Michael Sam Picked By NFL Team, Kisses BF Live on ESPN!

Michael Sam will most likely become the National Football League's first openly gay player when it was announced that he had been drafted by the St. Louis Rams. Seconds later he made even more history when he kissed his boyfriend on live television (ESPN)!

Vapors!

EYE CANDY: Ryan Tongia (reprise)

Ryan Tongia has appeared as Eye Candy once before (October 21, 2013). He is a 23-year-old Australian rugby player. And incredibly hot. Or, in the words of Rod 2.0 he is a "super hotness slash fitness model slash sex siren." Any objections to seeing more of Ryan? I didn't think so!

Openly Gay Michael Sam On Cover of Sports Illustrated

After coming out earlier this week, Michael Sam will appear on the cover of next week's Sports Illustrated.

Hat/tip to Joe.My.God

College Football Star Comes Out; Likely To Become 1st Openly Gay NFL Player

Michael Sam has become the first player expected to be in the NFL draft to come out as openly gay. Sam, 24, graduated from the University of Missouri last December and was named the 2013 SEC Defensive Player of the Year. He is 6-foot-3 and 260 pounds.

Sam led the SEC with 11.5 sacks, and 19 tackles for a loss. Most NFL draft projections see him as a likely mid-round pick, with some saying Sam could go as high as the third round, with a possible position switch to outside linebacker. He is rated as the 12th-best outside pass rusher in the draft by ESPN Scouts Inc.

"I just want to go to the team who drafts me," he said, "because that team knows about me, knows that I'm gay, and also knows that I work hard. That's the team I want to go to."

Sam said that despite some comments from current players, he doesn't anticipate difficulty gaining acceptance in an NFL locker room.

"Hopefully it will be the same like my locker room," he said. "It's a workplace. if you've ever been in a Division I or pro locker room, it's a business place. You want to act professional."

Sam rejects the appalling slanders that sometimes have been hurled at gay men.

"I mean, people will talk about the stereotype of gays being in the locker room ... to me, I think that it's a little stereotyped that gay people are predators. It's just very offensive."

The New York Times has a video interview with Sam:


Sam apparently came out to his teammates last year and there were no issues. This will probably become a pretty big news story in the next few days and weeks! OutSports has more coverage of the story.
Hat/tip to Joe.My.God

EYE CANDY: Daniel Adongo

Daniel Adongo is a former rugby player who has been signed by the Indianapolis Colts to play American football. The 6-foot-6, 260-pound, 24-year-old was born in Nairobi, Kenya but even though he had never even touched a football, the Colts signed him and added him to the roster.

I think these pictures give you an indication of why. Hot damn! Too bad this year's football season is over!

Hat/tip to Rod 2.0

Former NFL Player Accused Of Assaulting Boyfriend

Kwame Harris, 30, played football for Stanford and
the San Francisco 49ers

This is probably not the way Kwame Harris expected the general public to find out about his sexual orientation. In fact, it appears as if Harris was hoping o remain closeted forever. However, the story of the 30-year-old former NFL player was arrested in San Francisco on suspicion of assaulting his ex-boyfriend has become huge news, especially since the Super Bowl is being played in less than a week.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Former 49ers and Raiders tackle Kwame Harris faces charges that he assaulted his boyfriend at a Menlo Park restaurant after an argument involving soy sauce and underpants, San Mateo County prosecutors said Monday.

Harris, 30, became angry with Dimitri Geier, 36, in August at Su Hong restaurant on Menlo Avenue, according to court documents.

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Serrato said the men were romantically involved and previously had lived together. Geier, a resident of Los Angeles, was visiting Harris at the time of the altercation, said Craig Charles, Geier's attorney.

"They'd broken up and gotten back together a few times," Charles said. "It was not a formal relationship."

During the restaurant argument, Harris accused Geier of stealing his underwear, Serrato said. Harris then tried to pull down Geier's pants, the prosecutor said.

"I guess he was trying to prove that he was wearing his underwear," Serrato said.

Harris, 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds, then pinned Geier (6-1, 220 pounds) against a plate-glass window and hit him several times in the face and head, Serrato said.

Ouch. 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds? That is a big guy. Geier had extensive injuries and needed facial surgeries after the incident. Harris is scheduled for trial in April.

One of the key reasons why the story is so interesting to the public is that there has never been an openly gay male member of a professional sports team in the United States (basketball, baseball or football) even though everyone knows that they must exist and numerous players have come out (or been outed) after their professional sports days are over.

It's really just a question of when, not if, a professional player comes out, and then the question is how will the sport, and the public respond?

Hat/tip to Rod 2.0

World Cup Final: Spain Wins 1-0

Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 in over time to win that country's first World Cup. Paul the Octopus was right again, MadProfessah was not. Iniesta, above, scored the winning goal in the 116th minute of play.

World Cup Final Today: Spain v. The Netherlands

Today is the final of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Spain will be playing the Netherlands. Holland is undefeated in this year's tournament, while Spain has been one of the top 2 ranked teams in the world for the last three years (the other, Brazil was vanquished by the Dutch team in the quarterfinals).

One week after I watched him win his 2nd Wimbledon title, Spaniard Rafael Nadal will be in the audience to watch his team, La Furia Roja battle for their first World Cup title. Only seven countries have won the World Cup since the quadrennial competition began in 1930 (Uruguay, Italy, Germany, Brazil, England, Argentina, and France) so today history will be made.

Yesterday, 2-time defending champion Spain was eliminated from the Davis Cup by France in the semifinals. Is this a harbinger of Spain's defeat in the World Cup? The world's most famous cephalopod, Paul the Octopus has chosen Spain as the winner over the Netherlands today. He has not been wrong in all of his predictions at this year's tournament. He also correctly picked Germany to defeat Uruguay in the third place (runner's up) match. Germany won with a thrilling come-from-behind 3-2 victory to seal an all-European sweep.

MadProfessah's prediction: Netherlands (2-1)

World Cup Semifinal Spain v. GermanyToday

The second semifinal of the World Cup ishappening today. Spain is playing Germany. The winner will play the Netherlands, who defeated Uruguay 3-2 in the other semifinal while I was over Greenland yesterday.

With Rafa Nadal winning Wimbledon on Sunday, many are expecting Spain to win, as does Paul the prognosticating octopus, who has not been wrong yet!