The UConn women’s basketball team completed a perfect regular season at 30-0. How special is it? It’s better than losing a game, I suppose. Though some may argue that losing a game in the regular season helps a team focus, given they’ve won two by winning them all already, I don’t think that applies. But [...]
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Please fire Jeff Van Gundy again
Jeff Van Gundy, please shut up.
The former NBA coach and current ESPN and ABC analyst has ruined a perfectly good Sunday of hard-hitting basketball. All I wanted to do during this snowstorm in Atlanta (that’s right, snowstorm in Atlanta!) was relax, stay warm and watch a trifecta of pro basketball.
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Fifteen worst basketball uniforms ever
A guy over at FanIQ searched the globe to compile his list of the 15 worst basketball uniforms ever. Not surprisingly, they’re almost entirely from the United States. Only two college — Oregon and Syracuse — made the list. Charles Barkley wore two of the uniforms in his NBA career. The biggest surprise has to [...]
Drag queen wins homecoming queen crown
George Mason University in Virginia elected Ryan Allen, a gay man and a drag queen, as its new homecoming queen. (Video below the jump). Allen ran as “Reann Ballslee” and won the vote conducted via e-mail and announced at halftime of last Sunday’s game.
Allen, who is gay and performs as a popular drag queen at [...]
Sportsmanship cheers amidst the tears
While the gossip and sex get lots of attention, We’re going to try to bring you more stories like this on our blog: Incidents that show the wonder, courage and sportsmanship of sports and the athletes who play them. This one has it in spades. It’s tough to sum up, but a high school basketball [...]
Autistic basketball hero
One of the greatest aspects of sports is stories like this. Just watch.
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Player says she’s off team for being straight
Now, here’s a twist — Brooke Heike (right), a former women’s basketball player at Central Michigan University is suing the school and coach Sue Guevara, claiming she was kicked off the team for being heterosexual and not the “type” the coach wanted.
The lawsuit states in April 2007, when Guevara was hired as head coach, she [...]
Is 100-0 running up the score?
There’s a long-running debate on Outsports as to when “running up the score” is OK and when it’s wrong. I think it’s dependent on the level of play (in college sports dependent on polls and in the pros it’s OK, in high school it’s not). Others think it’s never OK. Some think it’s always OK. [...]
Is 94-1 ‘running up the score’?
I’m all for playing hard for every minute and respecting your opponents by not treating them like children. But, when they ARE children and you’re leading a basketball game 48-0 at halftime, don’t you let up a little? I guess the coach of the Greeley, Colo., girls basketball team did let up a little; His [...]
Baskets aplenty in sporty new calendar
The French can do a few things well. Smoldering beefcake calendars appear to be one of those things. The French gay glossy Blake has debuted its “Basket League” calendar for 2009, a sporty-themed affair that strategically places a basketball in each photo with an otherwise nude model.
Oh, yeah. Each model is wearing a pair of [...]
Zach Pucthel now out-ish pro baller in Israel
About 16 months ago we brought the story of Zach Puchtel, a former Univ. of Minnesota basketball player who came out of the closet during a fashion show in the spring of 2007. Since then, he’s been hard to pin down on various levels: His sexuality is fluid and he says he’s not gay; He [...]
Closeted high school coach seeks advice
On our Discussion Board, a man who says he is a closeted high school basketball coach, is seeking advice in dealing with his situation.
I am a closeted high school basketball coach, but also a leader in the sports community. I serve as the president of the area coaches association and am also a state and [...]
Hoops madness and the Baller in Chief
No offense to bowlers, but a real sport is about to enter the White House. With a new Baller in Chief in Barack Obama about to take up residence in the White House, basketball is poised to become the FIrst Sport. The NBA, of course, stands ready to rip out the bowling lane and install [...]
Et tu, professional sports leagues?
Now this recession thing is getting serious. The NFL announced it’s cutting staff, joining a recent announcement by the NBA that it’s firing folks, too. When a sour economy starts to impact the sports world, a place we go to escape the travails of the world spinning out of control around us, it’s time for [...]
“Crowd” sees Hawks win & Gasol’s oh face
Josh Smith was making a comeback from an ankle injury and the Atlanta Hawks are battling for first place in the Southeast Division, but no one in Atlanta seems to be noticing. Ball Don’t Lie has pictures from last night’s Hawks-Grizzlies game with a crowd that can be generously called sparse. (Picture after the jump)
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