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James Schend has been an Olympics freak since 1976, when he saw Dorothy Hamill spin her way to gold in Innsbruck, Austria. "It doesn't matter whether it's the summer or winter games," says the Sports editor for Gay.com. "My friends and family know that for two-plus weeks I'm going to be in front of the TV, my butt firmly planted on the couch, obsessively watching every event." See all posts by James Schend.
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Aaron Harris is the self-described living encylopedia on figure skating. He's been an obsessed fan ever since Tonya Harding...well...you know the story. He knows just about everything about figure skating and if he doesn't know it, he knows where to find it! Whenever he gets the chance he's globe trotting following the best skaters around the world and cites Michelle Kwan as his favorite skater of all time. According to Aaron, "Michelle Kwan invented fabulous!" Aside from figure skating, Aaron is active in advocating for civil rights issues, exploring the topic of globalization, volunteering in his community in West-Central Illinois and writing about figure skating on his blog Axels, Loops, and Spins.
Amanda Fox was raised to be the ultimate sports fanatic. From her first professional baseball game which featured eight future Hall of Famers to a lengthy and admittedly average collegiate track and cross country career, she has woven the fabric of sports into all aspects of life. She still revels in telling the story of how Mary Decker Slaney schooled her in a road race a couple decades ago. When she isn't glued to the MLB Network, she can be found writing about everything under the sun at Helium.com.
Buddy Early is the Editor-in-Chief of Compete Magazine, the only gay sports magazine in the country. When not sitting on his couch with a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos watching professional and college sports, he's sitting in his easy chair doing the same. An unapologetic Dallas Cowboys fan, he hopes to one day meet someone who has met Tony Romo.
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Chase Parker is an expert in sports futility. Living in San Diego will do that to a guy. Counting the championships won by the teams he roots for doesn't take long, leaving him free time to be cynical, sarcastic, and chronically disappointed. He's aspires to be a gay Bill Simmons some day, minus the wife and kids.
J.D. Jones was raised in a sports fanatic family. His father was a collegiate coach and all family activities revolved around sporting events. He began playing competitive tennis at the age of 8 and continued playing up to the junior college level. He has worked as a Sports Editor for his college newspaper and coached high school boy's and girls tennis teams for twelve years. Besides tennis, he is an avid college and pro football and basketball fan. He considers attending the 2009 Sugar Bowl, 2004 Fiesta Bowl, the 2002 Wimbledon Ladies Singles Final, and the Closing Ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympic games as some of his greatest sports memoirs. He resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his two dogs Rosco and Buddy.
Jimmy Flowers is an addict to baseball and the NFL and would rather be in the bleacher seats with a cold one than anywhere else on the planet. Fifteen years of fantasy football have given him insight in how to win, and how to horribly, horribly lose. He's opinionated and isn't afraid to say that he's always right, except when he's wrong. Plus, he likes tae kwon do. Hiya!
Joe Moag is a major sports junkie, a condition which is only out-junked by his addiction to politics (he writes for Hot Topics). Joe lives in Chicago, with his dog, Eric. Joe still runs, but hasn't been able to dunk anything more than a donut for decades. He has spent the majority of the last twenty years working in non-profit management and screaming at his television set. A major Cubs fan and Northwestern fan (where he earned his MBA), Joe holds out hope more than he probably should. This has made Joe bitter. He also enjoys Schlitz.
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Leo Parr sees a side of sports many of us only dream about. "I started out as water boy for my high school football team. I then got promoted to my ultimate dream job --handing out towels to the players outside the shower room door" he says with a gleam in his eyes. "I've seen the players at their best, and worst, and sometimes it ain't pretty." See all posts by Leo Parr.
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Rich Rodriguez is a self-described “tennis addict” who not only plays regularly around his home base of Brooklyn, NY but also writes the blog Down the Line! which takes a raw, uncut look into the sport. “I remember always being curious about the game of tennis and its long history. But the player who really drew me into the sport was Monica Seles. She was a revelation in every sense of the word – a uniquely powerful game, unabashedly confident yet personable, and a style maven to boot. I said to myself, ‘That’s the kinda girl I want to be when I grow up!’”
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Samantha Vicars says she was the jock you always wanted to have on your team, and her girlfriend can't help but agree: "Playing against Sam can be very, very frightening!" If she's not on the soccer field, tennis court or softball diamond, odds are real good she'll be on the golf course trying to keep her handicap to single digits. See all posts by Samantha Vicars.
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Guest Bloggers
Geoff Johns ‘your Friendly Neighborhood Gay Sports Guy’. Does whatever an athlete can. Swings a bat, any size, catches fly balls just like pros, look out; here comes the neighborhood gay sports guy. Raised in Cleveland, Ohio he roots for the Cleveland Indians, Cavs, and Browns, but loves all sports -- especially MLB, the NFL, the NBA, and college football and baseball. I also enjoy watching the occasional tennis match, soccer and lacrosse game -- and Grady Sizemore in a uniform.
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Joel McKenna may be a swimmer but he doesn't consider himself a SWIMMER. Growing up he never liked going to swim practice or actually swimming. After years of age group swimming he stopped swimming in high school at age 15. Many years later Joel started swimming at age 34. Now he wonders what he did before he woke up at 5am to go swimming. He may not be the fastest swimmer in the lane but he enjoys the solitude of swimming lap after lap. And you don't want to miss his swimming blog!
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Keith Kron is an avid sports enthusiast, beginning with the Boston Red Sox and his first trip to Fenway Park at age 6 to see Carl Yastrzemski and Tony Conigliaro and Rico Petrocelli play. Later at 13, when Fred Lynn and Jim Ed Rice grace the pages of Sports Illustrated he realized his appreciation of these all-stars extended beyond their all-star baseball performances. He's follows football (American), baseball, basketball, tennis, soccer, figure skating and all other Olympic sports--and whatever else is on the sports page. An avid tennis player, Keith lives near Bellingham, Washington.
Robin Sneed is a former competitive swimmer and football player. In 1968, she saw Cathy Rigby compete in the Mexico City Games, and was forever enthralled with the Olympics. Robin is a grant writer, and has just finished writing her first novel, Flowergirls, A Mirroir.
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