“I exaggerate only a little”Football is the glory sport.
This whole “Duck Dynasty” thing has inspired within me a mild nostalgic yearning for my only-slightly-dissolute youth in the Texas Panhandle.

My high school speech coach was legendary in the region (for what depends on whom you ask, truly), and during my junior and senior years, prose ( Read more... )

indecency
I wasn't born in Texas.
I'm not a football guy.
(Football players are another matter.)

I went to college at Texas Tech.
Even if I cared, I wouldn't have a horse in this race.

Heathen that I am, though, even I know that UT playing anyone other than A&M on Thanksgiving is not only wrong, it's downright obscene.

the new prancercise?

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“You're born naked, everything else is drag.”

Watch me resist the urge to say anything else.
Especially any of the first ten things on the list that popped into my head before the forty-sixth second.

(Other than “I'd hit that.”  He'd probably go all Barbara Rose on me, and I need the work on my lower back.)

how DADDY is this?US Open, Men's Final
9 September 2013
Alec Baldwin. Sean Connery.
Not since The Hunt for Red October.

I can't breathe!

So much testosterone in one frame.

I'll be in my bunk.

awkwardSerena Williams d. Carla Suárez Navarro
6-0 6-0
“Happy birthday.  Sorry I had to beat your ass like that.

“By the way: hope you like both of those bagels.  I'll run and get you a schmear in a minute.  It's the least I can do.”

témoignage de joieVictoria Duval d. (11) Samantha Stosur
5-7, 6-4, 6-4 (U.S. Open, Round 1)
This girl is just inexcusably adorable.

It's difficult to believe that she's only seventeen.  Her game looks like she's in her twenties (or it did tonight, anyway), and she has the demeanor of a twelve-year-old (but in a good way).

So much happy in one package.

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not that simpleIOC Forbids LGBT Rights Advocacy
At Sochi Olympics
So…

I get the outrage.  I really do.  But I think that most of the alarmists in this case are misreading the IOC's intent, as the headline on that Towleroad entry seems to indicate (though the article at Slate goes even farther).  The IOC isn't singling out LGBT advocacy to the ( Read more... )

gasp and swoonNFL Live 2013:
The slash fiction writes itself
Ye gods, but I'm helpless in the face of unfettered testosterone.

Not like I'd expect to marry either of them, but everything else would be on the table (including my ass, of course).  I'm not even bothered by the fact that Jeff Saturday is seven years younger than me.

Time for a RuPaul's ( Read more... )

duh.
Proof that sports journalists are dumber than any other kind.

Dudes, most of you were at the Belichick press conference mid-week. Bill told you all that was going to be said by the Patriots about the whole Hernandez murder investigation at that point.

Why are you bothering Tebow about it?

Even given Tebow's prior relationship with Hernandez at ( Read more... )

like this“I am 100-percent happy,” she says.  “When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.  Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.”photos: Cass Bird
for ESPN the Magazine
Her being a lesbian athlete at a Baptist university…
I would assume ( Read more... )