Page 1 Roundup (02/20)

The Daily News: Bloomberg slammed as ‘arrogant,' sexist, clueless in contentious Democratic debate debut

36-year-old woman repeatedly calls 911 after her parents shut off her cellphone

The Wow Report: Chrissie Hynde knows how to play Trump like a fiddle (disgustingly, it's for the benefit of vile Julian Assange)

Instagram: Exonerated Robert Farah is ready for action in Acapulco 

The Guardian: If only the U.S. Constitution had some sort of method for removing a corrupt president

ABC News: N.Y. State man arrested for threatening to kill Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff because he was angry about impeachment

Forbes: Trump’s pardons are meant to normalize white-collar crime

Politico: Trump campaign hires alum of controversial data company Cambridge Analytica

Deadline: Greg Louganis feature biopic in development -- although I don't think anyone can top Mario Lopez

Katie Herzog: I'm sorry, but I sincerely doubt that more than half of any college campus is queer

Boy Culture: We all felt endless lust for Martin Hewitt in 'Endless Love,' who turns 62

Watch the stud, an underage Brooke Shields and handsy director Franco Zeffirelli discuss the film in a 1981 interview

The Daily Mail: Footballer is suspended for five years in France after biting opponent's penis

Towleroad: Canadian Olympic swimmer Markus Thormeyer: ‘I thought it would be easy for me to keep my sexuality a secret’

Yahoo Sports: Why aren't male pro athletes coming out?

Instagram: Richard Madden's furry chest

Reuters: One word about this: Gross

The Randy Report: Pride Flag burner charged with masturbating in front of prison guards

Dlisted: Lark Voorhies is sad she wasn’t asked back for the 'Saved by the Bell' reboot

C+C: German swimmer barely fits in his uniform … which is a Speedo

New York Post: Michael Bloomberg’s campaign implodes onstage in Nevada Democratic debate

Elizabeth Warren rips Amy Klobuchar’s ‘Post-it note’ health care plan

 Ja’Net DuBois remembered by Janet Jackson, Norman Lear and Viola Davis: 'She changed the landscape'

Mikaela Spielberg, Steven Spielberg’s daughter, comes out as porn star

The Washington Post: At fiery Democratic debate, a sour welcome for Bloomberg and criticism for Sanders

Can a pardon for Dylann Roof be far behind?

He found his wife and 6-year-old dead on Valentine’s Day. His teen son is accused of the crime.

The New York Times: Trump takes up call for Barr to ‘clean house’ at Justice Department

Trump's pardon process bypassed the formal procedures used by past presidents and was driven instead by friendship, fame, personal empathy and a shared sense of persecution

The Wall Street Journal: Italy’s Alpine border melts and leaves a pasta restaurant in Switzerland -- maybe

Suspect in deadly shootings near Frankfurt is dead

Anne Hathaway asks $3.495 million for New York penthouse

The biggest music star you’ve never heard of is huge on YouTube

Hot Cat of the Day: I guess we know where Mary got her company mascot! 

Modesty for Breakfast

Talk about gracious. After being snubbed of a honor that seemed like a shoo-in, Greg Louganis is finally featured on a box of Wheaties and uses the occasion to remind us all that success takes a(n Olympic) village. 

After Petition, Greg Louganis Gets a Wheaties Box

Congrats to the diving legend -- as well as Edwin Moses and Placentia's finest, Janet Evans!

Read HERE.

Greg Louganis Documentary Premieres on HBO Tonight

Here are some photos from the New York premiere of "Back on Board: Greg Louganis," which debuts on HBO TONIGHT (Tuesday, August 4) at 10 p.m. ET/PT. As good as it looks, I'm having a hrard time believing it can compete with the made-for-TV biopic starring Mario Lopez's Speedo.

UPDATE:

Ha ha! Mario approves :-)

Inaugural Class Headed to National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame

With the likes of Billie Jean King, Martina Navratilova, Greg Louganis and recently out basketball player Jason Collins all set to be inducted in the first class of the National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame tonight in Chicago, I was a little taken aback to see former baseball umpire Dave Pallone's name in the Associated Press story's lede:

The Associated Press rerports:

CHICAGO (AP) — Dave Pallone, who was part of Chicago history when he umpired the first night game at Wrigley Field, is returning to Chicago to take part in another chapter of American sports history: His inclusion in the inaugural class of what organizers say is the first-of-its-kind National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. 

On Friday night, Pallone will be honored in the first class of inductees that includes tennis greats Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis, and Jason Collins, who in April became the first active male professional athlete in a major team sport to publicly reveal he was gay. 

"It is a tremendous honor and ... I hope it gives young people and adults alike who happen to be LGBT and want to be in professional sports another example of why they should continue to strive for their dreams," Pallone said.

Indeed.

If you were in your 20s and living in Los Angeles or Washington, D.C., when Pallone's memoir, "Behind the Mask," came out, there's a pretty good chance he hit on you. After a flirtatious night of drinking at the Mother Lode, he got my number, then asked me out to dinner the night next. When I arrived to pick him up at the house in the Hills where he was staying, he promptly jumped me, which prompted a less-than-enthusiastic reaction from me ... and an even better reaction from him: "What, did you want to eat first?"

Congrats to Dave and all the trailblazers!

Greg Louganis Engaged to Johnny Chaillot

People magazine is reporting that Greg Louganis is engaged to his partner, paralegal Johnny Chaillot. But according to my colleague/friend Yogi, the real news is that she can't believe I've never heard the Olympic diving great called Greg Looseanus, which apparently was his "nickname" in Mississippi! Read HERE.