Month: August 2009

Since rejecting an offer to stay with the Boston Celtics for the 2009-10 season, Stephon Marbury has been broadcasting his descent into insanity for all to see, thanks to YouTube and UStream and USoCrazy…. Wizards center Brendan Haywood wondered aloud what I’m sure plenty of other players and fans have been thinking… At first it […]

Washington DC’s gay Metro Weekly had a nice article last week about the recipient of Team DC’s 2009 student-athlete scholarship. In its second year, the scholarship goes to a self-identified gay athlete. This year’s winner was swimmer and tennis player Clayton Miller (right, with one of last year’s winners Michael Hull) from Wakefield High School. […]

Tiger Woods lost the PGA Championship Sunday to Korean golfer Y.E. Yang, someone so obscure that when I first read the news on my cellphone my mind read it as “P.F. Chang.” How improbable was Yang's win? Woods had been 14-0 in majors after leading after three rounds. He had won his last 36 tournaments […]

ABC’s Dancing With The Stars will again dip into the athlete pool for this season’s contestants. The biggest name of the bunch is Michael Irvin, whose former teammate Emmitt Smith won DWTS in Season 3. The other athletes on board: Snowboarder Louie Vito, Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin and light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell. An athlete […]

The news that the Philadelphia Eagles signed Michael Vick to a contract shocked just about everyone in the Philadelphia region — not to mention those who have moved on but still have ties to the area. Case in point: Pink. The singer-songwriter was born in nearby Doylestown. She is also a vegetarian and major supporter […]

After losing 2-1 in a World Cup qualifying match in Mexico, American soccer star Landon Donovan has confirmed he contracted swine flu (now known as H1N1) while there. Now this piece of brilliance from Donovan, about whether he’ll play in the L.A. Galaxy’s next game: “If I feel well there’s no reason why I can’t […]

In the upcoming college football issue for ESPN the Magazine, there is a poll of 85 current players. Among the tidbits was this: Do you have any gay teammates? Almost half of those surveyed (49.4%, to be exact) said yes, they believe they have at least one gay teammate. In the Pac-10, 70% of those […]

If you’re tuned into the PGA Championship this weekend, you’ll have to pay close attention to Spaniard Alvaro Quiros. He hasn’t been in enough events to be ranked, but if he had been he’d be the No. 1 player in regards to driving distance this season. The rest of his game sucks, but it’s been […]

Tiger Woods shared the lead 11 holes into the second round of the PGA Championship today. At the end of the round, he now stands at 7-under with a 4-shot lead. The course is long (over 7,600 yards) and Woods is hitting his tee shots about as well as he possibly could. His short game […]

New Zealand rugby sevens players. The International Olympic Committee has recommended that golf and rugby sevens be included as sports in the 2016 Games. Softball, baseball, squash, karate and roller sports were not recommended, while women's boxing will be a sport in 2012. Golf and rugby will be put forward for ratification by the full […]

Cleveland Browns WR Donte’ Stallworth was suspended without pay for the season by NFL commish Roger Goodell. And deservedly so. There are few actions an NFL player could take that are potentially more damaging than drunk driving: And to have Stallworth’s incident end in the death of a man sealed his fate. Good for the […]

The Philadelphia Eagles have signed Michael Vick to a two-year contract. Jay Glazer of Fox says that Vick signed a one-year, $1.6 million contract with a team option for the 2010 season. I am curious as to what Eagles and other NFL fans think of this. (And I have already seen one person refer to […]

Heeeeeeyyy! In one of the stranger TV pairings I can remember, former figure skater Brian Boitano will host a coooking show (called What Would Brian Boitano Make?) on The Food Network premiering later this month. Afterelton's Michael Jensen tried to talk to Boitano after receiving press materials and again at the TV Critics Tour. Both […]

Graham Le Saux was the target of antigay taunts. A poll of 2,000 soccer fans in England found that "70% had heard anti-gay abuse in grounds in the past five years and more than half felt authorities did not do enough about it." A majority also thought that homophobia from fans is what keeps gay […]

Well, well, well. Once again we have one of those moments that, if it happened in Philadelphia, would result in days of media outrage. Since it didn't, even if it is talked about on ESPN, MLB Network, et al, it'll be forgotten by tomorrow. With the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of […]

Even better than fit athletes are fit athletes who are willing to strip down to their briefs. Tennis player Novack Djokovic showed his lighter side at a fashion show in Montreal, stripping down to almost nothing for designer Yves Jean Lacasse. Here's the before; The after is after the jump. Even better than fit athletes […]

Just in time for the start of the NFL season, New England Patriots QB Tom Brady is showing up on magazine covers again, starting with Details. The pretty boy doesn’t uncover anything new in the photo spread: And no, he’s not holding a goat this time. Though I do like this tidbit that USA Today […]

In the past week, we’ve had the University of Tennessee football team shirtless, then Georgia Tech shirtless. Now it’s Virginia Tech’s turn to try for something totally different in team photos. Deadspin says it best: Virginia Tech appears to have eschewed typical action photos for some glamour shots they took at a Blacksburg Kohl's. Because […]

Apparently, there’s an annual event in Sydney, Australia, called the Sleaze Ball. And apparently, this year’s promotional campaign will use sports to draw in revelers. And also apparently, the photographers behind the photo shoot don’t know a football from a football. Look, the pics are pretty sexy for sure. But couldn’t they offer some semblance […]

Not to be outdone by the Tennessee Vols football team, the Yellow Jackets at Georgia Tech have decided to pose shirtless with cars too (because big muscle cars are masculine, dude). My favorite is sophomore safety Cooper Taylor (right), No. 22, who’s front-and-center in the photo. Check out the full-team picture after the jump. Not […]