A soccer club composed of Muslims refused to play a scheduled league game this week against a gay-oriented team from Paris, saying it would clash with its religious beliefs, the gay French site Tetu reports...

Kim Clijsters is playing in her first U.S. Open since winning the tournament in 2005, and the rest of the field should be concerned. She took two years off from the pro tennis tour, but since returning has taken out several top-20 players; And in her...

Disturbed Arizona Cardinals fans used gasoline to burn pro-Cardinals slogans into the lawn at the suburban Phoenix home of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb prior to the NFC...

I won’t spend much time ranting about what a joke the Bowl Championship Series is, since the vast majority of fans would prefer a playoff and one won’t be coming for years. So we are left with...

Opposition to Proposition 8 in California, which strips away marriage rights from same-sex couples, is getting a big boost from the support of two Hall of Fame athletes: Steve Young and Magic Johnson. Former NFL quarterback Steve Young has po...

Rocky. The Natural. Hoosiers. Field of Dreams. Million Dollar Baby. Remember the Titans. Sports have given us great movies. Some have been uplifting, others depressing. But whether they’ve been about boxing or baseball or football or basketball, these...

Some very revealing self-portraits of Cleveland Indian Grady Sizemore are catching up to him. At least, it’s allegedly him and I haven’t heard much to say it’s not. Heck, if I were him and had that body, I’d be perfectly happy about it. With Jeremy...

As we talked about on our last podcast, one of the big benefits of people in sports coming out of the closet is the excuse it gives the media to talk about gays in sports and ask athletes questions about the issue. Brendan Burke’s coming out is no...

Girl power was aiming to strike again at the Japan Cup yesterday evening. This is Japan’s most prestigious horse race, and 100,000 fans packed the Tokyo stands to watch their popular favorite, the big black superfilly Vodka, make her 3rd try at...

Christine Daniels in 2007. Sportswriter Mike Penner of the Los Angeles Times has died at 52. His body was found at his home and suicide was the suspected cause of death, the paper reported. Penner, a very gifted writer, made headlines in 2007 when he...