Month: May 2008

At the website Shop.com you can now buy a Reebok Pittsburgh Penguins 2008 Eastern Conference Champions Locker Room Hat for $28.99 (excluding tax and shipping). This is wrong on two levels. $28.99 is an outrageous price for a baseball cap, even if it's the "official" locker room cap. Oh, and the Penguins haven't actually won […]

This horse has an awesome ability to accelerate. You could really see it in the overhead blimp shot of today’s Preakness. As the field turned for home, Kent Desormeaux asked him and he made like a top-fuel dragster, leaving the others struggling in his wake as he roared off down the lane. Over the last […]

In America, we’ve had corporations buy the naming rights to stadiums. We’ve had them enter into exclusive partnerships with leagues. We’ve even had them buy teams and name them after themselves (the New York Red Bulls being the most recent). Now the WNBA is selling leaguewide space on their jerseys; and the first buyer is […]

This picture was posted at blogxilla a few days ago. It’s Tennessee Titans QB Vince Young shirtless at a party. Obviously, he’s surrounded by lots of dudes with their shirts off. So a site called The Online Wire posted a cropped, shrunken pic in which you couldn’t really tell that any women were there (looks […]

Not sports-related, but as a California resident and gay man, wow!: SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court ruled today that same-sex couples should be permitted to marry, rejecting state marriage laws as discriminatory. The lead attorneys in the case were from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, whose Homophobia in Sports project has done […]

Fabian Hambuchen, a King of the Hardwood Sweet 16 finalist, wins the men’s high bar at the European gymnastics championships. He’s one to keep an eye on at the Olympics. —Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=O5PLlBFTUkc] Fabian Hambuchen, a King of the Hardwood Sweet 16 finalist, wins the men’s high bar at the European gymnastics championships. He’s one […]

Soon-to-be former President George W. Bush used to be the managing general partner of the Texas Rangers. This in itself doesn't mean he knows his baseball — after all, how many championships have the Rangers won? — but he was asked this week who would be the first position player he'd want if he owned […]

The crime is horrific in itself, but few countries can point an accusing finger at South Africa and not admit that crimes like this happen within their own borders. On April 28, in Kwatema near Johannesburg, the body of a prominent black lesbian activist and former soccer player was found lying in a weedy field. […]

The NBA is dedicating a lot of very expensive TV time to remind viewers that NBA players are philanthropic nice guys rather than… well, I’m afraid to guess what they think they need to overcompensate for. Not only has ABC/ESPN enlisted Def Leppard and Tim McGraw to record the cheesy country music song “Nine Lives” […]

When hitting the Ted to watch the Atlanta Braves, I can unequivocally state that I’ve never wished for a glass of wine to sip while watching the home team pummel their opponents. Beer? Yes. Wine? Not quite. Then it’s a good thing that I’m not the brains behind a new charity venture that pairs Tom […]

Photographer Jeff Sheng looking for out high school and collegiate athletes for his book and project By Cyd Zeigler jr. For several years now, a young photographer named Jeff Sheng has been crossing the nation looking for out gay and lesbian high school and collegiate athletes. His goal is to photograph 100 athletes before putting […]

First off, I just caught a Milwaukee Brewers game the other day. Damn, I forget how unbelievably hot JJ Hardy is. Now on to Ramblings. Out of the top ten smallest crowds in the History of the Seattle Mariners franchise, 7, count them 7 have come this season. Congrats to Derek Jeter, Short Stop for […]

As Goodell told reporters after meeting with Matt Walsh: “I don’t know where else I would turn.” Of course, the memory of this whole episode will live with Patriots fans and Patriots haters for years to come. But it’s clear we’ve seen the last of this. Sorry Rams fans: You lost the Super Bowl fair […]

California baseball stadiums are tops when it comes to health code violations at their Major League stadiums, with Angels stadium in Anaheim topping the list, Conde Nast’s Portfolio reports. A major vermin violation forced the shutdown of one food stand in April 2007 [at Angels stadium]. A cockroach infestation was reported in the Stadium Club […]

Naked is the news today. And it’s sports related. On Sunday, about 1,800 people bared all for photographer Spencer Tunick, no stranger to mass nude events. They stripped naked at the stadium in Vienna that will host several stages of the Euro 2008 soccer finals in late June. Tunick says on his website that he […]

This year’s NBA playoffs have lacked the drama of the past few years. It’s not that bad basketball is being played (LeBron James’ dunk against the Celtics on Monday was major highlight material). Rather, one need only look at what team is wearing white and you can figure out who will win. Through 16 games […]

If Jason Taylor can dance, can Terrell Owens act? We’ll find out Wednesday when he makes his thespian debut on MyNetworkTV’s “Under One Roof” with one of the few people who act crazier than T.O.: Flavor Flav. Could the pom-pom-waving one be headed to a career in Hollywood when he’s done in Dallas? “If I’m […]

Manny Ramirez, who has never been one to gloat or be cocky, has taken his bravado to a whole new level. He has now proclaimed himself the best left fielder in the history of the Boston Red Sox franchise. "How am I going to win a Gold Glove if they take me out in the […]

We have written before about the Aussie rugby players who posed for a calendar to raise money for breast cancer awareness. This video is of the “making of” variety. Despite the title, there is no nudity. —Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xgz25ZIjNMY] We have written before about the Aussie rugby players who posed for a calendar to raise […]

More examples of people who need to get a life: Even though he’s only 37 and in good health, Nathan Davis has already made out his will. In it, he bequeaths money to the University of Alabama athletic department and his ashes to Bryant-Denny Stadium. Davis, whose heavily tattooed body is a living tribute to […]