Month: August 2008

Powerade has enlisted British athletes in an Olympic ad campaign. But I’m burrying the lead… The athletes are naked! Pictured here is triple jumper Phillips Idowu. You can find the others here. Powerade has enlisted British athletes in an Olympic ad campaign. But I’m burrying the lead… The athletes are naked! Pictured here is triple […]

If you’ve been watching ESPN over the last two days, you may be surprised to know that the Olympics have not been postponed because of Brett Favre’s return to Green Bay. Major League Baseball is continuing to play games. And tennis and golf tournaments have not been canceled. You might not know all of this, […]

Time to set aside speculation about vice-presidential running mates and Green Bay Packers quarterbacks. The real question this week is who will light the Olympic cauldron in Friday’s Opening Ceremony? The final torchbearer is always a closely guarded secret — and occasionally produces a spectacular moment (if you don’t remember the archer who shot the […]

What is the gayest Olympic sport? According to The Advocate that prize would go to figure skating. In the current issue the magazine lists 19 out former Olympic athletes and the top three go like this:Figure skating – 4Swimming – 3Tennis – 3Big surprise right? This is obviously not a comprehensive list (softball isn't represented […]

This week the Philadelphia Daily News unveiled its 6th annual Sexy Singles. From over 500 entries submitted by family members, friends or the prospective singles themselves, 30 men and women were named by the paper as the sexiest singles in the Philadelphia area. The group includes three personal trainers and a fitness gym manager (who's […]

The cover of the current Advocate features out Australian diver Matthew Mitcham with the grabbing headline, “Matthew Mitcham doesn’t want to be the next Greg Louganis (but he might not have a choice).” When I read that, I thought, “What a little punk.” But then I read the quote where the editors obviously got the […]

Oh, the woes of a pro athlete trying to unload a house. Shaquille O’Neal, no longer on the Miami Heat, wants to ditch his house. It’s a quaint abode on the waterfront of Star Island in Miami Beach. Built in 1992 by Heat center Rony Seikaly, the house has eight bedrooms, an indoor basketball court, […]

I just love the Olympics. If nothing else, it provides a distraction to media outlets who’ve been hyperventilating all summer about the presidential race, high gas prices or how California is burning, quaking or destroying the sanctity of marriage. Now there’s this: No more Ferret Olympics, Olympets, Raw Olympics (not what you might think), the […]