Arkansas junior running back Dennis Johnson is out for the foreseeable future after suffering a “bowel injury” during the Razorbacks’ 31-7 win against Louisiana-Monroe last Saturday. You know the queasy, stomach-churning feeling you a crotch punch or kick? Well multiply that by a factor of ten. The injury required Johnson to undergo emergency surgery shortly after the [...]

While there are many challenges which face members of the LGBT community, none gets more personal for many than when the faith and church, synagogue or mosque they grew up in no longer welcomes them because of who they are. For some it becomes a devastating blow oft times causing the individual to give up their [...]

I can remember a time when it was unthinkable to see or hear of a female sports reporter much less standing next to one in a locker room interviewing the guys. Well all that changed and the ladies at one point demanded to be allowed into locker rooms just like their male counterparts. While many of [...]

We often hear football analysts warn us non-football types not to read too much into what happens in the preseason. And while these analysts make some valid points, I often think to myself not how important practice is, but how important it is to practice perfectly.

Anyone who has ever coached anything from little league to the [...]

This past Tuesday during the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals game veteran NL umpire Bob Davidson stepped up to the plate and tossed an inebriated fan out of the game not for interfering with the game nor running on the field but because he called Cardinals catcher Yadina Molina a “homophobic slur”. Although the “slur” wasn’t specified [...]

Scientists from the French National Institute for Public Health Surveillance found that nearly half of the 7,000 people newly infected with HIV in the country in 2008 were gay men, and the incidence among homosexual men is 200 times higher than in the heterosexual population. Experts said the findings showed that French authorities needed to revise and [...]

James Madison, a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school, stunned the 13th-ranked Virginia Tech Hokies 21-16 at Blacksburg Saturday continuing an early season trend of ACC football futility. It’s just the second week of the season and already we’ve seen five FCS schools beat FBS schools. ACC Big Losers In the opening weekend ACC heavyweights North Carolina and [...]

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Auburn quarterback Cam Newton was once known as the heir apparent to wonder boy Tim Tebow at Florida, but since he liked other people’s laptops better than his own, and steroid Jesus was ahead of him on the depth chart, Newton decided — after being suspended — to take his talents to Blinn Junior College [...]

One month after Mychal Judge’s body was pulled from the shattered lobby of 1 World Trade Center, and three weeks after his televised funeral, some of the friar’s friends decided to hold a smaller memorial evening of Celtic music and storytelling. Priests, nuns, lawyers, cops, firefighters, homeless people, rock-and-rollers, recovering alcoholics, local politicians, and middle-aged couples [...]

The Gay and Lesbian Times has an editorial about the 21st Annual Gay Rodeo in San Diego, CA. Read about the IGRA here.

Freelance writer John Blanchette has an article at EDGE about openly gay NASCAR Grand Am driver Evan Darling . Here’s some highlights from the article. It was during high school that Evan began wrestling with his sexuality. “I’m not the kind of guy who is comfortable in the closet. I didn’t want any skeletons haunting me later on in life so [...]

The Sawmill Campground and Resort in Dade City, Florida is having a meeting this Saturday (September 11) regarding what could become the first of its kind co-op of residents and members of an LGBT resort. In its weekly e-blast newsletter is a PDF which describes the upcoming meeting. According to the material an exploratory committee created the Sawmill [...]

Automaker Jaguar is none to happy with Stephanie Rice’s use of the word faggot in a recent Tweet on her Twitter. Ever wonder why Twitter is called what it is … it often brings out the worse in twits. Here’s part of the story from The Daily Telegraph , The luxury car maker severed ties after former rugby league [...]

I day dream .. a lot. Ever since I was a kid in school. Today and for the past couple of decades idiot school psychologists call this ADD or attention deficit disorder. My attention is not deficit at all, just not paying a mind to what you buggers may be talking about at the time. And [...]