Month: April 2008

Screw the curse of the Bambino, it looks like the freshly built New York Yankees stadium has one of its own. The New York Post ran a great little blurb today that made me laugh, mostly because I am not a Yankees fan. A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 […]

Let’s get what most sports fans care about out of the way at the beginning: Tiger Woods shot an even par 72, which puts him four shots off the top of the heap at the Masters in August, Georgia. In his previous four wins at the Masters, he’s been behind by at least three shots […]

One of the things that always cracks me up about sports is the concept of Anointed Ones. The Anointed Ones are people or teams or nations that are considered so superior to their competition that it’s almost akin to kicking a basket of puppies to have them play their supposedly inferior competition. Case in point: […]

Last year we wrote about Romain Barras, a French decathlete, and how he loved to be viewed as beautiful by gay men. “It is lucky to have articles [about me] on the gay websites … I found it to be super flattering on these sites to be surrounded by very beautiful guys. I always had […]

Johnny Cueto, the rookie sensation for the reds had a pretty amazing debut for the team against the Arizona Diamond Backs, when he walked no one and struck out 10 batters. How amazing is that you ask? 4,113 pitchers have made their debuts in the major league since 1956 and he is the only one […]

Justin Germano of the San Diego Padres has now had two starts, has a 0.00 ERA and has won no games. It would really be nice if his team could hit some runs and help him out. His next start will be next week against the Colorado Rockies. Brenton Metzler Justin Germano of the San […]

Jordan Schafer is writing the newest chapter in “Baseball for Dummies: Professional Edition.” The unfolding saga swirling around him will be summed up with his personal story, titled “How to Kill a Baseball Career.” Schafer, the No. 1 prospect for the Atlanta Braves despite not playing above Class A until this year, was suspended this […]

It’s crunch time in the King of the Hardwood as we are down to the Elite 8: Brady Quinn (NFL) vs. Ben Cohen (Rugby) Brad Ausmus (Baseball) vs. Robby Ginepri (Tennis) Sean Lamont (Rugby) vs. Brandon Templeton (Kickboxing) Dan Carter (Rugby) vs. Joe Mauer (Baseball) Check the pics and vote here! It’s crunch time in […]

It struck me as pretty cool Monday evening when I heard the name announced at the end of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament that it is a gay man now singing “One Shining Moment” every early April on CBS. Luther Vandross was quietly gay (tough to call him closeted) before he died; and very soon […]

I spent all last year writing a monthly baseball column on here called this month in baseball and now I will be blogging about America’s favorite pastime. If you read my column you should expect some of the same, I’ll chime in whenever something irks me, whenever something astounds me or whenever a new hottie […]

Whatever one’s opinion is on protesting the Olympic torch run to criticize China’s human rights policies, it is clear that the protesters have won. I am watching live CNN’s coverage of the event, which would more accurately be titled the Olympic Torch Evasion. Viewers saw more pictures of buses, warehouses and boats in San Francisco […]

Tennessee won the women’s NCAA basketball championship last night in a truly dominating performance against Stanford. Tennessee played great, led by Candace Parker (right), and they were helped out by a pitiful 24 turnovers (many of them unforced) by Stanford. Watching the game, I had mixed feelings. It was the first women’s college basketball game […]

It's another blow to democracy. Recently the New York Mets decided to run a poll on its website, asking fans to choose from among ten songs under consideration to replace Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" as their eighth-inning sing-along song. However, the website Fark.com suggested a write-in campaign, and their write-in candidate actually beat out the […]

My favorite sport, by just a little, is football. I grew up on it. Baseball was in the background and Colorado, where i originally hail from, didn’t even have a team until my freshman year. So it gives me great pleasure when I can write something in my baseball blog that has anything to do […]

The U.S. Olympic team is going preppy. Ralph Lauren Polo announced an agreement to outfit the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams with new threads for the opening and closing ceremonies, along with walking around clothes for their down time in the Olympic Village, during the 2008 Summer Olympics, which open Aug. 8. The Wall Street […]

John Caldera, an aide to a San Francisco supervisor, will be among those carrying the Olympic torch in San Francisco on Wednesday and he says he is honored despite the protests. As someone who is openly Gay, Latino and a U.S. Navy Veteran, I have learned to respect the many subsets of our society. At […]

Adam Goslin came out as a two-sport athlete at Washington University. Now he's returned to his high school as a coach.

The Summer Olympics keep growing and growing. The newest Olympic sport is called Flame Dousing. So far the French are winning. They managed to extinguish the Olympic flame five times during Monday’s glorious torch procession through Paris. On Sunday, the Brits made several daring swipes at the flame as it passed through London, but their […]

People in Boston really don’t take losing well. The Boston Phoenix has its list of the “100 Unsexiest Men on the Planet,” and among the honorees is the Golden Boy, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady: 100. Oh, how quickly we turn on our heroes! Once a loveable Everyman, he’s now an overexposed, supermodel-dating, out-of-wedlock-fathering, […]

This came in last week from Pat Griffin of It Takes A Team. If you’re a non-heterosexual coach (or former), definitely contact the researcher; we can’t get enough of this kind of research going. Looking for Non-Heterosexual Coaches for Research Study Are you interested in participating in a research study examining female collegiate coaches work […]