Month: September 2008

Favre, the new New York Jets quarterback has the grizzled gray-beard look going and he had a successful debut in leading the Jets to a 20-14 win over Miami. With the devastating injury to New England’s Tom Brady, Favre is now the top quarterback in the AFC East. With Brady done, are the Pats' chances […]

Matt Ryan, apparently still a little giddy in the wake of signing his six-year, $72 million contract, today forgot he’s the quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. (Yes, the 4-12 Falcons from last year’s Michael Vick/Bobby Petrino mess.) His first pass in his first game with the Falcons? A 62-yard touchdown. His first game in the […]

Dirty Dozen, my Top 12 teams in college football after two weeks:1. Oklahoma (2-0) — The Sooners doubled-up the Bearcats on their way to an easy victory in Norman. This was a good victory but fans are right to be concerned about the 365 all-purpose yards given up to one player (WR Marshwan Gilyard). Dirty […]

Is the Patriots’ season done? The Colts, Chargers and Jaguars all lay eggs. How Cyd and Jim saw Week 1 in the NFL: By Cyd Zeigler jr.E-mail Cyd Even with some fear that I may be overstating things, I truly believe that EVERYTHING changed in the NFL this week. Everything you thought a sure thing […]

One of the oldest gay-football groups in the world, Greater Boston’s Friends, Lesbians and Gays (FLAG) Flag Football League is celebrating a decade of existence. The group was started by Robert Saurer, whom we met at the first Gay Superbowl in Los Angeles in the spring 2002. Saurer actualy has the distinction of being the […]

It's good to see Logo taking their stated interest in gay sports seriously. Along with the gay-basketball show Shirts & Skins, they've launched a section of their Web site that has various gay-sports videos, movies, docs, etc…. There isn't much on there now, but they're promising more. It's good to see Logo taking their stated […]

Two weeks after shocking the diving world by winning the gold medal in Olympic platform diving, Australian Matthew Mitcham has been honored with a stamp but as yet has secured no sponsorship deals, though one is rumored. Read complete article here. Two weeks after shocking the diving world by winning the gold medal in Olympic […]

Two weeks after shocking the diving world by winning the gold medal in Olympic platform diving, Australian Matthew Mitcham has been honored with a stamp but has yet to secure a sponsorship deal, though one is rumored. Two weeks after shocking the diving world by winning the gold medal in Olympic platform diving, Australian Matthew […]

The gap between the "haves" and "have nots" in college football continues to shrink. Around the country on Saturday, teams from smaller conferences played big against the big guys and played them well! East Carolina toppled their second straight top-25 team, dominating No. 8 West Virginia, 24-3. Ohio State needed a dropped punt to beat […]

In watching the end of BYU’s 28-27 college football win over Washington, I saw the worst officating call in memory (and that’s saying a lot). In watching the end of BYU’s 28-27 college football win over Washington, I saw the worst officating call in memory (and that’s saying a lot).

Nothing like a little jock sex talk to liven up a Friday. Today, we have Michael Phelps ogling Vegas strippers and Lance Armstrong talking about his sexual prowess. Nothing like a little jock sex talk to liven up a Friday. Today, we have Michael Phelps ogling Vegas strippers and Lance Armstrong talking about his sexual […]

My old pal Kevin Kiley, a sports radio host who’s had me as a guest on his shows on Fox Sports Radio and ESPN Radio, is now the co-host of the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio in Dallas. He’s been trying to get me to come on the show for a couple months, and […]

Yesterday's Braves-Marlins game started at a little after 1 pm. The announced attendance — which is based on tickets sold — was 11,211. However, at the start of the game only about 600 people were in the seats at Dolphin Stadium. Before the game, reports the Associated Press, Marlins players were guessing as to how […]

Admittedly, it's been a while since I've stepped into a stadium to watch an NFL game. I live in Atlanta, after all. Apparently it can be an arduous affair with long security checkpoints not unlike a trip through the airport. But now, for an annual fee of $100 to $128, NFL fans in Atlanta, D.C., […]

The NFL season opens tonight and the league's boss, Roger Goodell, was out in front today, talking about a range of topics in a Q&A. Keep the post-Labor Day start? Yup. NFL in London? Quite possibly. NFL in L.A.? With $3 billion, yes. That Pesky Rooney family in Pittsburgh? Working on it. And the bad […]

Number twenty-nine in a series. Broadcast: Baltimore Orioles on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Boston at Orioles, 8/20/08; Announcers: Jim Hunter (play-by-play), Jim Palmer (analyst), Amber Theoharis (the 8th, and last, woman to fill the reporter role — but she had nothing of substance to do, so enough about her). Number twenty-nine in a series. Broadcast: […]

For years, one of our favorite Outsports pastimes is to chronicle how often NFL announcers mention the physique of buff ref Ed Hochuli. We also might have been the first to call him “Guns.” So it was amusing to hear NBC Al Michaels say this about Hochuli during the second quarter of the Giants-Redskins season […]

Yawn. It wasn't exactly a thrilling opener — no points were scored in the second half — but the New York Giants began defense of their Super Bowl crown with a 16-7 win over the Washington Redskins. The win did continue a streak in the NFL — no defending champion has lost its season opener […]

Shaun McCarron and Paul Anderson, the gay couple known collectively as Shaun & Paul from The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (Oxygen Network), made their debut Thursday with Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling on “The Spin Cycle,” which is TNA’s new, weekly YouTube broadcast. TNA Superstar Angelina Love, one half of The Beautiful People tag team […]

Three of the four women's semifinal spots have been filled at the U.S. Open. The bottom section of the draw will see second-ranked Jelena Jankovic take on Olympic gold medalist Elena Dementieva. Dinara Safina, Marat Safin's younger sister and the most consistent player on tour since early spring, has also advanced. Jankovic, Dementieva and Safina […]