Month: November 2008

Ryan, Flacco playing like vets; Will the Lions go 0-16? Colts come back to win a thriller; which D-lineman almost had abs? How Cyd and Jim saw Week 10 in the NFL: E-mail Cyd What are the chances the Lions go 0-16? At this point, they’re pretty good. The Lions have seven games left. All […]

I loved this little article about a 6-foot-2, 185-pound Zeigler who loves to get plenty of sleep and is getting his first action in the NFL Monday night. Unfortunately, not even the 49ers need my services; This is Dominique Zeigler from Baylor. While my niece is half-black, and while my partner is from Michigan, this […]

Two coaches who allegedly used homophobic slurs to taunt pre-teens they coached in baseball, and who allegedly encouraged other kids to do the same, may soon see their overturned suspension reinstated. We originally reported about these two coaches and their overturned suspension last week. Now the city council is not pleased (probably after outcry from […]

In a fight last month that was televised on HBO, a boxer with the entertaining name of Trenton Titsworth kissed his opponent, Jesse Vargas, while the two were in a clinch. An angry Vargas threw a punch when the referee broke up the clinch. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfJ91N5dzIE] In Titsworth's defense, he only kissed Vargas behind the ear […]

Over the last two years, I have been drifting more and more away from ESPN. I find the conversations terribly insipid and usually focused more on style than substance. Plus, I just think many of their NFL analysts suck. Take Mark Schlereth for example. This was his analysis of the NFL’s fine on Justin Tuck […]

This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, sports figures had a role on both sides of California’s Proposition 8. And Texas Tech’s hot QB Graham Harrell. This week Cyd talks about the fool’s game of college football fans wanting to fire good coaches. Also, […]

2,300 people registered, 45 countries already represented. By Ross Forman Early indications show that the 2009 World Outgames in Copenhagen will not only meet pre-event participation predictions, but they very well may surpass them. And the U.S. will have a major impact on the second-ever Olympic-style gay sports and cultural showcase, first held in Montreal […]

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. One of the most important things in picking games against the spread isn’t just making the right choices with the spread, but rather picking which games you’re actually right on. Every […]

University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he posted this message on his Facebook page: "all the hunters gather up, we have a #$%&er in the whitehouse" University of Texas backup center Buck Burnette was kicked off the team by Coach Mack Brown after he […]

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones (photo right) took a shot at Joey Porter of the Miami Dolphins, after Porter criticized Jones’ felony cocaine charge. This is the same Porter who was fined two years ago for calling another player a “fag.” "I don't even know why he's even thinking about me," Jones said. "I […]

Apparently, Ryan Leaf has been a quarterbacks coach at West Texas A&M. And apparently, he has left sooner than anticipated. He was reportedly suspended from his duties for asking a player for painkillers, and today he resigned as coach. As Yahoo! Sports wrote, he had allegedly been asking players for “something a little stronger than […]

Despite the passing of Prop. 8 in California, it’s still nice to see how many prominent people were against it. Add former NBA player Doug Christie to the list. The guard, who played in California with the NBA’s Clippers and Kings, and his wife had hoped to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary next July with […]

Several athletes are among those being honored by Out magazine in their 2008 Out 100. Out editor Aaron Hicklin had asked us a couple months ago if we knew any athletes who would be worthy of the honor, and we pointed them to two: Ivy League runners Jamal Brown and Corey Benton. Friends and competitors […]

Having been totally bummed all day about Prop. 8 passing here in California, this e-mail from a friend gave me a laugh and some hope. She and her husband, Bill, are dear friends and live in Southern California: Today was street-sweeping day, and as often happens, some of our neighbors forget to move their cars […]

Great goaltending, strong steady defense and a potent offense have let the Minnesota Wild jump to a 7-2-1 start. All this without their star winger Marian Gaborik who’s been sidelined for the last five games with what’s been called a “lower body” injury. No matter because the line of Mikko Koivu and Andrew Burnette has […]

Here is a good link to follow the fight in California over Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage. Use the drop-down menu to find Prop. 8. Here is a good link to follow the fight in California over Proposition 8, which would ban gay marriage. Use the drop-down menu to find Prop. 8.

How are sports dealing with that new game in town, called recession? That depends on whom you talk to. Some are optimistic, and think that sports will weather the storm. According to John Moag, investment banker who specializes in sports, “It’s kind of like booze and movies. Psychologically, people do not want to give it […]

One athlete advocates the end of gender-based sports By Dan Woog {jumi [story2.html]} If Jesse Ream has her way, terms like "men's sports" and "women's hoops" will one day seem as archaic as leather football helmets and basketball bloomers do now. Everyone who plays sports is an athlete, Ream says; separating them arbitrarily by gender […]

For the last 17 presidential elections, the Washington Redskins have determined the outcome of the popular vote. When the Washington Redskins won their last home game before the election, the party that won the last popular vote in the presidential election repeated their win; when the Redskins lost, the party winning the last popular vote […]

Brady Quinn, who got my vote as the 2007 hottest player in the NFL despite throwing only eight passes, will get his first start Thursday night at home against the Denver Broncos. Quinn replaces an inconsistent Derek Anderson, who has become the fall guy in the Browns' disappointing 3-5 start. I have been calling for […]