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 [...]

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 [...]

Foxwoods Resort Casino and MGM Grand at Foxwoods , along with the Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities (CABO), has announced an enactment of newly expanded Human Resources and Procurement policies that will officially recognize and protect the rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered resort casino employees. This announcement comes in accordance with the ratification of recent [...]

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 [...]

For those of you who don’t live in Connecticut (you’re lucky) and who don’t have to worry about the prospects of Linda McMahon becoming your elected Senator this fall (you’re luckier !) comes news that the widow of former WWE wrestler Owen Hart is suing the WWE and has included Republican Senatorial candidate McMahon in the [...]

Outrageous. Horrid. Unconscionable. These are some of the words being used to describe the refereeing in the USA-Slovenia match. But perhaps even worse than the calls themselves is the fact that US soccer fans were truly robbed of a watershed moment for the sport. Koman Coulibaly may sound like an unfamiliar name now, but it won’t in a [...]

This US team is known for coming from behind. Trailing 2-0 at the half to Slovenia, the US rallied with goals from Landon Donovan and coach’s son Michael Bradley to finish level for the second straight World Cup match. The US was horrible in the first half and was looking for leadership; they got it from Donovan [...]