The best part of writing about gay athletes is that it makes sports fans uncomfortable. That's always fun. Of course, not all of you. Didn't mean to stereotype.

You might know that Fresno had seven men who went to Chicago to participate in the Gay Games as an indoor volleyball team. There wasn't anything particularly moving or heroic about their story.

The Central Valley ESPYs went quite well, in the sense that at no point did a stage light fall on a presenter's head, causing the person to stumble blindly into the whirling blades of an industrial size snow-cone maker.

If that's your standard, then it was as smooth as the Oscars.