David Brandon, the Chief Executive of Domino’s Pizza, has decided to leave his position there to become the new Athletic Director at the University of Michigan.
Domino’s as you may know is evil for several reasons: Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s is a very avid anti-gay crusader who gives money to wonderful organizations like Operation [...]
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Learn The Name: Stephen Strasburg
When Cyd gave me this gig, he told me to write about whatever tickled my fancy. Well, maybe not those words exactly, but I have been thinking about what I want to bring to you fine readers of the Outsports’ Jock Talk Blog. So I thought I’d bring you a piece on an athlete you’ll [...]
Being openly gay in Dartmouth athletics
In an article on gay pride week at Dartmouth College, the Ivy League school in New Hampshire, the school paper The Dartmouth interviewed two gay athletes and what they said is not a surprise to anyone who has followed the subject: they wish there were more out jocks.
“[Being gay at Dartmouth] has been a very [...]
Student wants input on gays in sports
Outsports gets many requests from students and researchers delving into the subject of gays in sports. Out site has been of great value in hooking these researchers up with gay athletes, in and out of the closet. A student just posted a request on our Discussion Board after discovering Outsports through our book at his [...]
Overpaid College Football Coaches
Today President Obama is proposing a $500,000-a-year cap on executive salaries for corporations that get government help. Great idea. And while the government is at it, they should also consider capping sports salaries in higher education. After all, public colleges and universities, as well as private colleges, get federal funding along with state funding — almost $70 [...]
Study looking for non-straight coaches
This came in last week from Pat Griffin of It Takes A Team. If you’re a non-heterosexual coach (or former), definitely contact the researcher; we can’t get enough of this kind of research going.
Looking for Non-Heterosexual Coaches for Research Study
Are you interested in participating in a research study examining female collegiate coaches work experiences with [...]
The 2008 NCAA Season and Tournament: Turning predictability into an artform
I can’t think of a worse thing than four number one seeds in the Final Four … well, maybe watching Kelvin Sampson join me in a Sprint family plan. But outside of that, nothing worse.
Four ones is so bland, blase, mundane, unsurprising. Who wants to see that?
Problem is these guys – Kansas, North Carolina, Memphis [...]
Why you should root for Xavier, reasons 1-206 (or maybe a few less)
So I realize there’s a lot of Joe Alexander fans on this board, many disappointed his Mountaineers are out of the tournament. For you, I’ll allow a moment of silence.
Ok, moment’s over.
Here’s why you should root for the scrappy bunch of ballers that knocked off Joey A and his mountain men, the Xavier Musketeers.
10) [...]
Davidson has the coolest administration in world history
I want to go to Davidson College. Like right now. Not a second later.
You see, the school is going a little crazy with this Sweet 16 stuff, and now wants its students to be in Detroit for Friday’s showdown with Wisconsin. How badly?
Well, badly enough: The school sent out this email, one reported [...]
‘The Front Runner’ on gay sports
Patricia Nell Warren, who writes a series for Outsports about gay-sports history and who contributes to this blog, is writing a two-part piece for Pat Griffin’s “It Takes A Team” about her experiences and observations about the influence of sports on the perception of gender and sexuality. It’s been a common theme in many of [...]
Masculine sports culture starting to accept gay sex
That’s the assertion that openly gay sociologist Eric Anderson, whom most of us affectionately know as Coach Gumby (right), makes in a new study. He talked to 47 (apparently masculine) cheerleaders at American universities, all of whom played football in high school. Nineteen of them said they had had sexual contact with another man. All [...]