From the Editor: Buddy Early

We’re fun and serious

It isn’t often that we get to turn the spotlight on a health crisis affecting our community. Let’s be honest – Compete is mostly a feel-good magazine. Still, this month I am proud that we are discussing the seriousness of Hepatitis, especially since so many Compete readers are active in contact sports.

Figure skater, actor, health advocate: Huntley Woods refuses to be pigeonholed

For some people, things just come easy. Although Huntley Woods would humbly deflect such statements about himself, it’s undeniable that he has been successful at most everything he has tried in his life. OK – so he freely admits he sucked at various team sports:

The spotlight is on you

To print or not to print — that is the question. Occasionally, we are asked why we continue to print Compete in light of the many publications that are closing up shop. That is a good question, and we have a good answer.

Two gay “Olympaholics” go above and beyond to get the real stories in Vancouver

Take two outgoing guys, a charity, dreams unfulfilled, and a passion for the Olympic Games. Give them a video camera and some air miles, and the next thing you know they’re chronicling the Olympic Games on their popular Web site Olympics or Bust. Charley Cullen Walters and Tyler Duckworth may not have achieved their goals of competing on the world’s biggest stage

Hep Team tackles Hepatitis

Huntley Woods is not just another southern California pretty boy. Sure, he likes to act and model, plays beach volleyball and hangs out in West Hollywood. But there’s some substance to this young man. If you’ve been to any kind of Pride event in and around Los Angeles the last few years, you may have been approached by Huntley and asked if you have been vaccinated against Hepatitis.

TOWEL GIRL: FLYING WITH A TERRYCLOTH CAPE CAN BE TRICKY

Every good competition starts with one profound and energizing element: trash-talking. Especially a literary competition, because you know how writers get off on beating people up with words, the pen is mightier than the sword and all that stuff, so the first writer to sling a big steamy pile of acerbic words via e-mail is Chris Colin, author of What Really Happened to the Class of '93.
I think I speak for all of us when I say it would be best if I, personally, accepted all the cash. IT'S ON, FELLOW READERS!”