It was truly a transcendent call, the turning point of Super Bowl XLIV and one of those plays you will always remember. With his team trailing 10-6 and kicking off to start the second half, New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton called for an onside kick. Seriously?!? This wasn’t a meaningless week 3 game against the [...]

University of Ohio assistant and son of Toronto Maple Leaf’s GM Brian Burke was killed in a two-car accident on a snowy road in Indiana on Friday. Brendan Burke, who was 21, was featured on ESPN earlier this year for his touching coming out story and his acceptance within the hockey world. To me his story was [...]

According to a report released this week by the Future Sports + Entertainment group , the UEFA’s Champions League Final overtook the Super Bowl as the most watched television event in the world. Per the report, the finals match between Manchester United and Barcelona attracted 109m viewers in its entirety, and “reached” 206m people, meaning they caught parts [...]

Super Bowl Sunday 2010 is almost here and although some of us gay sports fans may be tuning in just for the commercials, we at SportsFags offer up some talking points so you can speak with authority at that lame-ass Super Bowl party. Super Bowl XLIV (44) New Orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts Line = Colts -4 [...]

The website SportsByBrooks is reporting that the NCAA’s proposal to expand the college basketball tournament is a done deal. According to an unnamed source at ESPN who was quoted on the website

“It’s a done deal with the expansion of the tournament. Depending on how soon a (TV) deal is done, the added teams could start next year. The [...]

Today a CBS spokesman informed representatives of the gay dating site mancrunch.com that their Super Bowl ad space is sold out and therefore they will not be able to air the gay dating sites’ 30-second $2.5M ad. CORRECTION/UPDATE: Per CBS spokeswoman Shannon Jacobs

“After reviewing the ad, which is entirely commercial in nature, our standards and practices department [...]

The Kentucky Wildcats, the final remaining unbeaten and No. 1-ranked college basketball team in the land, suffered their first loss of the season Tuesday night at South Carolina, 68-62. The Gamecocks got another stellar performance from the SEC’s leading scorer, senior guard Devan Downey, who led South Carolina with 30 points and is averaging 22.4 per [...]

For obvious reasons one of my favorite things to fantasize about is the weigh-in at the NFL’s annual combine in February. Hot, young, muscled, college-football jocks stripping down to their sponsored underwear and stepping on the scale, while bi-curious NFL scouts and coaches snap photos; soon to be hidden in some obscure file on their personal [...]

Both Rafael Nadal and Andy Roddick are injured and out at the Australian Open. Andy Murray Advances to Semis Nadal, who wasn’t able to continue through the same knee tendinitis that left him unable to defend his Wimbledon title last year, withdrew during the third set against Brittain’s Andy Murray, with Murray leading 6-3, 7-6 (2), [...]

While Tennis is often overlooked except for the sometimes translucent nature of tennis apparel and  the proclivity of male tennis players to use the bottoms of their shirts to wipe sweat, collegiate tennis teams often work as hard or harder than most other sports. Add to that the multitude of international players on American D-1 teams, [...]

Note to professional or college athletes, stop taking photos of your naked self, there are no winners in that situation. Well except gay men of course. The latest numskull to make his cock shots public ‘on accident’ is NBA scrub Greg Oden. The former Ohio State Buckeye has suffered from a multitude of leg injuries and [...]

These rumors just in from the ‘duh, no-shit’ department. Tebow not ready for NFL QB It appears that former Gator hottie Tim Tebow is sucking big time at the Senior Bowl practices in Mobile, AL. NFL scouts are tweeting about bad mechanics and off-target throws from the Fuck-us on the Family spokesman, can anyone say tight end? Jay Cutler scares [...]

Do you like Sunday’s? Are they enjoyable? Or perhaps you hate and detest them with a passion? After they the epitome of hell on earth? Dull, boring, depressing and the worst day of the week? I can remember quite clearly days of my youth, kicking about on a Sunday in Surrey without a thing to do, bored [...]

Read this story knowing that it’s real, not a Hollywood script. Better yet, put yourself in this story, consider the case of what may just be the longest suffering athlete turned fan in the history of the NFL. College Career As a college quarterback you are clearly the best player on the field, yet your team’s not [...]