Month: September 2007

Rope climbing as a sport? Who knew? But it is apparently big in Czech as this video shows. It really takes a lot of strength to pull your body weight up the way this guy does so it’s an impressive feat (and visually appealing!) —Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_HBCdERWEQ] More rope climbing videos here. Rope climbing as […]

Late soccer bulletin from China, by way of my media room: To everybody’s surprise, the powerhouse German team failed to score against the English. Result: another in a growing list of draws among these hard-fighting teams. Japan thumped Argentina 1-0. So the Argentine team were the first to fly home. This week, things are shaping […]

The Philadelphia Eagles, my NFC Super Bowl pick, are now 0-2 after dropping a desultory 20-12 game to the Washington Redskins. For the second week in a row, the Philadelphia offense was offensive. Donovan McNabb looks like he’s on the downside of his career, the “receivers” are that in name only and the Eagles have […]

Notre Dame is so bad –they'll forever, or at least for the next few weeks, be the team that got shut out by a team that lost to a minor league team– I can't be bothered much with gloating over their losses any more. So, no HA HA! from Nelson, just this: Nelson is bored […]

In celebration of the Advocate’s 40th anniversary, they asked their readers to submit their top 40 openly gay heroes. It was great to see four from sports make it: Billie Jean King (#6), Martina Navratilova (#11), Greg Louganis (#13), and John Amaechi (#38). What’s really sad (both for the person and as a commentary on […]

In Shanghai, the FIFA Women’s World Cup continues to explode with high-octane fútbol femenino. So far, the most consistent TV coverage I’ve found is on Spanish-language GLVSN. ESPN promised to re-broadcast all 32 matches, but it looks like they’re covering only the U.S. team. SETANTA has vanished out of my Dish package, but I imagine […]

It took 4 hours, 43 minutes for the Yankees and Red Sox to play a nine-inning baseball game tonight. Five games that started a full hour later managed to finish before the game ended at Fenway. The Braves and Nationals, despite a late start due to a rain delay, were in the 12th inning at […]

It was supposed to be a must-see end-of-season month-long tournament that determined the annual world champion of golf. Instead, the FedEx Cup has become the butt of jokes and is over two days before the final round. Entering this final event, only five golfers had a technical chance to win the championship, only three of […]

The Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers are both introducing all-you-can-eat tickets for their upcoming seasons. With each ticket you get a voucher that is exchanged for a wristband. Showing the wristband at designated concession stands gets you free hot dogs, soft drinks, popcorn and nacho chips and salsa. Great news, except for the price. The Flyers’ […]

Hooray to Radar Magazine for putting David Beckham and Posh Spice on its cover “The Overrated 100,” listing the “world’s most overhyped people, places and things.” In listing the Beckhams at the top the magazine writes: “It’s not that they’re untalented; it’s just that he’s an overpaid soccer star and she’s a pointless collection of […]

The London Times published an excerpt from a book by former English soccer player Graeme Le Saux on how the perception of him being gay almost wrecked his career. Because I had different interests, because I didn’t feel comfortable in the laddish drinking culture that was prevalent in English football in the late 1980s, it […]

In 1993, my first boyfriend and I went on a mini-tour of baseball stadiums. We went to Wrigley Field (smelly dump, sat behind a pole for $60 and I wanted to kill the beer guy who kept hawking Pabst Blue Ribbon), the new Comiskey Park (soulless New Traditionalism) and Camden Yards (loved it, especially the […]

The NFL has rendered its verdict in Spygate. From AP: New England coach Bill Belichick was fined the NFL maximum of $500,000 Thursday and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000 for spying on an opponent’s defensive signals. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also ordered the team to give up its own first-round draft choice next […]

For those of you who remember the saga of Olympic runner Derrick Peterson comes this latest press release. Peterson has been hired by the Univ. of Missouri as a track coach. Of particular interest is the last paragraph that says Peterson is married and has a child. And for those of you who don’t know […]

I am a lifelong Patriots fan, and I have no stomach for cheating. Do I think people in the NFL hate the Patriots’ success and want to undermine them? Yes. Said Boomer Esiason: “Everyone’s piling on right now, there’s no question about it. There’s 31 other teams that would love to knock the Patriots off […]

Last week, as part of their NFL preview, the Philadelphia Daily News published a special section focusing on Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks, past and present. The section was inspired by the drafting of Kevin Kolb to be Donovan McNabb’s heir apparent. Included in this section was a two-page spread in which the paper asked, “Who is […]

This just in . . . Pacman Jones is the TNA tag team champion and still hasn’t stepped foot in the ring. I kinda want to see this match to see how it unfolded . . . On the first Sunday of the 2007 football season, Adam “Pacman” Jones became No. 1 – in the […]

I was so disappointed in LaDanian Tomlinson’s whining after his team’s playoff loss to the Patriots last season (“They showed no class at all . . . and maybe it comes from the head coach”), and he hasn’t stopped since. He shot a Nike commercial in the offseason that was supposed to feature him running […]

Prognosticators predicted that Shanghai 2007 would be the most hotly fought FIFA Women’s World Cup ever. And they’re looking to be right. Some of the toughest among the 16 teams locked horns in Round 1, and pushed and shoved each other to a draw. The U.S. team — big favorites because of their Cup wins […]