cleveland Browns beat the Baltimore Ravens in one of the most improbable of NFL endings (read about it here). Watch the […]

Congratulations are in order for New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur, who picked up his 500th career win with a 6-2 victory at Philadelphia. Brodeur is the second goalie in NHL history, after Patrick Roy (who retired with 551 wins), to reach the 500-win mark. Although it took Brodeur four games to get from 499 […]

This captain of a rugby team in Australia inspires his team in the huddle the only way he knows how — by using graphic sexual imagery: Click here to go to video Warning: Video is not safe for work — the captain drops the F-bomb about 50 times. Hat tip to Mark at DNA Magazine […]

MLB home run king Barry Bonds (right, when he was a lot lighter) has been indicted, not for taking steroids, but for federal perjury and obstruction of justice charges. On ESPN, several reporters close to Bonds, the San Francisco Giants and this story are saying they are shocked, as they felt this issue was closed. […]

Being the second-ranked college football team is hazardous to that team’s health. Oregon was upset, 34-24, by Arizona on Thursday, joining South Florida, USC, Boston College and Cal as No. 2 teams to fall in recent weeks. The Ducks suffered a big blow when Heisman hopeful Dennis Dixon, their quarterback, suffered a knee injury in […]

There’s a service on The Huffington Post that allows you to see how much various people are giving to the presidential candidates, including athletes. Some of the results – giving to: Obama by far had raised the most money from athletes. While the list of donors who are actors is incredibly long, the above represents […]

Brady Quinn has not gotten a lot of face time this season, sitting on the bench as the Cleveland Browns backup quarterback. But four lucky people can win a meeting with the hottest man in the NFL in New York as part of a Gillette promotion with Facebook. Fans need to upload photos or videos […]

Jiri Tlusty plays for the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs, but last year what he really needed was a fig leaf. As we reported a week ago, Tlusty was in the news when a Canadian gossip blogger, Zach Taylor, tried to imply the 19-year-old player might be gay because shots surfaced of him sticking his tongue […]

We noted last week that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was being considered as a model for Calvin Klein underwear. This inspired artist David Gilmore, who wrote us: "I read that Tom Brady is going to be the new …. ah…. face of Calvin Klein underwear. Christmas has come early! So I did a […]

It’s been years since NFL Monday Night Football was a social force, but for years it has been a reliable institution — the one big national game each week that everybody watched. The league, in setting up its schedule, reserved what it thought would be choice matchups for Monday night. This ended a year ago […]

For those of you who don’t know, Towleroad has in the last year or so started covering sports and sports figures (particularly as they pertain to fashion, pop culture and politics) a lot more. Andy’s latest today is a follow up on a previous story about some terra cotta statues designed to commemorate the ATP […]

We’ve been hearing from Jack Mackenroth for a couple years; he’s a swimmer for Team New York Aquatics and has set masters records and received All-American honors. It was great to meet him at the Out 100 party and to find out that he’s one of the contestants of the next season of Project Runway. […]

Last night I got to attend one of the best parties I’ve been to in New York City. The Out 100 party last night was held at high-end restaurant Cipriani on Wall Street. It’s in the old National City Bank building – a massive space with (I’d guess) 100-foot ceilings. I’ve never been great at […]

English rugby star Josh Lewsey in a Land Rover ad that pisses on English football: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiO8DZ2Urms] English rugby star Josh Lewsey in a Land Rover ad that pisses on English football: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiO8DZ2Urms]