Month: June 2010

We received this email from the people in Cologne announcing that they are opening registration for the Gay Games. So if you are headed to Cologne and didn’t meet the May 31 deadline, you have until June 21 to join the fun! Many Gay Games VIII sports and cultural events needed exact numbers for event […]

In some fun city v. city jabbing, the Chicago Tribune printed a poster yesterday featuring Philadelphia Flyer Chris Pronger in a figure skating skirt and labeled “Chrissy Pronger.” Ha ha. So funny. When was this poster created, 1982? It’s dumb for sure, something I’d expect to hear in my fraternity house. But count me among […]

One in a series of first-person articles from athletes competing in the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne. By Reggie SnowdenSan Francisco I plan on attending the Gay Games in Cologne for a number of reasons, but first and foremost will be because of the great camaraderie of relationships from previous Gay Games. My first Gay […]

ESPN SportsCenter hosts are so macho and cool. They’re the most awesome, masculine dudes around, man. Just take Neil Everett and Robert Flores. They proved it last night when they showed a diver in a speedo plummeting a good 30 meters to the water below. Everett’s comment on the dive: You know what's not a […]

The eternal athletic debate about whether jocks should have sex during a competition or abstain gets raised to its most absurd level at World Cup soccer time. All the different nations mean different attitudes about sex. The English players have been banned from sex, while the Argentines say have at it. Brazil's president (not the […]

I don’t know whether Gawker’s Brian Moylan knows the game of soccer, but he certainly has an eye for the players. That’s apparent in his entertaining list of the 10 hottest players on the U.S. World Cup team, which starts play Saturday against England. He says this about Benny Feilhaber (photo right): Pros: For an […]

I was going to start this post with the “there’s still lots of basketball to be played,” but that’s not remotely true. With only a few games left to this NBA season, we are potentially on the verge of a classic NBA Finals. Last night was the epitome of this Finals matchup. The quintessential team […]

With the final registration day for the Gay Games a week past, Cologne is reporting just over 9,100 registered participants. There are still “some unpaid registrations in the system,” so that number will go up a little, Cologne’s head of media, Ingo Schneider, said. It's considerably under the 12,000 number the Gay Games were putting […]

With the final registration day for the Gay Games a week past, Cologne is reporting just over 9,100 registered participants. There are still “some unpaid registrations in the system,” so that number will go up a little, Cologne’s head of media, Ingo Schneider, said. It's considerably under the 12,000 number the Gay Games were putting […]

Rafael Nadal is officially back in top form after missing much of last year with an injury. After winning his fifth French Open championship without losing a set, he now trails Bjorn Borg’s record of six French Open titles by one. These next few months are huge for Nadal. With seven Grand Slam titles, he […]

Despite the incredible number of NCAA Championships won by the Pac-10 in the last two decades (averaging nine per year), many on the East Coast still view it as a weak conference. But if they pull of their plan, they will have reshaped the entire NCAA landscape. The conference has approved a plan to expand, […]

If you’ve been to a pro basketball game, you know the “kiss cam” is a popular feature. It’s rare, and in some places forbidden, that you’ll see the cam focus on a gay or lesbian couple. Even at WNBA games, they often shy away from it. So when the kiss cam at Game 1 of […]

Former UFC champ Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, aka the new Mr. T, made a comment last week that acting is “gay.” People got outraged and demanded an apology. Jackson has responded, but sans apology. Instead, he offers some insight into who he is; And despite the “insensitive” remark, I think I sort of buy his response. […]

Matthew Mitcham must feel like China is a home-pool advantage for him. First, he won the gold medal in the 10-meter men’s platform at the Beijing Olympics, coming from behind on the final dive. And Sunday he won the 10-meter event again at the FINA World Cup in Beijing. And he needed a perfect score […]

Edge magazine has done a nice job reviewing the Gay Games’ new anti-doping policy and previewing the random drug testing that all Gay Games athletes will be subject to in Cologne. The issue has supporters and critics, benefits and potential pitfalls. While athletes in certain sports were randomly tested in Chicago in 2006, this is […]

Thanks to Trackpic for these shots of American decathlete Bryan Clay at the Hypo-Meeting at Goetzis, Austria. Clay, the gold medal winner at the 2008 Olympics, won the Hypo meet. We will have more from Trackpic from the meet, but here are two nice shots of Clay: Thanks to Trackpic for these shots of American […]

Talk about a program in disarray. The Oregon State women’s basketball program has been ravaged by the departure of 23 people in the last four years, all apparently because of the alleged brutal actions of head coach LaVonda Wagner. According to the article and a great analysis by Pat Griffin, she is accused of… • […]

The 2013 Outgames in Antwerp, Belgium, have responded to Team San Francisco, welcoming everyone with open arms, including their attackers, to their event. Geert Tengrootenhuysen, LGBT communication for the city of Antwerp, sent me this email today: I wish to emphasize that Antwerp chose to organize the World Outgames because we strongly believe in its […]

Mackenroth with Cullen Jones Editor’s note: Swimmer and former Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth will blog regularly leading up to his participation in the Gay Games. My last post was last month just after I had finished a week of intense training at swimming boot camp at the Hall of Fame pool in Ft. Lauderdale. […]

Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was asked how he felt about Portugal legalizing same-sex marriage: The Portuguese man that I am, I try to keep informed about what is happening in my country. I know the law was passed and the comment it deserves is that we must respect the choices made by anyone, because, after […]