Okay, so there are no ladies present in this clip from the Today show—unless you count Katie Couric chiding Matt Lauer for screaming like a girl. But we still laughed our asses off. Lauer and weatherman Al Roker did an Olympics segment on the double luge, the bizarrely pornographic event in which one […]

For Valentine’s Day, you ask? Sure, there’s that. Or we were thinking more along the lines of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. It hits newstands tomorrow and will be unveiled tonight on Jay Leno. In addition to enjoying the, um, articles on paper or online, this year the mag is offering eight swimsuit […]

Check out the Voice’s cover story about a recent lawsuit from a NJ priest who alleges a Catholic Church cover-up of pedophile priests. His bombshell suggestion of a motive? That New York’s Cardinal Egan and two other head clerics are “actively homosexual” and too afraid of exposure to turn in abusing priests.
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[Apologies if you had trouble getting on the site for a few minutes—our server was updating.] Could it be mere coincidence that out French tennis player Amelie Mauresmo won the Australian Open on the same weekend that the L Word’s tennis star Dana Fairbanks triumphed at her tournament? Okay, probably. But it’s still good […]

We were busy enjoying Salon’s piece on the sorry soap opera that is Terrell Owens and the Philadelphia Eagles (we like reading about football, OK?) when we happen to glance at the byline. Who could’ve written this entertaining sports saga that melded racial politics, Philadelphia social history, and an effortless grasp of of gridiron? […]

And by ‘lesbian baiting’ we don’t mean a fun new undergraduate tradition. Back in October, we blogged about the ex-Penn State basketball player who accused the women’s coach, Rene Portland, of harassing players she believed to be lesbians. Portland denied all the accusations. Well ESPN picked up the story and did a […]

This one falls under the “Things Not to Do At Work” category: A copy editor at the News-Times in Connecticut was fired after accidentally posting a joke caption on the newspaper’s online Sports edition. The photo in question was of the girls’ soccer team from Immaculate High School celebrating after winning a championship earlier […]

If we hadn’t been spending most of our time yesterday trying to make sure the site was up (we are switching servers, really), we would have directed your attention immediately to this fascinating and true tale of two NFL cheerleaders getting kicked off the team for doing it in the bathroom of a bar. The […]

There’s more on Swoopes’ coming out in this week’s People, including pictures of her and partner Alisa Scott. Check it out, if only to remind yourself that Swoopes is hot stuff. The more we hear about her story, the more we’re struck by the parallels with Hothouse fave Cynthia Nixon. You know, […]

Big news in the WBNA: Houston Comets superstar Sheryl Swoopes—owner of three Olympic gold medals and three league MVP awards—tells the latest issue of ESPN the Magazine that she is gay and has been in a long-term relationship with a woman. Several news outlets ID’d her partner as former Comets coach Alisa Scott. […]