Brett Favre: Classless

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I live in Chicago and am a huge Bears fan. However, I have spent a lot of time in my life in Wisconsin, and have always been a Packers fan – just not when they play the Bears. Adding to my fondness for the Pack was my admiration and appreciation for Brett Favre.

I take it all back.

Hee Haw! Uncle Sam just NASCAR-ed my check book!

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Introducing today’s boondoggle du jour:  the bailout bill just passed by Congress creates an accelerated depreciation timetable for motor-track construction costs, reducing the timetable from 15 years to 7 years.  This will cost the American taxpayer an estimated $100 million in lost tax revenues.

Bear with me, folks.  'Cuz I got some 'splainin' to do here…

Spain's basketball team: racists or just stupid?

I'd love to meet the genius behind this marketing campaign. 

According to the Guardian UK website Spain's Basketball Federation published this photo of the team with all of them pulling the sides of their eyes into slit-eyed gestures.  Some argue the photo is innocent fun but many others are declaring it to be juvenile at best and worst outright racism. 

You be the judge, do you think this photo is offensive or is it just being blow out of proportion?

Source: Guardian UK

Penalty Flag: Is Seattle not ready for lip-locking lesbians? - UPDATE

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UPDATE:
Since we first reported this story Sunday, June 1st, it has quickly become the topic of conversation on  TV and radio stations around the country, as well as being picked up by numerous blogs. 

On Tuesday, Sirbrina Guerrero (one of the lip-locking lesbians) said the Mariners director of guest services called and apologized for the incident.  But the apology seems a little too late to stop this firestorm. 

In the first of what I'm anticipating to be numerous calls-to-action, Dan Savage has called for a kiss-in to protest the Seattle Mariners.  Just let me know when to be there! 

The latest Associated Press article after the jump. 

Penalty Flag: Is Seattle ready for lip locking lesbians?

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Taking a look at the homophobic side of sports.

Lip locking lesbians create more excitement than the Seattle Mariners cared for. 
 

Penalty flag: "There are no gays in football"

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Taking a look at the homophobic side of sports. 

Luciano Moggi is no stranger to controversy, having been banned from football for his involvement in a match fixing scandal.  Today, gays became his target in a very unusual television interview.

Reminiscent of the Iranian President's statement of no gays in Iran, Moggi claims the same for football [soccer].

"There are no gays in football, I don't know if players are against having them in their team but I definitely am," he said.

"In the teams where I worked there were never any. I never wanted to have a homosexual player and I still wouldn't sign one."

Penalty Flag: Madison Square Garden hockey fans

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Taking a look at the homophobic side of sports.

At New York Ranger's hockey games the testosterone really gets pumping, tensions are high and the occasional fight breaks out; and that's just in the stands. 

Anyone who's ever been to a major league sporting event knows some times the crowds can get out of hand.  But for many Ranger hockey fans the anti-gay remarks are not only uncalled for but are the reason they have stopped going to the games.