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Tennis champ Goran Ivanisevic is a clod-- humpy, sexy when sweaty, but still a clod.

In his post-Wimbledom press conference, Goran speculated that one linesman "looked like a faggot."

Ivanisevic's handlers, who better appreciate the image needed to win endorsements and the money that goes therewith, quickly had the slow-witted Croat attempt an apology: "I don't want to offend anybody," he said. "I don't have anything against homosexuals or anybody.... It was just an expression. I've been told that when I go into a press conference I say 'I played like a faggot.' They told me not to say it any more and I am never going to say it," Goran noted contritely, before blowing his homage to PCness by adding, "I can say I play like a woman instead."

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Speech police at GLAAD have not, mercifully, called for Goran to have his tongue cut out, but have noted that sports writers and commentators have largely ignored the galoot's flippant use of the F word.

But what puzzles Dawn is what might be revealed by Goran's entire remark. He said (of the allegedly offending lineman), "he looks like a faggot a little bit, this hair all over him...."

What time warp is he in? Faggots haven't been defined by hairiness since Michael Jackson was black. Could Goran have meant that the errant official looked like a bear, those faggots challenging the prevailing hegemony of buff-and-hairless gay imagery? Or, more likely, do faggots look different in Croatia? Or just in Goran's fevered imagination?