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Who let the Dogs in?

In the second rendition of a new tradition that you can't help but enjoy, Georgia Bulldogs Coach Mark Richt stripped down his football squad today and had them jump in the school pool. Frolicking ensued.

The Bulldogs blew off their morning practice and instead headed to the high dives at the Ramsey Center pool for the second year in a row. They players took turns jumping, cannonballing, flopping and flipping from anywhere between the baby board at 3 feet to the high dive at 33 feet.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was there to document every shirtless minute with a nine-photo gallery.

Photos: Brant Sanderlin, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 14, 2008 | 1:13 AM

scandal du jour

Porn-posing wrestlers booted

Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan, two top wrestlers at the University of Nebraska, were kicked off the team on Tuesday just days after their nude photos from Fratmentv.com began circulating across the web. The school said the duo, known as Nash and Cal, were declared ineligible.

“The history of behavior of these men, including the current matter, does not reflect the standard of excellence we aspire to on and off the mat,” coach Mark Manning said in a statement. “We have outstanding student-athletes in our program and we will move forward in a positive manner toward our goals.”

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 13, 2008 | 2:22 PM

scandal du jour

Jocks find NCAA doesn’t like porn

Oh those silly college jocks.

The Scarlet Project, a web site about the University of Nebraska, has discovered that two top wrestlers from the school apparently bared all on a gay porn site. Now the red-faced school is investigating.

There's more, including links for the photos, after the jump.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 12, 2008 | 5:25 PM

pro sports

G-Braves go with whistlepig

Let the jokes begin.

The Gwinnett Braves, preparing to open the 2009 season in a new $45-million stadium, now has a mascot. It's a whistlepig, otherwise known as a woodchuck, looking quite goofy with this glove, hat and jersey. Like Daffy and other Disney characters, the whistlepig isn't wearing anything below the belt. Yup, just furry nakedness.

More after the jump.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 12, 2008 | 1:31 PM

pro sports

Women’s soccer returning to Atlanta

Women's Professional Soccer says it's coming to Atlanta in 2010. The league opens next year in cities including Boston, Chicago and New York, with Atlanta and Philadelphia gaining teams the following year.

Atlanta is already home to the Silverbacks, which plays in the United Soccer Leagues. WPU is the successor to the Women's United Soccer Association, which included the Atlanta Beat from 2001 to 2003. The city is also being considered for a Major League Soccer franchise in an ownership group that includes Arthur Blank, the Home Depot co-founder who now owns the Falcons.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 12, 2008 | 1:05 PM

sports

Hotlanta Softball closes out season

The Hotlanta Softball League closed out its season on Sunday with a party to hand out awards and wish well the league's 11 teams heading to the Gay Softball World Series later this month in Seattle.

The event, held in the upscale Ten Pin Alley in Atlantic Station, featured bowling, pizza, the debut of the league's new t-shirt for the Series and a cheer led by outgoing HSL Commissioner Emerson Ross that, well, can't quite be done justice with only words. You have to see it performed live for the full experience.

Nearly a dozen HSL teams will compete for titles during the Series, which opens Aug. 22. Among those teams are two -- the Venom from the Open Division and the Riptide from the Women's Division -- returning to the Series to defend the titles they won in 2007.

For photos from the event, go here. View additional photos from the season here.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 11, 2008 | 3:32 PM

media matters

ESPN’s morning fix for sports junkies

If you can't get enough of sports, jocks and punditry about them, ESPN has just the thing.

The all-sports network this morning launched a six-hour daytime version of "SportsCenter," anchored by former Atlantan Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott (photo). I've always wondered why, in this age of 24/7 media outlets that ESPN always ran "SportsCenter" repeats the next morning.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers a Q&A with Storm, while Deadspin is live-blogging the premiere.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 11, 2008 | 1:57 PM

week in review

Olympics, Olympics, Olympics

• In case you missed it, the Olympics opened on Friday and there are at least 10 gay jocks competing.
• Matthew Mitcham is one of the openly gay jocks in Beijing and he debuts next week.
• Michael Phelps likes plaid (and gold).
• Former Atlantan and Olympian Bruce Hayes speaks out.
• Who has the best Olympic abs?
• Piedmont Park still digging for answers.
• The Atlanta Team Tennis Association loves peaches. More specifically, the Peach.
• What to do in August? Local gay sports groups offer some ideas.
• AirTran loves ~~Michael Vick and~~ Matt Ryan.
• Sarah Thomas taps on the NFL's glass ceiling.
• Under Armour may not like the gays.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 11, 2008 | 3:18 AM

olympics

Matthew Mitcham’s Olympic debut

It appears that Matthew Mitcham, the Aussie diver with the highest-profile of the 10 gay athletes at the Oympics, will make his debut on Aug. 18 when the Men's 3m springboard preliminaries open. The finals take place the next day. Mitcham's other event, the 10m platform, opens Aug. 22, according to a schedule of events.

Give credit to NBC, whose bio of Mitcham doesn't shy away from his sexual orientation or the struggle to have his boyfriend attend the Beijing Games.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 10, 2008 | 6:58 PM

olympics

Who’s got the best Olympic abs?

Thanks to some enterprising web editor at NBC, the network's Olympic web site includes a fun feature called "Ab fab: Guess the swimmer."

It's a collection of eight of the hot swimmers at the Beijing Games -- including Andrew Lauterstein, Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps -- first in a photo showing just their torso and then shifting to a full shot. Play along and see if you can guess which abs belong to which swimmer.

Hat tip to Outsports, which has set up a blog covering the Games.

read more | Comments (0) | Posted Aug 10, 2008 | 3:35 AM

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Gay Atlanta loses another: John Speaks, 64

Gay Atlanta lost another activist and friend with the death Aug. 27 of John Thomas Speaks Jr.

Gay chamber gala celebrates allies, activists

Nearly 300 people joined the Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce on Friday to celebrate the gay business group's annual Community Awards Dinner.

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