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Steve Chase, a serious art collector and widely considered a top interior designer of his time, died from AIDS in 1994. Beginning the following year, this annual fundraiser has raised millions of dollars for direct client services at Desert AIDS Project (D.A.P.) while honoring its namesake who was an ardent volunteer, donor and board member.

D.A.P. board members Barbara Keller and Jim Casey have led the gala committee in achieving increasingly-higher goals in each of the four years they have co-chaired the event, with a record $1.3 million-plus for the 2011 gala. As CEO of Integrated Wealth Management, Casey has made a five-year, million-dollar commitment as presenting sponsor of the gala.

Honorees have included Dionne Warwick and Pauley Perrette in 2011; Bob Mackie and Ann-Margret in 2010; and Barry Manilow, Kristin Chenoweth and Bebe Neuwirth in 2009. To learn more, purchase tickets or make an early bid in the online auction, visit www.desertaidsproject.org and click the Steve Chase link.

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FROM THE SKYBOX

BY ERIC CARLYLE, CO-FOUNDER

Times are Changing Time often brings changes and as we look toward our sixth year of publication we can certainly say that rings true at Compete. First, I’d like to thank our former Editor, Buddy Early, for his four years of service. Buddy left Compete in October and I wish him the best in his new pursuits.

Like the saying goes, when one door closes another door opens.

With that, I’d like to welcome Matt Fish to Compete as our Ally Editor.

Matt played professional basketball and has a bachelors degree in communications , an MBA and a masters in education. We created the position of Ally Editor to further our mission: to unite the gay and straight communities through sports. Be sure to check out Matt’s first Ally Editor’s Letter on page 8. You’ll see he is a lot more than just an athlete—he is a true sportsman.

In addition to Ally Editor, we’ve added the post of Community Editor, one that is filled by Ty Nolan. Ty has been one of Compete’s bloggers for over a year and brings a masters degree in higher education to his new role. His years of experience as a counselor and educator, much of it in the LGBT community, give him a unique view of the community and the impact of broader events related to gay sports.

Take a look at Ty’s first Community Editor’s Letter on page 10.

As we all start 2012 together it’s important to remember that while a lot of things may change, our tag line still defines us best—I am gay sports, you are gay sports, and together we are gay sports.

Sport On,

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Letter From The Editor

BY MATT FISH, ALLY EDITOR

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am honored to join Compete Sports Media as its new ally editor. As a former NBA player, I’ve traveled around the world, learning a great deal about different people and the cultures and traditions they represent. Some of what I experienced was familiar, warm and welcoming and some of it was the polar opposite. In those cases I was pegged as the outsider, the foreigner not to be trusted. So even though I’m straight, I have some experience dealing with discrimination.

Compete’s mission is to unite the gay and straight communities through sports, a mission that closely mirrors my own. Based on my many and varied experiences as a professional athlete and postretirement experiences as a special education teacher, my personal mission is to make a positive difference in the world.

Coming from a small town in Iowa, I was lucky enough to have a family that emphasized good character and an insistence on being open and accepting of others. My family hosted a black student from South Africa in an all white town through a foreign exchange program. It turned out that he and his younger brother were orphans during South Africa’s battle with apart-

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heid. Since they had no family, we unofficially adopted both boys and I wound up with two black brothers.

And because my good friend from childhood is gay and I saw the struggles he had growing up, I definitely have real empathy for the LGBT community!

But I was hired as the ally editor because I clearly love sports! And while basketball is obviously my favorite, I love all kinds of sports played at a variety of levels. As a Compete editor, I want to provide a wide variety of sports information.

We want to make room in the magazine for expanded sports coverage.

If you have tournaments coming up, please email me (matt@competenetwork.com) and give me the details. We want to utilize our website’s community section for game scores. If you and/or your team haven’t signed up yet, it’s free. And then you can post scores and other important information, such as practice dates and other announcements on our site. Go to www.comp etenet w ork.com/communit y and sign up; that also gives you the opportunity to blog on our website.

2012 is going to be a great year for Compete and it’s going to be a great year for me. Thanks for inviting me to be a part of Compete!

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BY TY NOLAN, COMMUNITY EDITOR

As an American Indian, I was trained as a traditional storyteller, a gift that also lent itself to writing at an early age. After winning numerous writing awards in high school, I earned undergraduate degrees in Psychology and English (while editing various campus publications) and then completed a Master of Higher Education degree and worked on a Ph.D. Throughout my life I have been fortunate to be part of many minority programs, some because I am American Indian and some because I am also a gay man.

My career has been spent in the areas of academia, mental health and communications. I’ve received a Ford Foundation Fellowship for American Indians and attended a Summer Institute in Indian Studies at the University of Washington. I have also been a reporter for NW Indian News (a community newspaper) and NW Indian Radio News. After a grant enabled us to buy professional television equipment, I also served as a producer and on-air host for Native Vision, a public affairs program. But when asked to audition for a local NBC affiliate as a minority on-air reporter, I was asked to cut off my braids to get the position. At that point I realized my future wasn’t in broadcast journalism.

It was then that my career moved into family therapy where I taught first at a community mental health cen-

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ter and then accepted a faculty position at The Evergreen State College.

While presenting at an AIDS conference for the Kinsey Institute, I left my faculty position to join my first partner in San Francisco where I served as the first training director for the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center. Following his death from AIDS I returned to Seattle.

I’ve had lots of interesting adventures (and challenges), both personally and professionally, all of which give me a unique view of the LGBT community, one which I’m happy to bring to my newest role as Compete’s new Community Editor. When not on the Compete time clock I continue to work with academic programs, one of which entails me teaching U.S. colleges and universities specializing in information technology how to use storytelling to effectively disseminate complex data by making it more accessible. In other words, I have the joy of teaching tech geeks how to not speak geek to non-geeks (did I mention I love a challenge?).

In coming issues I’m looking forward to sharing stories with you that impact the LGBT community, particularly as it relates to sports. And I look forward to hearing about your stories as well. Feel free to contact me via email: ty@competenetwork.com

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ustralian tennis champ Margaret Court has felt the need to speak out against gay marriage. As senior pastor in Perth’s Victory Life Church, she stated that society is best served by a strong family unit—her version of family unit means a mother, father and children. According to Court, “no amount of legislation or political point-scoring can ever take out of the human heart the knowledge that in the beginning God created them male and female and provided each with a unique sexual function to bring forth new life.”

SPORTS QUIZ Super Bowl XLVI (46) will take place in Indianapolis on February 5, 2012. What was the original name of Super Bowl I held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on January 15, 1967?

The NFL-AFL World Championship Game. The game quickly became known as the Super Bowl and the name became official in 1969.

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Retiring from tennis in 1976, she is her country’s most successful and best known tennis player, holding grand slam titles (both singles and doubles) that have never been surpassed. However, since 1991 the Reverend Doctor Court has trained her grand slam technique on homosexuality, recently on gay marriage, declaring that when we are forced to accept law that “violates their very own God-given nature of what is right and what is wrong,” we must be ready to accept the societal ills that follow.

Even though Court has admitted that traditional marriages may not be perfect and in fact are often “dysfunctional…and the role models may be distorted and even severely flawed,” she sees no reason to “put forward alternative, unhealthy, unnatural unions as some form of substitute.” She has even slammed the state of Massachusetts (samesex marriage was legalized there in 2004), alleging that the negative effects of such unions have already been felt. But how was it felt? Was there a decline in birth rate that rippled from that great state all the way to Australia, negatively impacting their economy in the process?

Please! Are children in unhappy, even violent family settings not deserving of a happy home where two people, despite their sexual preferences, genuinely love and care for them?

Three cheers for tennis legends Billie Jean King and Martina Navratilova for standing up to Court’s bullying. In an interview with TennisChannel.com, Navratilova said it “seems to me a lot of people have evolved as has the Bible. Unfortunately, Margaret Court has not. Her

Margaret Court

myopic view is truly frightening as well as damaging to the thousands of children already living in samegender families.”

As is evidenced by her evangelistic television program, Court obviously knows the power of the spoken word. A major problem for the general public is that evangelists who try to convert others to their way of thinking and believing automatically assume that everyone else is evangelizing from their own personal belief systems.

That faulty and dangerous train of thought leads to an assumption that gay couples are automatically trying to convert their children to also become homosexual.

Now in her late 60s, it appears that Court thinks that the term love still equates to its tennis definition of zero or nothing. Hopefully Court can remember back to her early childhood teaching that “God is love,” not intolerance. Perhaps then she can begin to evangelize less about gay marriage and its family dynamics and more about the transformative power of love, recognizing in the bargain that love in the real world isn’t a zero.

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COMPETE’S STRAIGHT ALLY AND PARTNER, BEN COHEN The international rugby icon created the StandUp Foundation to eliminate homophobia and bullying worldwide. Retiring from a remarkable career (including earning a Member of the British Empire medal), he is now spending all his time and efforts leading the way for equality and respect for all.

Congratulations to Cohen for having the courage to put his money where his mouth is—literally!

THUMBS DOWN TO: UPTOWN SPORTS Hockey promoters Uptown Sports, who condemned straight ally Sean Avery for being in favor of marriage equality in New York (and score—marriage equality is now the law of the land in the Empire State). And thumbs up to the hockey stars who dumped their bigoted agents.

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HELEN CARROLL AND THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS Helen and her colleagues are working with college athletic programs to coordinate supportive and appropriate guidelines on how best to work with transgender student players.

It takes great courage to come out as gay athlete, perhaps even more to come out as a transgender athlete. This pioneering effort helps all concerned to make the process less stressful so that the focus can be kept on the sport and not the athlete’s gender identity.

THUMBS DOWN TO: JERRY SANDUSKY Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky’s alleged sexual assaults on at least eight underage boys on or near university property have finally come to light. An additional thumbs down to all those who, either actively or passively, helped cover up his child molestation that dates from 1994-2009.

The reputation of the university and/or the football program is no excuse for hiding the violation of another person, especially one who is underage. Congratulations to Penn State’s president and board for taking quick and decisive action to remove all those involved.

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THE STATE OF ARIZONA Congratulations to Arizona for introducing a first-ofits kind concussion education program that requires all student-athletes to pass a formal concussion test before being cleared for sports. Now in its first year, it requires them to learn the symptoms and signs of a concussion and encourages them to report all suspected concussions (even for teammates), explaining to them what to do if they have a concussion.

Although this state requirement was passed in August, recent reports of dementia in retired NFL players hits home the importance of protecting and educating our student-athletes about the dangers of brain trauma when they’re young enough to still think they’re bullet-proof.

THUMBS DOWN TO: BRUCE JACOBS Jacobs, a sports radio host for WTMM 104.5 in Albany made a recent homophobic on-air remark about two WNBA teams, calling them the Los Angeles Lesbians and the Phoenix Dykeury. He admits that his comments were “ridiculous, stupid and amateurish” and apologized for having made them both to those who heard them and to those who didn’t. But he doesn’t think he should lose his job over his lapse of good judgment since he claims to be non-judgmental about people and their personal lifestyles. He defends himself by saying, “I’m all about equality. I have zero issues with gays, lesbians—I make jokes about everything.”

Since when did being non-judgmental and being all about equality mean trying to insult everyone? Instead of doing insult comedy on-air, Jacobs should stick to sports commentary!

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ater cooler talk at Compete often turns to the tremendous athleticism and courage we’re privileged to see on a regular basis from members of the LGBT sports community. Then one day the conversation turned to creating some sort of platform to honor the very best of the best in gay sports. And based on our mission of uniting the gay and straight communities through sports, that thought quickly included honoring straight allies as well. We decided the best way to honor our mission

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was to hold a celebration honoring individuals, both gay and ally athletes, as well as gay and gay-friendly companies—basically to honor diversity and inclusion in the sports world! Enter the 2011 Compete Sports Diversity Awards.

While our Athlete of the Year award is now in its fourth year, we created five additional awards that we believe speak to the positive societal changes the LGBT community is now starting to experience, particularly in the area of sports.

introducing the

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AWARDS ALLY ATHLETE AWARD

EMERGING ATHLETE AWARD

This honors a straight athlete who is a community ally, one who promotes diversity and acceptance in the world of sports.

This is presented to a gay athlete who is emerging as a serious contender in his or her chosen sport, someone whose continuing athletic development indicates a rising star.

INSPIRING ATHLETE AWARD

EDITOR’S AWARD

This honors an athlete, either gay or straight, whose continued devotion to his or her sport inspires other athletes of all ages to maintain an active involvement in sports.

This award from Compete Magazine’s editor honors an individual or organization who has taken positive steps toward breaking down barriers and/or eradicating homophobia in sports at all levels.

CORPORATE DIVERSITY IN SPORTS AWARD This is presented to a corporation whose on-going local-to-national sponsorship of LGBT athletes and their teams and leagues keeps gay sports active in local communities across the U.S.

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ALLY ATHLETE AWARD

EMERGING ATHLETE AWARD

BEN COHEN

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hen we created the Ally Athlete Award, the selection committee unanimously agreed that its inaugural presentation should go to Ben Cohen, former British rugby superstar and anti-bullying advocate. As the media sponsor for his initial U.S. tour, we were there in May 2011 when he announced his retirement from rugby and the founding of his StandUp Foundation to combat bullying. We have been so impressed by Cohen that he has made our cover on two occasions.

As a straight rugby player with a wife and twin daughters, Cohen’s reputation for tolerance has garnered him a large international

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SCOTT NORTON LGBT fan base, a fact that actually came as a surprise to him. In an interview with Compete in 2010, he stated that “I embrace diversity more than just a gay fanbase.

I think that everyone should be able to say, think and feel the way they want to as long as no one else is hurt.” His foundation’s efforts to eliminate bullying are international in scope. Rather than start new projects, the foundation helps fund established organizations and programs that are already addressing those issues within their specific areas of influence. With Ben now spending much of his time promoting the foundation, even putting his old rugby gear up for auction at various fundraisers, programs in his native England as well as several in U.S. cities, have already benefited from StandUp’s involvement.

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We were thrilled to have Ben accept his 2011 Compete Diversity Award in person at a presentation ceremony in November at Exposed Gallery in Phoenix. The crowd of over 200 fans and well-wishers were thrilled to have such informal personal contact with Ben as he signed autographs and had his picture taken with all who requested one.

He truly represents the very best of the increasing number of straight athletes standing up as allies for the LGBT community. Congratulations, Ben, and thank you!

Proving the old adage that overnight success comes from years of often unrecognized effort, Scott started bowling at age five. His initial coaching and encouragement came from his famous mother, Virginia Norton, who was inducted into the Women’s International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in her first year of eligibility. With numerous youth tournament wins and titles to his name, Scott is recognized as one of the most successful youth bowlers ever to hit the lanes.

o say that Scott has “a lot on the ball” is not putting too fine a point on it since he’s not only emerged as the first out bowler in the PBA (Professional Bowlers Association) in 2011 but was also named their 2010-11 Tour Rookie of the Year. In addition to being a fulltime professional bowler, Norton is also a full-time attorney with his own practice in Costa Mesa, Calif.

And to top off this exciting year, Scott and his partner Craig Woodward married on October 22.

INSPIRING ATHLETE AWARD

DIANA NYAD Compete, Storm Bowling, IGBO (International Gay Bowling Association) and PUGBA (Phoenix Unified Gay Bowling Alliance) brought Scott to Phoenix in August to participate in a bowling event supporting a local LGBT Community Center. To the delight of all, following the event he held a clinic that offered one-on-one instruction for participants. Having rolled at least 40 perfect (300) games in his short career, his star is sure to continue its steady rise, encouraging many to become part of the sport. We are so impressed with Scott that we invited him to become a member of our Advisory Board. Clearly, we expect continued great things from Scott Norton!

Editor’s Note: Just to address a question by many about whether or not bowling is a sport, the Compete answer is yes, we consider bowling to be a legitimate sport.

When Compete publisher and coowner Eric Carlyle (a baseball and rugby player) interviewed Scott following the PBA’s Rookie of the Year announcement, he learned how hard and intense the training and competition were and changed his viewpoint on the status of bowling as a sport. To read the full interview, go to www.competenetwork.com/ blogs/612-eric-carlyle-interviewsout-pro-bowler-scott-norton.

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f ever there is an athlete who has been a continual inspiration over the years, it has to be long-distance swimmer, Diana Nyad. This openly lesbian 62-year-old journalist and author has been setting records that still stand today, including her 1979 two-day, nonstop swim from Bimini to Florida without a wet suit. Her current dream is to swim from Cuba to Florida, a 103-mile, 60-hour journey in shark-infested waters without a cage. And while her most recent attempt just months ago was halted due to multiple potentially life-threatening stings from a Portuguese Man o’ War, she refuses to give up on her dream of completing it.

Inducted into the U.S. National Women’s Sports Hall of Fame in 1986, Diana was honored in 2003 with induction into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. She also is a Hall of Fame athlete at both her high school (Pine Crest School in Ft. Lauderdale) and college, Lake Forest College in Ill. where she also graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to three books, Diana has also written for Newsweek Magazine and the New York Times, served as a motivational speaker, been a contributor to a number of radio and television shows, and with best friend Bonnie Stoll, formed BravaBody, a company that provides online exercise advice to women over 40.

Nyad describes marathon swimming as “the loneliest sport in the world.” It’s also one of the most uncomfortable owing to the chafing, nausea, hypothermia, swollen lips, irritated mouth, diarrhea and sleep deprivation that are expected parts of the sport. Using her own system of counting in multiple languages interspersed by singing one of 65 songs she has memorized, she knows exactly how long each segment takes and its corresponding number of strokes to keep track of her time in the water. While body parts wear out over time, it’s her determination and mental toughness that, in spite of her age, keep Diana focused on accomplishing her dream. And this is what makes her such an incredible inspiration to all of us. May you never stop swimming, Diana … or dreaming!

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EDITOR’S AWARD

BRIAN SIMS

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ention the name Brian Sims and you find yourself faceto-face with an impressive list of accomplishments in eliminating barriers and promoting LGBT equality in collegiate sports. For starters, as a former defensive lineman for the national champion Bloomsburg University Huskies, he remains to this day the only NCAA football captain to come out to his team and coaches while an active player. Now an attorney with his own law practice, Brian has also been involved in a number of LGBT organizations, such as Equality Pennsylvania, the Victory Fund and the Gay & Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia (GALLOP).

His own organization, LGBT Athletes & Allies, is devoted to eliminating homophobia by promoting acceptance of collegiate gay athletes with students, coaches and administrators on college campuses throughout the country. Brian and other members of his group also provide positive role models for athletes who are up-and-coming out. He states that he’s never been to a college that

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doesn’t have out gay athletes and these current and former student athletes are now ready to tell their own stories, making his decade-old college story less important. And that situation has opened the door for his newest venture—running for public office.

Currently running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives in Philadelphia’s 182nd District, this recently former president of Equality Pennsylvania has realized that “the way I can continue to lobby for these issues … is to get a gay person into office.” While allies have a voice that those in the LGBT community don’t, nevertheless, he believes that there is no substitute for having an openly gay legislator casting votes and advocating for change. As a result, much of his responsibility with Athletes & Allies has been turned over to students and to Campus Pride director, Shane Windmeyer. Way to go, Brian—you have our vote!

CORPORATE DIVERSITY IN SPORTS AWARD

DOUGLAS SANDBORN

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here are many companies who support the LGBT community in one form or another who definitely deserve recognition for all their efforts. But when you think about those companies that have consistently supported LGBT sports from the local to the national and international levels over the long haul, we believe MillerCoors tops the list. Many LGBT sporting events, especially the smaller local ones, would not be as successful without the help of MillerCoors and the local distributors and their employees who represent the company.

We were honored to have Douglas Sanborn, their multi-cultural brand manager, fly in from Chicago to accept the company’s 2011 Compete Diversity Award in person at the November presentation ceremony. Doug spoke to the crowd about the importance of partnership to MillerCoors. Having been with the company for 10 years, he has spent the last eight of them working with the LGBT community.

Clearly he represents the company well, sharing the corporate philosophy of being involved in the communities in which the company does business—that involvement includes conducting business in a responsible manner and in linking partnerships with others.

MillerCoors isn’t a Johnny-comelately in its views on its role as a good corporate citizen, according to Sanborn. The company has long championed the idea of doing the right thing for the right reason and staying the course. Their corporate culture includes every employee buying into fostering community partnerships and giving back. And it is that philosophy that keeps Sanborn on the move, ensuring that the MillerCoors “community 360 approach” is always honored. Here’s to you, MillerCoors, and to all your employees and distributors who represent you so well!

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ARELY DO WE PICTURE AN ATHLETE ON A COMPETE MAGAZINE cover in a business suit and tie but passionate cyclist and triathlete David Rae, our 2011 Athlete of the Year, is so much more than just a pretty face (and body!). Our June issue featuring father-son athletes had David on the cover (son of now-retired pro-footballer Mike Rae) in sports gear astride his bicycle. Like our three previous award winners, David is a dedicated gay athlete and an intelligent, well-rounded person who is equally dedicated to giving back to the LGBT community.

Graduating from the University of Redlands with degrees in Business and Musical Theatre, David is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP速) who holds Series 6, 53, 66, and 7 licenses enabling him to advise clients about life, health, disability and longterm care insurance matters. He joined Trilogy Financial Services in January 2003 and by the next year he was promoted and is now vice president of client services.

With most of his clients being gay, David is also a designated financial planning columnist for Echelon Business Magazine, a gay publication for LGBT professionals, and he has also written for the LA Times, The Advocate, Instinct Magazine, IN Magazine, Frontiers and Bottom Line, among others.

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(left to right) David Rae, Lisa Vanderkamp of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with dog Giggy, Ryne Meadors

Having grown up with an NFL quarterback for a father, David has certainly had lots of exposure to sports and has tried a variety of them over the years, even football.

The closest he comes to that sport, however, is his self-designated title as the “financial quarterback” who offers to lead financial teams to their goals. But David is now leading another team, this time as its captain—Team Popular. The sport that has really hooked David is that of cycling. Participating in his first AIDS/Life Cycle (ALC) ride in 2008, he has become a consistent top fund raiser for the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center as well as a top-notch recruiter for new ALC riders. On his own he has now recruited over 70 new riders for the annual event.

And in 2010 David upped his commitment to ALC and formed Team Popular that boasts over 60 new and veteran cyclists from across the U.S. as well as Australia and South Africa. When asked what he’s most proud of in his life, David’s answer is being team captain of the ALC 2010-2011 ride that had a cumulative fundraising total of $380,000.

But what cycling has done for David is to give him a platform to

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merge his social, philanthropic and athletic worlds into one. He has taken his love of a sport generally considered to be an individual one and created a team with an atmosphere of fun and a friendly sense of competition that manages to support his love of giving back to the LGBT community. Beyond his role in ALC, David has also helped raise funds for the center in other ways, including serving as host for their Poolwatch and Halloweenie events. He has also been actively involved with a variety of other charities around the Los Angeles area. IN Magazine has recognized him as being a major force in the next generation of gay philanthropists due to his work with such additional causes as the Human Rights Campaign, AIDS Project Los Angeles and Equality California to name a few. Additionally David has been recognized by Registered Rep, a national publication for the financial planning industry, as an Advisor with a Heart award winner at their 31st Annual Altruism Awards.

As if all this weren’t enough, in response to pending drastic and devastating budget cuts in California, he has joined the Ambassadors

Council for Aids Project LA to help raise funds to save essential services that often make a life-or-death difference for the project’s clients and those of other AIDS-related charities. To see more pictures of David, check out our website: competenetwork.com, and to support David and Team Popular, go to facebook.com/groups/169864194335/ We are tremendously proud to award our most prestigious honor, the Fourth Annual Compete Athlete of the Year, to David Rae. We’re certain that he will never stop his good works—our Athlete of the Year just rolls that way!

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o was the NBA lockout (the fourth in the league’s history) worth it? Although there were five games tipping off the shortened NBA season on Christmas Day, it will probably take some time before players and team owners know whether Lockout Santa put some big money in their individual stockings or just lumps of coal.

Basketball, like all sports played at a professional level, is a game of strategy, of gamesmanship on the boards. But gamesmanship in the board room is different. Sadly, it boils down to money and a win-lose mentality on the parts of all involved. The regular 82-game season has been pared down to just 66 games based on the July 1 lockout start date.

But now that an agreement has been reached, the real question is—what did the lockout actually accomplish.

With an agreement to end the lockout, the league had its hands full reconfiguring the schedule. They had to honor their network contractual obligations but they were also eager to meet fan preferences in order to retain the game’s fan base and what’s left of their interest in the season. As a result, the major title contenders have been matched up as often as possible. But the reduced 66-game season has scheduled 529 back-to-back and 42 back-to-backto-back games that require players, especially aging veterans, to play more games in a shorter time frame.

The revised schedule ensures that each team will have at least one back-toback-to-back but not every team will play each other twice. Teams like the Celtics, Lakers and Spurs may be more adversely affected by the strain placed on their older players. Whether younger teams such as the Heat, Thunder and

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Bulls will gain a huge benefit from these same circumstances remains to be seen. The fact is that back-to-backto-back games are hard on everyone but true veterans tend to be more in tune to their bodies and know how to pace themselves more effectively. And if they’re only playing 66 games instead of 82, they may find it less taxing than some are predicting.

Restoring competitive balance was a major issue of the lockout according to Commissioner David Stern and his deputy Adam Silver, a goal so imperative that it was worth risking a season’s play. The idea was to give teams in smaller markets an opportunity to compete with the big budget teams with their big budget players—that sounds great in theory but probably won’t work all that well in practice unless a few things on the financial chessboard change. Gamesmanship 101 as it currently stands: t Fans want to spend attendance dollars seeing winning teams with big money players who have a shot at making the finals. t Players who have careers limited by age and injuries want to play with teams likely to make the playoffs that can offer them a better financial deal than a team further down the totem pole. t Agents who make their money based on the dollar amount of a player’s signed contract threaten to steer players away from signing with teams with uncompromising owners. t Owners who have to juggle salary cap amounts while trying to maintain an active, paying fan base want the biggest return on their sizable investment.

t Networks with limited air time and money want to keep their ratings high with fans by showcasing teams with money and the ability to make title runs…the Catch-22 continues.

While basketball fans are happy there is an NBA season, hopefully they’ll know enough not to be disappointed if the caliber of this season’s play doesn’t measure up to normal performance standards. There was no pre-season, the time when individual players get back into professional playing shape and teams are making decisions on their plays. Even if players have been working out and playing some pickup games to keep in shape, that’s never a substitute for pre-season workouts and time to tweak plays. And a short season doesn’t give teams a big opportunity to gel based on time playing together.

Unless Santa gave each group a dose of the milk of human kindness ala Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol, on the holiday tipoff, it’s doubtful that much will change over the long haul. The ripple effects of the amnesty clause, an aging lineup versus a younger one, free agency and pressure from owners that have already triggered Stern to reject Chris Paul’s trade by the New Orleans Hornets to the Los Angeles Lakers are sure to provoke more strategic maneuvering as the season progresses. So did the lockout really accomplish anything worthwhile? Probably not. And what a shame that is. Gamesmanship on the court is what makes sports so exciting; each team is out to win within the spirit of good sportsmanship and fair play for all. Gamesmanship in the boardroom, where the attitude is to win at all costs, doesn’t serve any of us. Come on, guys—just play ball.

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here are lots of gay sports tournaments every year but there’s only one that has been designed from the ground up with the player in mind. That’s the case with the Sin City Shootout Sports Festival being held January 12-15 in Las Vegas, the city that plays host to the annual event. Now in its fifth year, there will be five sports represented— softball, basketball, tennis, wrestling and bodybuilding—and an anticipated group of over 4,000 LGBT athletes from the US, Canada and England competing at venues across the city.

Tournament Director Eric Ryan first conceived the idea of a large tournament designed from a player’s point of view in 2007. Then, as a player with the Greater Los Angeles Softball Association (GLASA), he approached the assistant com-

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missioner with his idea of holding a large weekend event in a location that offered lots of hotel rooms at a reasonable price, a destination with regular and reasonable travel, lots of places to socialize after a day of hard play—oh, and lots of quality fields on which to play. While Ryan enjoyed playing in various tournaments, the arrangements weren’t always player-friendly, something he hoped to change.

The model Ryan proposed had GLASA taking on all the exposure and liability in order to use its large buying power to get the best venues and prices on everything from room rates to travel. And no location seemed a better fit than Las Vegas where you could play hard both on and off the field. In 2008 Ryan’s dream became reality. That year there were 40 softball teams (figure 15-20 people per team) that

came to play, a figure that grew to 70 teams in year two. Then in 2010 they decided to add basketball to the tournament play, followed in 2011 by the five sports listed above.

When asked about the future of the Sin City Shootout, Ryan says he anticipates the festival will continue to grow, adding a sport or two a year since there is plenty of space in Las Vegas to expand. The festival website, SinCityShootOut.com, encourages people to sign up and get in the spirit of the games early with monthly drawings that, among other things, give away show tickets, dinners, gift cards, guest passes and stays at some of the best places in Vegas. For a great variety of sports and a great mix of people, the Sin City Shootout is your January ticket of choice!

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You don’t have to turn your world upside down to lose weight. Just create a basic plan and stick to it. Have you been consistent and honest about executing your weight loss plan?

How did you do? Three Yes’s, three No’s or maybe a mix?

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ITH ONE OF THE LARGEST GAY COMMUNITIES IN the U.S., Palm Springs is a gay Mecca. This twicenamed Best Gay Destination in the World offers winter visitors some wonderful choices in terms of sports, lodging, dining, shopping and sight-seeing. Although the area has been a popular destination for years, it is as alive and interesting today as in years past. Here are some of Competeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favorite Palm Springs destinations.

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Ranked as a Top 75 Golf Resort by Golf Digest, the Westin Mission Hills in Rancho Mirage offers two courses designed by famed course designer Pete Dye and another designed by golf great Gary Player. The resort also hosts the LPGA’s Annual Kraft Nabisco Championship, being held this year March 26-April 1. And with 34 tennis courts with three different playing surfaces (grass, clay and hard), the facility is also the No. 1 USTA (United States Tennis Association) facility in the U.S. Some other sports included are croquet and bocce, swimming, water aerobics, and a spa and sports center that features a Kinesis wall.

Warm Sands Villas

warmsandsvillas.com An award-winning gay, clothingoptional resort, Warm Sands Villas underwent a total renovation in 2001 that provides all the modern amenities you would expect while still preserving its charming original Spanish architecture—high speed internet access,

color TV & VCR units in all guest rooms and bedrooms as well as 24-hour access to the pool and hot tub that includes yearround swimming (winters to 88°F), evening refreshments served poolside, and amazing unrestricted views of Mt. San Jacinto and the surrounding area from the roof deck atop the Shirley Temple Cottage, named for one of their famous early visitors. The resort has a Four Palm rating from Gay.com and ranks in the Top 10 for Palm Springs Specialty Lodging and the Top 10 Gay Lodging options on About.com.

INNdulge inndulge.com

Built in the mid-century modern style, INNdulge is another favorite gay, clothing-optional choice.

It offers a large courtyard with a pool and 12-person Jacuzzi that stay open 24 hours a day. The rooms, all with king-sized beds, are done in a southwest feel with wrought-iron and pine. Other amenities include a gym, a large video collection and a complimentary continental

breakfast and social hour, the latter personally hosted by owners John Williams and Jean-Guy Lachance.

They were recently awarded Planet Out’s Five Palms Award and the resort has been the winner nine consecutive years of Out & About’s Editor’s Choice Award.

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This tram ride is a 3M thriller—majestic, monumental and magnificent. Ascending 2.5 miles, it takes you to a pristine wilderness aboard the world’s largest rotating tram cars. At the top you have several hiking trails through the Mt. San Jacinto Wilderness but you must have a day permit from the Ranger Station.

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert www.livingdesert.org

This 1,200 acre non-profit zoological park and botanical garden puts you up close and personal with a cast of magnificent animals and plants in a true desert setting. They invite you to discover why The Living Desert is “like a zoo, only better.”

Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs sparesortcasino.com Also known as the Palm Springs Casino, it’s located in the heart of Palm Springs. While it features gambling in the form of slot machines and table games and includes four restaurants and a casino-style buffet, it is a 24-hour a day full-service resort spa with hotsprings mineral waters.

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Palm Springs Art Museum psmuseum.org Founded in 1938, the museum is a fascinating place to spend some time. In addition to an impressive and varied list of permanent collections, there are a number of interesting exhibitions, such as the Backyard Oasis photography exhibition on display from January 21-May 27, 2012. It features swimming pool photography from 1945-1982, examining how the backyard pool became the setting for sub-culture rituals and clandestine desires associated with Southern California.

The Jones Agency jonesagency.com Although it’s not a destination, it’s thanks to the award-winning work of the Jones Agency that many Palm Springs destinations are as well known as they are.

Founded 53 years ago, it is the number one full-service advertising and public relations agency in the Inland Empire. In addition to representing a variety of clients throughout the area, they also represent the Desert AIDS Project, one of the most respected and honored nonprofit organization working with HIV/AIDS clients. Adding to their many awards and honors over the years, in 2011 the agency took first place for its AIDS is Not Over public service announcement in the prestigious national GLAAD Amplifier Award contest for Outstanding Social Marketing.

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EVENTS We love to encourage people to get involved in a sport they love! And every so often we like to highlight an event we think is special in some way.

Just such an event is the Great Urban Race being held in Scottsdale, Ariz. on February 25, one of 20 of these races being held in various U.S. cities throughout 2012.

Put on by Red Frog Events out of Chicago, they bill this race as part adventure, part party and all fun. If you’re planning on competing in one of these races, be prepared to be part of a team of two that needs to “solve twelve clues and complete exciting mental and physical challenges while discovering the city in a fresh new way!” At registration, you can also choose to become a fund raiser for a national and/or a local charity partner.

Red Frog also holds two other fun event series throughout the country—Beach Palooza, an obstacle course on sand, and Warrior Dash, considered to be the ultimate event for athletic thrill-seekers on unique and challenging terrain.

To learn more about any of these events, visit their website at: redfrogevents.com.

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MULTIPLE SPORTING EVENTS—SOFTBALL, BASKETBALL, TENNIS, WRESTLING & BODYBUILDING 5TH ANNUAL SIN CITY SHOOTOUT Las Vegas 01/12/2012 - 01/15/2012

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SPORTS YEARBOOK THIS MONTH IN HISTORY: JANUARY January lives up to it’s position as the first month of the year by being the month of firsts in sports history.

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Jack Kent Cooke, NHL’s LA Kings owner, fines each player $100 for “NOT” arguing with referee (1969)

New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath (1965)

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Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame (1993)

Philly Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight winning games (1980)

1st National Hockey Association game in Victoria (1912)

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Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point (1993)

Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame (1991) 1st Women’s Golf Tournament held (1811)

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J. Edgar Hoover declines 6-figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club (1953)

NFL champs Cleveland Rams given permission to move to LA (1946)

NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams (1986)

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Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis (1995)

Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy’s Omar Camporese in 5 hours, 11 minutes (1991)

Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova’s 54-match winning streak (1984)

PGA forms in New York City (1916)

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World League of American Football becomes NFL East (1998)

Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame (1979) NFL’s National & American conf become Eastern and Western conf (1953)

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1st U.S. ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont) (1934)

PGA approves allowing black participants (1952) New bicycle race “Tour de France” announced (1903)

26 British Rugby Union forms (1871)

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