Blackoot Pro – links supposed to be gray & hover blue – BUT not?

Hey guys, my site is:
smokejaguars.net

The links are merely supposed to be gray, and then hover a blueish/white color, which they do! The PROBLEM is, after I click the links, they stay blue and don’t hover anymore.

The coding as is follows (CSS):

a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #898989;
}
    a:active a:after {
        color: #898989;
    }
    a:hover {
        color: #d6eff7;
        text-shadow: 0 0 6px rgba(224,243,254,0.5);
    }

the 898989 color is the gray hue, and the d6eff7 is the light blue. Please let me know if anyone can help me!

You can test it yourself by click a link on the site on the news feed and noticing how it stays blue now, and how fresh links are gray and hover blue correctly1