Fresh off a 10-week mini-camp, the Utah Jynx female football team is prepping for tryouts to launch into the upcoming season. The team recently joined the ranks of the Women’s Football Alliance, a national league with teams from around the country, and the Jynx are in it to win it. Coach...

Utah’s only queer aquatic club will be participating in Utah’s largest amateur swim meet this November and individual swimmers will be trying to qualify to compete in national competitions.

Salt Lake City’s Mountain West Flag Football League finished regular season play and is preparing Team Avalanche to represent Salt Lake City at Gay Bowl XI, the National Gay Flag Football League’s championship. Gay Bowl XI will be held in Houston, Oct. 6-9, and will include round-robin play for seating in a double-elimination tournament.

Salt Lake’s all-inclusive softball league, Pride League, finished up the summer 2011 season with 16 teams competing in the single-elimination tournament modeled after Major League Baseball’s post season. The four team winners of the Olympus, Wasatch, Oquirrh and Uintah divisions were placed as the number one seeds while the other 12 teams were placed in the tournament depending on their win-loss records. Division winners were The Family, Pride Counseling’s Softball Heroes, JP’s Collision and Legends Sports Pub, respectively.

Beginning with an “open bowl” event on Aug. 21, 7 p.m., at Bonwood Bowl (2500 South Main St.), the Salt Lake Goodtimes Bowling League starts up another 28-weeks of league play. It sounds long, but it’s entertaining, and the league mixes things up with theme nights, raffles, prizes and a whole lot of fun.

The Utah AIDS Foundation announced the 2011 Bike for Life course and their goals in continuing the biking fundraiser as Saturday, Sep. 17, starting at Liberty Park in conjunction with the annual Walk for Life 2011 event. “This is the third year for the Bike for Life,” said Larry Lee, UAF...

Seventeen gay and lesbian cyclists and allies, registered officially to represent Team Try-Angles in the 2011 Harmon’s Best Dam Bike Ride, the annual two-day cycle event benefiting the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. The ride took place June 25-26. At press time, the team had raised...

Utah’s gay and lesbian amateur swim and water polo club, the Queer Utah Aquatic Club, will be sending swimmers and water polo teams, complete with new QUAC swimsuits, to Honolulu to compete in this year’s annual International Gay and Lesbian Aquatic Championships, July 6-10. IGLA is held...