Though autumn doesn't officially start until next week, football season has already begun. And, as I said last week, a gal with or interested in a football-loving dude has only two options: like it or lump it. Read: How To Manage His Love Of Football

The preferred option, as always, is "like it," and there are two ways to do so: actually like it, and fake it until you make it. If you're in the "actually like it" category, congratulations, you are a fan of America's most popular sport and you can stop reading now. If you're still reading … Read More

The NFL kicks off this week (September 10th), the college ranks began playing ball sometime last week. On any given weekend (Thursday to Sunday), there will be up to 30 hours of gridiron action, and that doesn't include pregame shows, the highlights or any games that may have been recorded along the way. 

Unless your guy is a complete diehard or employed by ESPN, he'll probably watch only a fraction of those games, say 6 – 15 hours… per weekend. That's not an insignificant amount of boobtube time. Being men, our hands are sort of tied on this. Football is … Read More

According to NBC-2.com, wife-carrying is the cat's pajamas in Eastern Europe (as it is in Australia and Ireland, pretty much anywhere that men eat lightning and poop thunder and women don't mind so much being inadvertently dropped from time to time). The Baltic heartland of Latvia has an especially strong zest for picking up one's wife and rushing with her to a not-so-far destination. Read: The Joy of Flex: Exercise Better Together

Evidently, Latvian wife-carrying competitions are exclusively uphill affairs. The burly gents charge 410 feet in the skyward direction because a famous local, romantic film depicted a … Read More

Boxer Rob Newbiggin is preparing for the biggest challenge of his life—and we're not talking about his next fight.

Newbiggin, 44, has announced that he will undergo a sex change to live his life as a woman named Mercedes.

The August 14 against Michael Gomez fight was his last one as a man, reports Boxing Fanhouse. While sports bloggers are having fun quipping lines like, "You wouldn't hit a girl, would you?" Newbiggin, with his wife and kids, is struggling with the trauma the sex change will inflict on them. Indeed his wife Emma is sticking by him; … Read More

Rockstar tennis player Roger Federer wowed us last April when he married his longtime love, Miroslava "Mirka" Vavrinec with a lavish wedding in his native Switzerland. Roger Federer Is Married

Twenty-seven-year-old Roger and 31-year-old Mirka had been dating nine years when she got pregnant and they called a shotgun wedding (although to be honest, we're not sure they use that exact term in Switzerland). They smiled massively in photos of the ceremony and announced with great fanfare that they were expecting a little boy. Celebrity Pregnancy Rumors and Announcments

So imagine our surprise at this … Read More

Talk about a mixed bag of emotions. First, you find out that your husband has been shot to death. Then you discover that his infidelity and lies were the cause of the whole tragedy. Rage against him, grieve for him or can you do both?

Unfortunately for Mechelle McNair, wife of slain quarterback Steve McNair, this difficult scenario is a reality. McNair, formerly of the Tennessee Titans, was found in a Nashville condominium on July 4, dead from four bullet wounds—including two to his head. Nearby lay his 20-year-old mistress, Sahel Kazemi, also dead from a single bullet fired … Read More

Sore muscles, grueling training and abundant egos are the pitfalls of a professional athlete's otherwise exciting career. For those married to fellow pro athletes, add to the list long stints of time apart, living in different time zones and competing playing schedules. The compromise and support these relationships require is something we can all appreciate, even if our own relationships seem ordinary next to the hectic lives of athletic superstars.

DeLisha Milton-Jones is a two-time women's basketball Olympic gold medalist, two-time b-ball World Champion and two-time WNBA Champion. Her husband, Roland Jones, is a lion in his own right, a … Read More

When we heard that someone was painting parking spots pink in an effort to ease women drivers between the yellow lines, we got to thinking. Is it female drivers who need the extra room or the overzealous man who can't keep his hands off our curves? Sure we've been known to shudder at the onset of an occasional spider but that's more for your benefit than ours. Men are always making modifications for their female counterparts. From shaving cream for women to push-ups on our knees, we feel as though you're trying to tell us something.

Female friendly parking … Read More

Millions of couples will snuggle up on the couch or go out to celebrate the Super Bowl this Sunday. The national event that conjures images of wings, beer and hearty brouhaha can be the biggest day of the year to some and just another Sunday to others. And sometimes those differing esteems exist within a couple. We know what you're thinking: the guy's the one glued to the TV, right?

We love relationships that defy stereotypes, so we set out to find couples in which she's the sports fan and he's not. Below, two relationships where the lady loves sports … Read More

Like most women on the planet, I dreamed that I would one day find the perfect man. Someone who would not mind me occasionally bringing home a stray dog or cat. A man who could watch Monty Python's Holy Grail repeatedly and would still have a beverage shoot out his nose when the Frenchman says, "I fart in your general direction." And, most importantly, I longed for a man who could spend many a Sunday afternoon lying on the couch watching football with me. Honestly, I thought that the last requirement on my list … Read More