The National Lacrosse League, the professional indoor league, has canceled the 2008 season due to a labor dispute. The team owners say they're losing money. The players say owners are diverting revenue to avoid showing a profit which would automatically increase the money received by players. Free agency is also an issue. In the NLL, […]

From Pro Football Talk: Redskins receiver Brandon Lloyd has some eye-opening comments about former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman during a Monday visit with the Sports Junkies on WJFK in D.C. "I don't believe Troy Aikman anyway," Lloyd said. "He wasn't man enough to admit his personal life situation when he was a player." Pressed by […]

ESPN headline tonight: “Rockies to play in 1st world series in team history.” The ESPN guys were getting pretty worked up about it. I have to agree with Jim Allen. Compared to the yawn that much baseball has been in recent years, the Rockies bring some underdog excitement. Some good young pitchers, some crisp hitting. […]

This gem from the people at LOL Jocks. When Tommy boy’s done throwing the football, he has a future wearing cologne . . . -Cyd Zeigler jr. This gem from the people at LOL Jocks. When Tommy boy’s done throwing the football, he has a future wearing cologne . . . -Cyd Zeigler jr.

At least in his tastes. From a New York Times Magazine Q&A with Sean Avery of the New York Rangers: Fantasy career: I’d like to be an editor of a fashion magazine. Creatively and artistically, it is something I’d like to do, and I think I have a lot of ideas that would be good […]

According to a report by ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney, when former Sen. George Mitchell releases the report on his investigation into steroids in major league baseball, it will be huge news. This information, Olney’s sources said, came in a conference call between all 30 teams and MLB lawyer Tom Carlucci. Carlucci is said to […]

Try these two college football games on for size: Kentucky 43, #1 LSU 37 (3 OT) Oregon State 31, #2 Cal 28 Wow! I got a chance to watch the fourth quarter of the LSU game and the whole Cal tilt and the results have totally scrambled college football, giving one more reason for a […]

Ugh, there has not been a decent series to date and the division series don’t look much better. Boston clubbed Cleveland, 10-3, in Game 1 of their series, and Colorado beat Arizona, 3-2, in 11 innings to go up 2-0 there heading to Denver. The Arizona-Colorado game ended at 2:45 a.m. Eastern and if anyone […]

I don't like making predictions in a public space, but here goes: the Colorado Rockies are going to win the National League pennant. Now, considering that the Rockies have have won 18 of their last 19 games (!!), that's a pretty timid prediction. On Thursday in Phoenix, the Rockies easily beat the Diamonbacks 5-1 in […]

The Fireball Run ended this weekend just past, with the gay team finishing 11th overall, and 2nd in the luxury class. This race is a live-action game in the form of a transcontinental auto rally. Miami to L.A., with 100 teams driving vehicles of all types. Each day the teams were given clues about places […]

Please bear with me for this being several days late, but I’m still recovering from a wild Gay Superbowl we hosted here in NYC last weekend. It’s hard to really gloat, being a Stanford grad and fan. The team has been so bad for so many years now (can you believe the Cardinal was in […]

In a new book, New York Giants defensive lineman Michael Strahan addresses rumors that he is gay, rumors that gained currency in his nasty divorce trial. Appearing on ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption,” Strahan told hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon why he addressed the issue: “Because they linked me to Tony Kornheiser and I said, […]

Mike Freeman, a writer for CBS Sportsline, pens a terrific piece about a panel last week on gays in the NFL. The event was held in New York as part of Gay Bowl VII, the gay flag football championships, and featured former NFL players Dave Kopay and Esera Tuaolo, Jackie Lepow, a lesbian who works […]

During one disturbing period in the long history of Monday Night Football, ABC hired comedian Dennis Miller as one of its color commentators. Miller's stint was a disaster. So it comes as a shock that a new weekly show hosted by Miller, Sports Unfiltered, will begin airing on Tuesday nights in November. It boggles the […]

Bud Selig is probably weeping about now, as is the rest of the people involved who give a damn about TV ratings for the baseball playoffs. Beelzebud's worst-case scenario for the National League came to pass on Saturday. Instead of the of the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, two teams with tales of woe that […]

4-0. 12-3. 10-5. 8-4. Those are some of the scores from a less than scintillating first two days of the baseball playoffs. Sadly for me, the 4-0 score is from the Red Sox beating the Angels and Ace John Lackey on Wednesday. As I told my friend who I go to Anaheim Stadium with "The […]

In my recent auto-racing piece featuring NASCAR racer Terri O’Connell, I wrote about women drivers battling their way into stock-car racing…one of the most machismo-drenched sports still left on Earth. Well, today 26-year-old Erin Crocker held her own in the ARCA RE/MAX 250 at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. She was driving the 98 car, […]

The commentators and experts are all atwitter today after the Patriots blasted the Cincinnati Bengals, becoming the first NFL team to beat its first four opponents by 20 since my great grandfather was 19. But the part of the game I watched over and over again were shots of Bengals coach Marvin Lewis’ “sideline assistant,” […]

The Germans may have won gold 2-0 at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, but the Brazilians impressed just as much in their scoreless silver. On the FIFA website, the interview with Marta says it all, as she analyzes the game clinically, recognizes her teammates’ spirited effort and the huge fan support for the Canarinhas, and […]

The San Diego Padres choked in Colorado tonight. That's all there is to it. Leading 8-6, in the 13th inning of their do-or-die one game playoff with the Colorado Rockies, the Padres had alleged ace reliever Trevor Hoffman on the mound. In the space of a few minutes the Rockies and their fans are going […]