Month: December 2011

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined TMZ Live recently to talk about the prospects of a female coach in the NBA. Cuban said the NBA will eventually embrace a female coach, just as they will soon embrace an openly gay player. “I think within the next three to five years, absolutely,” Cuban said. When asked […]

Hot player of the week Tebow and Broncos go down; the Packers lose, the Colts win; New York teams suck; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 15 of the NFL: Sunday was a weird day in the NFL, with the unbeaten losing and the winless winning. But all eyes were on Denver […]

The latest Change.org effort to pick up some steam is a petition asking the Denver Broncos to create an ‘It Gets Better’ video. No professional team in Colorado has made one, and Denver resident Andy Szekeres wants the Orange Crush to be the first. The big question I have, and I know it's on the […]

Note: The story from wharf.co.uk originally said Smith and Thomas were romantic partners, but Thomas said that was a confusion of the word "partner." They are partners in business only. Sean Smith is Thomas' business partner, as the two have co-founded Sean Smith & Associates, a legal recruitment firm. From the company's site: Co-founded by […]

pro soccer player Anton Hysen wrote on his blog that he is not coming to the United States to play next year as previously thought, but will stay in Sweden: pro soccer player Anton Hysen wrote on his blog that he is not coming to the United States to play next year as previously thought, […]

Anton Hysen has been celebrating his 21st birthday in London this week. His blog is rife with photos and videos of his celebration, including this photo here…a bit of advertising. Hysen also has a new Twitter account where he's Tweeting about his London adventure. Seems like a very fun guy. Anton Hysen has been celebrating […]

Brian Healey This is cool — players from the men's and women's basketball teams, men's hockey team and tennis team have combined to produce an It Gets Better video for St. Michael's College in Vermont. One of the editors of the video is Brian Healey, captain of the Purple Knights men's tennis team, who says […]

I am trying to resist the urge to write again on Tim Tebow, even though he is the most compelling story in sports. We know he really, really believes in God and wastes no opportunity, again, to remind us. But even I never thought he really believed God took sides in a football game, until […]

As a big Michael Jackson fan, I found this kinda cool. The king of pop’s daughter, Paris, apparently got her father’s dance moves and is taking them to the football field. The 13-year-old became the first girl to join her private school’s flag football team as a linebacker this autumn. You can follow the actress-athlete […]

A group of Air Force Academy cadets decided to do a “spirit” video for their football game this year against Army. The cadets stripped and posed while lip-synching “I’m Sexy and I Know It,” that featured such lyrics as “I got action in my pants and I ain’t afraid to show it.” Suffice it to […]

The Jerry Sandusky saga continues to build intrigue. Week after the former Penn State assistant football coach was publicly accused of sexually assaulting young boys, he has opted to forgo a preliminary hearing that would have brought him face-to-face with his accusers. Instead, his lawyer Joseph Amendola was defiant on the courthouse steps, saying, “There […]

Openly gay Olympic champion diver Matthew Mitcham returned from an abdominal injury to take the Australian diving championship in the 10m platform on Sunday. With just two weeks of preparation he blew away the sub-Olympic competition. According to the Associated Press, Mitcham is putting all his eggs in the 10m platform basket for the London […]

Revelations that sports aren’t as homophobic as long thought are becoming a broken record in the mainstream media. The latest is yet still another poll that shows fans don’t care if a player is gay and think homophobia doesn’t belong in sports. In a study by the University of Staffordshire published in the Journal of […]

The Toronto Marlies, a farm team of the Maple Leafs, held a sold-out LGBT event on Saturday featuring Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke. The event was co-hosted by the Toronto Gay Hockey Association and featured a hockey shinny (the equivalent of a pick-up game) with Burke! He later Tweeted about it as only a GM […]

Former pro wrestling superstar Hulk Hogan is suing his ex-wife for defamation after she said he cheated on her with fellow wrestler Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake and was violent and abusive (Brutus is filing his own suit). It sounds like a nasty marital spat but what struck me was Hogan’s defense: “If any of that […]

Last week, tennis great Margaret Court lashed out against gay people and gay marriage; Her homophobia has become a lasting theme in her retirement. Out lesbians Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King both returned fire this weekend. Navratilova told the Tennis Channel: Seems to me a lot of people have evolved as has the Bible, […]

The Broncos win again in bizarre fashion; the Cowboys lose again bizarre fashion; Packers closing in on perfection; four wild endings; hot player of the week. How I saw Week 14 of the NFL: This is getting ridiculous – now the opposing team has bought into Tebowmania. How else to explain Denver's 13-10 overtime win […]

My first reaction when I heard that X-rated pics of X-Games star Shaun White are being shopped around was, “When will these kids ever learn?” But then I realized, despite all the hoopla about how terrible it will be that this happened, how does it hurt these athletes to have these photos circulated? For a […]

The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation protection to its non-discrimination, the league has said. According to Michael Bass, NBA Senior Vice President, Marketing Communications: Non-discrimination language was added into the agreement that protects players from discrimination, including based on sexual orientation. The NBA’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation protection to […]

I have resisted writing again on Tim Tebow, but then along comes Miami Dolphins linebacker Karlos Dansby, uttering some stupid comments. Dansby’s Dolphins lost to Tebow in the Denver quarterback’s first start and he says divine intervention was the reason. As he told Jim Rome: “I think us losing to Tim Tebow the way we […]