It’s been a very long 11 months for Caster Semenya who had to undergo gender testing after becoming the 800-meter world champion. But as is being reported from Johannesburg by the Associated Press via ESPN, Caster will keep running as a woman. What was the saddest and most likely humiliating thing about this whole “gender-bender” debacle were reports [...]

Whether you’re an Olympic pin collector, member of the LGBT community or both you’ll be excited about this news which comes via a press release. Openly-gay Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas urged people to “wear their pin badge with pride and help us achieve greater inclusion in sport”. London 2012 chief executive Paul Deighton said the pin [...]

That gasping sound you hear from LA isn’t over the disbelief in Lindsey Lohan’s 90-day jail sentence for substance abuse/drunk driving/stupidity. Nope, it’s mostly coming from USC’s head coach Lane Kiffin disbelief with what’s happening to his once-proud-under-Peter-Carroll program. First defensive end Malik Jackson announces on Monday he will transfer to Tennessee of all places and then [...]

A fan attending a Texas Rangers game at the BallPark in Arlington fell some 30 feet into the lower bowl on Tuesday night, delaying the game 16 minutes while emergency personnel attended to him. The fall occurred while the fan was trying to grab Nelson Cruz’s foul ball during the bottom of the 5th inning. [...]

At the top of my list of pet peeves, right up there with douche bags who wear ballcaps as accessories, is media lame asses who recycle stories without putting any thought into them. A typical sportswriter’s brain works a little something like this: Oh, I see the All-Star game is getting close so it must be time [...]

Now many of us have heard the “rumors” about the porn industry and in particular gay/bi actors using (or abusing) prescription male enhancement meds. Now before you start with the obvious jokes, including the warnings in the TV ads regarding perky peckers lasting for four hours, there is a darkside to this believe it or not. [...]

This past week in our local paper was an article about a proposal to build a new ultra modern gym in a former retail site here in Danbury. One of the first things that popped into my mind was bis, gays and lesbians in the area must be thinking “ah a new hunting ground”. This [...]

According to media reports in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday a gay pride float which was going to be used in a Fourth Of July parade was set on fire and not only destroyed the float but also a building. It took 10 days to build the gay pride float. The plan is to make a statement by rebuilding [...]

About this time of year, when the NBA and NHL playoffs have ended their extremely too long postseasons and baseball approaches the All-Star break, I begin turning my some of my attention over to football. With July comes two-a-days, training camps, preseason magazines and predictions. It reminds me of my college years when I gambled way [...]

Okay full disclosure … I went kicking and screaming into the 21st Century when finally buying my first computer five years ago after being downsized by CBS Broadcasting mostly, a) to keep in touch with cousins via email. b) not to lose all the computer knowledge I gained when working at CBS (you too will [...]

Of all the questions left unanswered in the wake of the US World Cup postmortem analysis, the one that has come up most often is why didn’t Bob Bradley find more minutes for midfielder Benny Feilhaber . Our apologies to Landon Donovan, he’s already somewhat of a household name here in the USA, but was midfielder Benny Feilhaber [...]

Brazil-born US soccer player Benny Feilhaber’s bio: Date of birth : January 19, 1985 (age 25) Place of birth: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Position: Centre/Attacking midfielder College: UCLA National Team: United States Social Benny Benny Feilhaber’s Facebook page. Benny Feilhaber’s Wikipedia entry. Benny Feilhaber made it to the Final Four in the SportsFags 2010 World Hottest Athlete Contest. Benny Feilhaber photos [...]

Shocking headline I know. The ‘man’ who lied to everyone he knew before the money trail conclusively linked him to a dog fighting ring apparently hasn’t been telling the truth about the recent shooting at his b’day party . Per a r eport on ESPN , a surveillance video shows Vick leaving three minutes before the shooting occurred. Yet, [...]

Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates his fourth round victory over Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt at Wimbledon by ripping his shirt off. With Andy Roddick already eliminated, a Djokovic vs. Federer semi final match looks like a real possibility. Djokovic takes on Yen-Hsun Lu in the Quarters on Wednesday before a possible weekend showdown with R-Fed.

More shirtless photos and [...]

I don’t know if this can be classified as a first or will become precedent setting, but the Castleford Tigers rugby team has been fined over anti-gay harassing remarks from fans at a rugby game against out rugby player Gareth Thomas. UK rugby and soccer fans have always been known for their “less than sportsmanlike conduct” [...]

Britain’s Prince Harry threw out the first pitch before the New York Mets game against the Minnesota Twins at Citi Field on Saturday. From the looks of it he must’ve learned a little something from his American counterparts while serving overseas because Harry’s got a nice delivery and a decent arm. Just a bit outside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=picmiKmhfTU [...]

Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers extended his hitting streak to 20 games on Sunday and it got me thinking about which MLB record will stand the longest. It seems like every year when a player hits safely in 20+ games fans begin to speculate on the attainability of what some see as the most unattainable [...]

The US national soccer team managed to capture the attention of the casual US sports fan for a couple of weeks but failed to beat a team from a country that sounds like something you catch after sleeping with a stripper. Disappointed? Yes. Heart broken? Eh, not really. Don’t get me wrong, I got into the [...]

In an email earlier this morning I promised Rick, the webmaster and host of Sportsfags, I’d find something to post about today. As regular readers of Sportsfags and FOTR-Sports know, Rick posts sports stories for the “masses” while I try, for the most part, find something with an LGBT slant or an excuse to show some [...]