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The future of the 2014 Gay Games in Cleveland is in question after the city announced that it was halting all funding of the event. This move follows the termination of the sponsoring sports group’s contract with the Federation of Gay Games. Outsports has the letter from the city. The Advocate notes that last week groups from DC and Boston …

According to British tabloid The Sun, Mickey Rourke has signed on to play Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas in a movie about the newly out national sports hero. The two met for dinner last week after Rourke had been a guest on Jonathan Ross’ last BBC chat show. Their managers are now trying to work out a deal to make …

After $226M in renovations, Michigan Stadium has become the nation’s largest sporting arena. A comparison of its new seating capacity: For some context, 109,901 people will make the stadium the seventh-largest city in Michigan on game days (passing up Ann Arbor, ironically), and is significantly larger than the largest city in Delaware, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire or North Dakota. The …

The WBNA’s New York Liberty have been posting a YouTube series on NYC etiquette. This one’s about evil taxi stealers. (If only all cab thieves were so cute.) The last time I gave a cab thief a piece of my mind, her ginormous boyfriend materialized from the shadows to show me his switchblade. True story. West 28th Street.

Mercurial New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner died of a heart attack this morning in Florida at the age of 80. Since Steinbrenner bought the team in 1973, the Yankees have won eleven pennants and seven World Series. He retired from day to day operations in 2006, handing over the business to his two sons. Steinbrenner is widely credited as …

After he accurately predicted the winner in six straight matches, Spain’s Minister of Fisheries says he will ask the German government to ensure that Paul The Octopus is never eaten and will be allowed to die naturally of boredom during the next World Cup.

After just a few more hours we won’t have to hear about soccer for another four years. Of course, there’s one aspect of the sport that isn’t entirely boring.

The popular Argentine soap opera Botineras is featuring a story line involving a clandestine love affair between two pro soccer stars, leading the public to speculate that it might be based on actual players. Rumor Rat has the story and a much steamier clip.

Today the above headline tops an article on Deadspin, the sports site owned by Gawker Media. According to author Drew Magary, NBA free agent LeBron James is a “goddamn cocksucker” for playing all the teams against each other in his bid to get the best deal. Homophobic language in sports is not surprising, but it IS a shocker coming from …

Several readers have written to note that Sunday’s World Cup final will be between Holland and Spain and will be played in South Africa. All three nations grant full marriage equality rights to their LGBT citizens. That’s pretty cool, eh? UPDATE: A reader in Italy sends us his map of this year’s World Cup participants and the status of marriage …

A spectator miraculously survived a fall from the upper deck at a Texas Rangers game yesterday after he lunged for a foul ball, landing on fans on the field level. The fall wasn’t captured on television, but the horrified reactions of the players and umpires tells the story.

Yeah, yeah, we’re third graders.

(Via – The Daily What)

A British rugby team has been fined £40,000 after its fans taunted openly gay star Gareth Thomas with homophobic chants. The Yorkshire club was punished by the Rugby Football League (RFL) for the abuse Thomas received from its supporters at a March 26th match against the Crusaders. A statement from the RFL said: “Castleford were found guilty of unacceptable behaviour, …

A massive crowd cheered the first-time appearances of major league sports teams in yesterday’s gay pride parade in Chicago. An eclectic mix of stars — the Stanley Cup with former Blackhawk Brent Sopel, the Cubs’ Ernie Banks and country singer Chely Wright — basked in the celebration of an estimated 450,000 who attended the 41st annual Pride Parade in the …

“The best thing about when Brendan told me he was gay, I didn’t have to take anything back. I hadn’t made any derogatory comments about gay people, I hadn’t told him they were sick or twisted or God would punish them — some of these absurd things that people say about homosexual people. I didn’t have to take anything back. …

The USA team just beat Algeria 1-0, moving them on in the World Cup playoffs. Apparently this is a very big deal. Landon Donovan scored in the first minute of stoppage time off a rebound, advancing the United States to the second round at the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Algeria. With the U.S. perhaps three minutes from …

JMG reader Sean Chapin sends us his videos of this year’s Bingham Cup rugby championships, where NYC’s Gotham Knights beat defending champions the Sydney Convicts. In the second clip, Alice Hoglan, the mother of 9/11 hero Mark Bingham, delivers a great speech.