Towleroad Guide to the Tube #268

CHELSEA CLINTON: Chelsea gets asked about Monica Lewinsky again and the pundits argue about whether or not it's a question she needs to answer.

THE WE CAMPAIGN: New ad from the Alliance for Climate Protection that is part of a $300 million campaign being promoted by Al Gore.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD!: Russian tennis player Mikhail Youzhny was so angry that he dropped a serve in the second set of his match yesterday at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami that he beat himself in the head with his racquet, drawing blood.

IDOL CONTESTANT DANNY NORIEGA: He's back. Was he gone?

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News: Al Gore, Wii Tennis, Tom Cruise, Lost, Chris Dodd

Lambda Legal to file suit in Iowa today on behalf of six same-sex couples who were denied marriage licenses.

Tom Cruise appearance sparks rumors of cameo on JJ Abrams' Star Trek set, but he was really there to meet someone special.

Al Gore on global warming skeptics: "You're talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they’re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat. ... That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off."

The American Family Association gave up their boycott of Ford Motors, but it looks as though they're trying again with another automaker, GM. Good As You: "What the hell gives these folks the right to go apeshit simply because a company dares to advertise to the LGBT community?! Good God of fringe extremism, why cannot they not at least accept that we are 'sinners' with a degree of disposable income, some of which we like to put towards cars?! We know they think we're barreling down the Highway to Hell. Fine. Let them think that. But can't they at least respect the right of an automaker to try and sell us a car whose climate control features will help us brave the unbearably hot Lake of Fire?"

Saulo Melo: Your hot Brazilian for Friday.

Dennis Miller does not share Bill O'Reilly's rage over San Francisco's Hunky Jesus pageant.

Hate crimes inspiring call to action in South Florida.

Senator Chris Dodd says we must end the Democratic primary: "Look, we've got five more months to go before the Democratic convention at the end of August and, candidly, we cannot go five more months with the kind of daily sniping that's going on and have a candidate emerge in that convention....We have two very strong candidates. So I'm worried about this going on endlessly and to a large extent...the media, a lot of these cable networks, are enjoying this. It's what is keeping them alive financially. The fact that this thing is going on forever, back and forth every day, all night -- I don't think it's really helping the candidates or the political institutions."

The folks who market Basil Hayden's whiskey think we're all a bunch of prancing fashionistas.

The Hills may be turned into a feature film: “I think if they were going to do a film of the hills they would basically film it like we do the show and they would just edit it into a movie. It would be like a really long episode.”

Wii Tennis about to get lifelike versions of Roger Federer, Andy Roddick, James Blake, and Tommy Haas.

Prison Break brings a major character back from the dead.

Exploring the time travel theory on Lost.

UK urges gay men to get tested for HIV: "The Health Protection Agency made the warning after new diagnoses among gay men topped 2,600 for the third year. But the figures do seem to have begun to plateau after a surge at the turn of the century. Overall, the number of new cases hit an estimated 6,840 in 2007 - a fall of 1,400 from the previous year."

An update on that school expulsion case in Kansas I posted about yesterday: "A lawyer representing a gay student charged with harassment said he was 'hopeful that things will work out' for the student after an expulsion hearing Thursday. 'We're all wanting him to get back into school. That's the main thing,' said attorney John McKean. 'We're encouraged and hopeful that it will happen rather quickly.' Jimmy Iniguez, 17, a junior at Metro-Midtown Alternative High School, faces expulsion for allegedly harassing a fellow student in a school bathroom Feb. 28. Iniguez, who has been suspended since the incident, says he is innocent and is being unfairly accused because he is openly gay. No decision was made Thursday. District policy dictates that the decision be sent to the student's family by certified mail."

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Andy Roddick Defeats Djokovic to Enter Dubai Final

Andy Roddick is on a hot streak. Today he defeated Novak Djokovic 7-6(5), 6-3 to face Feliciano Lopez in the men's final at the Dubai Tennis Championships. Yesterday, he defeated Rafael Nadal, and after the match announced he'd be splitting from his latest coach, tennis legend Jimmy Connors. It's the first time Roddick has defeated the world's #2 and #3 players successively in a tournament.

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It's Hot in Melbourne [tr]

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Novak Djokovic Stands with Serbia on Kosovo Independence

Prominent Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic stood with the Serbian people who have been rioting since Kosovo's declaration of independence, which the U.S. has stood behind. He release this video message (translated by a YouTube commenter):

Hello to all of Serbia and all who are with us
This is the toughest of times in the history of Serbia
and I want to thank eveyone who has come here to this meeting
and to show the world that we are not small and weak,
that we are united and willing to defend what is ours
I am sad I can not be with you physically right now
and I want eveyone to know that my family and myself are with kosovo always
entire situation is very hard on me as entire history of serbian nation is stemming from kosovo
kosovo is serbian and shall remain so forever.

Meanwhile, during the burning of the U.S. Embassy some of the rioting Serbs had this message for CNN:

That clip, AFTER THE JUMP...

Tensions high as Serbs reject Kosovo independence [iht]

(Djokovic via down the line)

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Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet: Tennis Pros Gone Wild!

After France beat Romania to move into the quarter finals of the Davis Cup on Sunday, Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet apparently need to blow off some steam.

And blow it off they did. Tsonga and Gasquet hit a strip club in Sibiu, Romania and quickly became the main attraction.

Unfortunately, the athletes didn't engage in a round of mixed doubles.

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Own Novak Djokovic's Sweaty Pit Stains for Just Under $5000

Attention tennis fans and athletic clothing fetishists, here's a chance to own the discarded item which afforded us all these great shots.

The person who caught one of Nole's shirts that he threw into the stands during the final of the Australian Open is selling it on eBay. The big selling point here seems to be "full of sweat!"

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Djokovic Wins Australian Open, Vows Never to Wear Shirt Again

Of course the second part of that headline is simply wishful thinking, but that's how it looked after Novak Djokovic defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the Australian Open over the weekend to win his first tennis Grand Slam title and become the first Serbian tennis player to achieve such heights in tennis.

Agence France Presse reports: "His victory was the first Grand Slam final since the 2005 Australian Open not won by Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal with the top-ranked pair dominating the game, claiming the last 11 majors between them. 'I am so proud of myself and to be the first Serbian who won the Grand Slam title,' said Djokovic, who eclipsed Jim Courier as the youngest men's winner at Melbourne Park. 'I was trying to stay there with Jo because I knew that sooner or later with my style of the game I could get in control of the match, which I did in the middle of the second set. Today I was nervous on the start because I was in the strange situation of being the favorite in the final of a Grand Slam. It was dangerous, but I managed to cope with the pressure well and to win.' Djokovic and Tsonga rocked the established order by dumping Federer and Nadal out in the semi-finals to set up a decider unimaginable at the start of the tournament."

We look forward to seeing much more of Djokovic in the future.

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Novak Djokovic Upsets Roger Federer to Head into Aussie Open Final [tr]
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Novak Djokovic Upsets Roger Federer to Head into Aussie Open Final

Serb Novak Djokovic pounced on Roger Federer last night in straight sets (7-5, 6-3, 7-6 ) to upset the world #1 and head into the Australian Open final against yesterdays' upset winner Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Like Tsonga, Djokovic did not deny the crowd a display of shirtless bravado.

Three more shots AFTER THE JUMP...

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Sportrait: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

There's been a major upset at the Australian Open. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France has risen through the draw and overnight the #38-ranked player in the world put away #2 Rafael Nadal 6-2 6-3 6-2 in less than two hours to face either Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic in the final on Sunday. Now that's worth throwing your shirt into the stands for.

Tsonga defeated #14 Mikhail Youzhny and his compatriot, #8 Richard Gasquet to reach the semi-final.

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One more shot, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Shirtless Blakemates Crazy for James at Australian Open

James Blake put away American Michael Russell 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in the second round of the Australian Open in Melbourne today, a performance which sent his male painted shirtless fanboys into a frenzy.

It's always a bit strange to see the type of fans you might find at a college football game unleashing their testosterone at a tennis match, but I'm not complaining.

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It's Hot in Melbourne

Temperatures have soared this week in Melbourne, where Andy Roddick has cruised into the final to face Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus today. The blazing temps did provide one benefit for the spectators - plenty to look at.

Roddick, Marat Safin, Rafael Nadal, and a very 70's-looking Brit Andy Murray were on display.

More AFTER THE JUMP...

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Martina Navratilova on Gay Men in Tennis

In a lengthy interview with Outsports, Martina Navratilova says she believes she has lost over $10 million in endorsement deals because of openness about her sexuality, but doesn't know why there are no openly gay men in professional tennis:

"I have no idea. I don’t personally know any who are gay, because none have come out to me. Honest to God. I have suspicions, but I don’t know of one who’s definitely gay. I read that letter to Tennis magazine [in 1994] from an anonymous male player who said 'thank you because we’re not all as brave as you are,' but I don’t know who they are. But I don’t know why. It can’t be because they’re all worried about endorsements, because most of them don’t get any anyway. And now, perhaps they’d get one because they are gay. It’s funny. I understand it in team sports because it can become a negative if the coach or the front office is homophobic and you might not get to play; let alone that your opponents might come after you. But in tennis, nobody can stop you from playing because of your sexuality or if someone doesn’t like you. If your ranking is good enough, you get to play. It’s very simple. So I don’t know why none have come out."

Maybe the $10 million has something to do with it.

I've chosen a photo of Frenchman Richard Gasquet to go with this post not because the player has said he's gay but because he's felt the need to deny it — twice.

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Tennis #8 Richard Gasquet: Nope, Still Not Gay

Frenchman Richard Gasquet, recently immortalized as a terra cotta warrior for his appearance at the Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup, gave an interview following his matches there, Outsports reports, and reaffirmed the fact that he's not gay, even though he wasn't even asked.

Via the interview:

Q. Now your matches are finished. Do you still have any plan to go around the city maybe with your uncle or your girlfriend?

RICHARD GASQUET: My uncle? No. My girlfriend, no. I have no girlfriend, so I will try to find one, one Chinese girl. Why not? Why not? I lost 6-1, 6-1. It will be very hard for me tonight. I'm ready to lose, you know.

Q. Who is the girl watching your match with your uncle?

RICHARD GASQUET: Not my girl. I don't know. Not my girl, for sure. No, no, no, I have just friends. Men friends, but I'm not gay.

You may remember in July of last year that Gasquet, now ranked #8 in the world, denied he was gay after French magazine Le Point printed a rumor that he was having an affair with 46-year-old married French businessman Arnaud Lagardere. Said Gasquet at the time: "I was absolutely not happy about that. This question has come back hundreds of times, and every time someone turns up saying, Oh, I have evidence. It is just bullshit. Neither him nor me are homosexuals. It's absolutely obvious."

So if it's so obvious, why the need to repeat it?

Richard Gasquet, still not gay [outsports]

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Pete Sampras and Roger Federer Reveal Secret to Great Tennis

Webbed hands!

Sampras and Federer were in Seoul, South Korea to publicize an exhibition match the two will play tomorrow.

The Korea Times reports: "Their first meeting happened in the round of 16 at Wimbledon six years ago, and the Swiss star downed the American in five sets. Along with the Seoul match, the two tennis greats will have two more matches in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Macau."

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Terra Cotta Tennis Warriors Unveiled in Shanghai: Federer, Nadal, Davydenko, Djokovic, Roddick, Ferrer, Gonzalez, Gasquet

Novak Djokovic

In September I posted about the upcoming Shanghai ATP Tennis Masters tournament and the Chinese warrior statues that were being created by French sculptor Laury Dizengremel in the likenesses of the tourney's "elite eight". The warriors, of course, are meant to resemble the terra cotta army buried with the Emperor of Qin in 210-209 BC.

Well, the tournament got underway yesterday and the sculptures were unveiled. Here they are in all their glory. I can't say that the likenesses are necessarily spot-on (Novak Djokovic comes out looking a bit like Lance Bass) but the player portraits are hot. I've taken some close-ups of the Quentin Shih photograph for your perusal.

Andy Roddick, who reportedly asked for an alteration, as the baseball cap that's part of his public image wasn't included in the first go-round.

The rest, after the jump...

Richard (I'm not gay) Gasquet and Fernando Gonzalez

David Ferrer

Rafael Nadal and Nikolay Davydenko

Roger (King Arthur) Federer

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NC State Athlete Arrested for Performing Oral Sex on Teammate

A North Carolina State tennis player has been charged with "crimes against nature" after allegedly performing oral sex on one of his teammates.

ABC11 reports: "Details of the incident were released in a search warrant. There was an off-campus party last Friday at the apartment of one of the tennis team members. The player told police he went to bed around 3 a.m. Saturday and was awakened two hours later by Bivens performing oral sex on him. Police arrested and served Bivens with the search warrant that allowed investigators get a saliva sample. He was released on bond that same day. None of the tennis team members or the coach will comment on the incident though they know about the charges against Bivens."

The NC State athletic department says the player's status with the team has not changed.

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Roger Federer Trades His Tennis Racket for a Sword

Disney Parks updated their Disney Dreams portrait series today with three new images shot by Annie Leibowitz. You may remember the David Beckham as Prince Charming that came out last January. This time, tennis's #1 Roger Federer plays King Arthur.

In addition to the Federer image, there are two more new shots. In one, Julie Andrews portrays the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio with Abigail Breslin as a Fairy-in-Training (Disney knows their target audience, eh?). In another, Rachel Weisz plays Snow White.

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Djokovic Delivers at Davis Cup Play-off

Serbian tennis players Boris Pasanski and Novak Djokovic became quite excited watching their compatriot Janko Tipsarevic battle it out with Australian Lleyton Hewitt at a Davis Cup World Group play-off match today in Belgrade.

Tipsarevic lost the match to Hewitt. The stakes are high in the best-of-five series between Australia and Serbia. Should Serbia win the series, they'll advance to play in the Davis Cup World Group next year, something the team has never achieved.

Djokovic has always been animated in his response to the game, but we're glad he demonstrates the same qualities on the court and off, after the jump...

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Tennis' Top Eight Men Immortalized in Terracotta

The top men's tennis players in the world will meet soon in November in Shanghai to face off in the ATP Tennis Masters tournament. For that occasion, Laury Dizengremel has been commissioned to sculpt the top eight players as terracotta warriors in the mold of the thousands of soldiers in the terracotta army buried with the Emperor of Qin in 210-209 BC.

Below, a video of the process...featuring Federer, as well as Nadal and Djokovic.

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Jake Gyllenhaal the Tennis Buff

Jake Gyllenhaal and longtime friend Chris Fischer were spotted checking out the men's final at the U.S. Open over the weekend.

As was Federer clone Liza Minnelli.

(image source)

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Sportrait: Novak Djokovic

Here's to the runner-up of the U.S. Open.

Novak Djokovic was close so many times to breaking points against the robot from Nike that it was a bit heartbreaking to see the Serb, in his first grand slam final, choke in the clutch time and time again.

But Djokovic is the next big thing in tennis, and the most entertaining athlete the sport has seen in years, and showed that talent off earlier in the weekend with a courtside performance of his imitations of Nadal and Maria Sharapova.

Good on Federer for making history with a 4th consecutive U.S. Open win and a 12th Grand Slam trophy, but last night we were rooting for the underdog.

Here is Djokovic's hilarious post-game performance at the U.S. open and a longer, extended mix shot previously from inside the locker room.

And finally, a last favorite, after the jump...

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Wimbledon Semi-finalist Richard Gasquet: It's Obvious I'm Not Gay

Missed this one back in April. But then again, at that point Frenchman Richard Gasquet hadn't leapt onto the Wimbledon radar.

This past week, Gasquet vanquished Andy Roddick to face Roger Federer in the semi-finals. In April, French magazine Le Point printed a rumor that 46-year-old married French businessman Arnaud Lagardere was having an affair with the player.

Gasquet responded to ASAP Sports: "I was absolutely not happy about that. This question has come back hundreds of times, and every time someone turns up saying, Oh, I have evidence. It is just bullshit.  Neither him nor me are homosexuals. It's absolutely obvious."

Over the weekend Federer struggled to defeat Rafael Nadal in five sets in the third-longest men's final ever.

(via Outsports)

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Splendor in the Grass

Novak Djokovic of Serbia battled Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis for five hours to advance to a semifinal showdown with Rafael Nadal, below, in the fourth longest match in Wimbledon history. The 20-year-old cutie loves to take his shirt off when he wins -- and who's complaining? -- but was too tired to even do so after this epic (so I'll just post a photo of him from yesterday's win over Lleyton Hewitt instead). Roger Federer awaits the winner of Andy Roddick vs. Frenchman Richard Gasquet (who's also been known to go shirtless), which is going on now, in a tournament that's been surprisingly exciting given the state of the game. 

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Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Not a lot of matches were completed at Wimbledon today, but not even the endless rain delays could save defending women's champion Amelie Mauresmo from losing to teen sensation Nicole Vaidisova in the round of 16  The French woman fell 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-1 as rain continued to wreak havoc at the All England Club. Nothing against Vaidisova -- she's exciting to watch-- but the more I see and hear from Mauresmo the more I like her. She looks so big and intimidating looking but seems to be a humble and highly sensitive woman in interviews, something that's great to see in the ego-charged world of professional sports.

Meanwhile, a resurgent Juan Carlos Ferrero, the 2003 French Open champion, was able to complete his round of 16 match beating Janko Tipsarevic, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (5), to advance to his first Wimbledon quarterfinals. He will next face four-time defending champion Roger Federer. You may recall Ferrero upset American hottie James Blake earlier in the tournament, a great effort from the Spanish clay-court specialist.

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Nuts: French Tennis Player Marc Gicquel Felled by Opponent's Serve

French tennis player Marc Gicquel was nailed in the testicles by a 208 km/hr serve from his opponent Benjamin Becker today at the Halle ATP tennis tournament in Germany. The hit temporarily crippled him, but Gicquel came back to defeat Becker 6-2, 7-6.

Ouch.

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Sportrait: Andy Roddick

As a follow-up to his chat with Jonathan Ross, here's a revealing shot of Roddick during a third round tennis match against Britain's Alex Bogdanovic today at the Artois Championships in London.

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Andy Roddick on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Andy Roddick made an appearance last weekend on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Enjoy.

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Spain's Rafael Nadal put on a sexy pose for Antonio Banderas at Roland Garros today after creaming his compatriot Carlos Moya in the quarter final of the French Open. Nadal won 6-4, 6-3, 6-0.

Moya joined Nadal and Banderas later for a photo. Now that's some hot Spanish action.

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Paula Abdul whines about her former publicist, gay PR guru Howard Bragman: "I do a call-in every week for OK! Magazine on 'American Idol.' Because of my brilliant job, they want to do a cover on me. I'm being told by Howard Bragman that I'm too old and no one will ever want to do a cover." Bragman responds: "I'm not going into it. I'll stand by my reputation if she'll stand by hers."

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