Posts under ‘Athletes Being Cool’

Players from Australia’s Rugby League and Aussie Rules Football, such as Kayne Lawton (photo), have teamed up to pose nude for the 2009 “Gods of Football” calendars. The proceeds from the calendars and DVD benefits the McGrath Foundation, which provides funding for breast cancer nurses, a terrific cause for hot jocks to strip down.
One of [...]

Based on this item from the Sydney Morning Herald, gold medalist and totally out Matthew Mitcham gave a brief yet killer acceptance speech when he won Australia’s Sports Performer of the Year Award late last month.
You see, before Mitcham, some winners in other categories had given a fair impression of Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous Oscars speech [...]

A charity auction at Penn State featured members of the swim and ice hockey teams going shirtless to jack up the bidding for their services. I was most impressed with what the swimmers were offering, according to the Daily Collegian.
After enduring chants of “take it off!” for several minutes, the five swim team members removed [...]

I have always been a big fan of running back Ricky Williams (now with the Miami Dolphins) for years since he thanked all his fans “straight or gay” during an interview. He posed for a famous ESPN the Magazine cover when he was drafted by coach Mike Ditka of the New Orleans Saints wearing a [...]

I am thrilled that rugby player Ben Cohen is incredibly gay-friendly and held a celebration last year for his gay fans. I also think it’s appropriate that he did not win the sports award from the London Stonewall gay rights group.
The sports award instead went to the Stonewall Lions Football Club, an English gay soccer [...]

Despite the passing of Prop. 8 in California, it’s still nice to see how many prominent people were against it. Add former NBA player Doug Christie to the list. The guard, who played in California with the NBA’s Clippers and Kings, and his wife had hoped to celebrate their 14th wedding anniversary next July with [...]

I’ve never been a Kobe Bryant fan, but he’s won me over with this great TV commercial for Guitar Hero IV. He is the perfect lead singer in the ad for a four-man band with Alex Rodriguez, Michael Phelps and Tony Hawk. The earnestness and enthusiasm Bryant pretends to bring to the performance is just [...]

David “Wolfman” Williams is an Australian player in its National Rugby League. He’s also one of the rugby and Aussie Rules Football jocks who have posed for the “Gods of Football” calendar. The calendar (one of three) features the athletes as a fundraiser for breast cancer research. It didn’t take Williams, 22, that much thought [...]

Charles Barkley has never pulled any punches on or off the court and that is true when it comes to discussing politics (or kissing ref Dick Bavetta, right). Yesterday, in an interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown, Barkley slammed evangelicals for dividing people. Great to hear a week out from the vote on Prop. 8 in [...]

It’s the stretch run of a hotly contested political season and even athletes, historically non-political, are getting into the presidential race.
“We spend an hour a day talking about this exact subject - in meetings, on the plane, in the locker room,” New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita told the AP. “I think it’s just because [...]

The Washington Redskins are 2-0 since tight end Chris Cooley flashed his penis on his blog. A contract extension is in order. In the line of the week, Cooley’s mom, Nancy, had this to say: “It’s never a good day when you hear there’s a picture of your son’s penis on the Internet.”
In more mundane [...]

A gay man who is a friend of mine sent me this link to “Lorenzo the Flying Frenchman” with the comment that he thought the horses and the guy were both hot.  I agree, and want to share them with Outsports readers.  The tradition of “Roman riding” and “Roman driving” has been around for a couple [...]

Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley is sorry that anyone saw his penis on his blog (background here). On his blog, under the headline “We’re Dumb,” Cooley wrote this:

(Updated with new info at the end.)
Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley seems like a cool guy. He once said he lost at Fantasy Football against a friend who had Cooley as his tight end on a day where Cooley scored three times. He also has a nifty blog, but that caused him a bit [...]

Michael Phelps hosts Saturday Night Live tonight. Be afraid. Be very afraid. Athletes rarely do well with SNL because, well, they’re not actors. Have you seen the Phelps Rosetta Stone commercial? Be very VERY afraid.
Athletes have been the stars of a few select GREAT skits, though. The Stuart Smalley-Michael Jordan bit is fantastic. But my [...]