Archive for category: Sport(s)

Gay athlete has nowhere to go    (2011.04.17)

What’s the lesson out soccer player Anton Hysén has to teach us? That there’s no cultural place for the masculine gay male

Does Title IX help big strong bullies?    (2011.03.20)

Title IX helps big strong team-oriented boys and harms weak individualistic boys who would benefit from sports, claims Gene Dermody

What keeps gay athletes in the closet? Journalists, for a start    (2011.03.04)

Straight reporters will do anything to keep us in the closet. They’re also the last to realize that, as a topic for journalists, “gays in sports” is over

Most preposterous Australian sport could use some help    (2011.01.31)

Mr. HEATH SPENCE’s bobsleigh team needs a new site

Wanted: Aussie developers for quixotic project    (2010.12.28)

A project down in Oz needs highest-calibre Web developers and designers

Euphemism of the year    (2010.12.22)

Self-communion (also dickileaks)

‑lympic    (2010.07.27)

At the Olympic and Paralympic presser for London 2012, I was the only writer interested in the Paralympics. Spoiler alert: Brian and Robin McKeever are their secret weapon

Clash of worlds    (2010.07.11)

Carl Burnett is a Paralympic alpine skiier and a lexicographer with a degree in linguistics. My kinda guy