The Andover High School basketball team has been torn apart by a hazing incident that has left two students expelled from the school and seven more suspended. The incident took place at Hoop Mountain basketball camp last summer and involved a “game” called “ookie cookie” or “wet biscuit.” From the North Andover Eagle-Tribune: Hoop Mountain [...]
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Tim Hardaway, once anti-gay, stands up for gay rights in El Paso
This is one of the most positive stories I’ve seen in a long time: Former NBA player Tim Hardaway, who in 2007 said he “hates” gay people, is now campaigning in El Paso, Texas, against the recall of three city officials who restored domestic partnership benefits after they were stripped in a ballot referendum. Hardaway [...]
Johnny Damon, Sam Fuld among Tampa Bay Rays to film It Gets Better video
A meeting at a wine tasting between a St. Petersburg gay business owner and Tampa Bay Rays players Johnny Damon and Sam Fuld led to the team agreeing to film a video for the It Gets Better Project to fight teen bullying. Manager Joe Maddon and players Johnny Damon, Sam Fuld, B. J. Upton and [...]
Outsports It Gets Better video: Emma Delsohn, high school basketball player
The next video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Emma Delsohn, who is starting her freshman year at Seattle University. Emma became known to Outsports readers this spring after she wrote a fantastic article on coming out as a high school basketball player at an all-girls Catholic school in Southern [...]
Basketball player writes about coming out as lesbian at a Catholic girls school
Emma Delsohn is a 17-year-old senior basketball player at a girls Catholic high school in Southern California. It would not appear to be the easiest place to come out as a lesbian. But in an excellent first-person account for Outsports, Emma describes how she overcame her fears and reached out to her teammates. And how [...]
Basketball exec apologizes for ‘queer game’
Call this Homophobia in European Sports, Part 742. This time it’s the president of the Greek basketball team Iraklis Thessaloniki B.C. apologizing for a loss by his team by calling their play a “queer game.” Some media outlets are claiming the coach forced the players to remove their jerseys after the game, but a more reliable [...]
Gay couple defend Iowa St. women’s basketball
ESPN the Magazine has an important and timely article out about homophobia in women’s college basketball (“On homophobia and recruiting”). It addresses the subject of “negative recruiting,” a topic we have written about regularly at Outsports. The story opens by dealing with the program at Iowa State, where inferences are drawn. It is attracting criticism [...]
Vote: Outsports Sportsperson of the year
While the search for the first openly gay active pro athlete in the big four American sports continues, there was a lot of good that happened for gays in sports in 2010. Many more athletes came out, many more straight allies came on board, and transgender athletes became big stories for the first time in [...]
Boise State player in rape hazing allegations
Three college football players, including a freshman walk-on at Boise State, have been charged with sexual assault in conjunction with hazing allegations from their high school senior year on the boys basketball team. From Reuters: Police say the five athletes forcibly penetrated fellow members of the high school basketball team and battered and restrained the [...]
Weekend Hot Jock: Elisha Justice
College basketball has started its regular season, a good time to turn our attention to new players. One of them, suggested by a reader, is Louisville University freshman Elisha Justice. What stands out is his rocking body, which prompted the Louisville website Cardinal Connect to exclaim: “Just want to make sure you take a closer [...]
Steve Nash against anti-gay bullying
There’s an excellent article on ESPN.com by LZ Granderson. All-Star point guard Steve Nash of the Phoenix Suns speaks out, not just about bullying in general but specifically about kids who are being harassed because they’re gay. On his official Twitter feed, Nash re-tweeted a link to a New York Times article on the recent [...]
Basketball coach fights ‘homosexual lifestyle’
A basketball coach in Kentucky is dedicating his coaching efforts to fighting the “lesbian lifestyle.” Coach Jaye Collins (left in photo, with Isaiah Thomas) has put together the Lady Legends basketball team to feature some of the top girls high school basketball play who are committed to God and rejecting the gay “lifestyle.” From the [...]
Watching the basketball world championships?
Believe it or not, the men’s basketball world championships are taking place right now and the American team has already played three games! After slipping by Brazil yesterday, 3-0, Team USA is poised for a run at a medal. But gold isn’t a given, because this is not the “Dream Team” of some past Olympics: [...]
Video: Gay Games basketball highlights
For those of you who didn’t make it to the Gay Games VIII men’s A division gold medal basketball game between the San Francisco Rockdogs and the Long Beach Rebels, we have this highlight video. Share on Facebook
John Amaechi dunks for London Olympics
The London Olympic Committee isn’t shying away from working with John Amaechi to promote the Olympics in 2012. His latest appearance was at the new basketball arena for the Olympics, where Amaechi showed of his shot and showed he can still dunk. He said he was hurting later that day, but he loved it. Tewksbury [...]