Month: August 2009

Cleveland Browns quarterback Brady Quinn hasn’t done a whole lot yet in his NFL career and still might not be the Browns’ 2009 starter. But this still has not stopped him from getting product endorsements and being regularly featured on the cover of magazines. His latest cover is the upcoming issue of "Muscle & Fitness," […]

ESPN is reportedly ready to announce that it will broadcast the Sept. 12 USC at Ohio State football game in 3-D, available at several outlets in L.A., Ohio and…Texas. This is the latest foray into 3-D sports. According to the L.A. Times: Last season the San Diego Chargers-Oakland Raiders game was broadcast in 3-D in […]

The totally hot Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen wins the 2009 world championships in Berlin and gives us an added bonus by showing some skin: The totally hot Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen wins the 2009 world championships in Berlin and gives us an added bonus by showing some skin:

For only the second time in Major League Baseball history, a game ended on an unassisted triple play. It was turned by Eric Brunlett of the Philadelphia Phillies in a 9-7 win Sunday against the New York Mets. The only other one occurred in 1927. Video: For only the second time in Major League Baseball […]

Our Weekend Hot Jock can arguably be called the “world’s greatest athlete.” American Trey Hardee won the decathlon gold medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Berlin. Hardee, 25, is a perfectly sculpted 6-5, 210-pounder from Texas. On his Twitter feed he tells us he "loves Jesus, oatmeal, naps, his dog Dignan, pole […]

Anyone else find it interesting that star players are taking so many preseason snaps? Weeks 2 and 3 in the preseason have been in recent years used to sit the stars and see what the backups have in the tank. But last night Peyton Manning led three series and attempted 14 passes. Donovan McNabb also […]

The star-studded list of Miami Dolphins owners just keeps growing and growing. The latest to join the not-so-exclusive club are tennis greats Venus and Serena Williams, who are reportedly very close to finalizing a deal. The Dolphins already count Gloria Estefan, Marc Anthony and Jimmy Buffett as part-owners. How many luxury boxes could Land Shark […]

Last weekend I missed the MMA championship bout between Gina Carano and Cyborg Santos, but watched what I could find on YouTube. The steel-cage event headlined at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, was billed as a breakthrough for women, and aired on Showtime pay-per-view. Now controversy rages. On AOL Fanhouse, commentator David Whitley did […]

Via the Wiz of Odds, we find that Danny Sheridan of USA Today has made Florida a 73-point favorite over Division 1-AA Charleston Southern on Sept. 5, believed to be the largest pointspread in college football history. Ignoring whether teams like Florida should be allowed to schedule such cupcakes, if you had to bet $100 […]

Not sure how we missed this one, but three English cricketers appeared naked (and holding well-positioned bats) in this past May’s British version of Cosmo. The gents are Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Alastair Cook, and they did it “for charity” to raise awareness of the Everyman prostate and testicular cancer campaign. The full photo […]

While most NFL fans (and many non-fans) are rolling their eyes at Brett Favre’s second return from retirement, it’s the Packers and Favre fans who are hurting the most. Last night on Greta van Sustern’s show (she’s a huge Packers fan), she adorned a new kind of Cheesehead: Half-purple, half-yellow. I talked to a Packer […]

The awesome college football site The Wiz of Odds (a must bookmark for any college fan) has the schedule posters put out by pretty much every team. They are all fairly standard, using some phrase to sum up the team and featuring key returning players. There’s not much skin evident, though Duke (photo below) shows […]

One of the stranger sports stories is occurring in Berlin, where an investigation has been opened into the gender of the winner of the women’s 800 meters at the World Track and Field Championships. Reports Phil Hersh in the L.A. Times: At least two of the seven runners who lost to Caster Semenya are convinced […]

Via Deadspin comes word of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow’s photo spread in GQ. The photos GQ posted online include one of Tebow shirtless (below), but Deadspin reports on one it says is only found in the print magazine: The lurid full-page centerfold of a sweaty, shirtless Tim Tebow is positively filthy …. and comes with […]

With his fun-loving attitude, Bolt is the kind of athlete everyone can enjoy By Cyd Zeigler jr. Heading into the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, I wanted American Tyson Gay to dominate in track & field to remind them that America is still the world super power of sprinting. Injuries had derailed that, and I was […]

For those who haven’t come across it yet, Joe In Philly has a new blog called, well, “The Joe In Philly Experience!” And as is often the case, Joe was spot-on in his reaction to Michael Vick last week, pointing out the great hypocrisy in the Eagles’ undying “everyone deserves a second chance” mantra now […]

Make of it what you will, but Shaq was on Conan O’Brien’s show last night along with actor Demetri Martin. When talk turned to Martin’s gay character in the upcoming film Taking Woodstock, Shaq carressed Martin’s shoulder. But when Martin began to describe his onscreen gay kiss, Shaq reacted a little differently. How do you […]

Here we go again. Just a couple weeks after Brett Favre announced he’s pretty much definitely retired for good, he’s expected to sign with the Minnesota Vikings this afternoon. After all of the nonsense, after all the bullshit, Favre is just gonna do what we all pretty much knew he would do in the first […]

David Pocock, Australian Wallabies The Wallabies, Australia's national rugby union team, have teamed up with the Sydney Convicts, a gay-oriented rugby union club, in a campaign to promote diversity and combat homophobia. The players posed for a series of photos for This Is Oz, a combination photo and human rights site designed to fight homophobia. […]

Wizards center Brendan Haywood caught some heat after he made some not-so-great comments about Stephon Marbury acting gay. Haywood said he and the Wizards got some negative reaction to his comments and he posted an explanation: I was just trying to have fun with a crazy situation. I don't support or condemn homosexuality and I […]