Polo is a fiercely elegant game – as sleek and lovely as the ponies that thunder down the field, no wonder Ralph Lauren has been so inspired by it – but also rough and tumble.

We were reminded of that Sunday, June 14 as Airstream faced off against the new team sponsored by Shreve, Crump & Low at the Greenwich Polo Club in the town’s verdant backcountry on a perfectly idyllic late-spring day. There were quite a few penalties – and more than one or two balls out of bounds – as Airstream prevailed 10-9 in a Monty Waterbury Cup match that went down to the last few minutes of the last chukker (period). They don’t call it “horse hockey” for nothing.

If you’ve never been to a match, it’s quite something. The teams enter from opposite sides of the field – which is nine times the size of a gridiron – and then face the grandstand as if to say, “We who are about to entertain salute you.” ...

Johnny Weir – the famously out skater turned NBC commentator – told us at WAG magazine that he would pull no punches in anti-gay Russia. But leave it to the flamboyant fashionisto to make a statement with gold pearls and a white ensemble and blush and lipstick. Perhaps that’s why he and gold medalist Tara Lipinski are relegated to commentating on NBCSN instead of on NBC itself. Maybe the Peacock Network thinks they’re not ready for conservative prime time – though there are many in the blogosphere who’d rather listen to the free-wheeling Weir and Lipinski than the more staid Scott Hamilton, Andrea Joyce and Sandra Bezic.

In other fashion news, The New York Times had a fun story on skiers’ pronounced derrières that readers took way too seriously. Read more