Month: November 2008

Jets keep rolling with rout of Titans; Patriots' offense in high gear; Colts win another thriller; end of the McNabb Era? How Cyd and Jim saw Week 12 in the NFL. E-mail Cyd Free kick. The Arizona coaching staff gets big kudos for some fantastic coaching in the final 30 seconds of the first half […]

When the punters on TVG stop talking about racehorses long enough to mention baseball, you know it's a big story. Late last night, in the middle of coverage of the Japan mile championship at Kyoto, the guys expressed their amazement over Eri Yoshida, a 16-year-old high-school student who has just become the first female player […]

So there I was, watching the Sunday night NBC game between the Colts and Chargers with Jim Allen, when the network aired a promo for its Wednesday “Rosie Live” special. “That’s the gayest commercial on television,” Jim said, as we watched the very gay Rosie vamp it up with her dancers (themselves very gay, or […]

With Texas Tech being embarrassed on national TV at Oklahoma, 65-21, we will once again have a college football championship game in January that is not a legitimate title game. Same old, same old. Tech's loss means that there were almost certainly not be two unbeaten teams playing for the title. Alabama (11-0) will be […]

The Danish soccer club FC Copenhagen has an interesting motivational tool for its players — for every win, they get two porn films. One of the club’s sponsors, sex movie distributors BN Agentur, have promised the squad two porn movies every time they win. [The team has] risen to the challenge – winning nine of […]

The best NFL T-shirt you'll see this year, courtesy of The World of Isaac: The best NFL T-shirt you’ll see this year, courtesy of The World of Isaac:

ESPN’s been promoting the hell out of their new Web series, Mayne Street, featuring Kenny Mayne as he navigates the scary world of corporate ESPN. They’re three episodes in, and I did find myself laughing out loud at one of the episodes. The other two: Not so much. ESPN’s been promoting the hell out of […]

Jim Buzinski, a longtime Colts fan, has more superstitions about his team than the New England Patriots have Super Bowl titles. Jim's Peyton Manning doll, facing the floor and the wall of Jim's house, has helped his beloved Colts to the Super Bowl, and he has two shirts that determine whether his team wins or […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This may be moot by the time you read it, but has anyone else noticed that the NFL Network's Thursday night games so far this season have been great, and both […]

Only 14 seconds long, this video is from the Nov. 19 Brazil-Portugal match and shows Ronaldo taking off his shirt at halftime (a shame the score graphic obscures part of the view). Only 14 seconds long, this video is from the Nov. 19 Brazil-Portugal match and shows Ronaldo taking off his shirt at halftime (a […]

One of our most popular Olympics posts was a photo gallery of Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland. Here is a video of Zonderland training for the Olympics. Watch only if you like muscular gymnasts working out. One of our most popular Olympics posts was a photo gallery of Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland. Here is a video […]

This shot of a rowing team throwing its coach into the water (full image below) is from 1946 and comes courtesy of Google hosting Life magazine’s awesome photo library. It’s cool if you want to see Joe Namath shirtless (great if you like hairy chests) or images from the Civil War. The archive goes back […]

It's been 10 years since Julian Rubenstein wrote an article about the failure of professional sports leagues to adequately address homosexuality. The article was titled, so appropriately, "Suffer in Silence." It seems this was a topic of discussion for a "Sports and Gender" class at Bowling Green University recently, as a couple students there have […]

Every year for the last few years, gay watchdogs like GLAAD and Commercial Closet have given out kudos and/or handslaps to companies for their Super Bowl commercials, based on how gay-friendly the commercials are. Right now, Doritos is running a contest to see which commercial they will air during this year's Super Bowl. They've already […]

Boston sports radio station WEEI showed that segments of Massachusetts remain homophobic after it aired a segment both offensive and lame about the Gay Games possibly coming to Boston. Wrote the Boston Globe in an article about the fifth anniversary of gay marriage being legal in the state: Even in Massachusetts, gays and lesbians have […]

North Carolina for the men and UConn for the women lead our preseason Top 25, but the only thing that matters is whose cutting down the nets in April. By Frank JakkaOutsports.com Just like the election that just passed, there are early favorites for the respective 2008-09 NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball seasons. On […]

Kudos to Deadspin for catching this obviously well-balanced, well-intentioned Seahawks fan at a Seattle-based Pro-Prop 8 rally (actually, an Anti-Anti-Prop 8 rally, but who’s counting). The cop behind him is giggling for a good reason, as you can see in this picture. Of course, I couldn't begin to guess at the sexuality of anyone wearing […]

I had no idea there was such a thing as Domino Day, but Friday in the Netherlands, a world record was set involving 4.3 million dominoes. A cool video of some of the highlights, including a race at the 3:04 mark between sprinter Churandy Martina and 30 meters of dominoes. I had no idea there […]

When I first saw yesterday that Donovan McNabb was unaware that NFL games can end in a tie, I thought it must have been misreported or he was joking. McNabb’s Philadelphia Eagles tied the Cincinnati Bengals, 13-13, in the first NFL tie since 2002. It turns out, though, that McNabb, a 10-year vet, and other […]

Hopefully it is a maneuvre that will catch on around the world of soccer. Italian pro soccer team Calcio Catania lined up for a penalty kick against Torino when three Catania players lined up in front of the goalie and pulled down their shorts so the goalkeeper couldn’t see the kick. Serie A side Catania […]