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Sporno in French
Interesting article on sporno and the London Olympics (with reference to yours truly) by Francois-Luc Doyez in France’s Liberation newspaper.
Let me Hear Your Body Talk
Are men the new women? I’ve always avoided using that line until now. As the (hetero)sexual division of labour and loving and looking continues to fall apart, men are the new everything. Just as women are. But in the last few months we’ve been told men now take longer getting ready than women, mercifully deleting at …
Really Rucking Funny: Best Manlove Video of 2011 (SFW)
This clip by Irish comedy outfit Dead Cat Bounce called ‘Rugby’ has to be my favourite video of 2011. Even if it strongly suggests that, in Ireland at least, my work here is done and it’s well past time to retire to the touch-lines. There’s much to admire here: the lightness of touch, the hilarious …
The Press Still Love-Hates ‘Twinkletoes’ Ronaldo So
Cristiano Ronaldo’s latest fashion foible, painted toe-nails has provoked the usual bitchy, mocking response that is attached to anything Ronaldo in the Anglo media. Despite — or perhaps because of — the way they seem to regard him as a sure-fire way of selling newspapers. The announcement of the birth of his son by a …
Fight Club: How Gay is MMA?
Mark Simpson attends an epic UFC event and finds himself turned on to the charms of ‘gay porn for straight men’ (Originally appeared in Out magazine, June 2008) IMAGINE THE SPACE SHUTTLE taking off with a really fat customized exhaust pipe. Or the Visigoths sacking Ancient Rome with kicking bass tubes fitted to their 4-by-4s. Or …
We Loved You Really, Ronaldo
By Mark Simpson Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best footballers ever to play in this country, and one of the best looking, brought out the worst in the English. He prickled you see, our ugly, mean-minded, spiteful, spitting jealousy. We were jealous of his talent, his looks, his body, his youth, his money and most …
Sporno on Steroids
Now that’s what I call pushing back. Taking the sporno trend to parts it hasn’t yet reached — and what parts! — while spreading the famous French ‘pro’ tartiness of the Dieux du Stade calendars to these shores, the latest ad campaign for Powerade’s ‘InnerGear’ isotonic sports drink features several UK pro rugger buggers in …
Why The Sun Can’t Leave Ronaldo’s Legs Alone
“Ere, Ron, The Sun’s just texted me. They want to know if you’ve got any smaller shorts.” Britain’s best-selling newspaper The Sun has been working itself into a confused lather about our metrosexual footballers, again. Like me, it just can’t leave them alone. In a long, hand-wringing — and graphically illustrated — article spread over the …
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‘Get Your Filthy Hands Off Me!’ Gorgeous George’s Glamorous Legacy
Rather than watch the Olympics, and all that noble, serious sporting uplift, I’ve been reading a book about a carny, corny, shameless 1940s-50s American wrestler: Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Pop Culture, by John Capouya. My American chum Chris Supermarky recommended it to me, thinking it would be of interest. He wasn’t …