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Jock Talk: Sweets and lumps of coal for all
You've procrastinated all year and now have just a few shopping days left to get gifts for the holidays. I can't help you with what to get for your loved ones, but I do have some ideas on gifts for so many in the sports world.
Jock Talk: AfroGames a success despite obstacles
The participation numbers were a fraction of what organizers first dreamed of.
Jock Talk: Santa Skivvies Run this weekend
The 10th annual Santa Skivvies Run to benefit the San Francisco AIDS Foundation will be held Sunday, December 9, in the Castro.
Jock Talk: Giving thanks in our sporting lives
Thanksgiving Day is a bit more somber this year for many of us.
Jock Talk: Renamed Rainbow Sierrans ramp up activities
The recently renamed Rainbow Sierrans will hold its annual holiday party Saturday, December 8, at the Muir Beach Community Center.
Jock Talk: Warriors, and coach Kerr, keep things in focus
We live in disturbing and divisive times that promise to remain disturbing and divisive as the ripples from the midterm elections play out and are absorbed.
Soccer league considers trans policy
After reported incidents of some athletes hassling or disrespecting transgender players, the Golden Gate Women's Soccer League is considering the development and adoption of a league policy to govern participation of transgender athletes.
Jock Talk: Gay Games co-founder Paul Mart dies
Gay Games co-founder Paul Mart has died. He was 100.
Jock Talk: Former hoops coach Azzi to share stage with Kerr
Rare are the star athletes who go on to post-playing stints that are just as brilliant as their first careers.
Jock Talk: Local pro, college teams plan LGBT events
Local pro and college sports teams announce various Pride- and diversity-themed events.
Jock Talk: Fitness for all
Some health clubs and training facilities seem stuck in a primitive past – intimidating places with auras seemingly inhospitable for women, gays, transgender individuals, people of color, or the cast of "Modern Family."
Jock Talk: Miami Outgames lawsuit dropped
A class action lawsuit against organizers of the failed 2017 World Outgames in Miami has quietly been dropped, although the prospect for civil action down the road remains a possibility.
Jock Talk: The Kaepernick effect
Think we live in confusing times, when even the term "United States" suddenly seems oxymoronic?
Jock Talk: Coaches behaving badly
I've often told friends that the vast majority of criminal news about wayward elite male athletes involves abuse of women, abuse of drugs, and possession of guns.
Jock Talk: Gay Games shifts to Hong Kong
Behind the optimism of the 2022 Gay Games in Hong Kong, there is also an undercurrent of caution, intensified by a few recent events.
Jock Talk: Paris Gay Games follow-up
Paul Mart, one of the original Gay Games founders with Dr. Tom Waddell and Mark Brown, celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and family at a party in Palm Springs, where he currently resides in an assisted-living facility.
Jock Talk: World championship planned for LGBT basketball
Gay Games historians speak of the event's ability to bring together a "critical mass" of international LGBT competitors in almost every sport to create the numbers and inspiration to form new championship tournaments and governing bodies.
Jock Talk: Paris delivers
In the end, Paris proved to be exactly what the Gay Games needed.
Jock Talk: Notes from Paris
Here are some observations, reports, and comments from this scribe and wrestling coach who is in Paris for his fourth consecutive Gay Games.
Jock Talk: Putting the 'gay' in gay Paree
When 10,000-plus athletes and artists march into Stade Jean Bouin Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Paris time, it will be a triumph of persistence and stamina on every level.