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Super Bowl Hero Would Trade Championship to Stop Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on 24 June 2011

ALBANY, NY – David Tyree, hero of the Giants’ Super Bowl upset over the Patriots in the 2007 Super Bowl said he’d trade the win to block gay marriage according to the New York Daily News. Tyree is best remembered in his career for his miraculous late-game catch in Super Bowl XLII against the Patriots, [...]

Sports Bar Profiting from No Smoking

Posted on 05 April 2011

Sidelines Sports Bar sees revenue increase after going smoke free It has been four months since Wilton Drives’ Sidelines has gone smoke free.  How has it affected profits? Positively, according to Jennifer Morales, the marketing director of the famed sports bar. She said, “While the economy still seems to create a challenge to small businesses [...]

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Making a Difference – Lifeceutical Group Joins Forces with Brian Neal Fitness Challenge

Posted on 04 March 2011

By BOB KESCKEMETY The Lifeceutical Group, a company dedicated to improving a person’s quality of life, has joined forces with the Brian Neal Fitness Challege, a three 1-hour a week fitness boot-camp that is free and open to the public and held at Island City Health and Fitness in the Shoppes of Wilton Manors. The [...]

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Brian Neal “Get Fit Challenge” Making a Difference

Posted on 10 February 2011

Cancer Survivor Fights Insurance Company on Road to Recovery By BOB KECSKEMETY Click On Image to Right to View Fullscale “It turned my life upside down,” said Douglas Randazzo, 46 of Fort Lauderdale, originally in response to being asked what his first impression was when he found out he had cancer. “I’ve had 20 years [...]

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Local Derby Grrls league is more than chicks on skates

Posted on 06 January 2011

Photo: Courtesy, Gold Coast Derby Grrls By RYAN DIXON Some of you may remember watching roller derby on TV, which, as you know, was all scripted for sports entertainment. The women of the Gold Coast Derby Grrls (GCDG) skate under the sanctions of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). They skate under a governing [...]

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Batters up

Posted on 17 December 2010

By RYAN DIXON Gay softball league produces star power Sitting on those bleachers at the end of November at Mill’s Pond Park in Fort Lauderdale reminded me of when I used to watch my brother’s high school baseball team back in 1995. I lost sight of the fact that baseball season had ended just one [...]

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‘Butt drag’ leads to expulsion of high school wrestler

Posted on 09 December 2010

FRESNO, Calif. – A wrestling move commonly referred to as a “butt drag,” in which one wrestler grabs the butt of his opponent and sticks his finger in his anus, has led to one high school student being expelled and facing sexual assault charges. Preston Hill, who performed the move in question, did so during [...]

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University forces soccer coach to resign because she’s a lesbian

Posted on 09 December 2010

Photo Courtesy, Bruininsider.blogspot.com NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Former Belmont University Soccer Coach Lisa Howe wanted to share some great news with her team. Her partner had become pregnant with a baby, and for the first time in her life, Howe discussed her being a lesbian with the team. Now she is out of a job. After [...]

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LPGA allows transgender golfers on tour

Posted on 09 December 2010

Photo: Courtesy, Christian Science Monitor ORLANDO, Fla. – The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has changed their constitution to remove the requirement that players must be “female at birth” in order to join the tour, paving the way for transgender male-to-female golf players to join the tour. LPGA Tour Championship Commissioner Michael Whan said the [...]

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George Washington University women’s basketball team embraces male player

Posted on 11 November 2010

By DMITRY RASHNITSOV photo courtesy: George Washington U Kay-Kay Allums was an unimpressive point guard her first two seasons on the George Washington University’s women’s basketball team. But in her junior year, Allums will always be remembered for the statement she made off the court. The 21-year old has publicly come out as transgender, asking [...]

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