Potent Quotables

Check out this fun article from the L.A. Daily News today about the love affair between gay blogs and straight athletes that Jim Buzinski of Outsports and I were interviewed for last week. I didn't even know I knew how to chuckle :-)
Gay-themed sites play it straight
BY GREG HERNANDEZ
Staff Writer

When David Beckham finally started in a game for the Galaxy on Wednesday night, the event didn't just make the front pages of mainstream newspapers and sports Web sites. It also warranted the posting of a shirtless photo of the soccer star on Kenneth Walsh's gay-themed blog.

Walsh, a 40-year-old writer and editor living in New York, doesn't care that Beckham isn't gay. He knows that readers of Kennethinthe212.com enjoy looking at photos of male athletes such as Beckham, Brady Quinn, Jeremy Bloom and Andy Roddick.

"I'm sure there is some deep-rooted psychological reason that we are attracted to the guy that probably would have beat us up in high school," said Walsh, chuckling. (Link to full story)

SEE ALSO: In Tom Hoffarth's sidebar column about how shameful it is to objectify athletes, he recounts how the famously (twice) married with children Pam "I AM NOT A LESBIAN!" Shriver complained to the officials at Wimbledon when Anne White showed up in that white Lycra unitard for their first round match back in '85 because the outfit was "distracting." Ah, yeah Pam. I'm sure Billie Jean and Martina found it to be, too. (Link to full story)