We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Aussie Rules Football players playing the surf as part of a recovery session, a Chipper Jones sighting, diving from Fort Lauderdale, NFL minicamps, track and field and triathlon. Click image for larger, full-sized view: Share on Facebook
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Billie Jean King throws out first pitch at Philadelphia Phillies game
Tennis great Billie Jean King threw out the first pitch at today’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros. King has owned the Philadelphia Freedoms of World Team Tennis since 1974. (Elton John’s song “Philadelphia Freedom” was written in honor of King, his friend). King was introduced to the crowd as “one of America’s [...]
Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Canada Cup diving, the NCAA men’s volleyball championships, world rowing, mixed martial arts, NFL minicamps and the funky hair of Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals. Click image for larger, full-sized view (and that image for the largest view): Share on [...]
Harvard baseball team sings ‘Call Me Maybe’ to sleeping teammate
Towleroad stumbled across this video of the Harvard baseball team passing time on a road trip, lip syncing in their van to Carly Rae Jepsen’s Call Me Maybe. Sorry, no hot shirtless guy mowing a lawn in this one…but there is a same-sex crush. Or two. I’m not quite sure. Either way, kudos to Harvard [...]
Pittsburgh Pirates release It Gets Better video, to work with gay youth to fight bullying
The Pittsburgh Pirates released an It Gets Better video last Friday before a home game at PNC Park that was designated youth night for the Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Community Center. The video was not just a one-off — the team is committed to fight bullying. From local activist Sue Kerr, who started the petition [...]
Oakland A’s release It Gets Better video
The Oakland A’s have joined the list of Major League Baseball teams who have produced videos for the It Gets Better campaign. Though the A’s video, aimed at teens who are being bullied, does not mention sexual orientation, one of the players featured is Brandon McCarthy, an outspoken supporter of gay rights. “I’m glad the [...]
Baseball player Reggie Williams: Gays an abomination and are like crack smokers, but I don’t hate them
Reggie Williams hopes to play pro baseball, though he was released in spring training and is without a team. He has succeeded in one area — taking the early lead for Outsports jerk of the year for a series of tweets that are offensive, idiotic, ignorant and unintentionally comical at the same time. Deadspin has [...]
Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include baseball and soccer celebrations, college football in the spring, the NBA, fencing, Olympic trials kayaking, swimming and Cristiano Ronaldo. Click image for larger view (and on that image for an even larger view): Share on Facebook
Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include baseball’s opening day, college basketball, track and field, Aussie Rules Football, swimming and soccer. Share on Facebook
San Diego Padres pitcher Huston Street looks great in a swimsuit and also cross-dresses
A little bit of levity with baseball spring training starting, courtesy of reader Dan — photos of San Diego Padres relief pitcher Huston Street looking terrific in a swimsuit. Plus, a shot of him cross-dressing (probably rookie hazing) and one of him with the ladies. From the San Diego sports website Lobshots: I have zero [...]
Baseball to add sexual orientation to nondiscrimination policy in new labor deal
Major League Baseball and the players’ union will add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy as part of a new labor deal, the New York Daily News is reporting. From Andy Martino: The new collective bargaining agreement adds “sexual orientation” to its section on discrimination, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement told the [...]
Billy Bean on meeting one of his heroes, gay serviceman Eric Alva
Over the past decade, I have watched with bated breath as our community fought to repeal the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy that would finally allow the members of our armed forces who happen to be gay or lesbian to be honest about who they are as they fight courageously for our freedom. One of [...]
Los Angeles gay rights group slams Bud Selig for speaking before Boy Scouts gala
The Boy Scouts of America does not allow gays or lesbians to serve as scouts or scout leaders, saying it “believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed.” Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is speaking tonight at [...]
Texas Rangers complete epic choke, lose World Series to Cardinals
Update: Game 7 was so blah that it’s not worth a separate item. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers, 6-2, and are the World Series champions. The series, though, basically ended in Game 6. Previous: The headline might seem harsh but there is no other angle to explain the Texas Rangers blowing two-run [...]
World Series, Rangers vs. Cardinals: Do you have a rooting interest?
The World Series starts Wednesday with a matchup few expected — the Texas Rangers vs. the St. Louis Cardinals. I can’t say this is one to excite the senses. I will be rooting for the Rangers, the first World Series loser to make it back since the 1992 Braves. I can’t stand baseball allowing wild [...]
Outsports It Gets Better: Billy Bean, Major League Baseball player
The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project™ is from Billy Bean, who played baseball with the Tigers, Dodgers and Padres from 1987-95. Bean is a gay sports pioneer, becoming one of the few pro athletes who publicly came out. I met Billy this weekend and we did a terrific interview [...]
Brad Pitt does not play gay Billy Bean in “Moneyball,” he plays straight Billy Beane
Billy Bean and Billy Beane could not be more different. Yet they also have a lot in common. For many people, though, confusion reigns. I got this text a couple of days ago. “Hey Billy, I’m sitting here watching a movie called “Moneyball” with Brad Pitt. Is he you?” Sigh. Even my own friends are [...]
Red Sox complete greatest Sept. choke in baseball history; Braves a close second
The Boston Red Sox led the Tampa Bay Rays by nine games on Sept. 4. And last night the lead went poof and the Rays completed the biggest September comeback for a playoff spot in Major League Baseball history. Not far behind were the Atlanta Braves, who blew an 8 1/2 game wild card lead [...]
Moment #7: Major Leaguer Billy Bean comes out; still regrets retiring early
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1999: A restaurant review in the Miami Herald changed Billy Bean’s life. The article, in an oh-by-the-way fashion, mentioned that Bean and his partner in the restaurant were also partners in life. The item caught the attention of the New York [...]
Philadelphia Phillies release anti-bullying video for It Gets Better project
Thanks to Joe in Philly for alerting us that the Philadelphia Phillies have released a video for the It Gets Better project featuring Chase Utley, Roy Halladay, Hunter Pence, John Mayberry, Jr. and Michael Stutes. The Phillies, with the Major League’s best record, join the growing list of baseball teams that have produced the anti-bullying [...]