Month: April 2008

The feel-good story of the month: Women’s senior college softball player with .153 career average hits first career home run. Tears a knee ligament running to first. Two opponents carry her around the base paths to make sure she touches them all and gets credit for the home run. Tears ensue.–Jim Buzinski The feel-good story […]

From the Dept. of Parental Overreaction: Kristoff Wennersten figured his prom proposal had to be one-of-a-kind if it would have any chance of being accepted. But the Huron High School [Michigan] senior never imagined it would result in a suspension for himself and 12 of his varsity lacrosse teammates, whom he recruited to help spell […]

New York Rangers forward Sean Avery has gotten some attention from this blog. Jim determined that Avery is gayer than he is, and Cyd wrote about his upcoming summer internship at Vogue. I, on the other hand, called him a jerk after his latest on-ice antics. Unfortunately, this Avery update isn't a very happy one. […]

For people who like any kind of racing the way I do, this is an exciting time of year, with the Triple Crown and the NASCAR Cup Chase both shaping up. Though motorsports track attendance is falling off because of the rising cost of getting to races, the grandstands were packed at Talladega last Sunday. […]

Brazilian soccer superstar Ronaldo, who plays for AC Milan in Italy, was involved in an altercation in Rio de Janeiro after discovering that three prostitutes he picked up were transvestites. Police said that the incident began when Ronaldo discovered he was dealing with transvestites instead of women and was reportedly infuriated. Carlos Augusto Nogueira, a […]

There's not a whole lot going on in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I know this from firsthand experience — I used to date a guy who was born and raised there and tagged along a few times when he went to visit family. It's not a bad place. It's an old industrial town that used to be […]

I can’t stand Jim Rome. The screaming has always grated on me, his homophobia comes and goes, and he’s more style than substance. So it was with great joy that I heard from Ted Rybka at GLAAD that they had taken Rome to task over his coverage of the Ronaldo hooker story, in which Rome […]

Congrats to Troy Dumais, 2 time Olympian who won the 3-meter diving title at the USA Spring National Diving Championships on April 19th. You’ll have to excuse the tardiness, but I was too busty drooling over his pictures for the last week to realize that he had actually done anything of significance lately. He is […]

Micah Owings, pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks did it again on Wednesday, by coming into to pinch-hit in the bottom of the sixth and ripping a two-run homer off of Dave Borkowski, leading to a Diamondbacks win over the Houston Astros 8-7. Owings, one of the only pitchers in Major League Baseball that would be […]

Somehow through the Atlanta Hawks’ NBA season, I’ve missed the addition of the A-Team Dancers. It’s an outfit of 10 men that take to the court during breaks in home games. The performances are silly and most of the men out of shape. They often strip off their shirts when dancing to seductive songs and […]

It never gets tiring watching Al Horford play basketball. And these day, it’s pretty exciting to watch him and the Atlanta Hawks on the court. The team that most everyone thought would be swept by the Boston Celtics in this first round series upset the Green Machine on Monday, amazingly sending the series back north […]

This is probably the last time you’ll see the name David Vobora, but he was the 2008 NFL Draft’s “Mr. Irrelevant,” the nickname given to the last person taken in the draft. The linebacker from the University of Idaho was the 252nd player selected, taken by the St. Louis Rams. The Dallas Morning News had […]

My new favorite hottie is Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Blake Dewitt. The Dodgers who have been ravaged by injuries have been forced to call him up from Triple A ball not once but twice this season and he hasn’t done too shabby, hitting .254, with 9 runs on 15 hits and 7 RBI’s. Kevin […]

War Emblem won the 2002 Kentucky Derby and is now living the equine life of luxury on a Japanese stud farm. The New York Times reports, though, that the stud is a dud when it comes to hooking up with mares. War Emblem is in therapy. He is isolated from the other studs at Shadai […]

English soccer star Joe Cole has surpassed David Beckham as the biggest icon among gay male soccer fans, according to a gay and lesbian dating website. Joe Cole and his Chelsea namesake Ashley’s wife Cheryl have scored a remarkable double in a popularity poll – for a gay website. JC has leapfrogged over David Beckham […]

You can already buy your own Matt Ryan jersey. It didn’t take long for the Atlanta Falcons to replace the Michael Vick era and start the Matt Ryan era. The former Boston College QB became the new face of the troubled franchise when the Falcons scooped up the 22-year-old, 6-foot-5-inch, 228-pound stud with their first […]

In sort of a "like father, like son" situation, the Philadelphia Phantoms defeated the Albany River Rats in a five-overtime American Hockey League playoff marathon last night. Ryan Potulny scored at 2:58 of the fifth overtime to win it. At 142 minutes, 58 seconds, it's the longest game in AHL history. The Phantoms outshot the […]

I got to watch three NBA Playoff games tonight, and I have to agree with something Jim said a few days back: The NBA Playoffs, for some reason, are so good. Watching the Sixers dismantle the Pistons was fun, but not nearly as fun as meeting up with Joe in Philly and Canmark right afterward […]

We’ve written about former NFL linebacker Ken Hutcherson and his homophobic rants plenty of times before. He was at it again this past weekend, leading a rather large demonstration against a Washington state high school in protest of the National Day of Silence. Said Hutcherson about the protest: It is time for us as moral […]

New York Ranger Sean Avery may still be playing for the Stanley Cup, but he’s apparently already made plans for some work when it’s over. According to Women’s Wear Daily, Avery will be an intern at Vogue magazine this summer after a letter of his to Vogue editor Anna Wintour (peas in a pod, anyone?) […]