Via AWFUL ANNOUNCING, we are alerted to today’s wonderful accidental headline of the day, the morning after sprinter Tyson Gay runs a wind-aided 9.86 in the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Apparently, a news service called ONE NEWS NOW run by the highly conservative American Family Association has a little filter that changes words automatically. Thus, as OUT SPORTS discovered: Tyson Gay becomes Tyson Homosexual.
The name change only seems to extend to Google searches that bring it up, though, as the actual AP copy at the organization’s site remains unchanged, and the sprinter retains his real name. As oddly backwards and hilarious as this is, this one thing is worth pointing out: he may not be homosexual, but based on yesterday’s run, he may be gold-medal-quality fabulous.
Either way, I look forward to repeated headlines from ONE NEWS NOW throughout the Olympics, plus any AP notes of Rudy Gay’s upcoming NBA season in Memphis.







9:19 pm on June 30th, 2008
Oh geez. The AFA is crazy.