Out in Sports: May 2007 Archives

Carlos Moya won the French Open waaaaaaaay back in 1998, a year after he made the finals of the Australian Open. Not long after that, he briefly reached the number one ranking in men's tennis. Nowadays, he wins a few tournaments each year and gives those of us who admire gorgeous athletes the change to enjoy the scenery! Moya was among the winners Thursday at the French Open. To read my round-up of the day's action, check out Deuce!

Check out my tennis blog DEUCE! for more pictures of tennis hotties Tommy Haas and Marat Safin in these vintage tennis clothes. Also posted are my predictions for the 2007 French Open which begins Sunday in Paris!
P.S. As much as I like Tommy and Marat in these vintage clothes, I think they look even better wearing far less, don't you?

Boy, I was the envy of all the straight guys in the newsroom last week!
I got to meet and have a nice chat with the beautiful and leggy tennis star Maria Sharapova who won the U.S. Open last year and Wimbledon in 2004. She is currently ranked second in the world and is using her considerable celebrity to help Russia's Olympic Winter Games bid.
To read my interview with Maria, click over to my tennis blog Deuce!

Two of the men's tennis tour's hearthrobs are Germany's Tommy Haas and Russia's Marat Safin - both extremely gifted players who are capable of beating anyone on any given day. Unfortunately, they are also prone to slumps. So why am I writing about them? Because I found this very nice picture of them on the Kennethinthe212 blog and wanted to use it as bait to get folks to check out my still-new tennis blog Deuce!

Former top-ranked tennis player Carlos Moya and Rafael Nadal, currently number two in the world, have many things in common: they have both won the French Open, both grew up on the same island in Spain, both are hearthrobs who favor sleeveless shirts, and teamed up on Monday to win a doubles match against Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka at the Italian Open.
For all the latest tennis news, visit my tennis blog DEUCE!

John Amaechi appeared before the Log Cabin Republicans at their annual convention over the weekend in Denver. In his speech "Is Pro Sports Changing?" the first former NBA player to ever come out said there has not been the negative reaction he feared.
\"I underestimated America. I braced myself for the wrath of a nation under God," he said. "I imagined that it would be a firestorm, that it would be some insane number of letters demanding my deportation or my death.And in fact, 95 percent of the correspondence I've had have been overwhelmingly supportive and positive. But I will say that the 5 percent that I've had have been unbelievably, viscerally, frighteningly negative."
But Amaechi has not heard from a single former NBA teammate.
"Probably 30 of my former (NBA) teammates have my e-mail and my telephone contacts and probably 16 or so of those I was in regular touch with and there are probably 10 people who I have (on instant messenger). And zero — nobody — who's active in the NBA has been in touch with me since the day I came out, despite the fact that most of them knew I was gay in the first place."
"They are our gladiators, our heroes. On the other hand, there's not many of you would trust them with your children, with your car keys or to do your accounting," he said. "Let's face it, for the most part, the stereotype is that they — we — are dumb as rocks. So, I don't know if they are a terribly good group to be looked at as kind of indicative of societal change or as leaders in that respect."
As for politics, Amaechi chided both Democrats and Republicans: "It's hard for me to hide the fact that I am no fan of this administration, as much for their foreign policy as for their stance on (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) issues," he said. "However, I am no fan of the Democratic candidates who take four days before they decide that Gen. Pace's comments were not very nice."