Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson led a pre-race prayer at NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600. Dobson, who is the nation’s “most influential Evangelical leader” according to Time Magazine  is a controversial, and some say hypocritical choice to lead the prayer for the race. This isn’t the first time that Focus on the Family has been the [...]

DANICA PATRICK AT SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Yep it’s that time of the year … milk … hot cars and hot racing drivers like Danica and the offical start to summer. Can it get any better than this … oh yeah … NASCAR tonight too. Sorry gals and bi-guys Danica won’t be racing there, only at Indy.  Well ya can’t have everything … [...]

Rugby team gets their balls checked for an embarrassing illness.

The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced today that former Wisconsin head coach Barry Alvarez, former Alabama head coach Gene Stallings and 12 players are the newest members of the College Football Hall of Fame. Players Headlining the player’s list is Pat Tillman, who played linebacker for Arizona State from 1994 to 1997 and [...]

Remember four days ago when the Orlando Magic were about to become a punch line? After sweeping their first two playoff opponents, the Magic, were on the verge of being swept themselves. Suddenly, Dwight Howard wasn’t good enough to carry the mediocre core he surrounds himself with. The Magic needed another A player to complement Howard [...]

Following last night’s 4-2 loss to the Czech Republic — or Czechoslovakia if you’re a maverick Republican like John McCain — USA Soccer head coach Bob Bradley trimmed his national soccer preliminary roster down from 30 to the FIFA mandated limit of 23. The roster: Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Aston Villa, England), Marcus Hahnemann (Wolverhampton, England), Tim Howard (Everton, [...]

The Florida Supreme Court today refused to hear the NCAA’s appeal of a lower court ruling that grants open access to the public records detailing the academic cheating scandal at Florida State. Kudos to the court and screw you NCAA. Any attempt to deny anyone access to public records infuriates me but you’ve got to wonder [...]

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke welcomed the recommendations of a new report providing leadership for changing the culture of homophobia in sport. Come out to Play, a report by the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) and the School of Sport and Exercise at Victoria University, is the first [...]

There’s nothing worse than adding a little bit of rumor and speculation to the diet of the average college football fan. When rumor and speculation are driving, reality takes a back seat, and the facts are stuffed in the trunk. Rumors have it the Big 10 is considering extending membership offers to some combination of Notre [...]

Mediaite has a lengthy article written by Michael Triplett about OutSports and others who were duped into believeing a blog was written by a gay teen hockey player and how now OutSports has investigated and found the truth. Here’s some of the article from Mediaite with the full article at the link above. The gay sports blog [...]

Are we entering a new era in major league baseball? Are we witnessing the beginning of a new trend where savvy veterans are able to hang on to their careers without ‘major league stuff’? Are the effects of the steroid era beginning to diminish? Major league pitching is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance these days. Consider [...]

Nike works up World Cup fever with their latest ad offering. Featured footballers include Wayne Rooney and all-world hottie Cristiano Ronaldo in make-or-break-soccer situations. The cutaways of fan and crowd reactions are perfectly mixed in amongst the suspend your disbelief soccer action. It lasts a little over 3 minutes but is worth the wait to see [...]

This is just starting to make the rounds on some LGBT websites and blogs. In a writing at the Aussie paper and website the Herald Sun, AFL footballer Jason Akermanis discusses whether gays who are footballers should come out. Now, at least in this writer’s opinion, Akermanis isn’t the most articulate person as one can [...]

ESPN 3D takes the pitch on Friday, June 11, as host nation South Africa kicks off the quest for the Cup with the opening match with Group A rival Mexico. Thus far, Bristol plans to carry 25 of the 64 Cup matches on its 3D simulcast, including the Slovenia-USA tussle (June 18) and Portugal-Brazil (June 25). [...]

A few moments ago, I posted the following on my MLBlog The Heirloom . I wanted to rebroadcast this on SportsFags because it is important to challenge the notion of our love for the game of baseball. To do so against the backdrop of assumptions made on both sides of this argument that we could indeed participate on [...]

The following is a portion of a report from LGBT Asylum News . LGBT Asylum News has learned that despite a mass campaign in his support (and of others) a Nigerian gay footballer Cletus B has been removed by Austrian authorities. The Austrian government is a coalition with the Social Democrats forming the largest party with leader Werner Faymann as [...]

Me…two years ago at Rogers Centre, Toronto Let me first off by saying something I’ve always to say online in a sports realm – I’m gay. Yeah, I said that 20 years ago during Part III of my undergraduate studies, but I need to honestly say something here: It’s tough being a blogger on a [...]

I think I found the worst reporter in the history of TV. I never thought I would hear anyone worse than Emmitt Smith but this guy is ridiculously incomprehensible. At least Emmitt can remember his colleagues’ names, what a douche. The only thing close to this guy on TV in the US is CBS’ Shannon [...]

According to an article written by Linda Robertson at The Miami-Herald, Greg Louganis will be returning to the pool this time mentoring young divers. It was only fitting that the pet dogs of the greatest diver in history were running around inside the International Swimming Hall of Fame. A prominent display space is devoted to the dogs’ [...]

Below are snippets from a press release and the website Dolphins Of The Desert  about medal winning swimmer Jeff Commings and his new book “Odd Man Out:An Autobiography” which is now available and can be ordered via this link. You can also learn more about the book and read excerpts at the link. Books written by gay athletes [...]