The Dallas Cowboys have mastered The Internet, but not in the way they’d intended.

Back in 2007, the Dallas Cowboys placed a winning bid on the Cowboys.com domain name, but never actually handed over the 275K they’d bid “due to an internal miscommunication”. Given the timeframe I’m gonna guess the internal miscommunication was “somebody saw a GoDaddy commercial and thought they should look into it, because dancing ladies”, but that’s unconfirmed. The report, from Domain Name News by way of Shutdown Corner:

The domain name brought in a $275,000 bid from a phone-in bidder at the recent TRAFFIC domain live auction in Hollywood, Florida. The bidder had been earlier identified to be a representative from the Dallas Cowboys NFL team. An inside source confirmed with DomainNameNews that the deal began to fall apart over a misunderstanding with the bidder on what the bid of “275″ actually meant. It appears the bidder thought they were buying the domain for $275.00 rather than $275,000.

Cowboys.com remained dormant for years, but now in the most Internet thing of all time, the site is operational … and it’s a cowboy-themed gay dating site. No, seriously, look:

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"And all he wanted to talk about was where I got my underwear."

The fun of any Olympics is political subplots, as politicians, special interest groups, and various mouth-breathing hate mongers can use the global focus of this gathering of the world’s greatest athletes as a chance to draw attention to themselves. One of the issues that has people fired up leading into the London games is the inclusion of nations that enforce laws that discriminate against gays and lesbians, and many people think that those countries should be banned, while others think they shouldn’t. And while the argument is important, it’s probably rather unfair and distracting to the openly gay athletes who are competing in this year’s Olympics.

But since I hate politics and giving credence to those who discriminate, let’s talk about the lighter side of Olympic homosexuality, as it was believed this week that all of the gay that was descending upon London had crashed the gay singles app Grindr. Of course, that had some people (who I won’t name) freaking out because they thought this was the surest sign of the pending gaypocalypse. Turns out they were wrong. And stupid.

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Sports

Video: The Rise and Fall of LeBron James - As a serious journalist on the Internet, I am only interested in the “falling” parts. And honestly the rise was just the one part where he discovers he’s good at basketball and suddenly gets everything he ever wanted. I mean, except that one thing. [RealTalkNY]

Major League Shuffle: Nine Upgrades, Big Names, and Prospects from the Trade Deadline - Burnsy and I are going to start reviewing rap albums. Thankfully I owned a vinyl single of “Nightmare On My Street” and am deeply familiar with the discography of The Fat Boys. But no, click here for baseball stuff. [Smoking Section]

2KSports Gives Us the Virtual Version of Kobe Bryant’s 81 Points - I was hoping some guy had gone to the trouble of recreating the entire game, possibly with commercials, but it’s just shots of video game Kobe shooting jumpers. Still worth your time, especially when paired with The Rise and Fall of LeBron James. [Lakers Nation]

Weddle We Do Now That The Money’s All Gone? - I don’t know, man, just read it. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

With Leather

Video, Photos, Whatever: Kate Upton Milking A Cow - We try to have a strong feature or two on the site every afternoon, but yesterday featured two big ones: Kate Upton. Here we see America’s Best Girl milking a cow, clutching a chicken and making me type the sentence “you should have a little belly if your boobs are that big” more than once on the Internet. [With Leather]

Burnsy’s Bad Advice: Ranking Your Fantasy Football Quarterbacks - Also a great feature (and also featuring Kate Upton, in case you were skeptical) is Burnsy’s Bad Advice, which will hopefully become a regular feature and reeducate me on the game of pro football following my desertion upon the retirement of Dan Marino. If these guys are Kate Uptons, Dan Marino must be Aphro-goddamn-dite. [With Leather]

Women Doing An Awful Job Of Motocrossing - The best part is the very end, when the one lady has Woman’d Up enough to get her bike across the line, and some other lady is crashing and burning into a puddle to the right. Just glorious, no matter how many times you watch it. [With Leather]

“It Ain’t Worth It!” Anti-Sex PSA - David Robinson, A.C. Green and Barry Sanders explain the dangers of intercourse in the most impersonal and 1990s way ever. [With Leather]

Not Sports

Cowboys & Aliens Smurfed The Bed - Got to admit, I’m getting pretty sick of these well-made but ultimately uneventful boy-themed action movies. Like, Captain America was great and all, but I don’t think I need to watch it again because it will be rereleased under a different name 85 more times before Christmas. Can’t wait to see some form of Sh**ty Superman get f**ked by Chipmunk’d, or whatever the hell they’re calling Chipmunks 3. [Film Drunk]

Journalist Outs Ellen Page - Dick move, gay lady. Worth reading for the phrase “stands for her believes” and this amazingly perspective-free sentence: “The comic book team the ‘X-MEN’ always served as a metaphor for an oppressed minority like gay people or Jews.” [V-Generations]

Damon Lindelof’s Terminator Pitch Is Awesome - Every movie should just be built on top of Kindergarten Cop. Cowboys have a penis, Aliens have a vagina. [Gamma Squad]

The Always Sunny Promo Is Fat, As Advertised - He’s fat, all right, but I’m not sure he’s fat enough. Next year’s publicity stunt will involve Charlie Day getting a second speaking voice. [Warming Glow]

Haha, no I don’t mean that Rick Welts has been fired, sillies. I mean that the President of the Phoenix Suns is gay, as per an interview published in the New York Times yesterday. And of course he’s gay. He’s wearing a pink shirt, for the love of Lady Gaga. In all seriousness, though, the 58-year old chose to finally break his silence to help create a conversation for all male team sports about homosexuality.

“This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits,” said Mr. Welts, who stands now as a true rarity, a man prominently employed in professional men’s team sports, willing to declare his homosexuality. “Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.” (Via New York Times)

It’s definitely an important conversation and I hope that Welts’ sacrifice isn’t for naught. Statistics would strongly suggest that there are many gay men in professional sports, and it must be difficult for them to keep hiding their real identities behind fears of discrimination and physical threats. After all, they can’t all be as macho as Johnny Weir.

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UPDATE: Turns out it was Roger McDowell, former New York Mets closer and second spitter on the grassy knoll. He issued a written apology for the instance in question. McDowell is currently a pitching coach with the Atlanta Braves, and while he’s not a manager and that makes this less fun, it’s still not cool to make gay slurs. And thus we end another very special With Leather moment of tolerance.

At 4 PM Eastern and 1 PM Left Coast, famed attention-seeker with a law degree Gloria Allred will hold a press conference to out a Major League Baseball manager as a meanie pants. In what can only be described as shocking and wholly unexpected news, Allred claims that a manager referred to a trio of male fans as pejorative terms for homosexuals. That’s right – the other F-word. To make matters worse, one of the men had his twin daughters with him and this unnamed manager told them that the ballpark was no place for kids. Finally, someone says what I’m thinking. Not that F-word part, though.

According to TMZ:

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Ohio is one of several states that enacted Defense Of Marriage legislation, but that didn’t stop a couple of wily gents from getting in a kiss during a field report amidst a regional broadcast of a Cleveland Indians home game. The pair, whom I’m affectionately referring to hereafter as “Gay and Silent Bob,” snuck in a quick peck, and one could bet that the guys in the production truck flipped out and cut away before the full-on first base line orgy started up. Because it’s impossible to be gay without being all up in your face about it. People in television know this.

Watch the video after the jump (because I know you’re just dying to do so) and prepare to be disappointed. Seriously boys: that’s it? That’s all the PDA you have for us? It’s not like y’all are at a monster truck rally. It’s an Indians game. You two are 15 percent of all the people that decided to show up, so enjoy it. Some gays you turned out to be. The ushers probably showed up to throw you guys out and said, “Eh, that was nothing.” You guys probably don’t even have any interior design tips, either. My whole worldview has just been shattered. Read the rest of this entry »