Piliavin: The whole issue of sexual orientation gets so wrapped up in men feelings about their own masculinity in ways that I don think women are as threatened about their femininity. I don know quite why that is. Maybe it because there so much pressure on guys to be big and tough and strong and macho and if there any kind of suspicion they not, they think that going to diminish them.INTANGIBLES: The Patriots last week became the first team to win 10 consecutive playoff games a streak extending to 2001. Everyone is waiting for the Broncos to fold, which is not an unreasonable assumption considering they have lost all three of their postseason games since John Elway left. And despite a season that will end with him playing in the Pro Bowl, Plummer is still maligned as a product of Mike Shanahan system.

"I've been so lucky," Kleinsasser said, as he ate cheese cubes at his wife's recent event in support of the MakeAWish Foundation. "If I had gone anywhere else,