Guest post from Randy Stern Photo by Randy Stern When a good writer turns into an ugly horned figure, whom shall we blame? The cult of American sports fanaticism? Or, something even more sinister? This series of postings is a confessional. It is how a mild-mannered gay sports fan turned into a monster for an entire National Football [...]

Featuring more kicks and body blows than your average MMA fight, watching the 2010 World Cup final felt more like watching an Eastern Conference NBA playoff game. In order to neutralize the Spanish attack, the Dutch were more physical than that creepy uncle who shows up at the family reunion. Good thing there wasn’t any scoring…I [...]

The Texas Rangers, a team on the verge of bankruptcy, pulled off the biggest deal of the season today by sending starting 1B Justin Smoak and prospects to the Seattle Mariners for former Cy Young pitcher Cliff Lee. It’s a bold stroke for a team under such financial distress, especially considering they bested the Yankees on [...]

It’s never too early to cuss and discuss college football or college football hotties. Heck we’re T-minus 55 days to kickoff.

The AP and ESPN/USA Today polls will not be out until August but here’s a consolidated look at some of college football’s preseason Top 25 polls:

For everyone outside of south Florida, LeBron’s decision to leave Cleveland was brutal. We haven’t witnessed this much useless media attention aimed at one person since….well, since ESPN decided to make Brett Favre’s decision to play or not to play a daily soap opera. Yet there’s so much hypocrisy in the reaction of the media, the fans, [...]

Cavs’ owner Dan Gilbert’s retort to LeBron James’ decision to play for the Heat makes me think leaving the Cavs was a good idea. Dear Cleveland, All Of Northeast Ohio and Cleveland Cavaliers Supporters Wherever You May Be Tonight; As you now know, our former hero, who grew up in the very region that he deserted this evening, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Michael Vick’s latest brouhaha may land him back in the NFL’s principal’s office. It appears the guy who got himself all shot at Vick’s 30th b’day party was a dog fighting co-defendant. If that was the only incident it’s no big deal really, but NFL commish Roger Goodell told Vick not to hang around that crowd anymore. [...]

How do we know that soccer has finally arrived in the US? Well how about Bill Clinton’s appearance for the USA’s final group game against Algeria on Wednesday? Think this guy’s happy to be out of politics? With Hillary and Barack back in DC dealing with the former General Stanley McChrystal firestorm, Bill’s tripping balls at the world’s [...]

USA head coach Bob Bradley shook up the USA’s starting lineup and the US responded with a wide open attack, producing a dramatic first half chock full of missed opportunities. Lineup Changes Jonathan Bornstein replaced left center back Oguchi Onyewu and Maurice Edu started in the midfield instead of Jose Torres. Herculez Gomez came on for suspended [...]