We’ve been excitedly awaiting first word about Logo’s upcoming series Shirts & Skins, and we’ve finally got it. Apparently, the first couple of episodes have been delivered and word is that it’s really good. Our big worry has been that Logo would drive the show to focus too much on the skin aspect of the [...]
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More on the Murder of a Black Lesbian Soccer Player
Re the recent brutal gang-rape and slaying of South African player Eudy Simelane, Outsports reader Wayne Jones emailed me from South Africa to add: “As you mentioned, there have been other lesbian murders (in black townships/ghettos) where the motive has been simply because the women were gay. Township women don’t have it easy here: last [...]
Equal Opportunity to Look Stupid
The Patrick/Duno dust-up, followed by the Pierson/Parker dust-up, reminds us that it was male athletes, not females, who filed the first copyright on temper fests during competition. Call it the dark side of sports if you will…or the twilight of sportsmanship. But a lot of fans live for it, especially when the races or the [...]
Slugging Sparks ‘Shock’ the WNBA
Candace Parker proves that it’s not just male athletes who are ill tempered. Parker, of the Los Angeles Sparks, threw down with Lisa Leslie and her Detroit Shock in the closing seconds of a game on Tuesday. The Shock, ironically, are coached by former NBA bad boy Bill Laimbeer. This comes just three day after [...]
Shaq: ‘Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes’
You are about to learn two things in this video. One, Shaq can’t rap. Two, Shaq hates Kobe. Oh wait, we already knew both those things. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=yLLIUr-NePw] Apparently, Shaq was given a mic at a night club and decided to use this opportunity to share his feeling on Kobe in a freestyle wrap. About 1:08 [...]
NBA Cares (a lot about its image)
The NBA is dedicating a lot of very expensive TV time to remind viewers that NBA players are philanthropic nice guys rather than… well, I’m afraid to guess what they think they need to overcompensate for. Not only has ABC/ESPN enlisted Def Leppard and Tim McGraw to record the cheesy country music song “Nine Lives” to lead [...]
Swoopes: coming out “scary” and “positive”
Life is good for the only openly gay professional basketball player. After 10 years in Houston Sheryl Swoopes has signed with the Seattle Storm, recovered from back surgery that kept her from playing last season, and is among 29 players being considered for the USA’s 12-women Olympic roster. In an article with TheNewsTribune.com Swoopes talks [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Rock Dogs basketball team plays ABA team
The San Francisco Rock Dogs, defending Gay Games gold medal team, took on the San Francisco Rumble of the American Basketball Association Tuesday night in an exhibition game at Kezar Recreation Center in San Francisco. The game was taped for the LOGO cable channel’s documentary series “Rock Dogs: Shirts & Skins,” due to air this [...]
Joe Alexander sleeps in the locker room
Can’t get enough of Joe Alexander? We don’t get to see him in action again until Thursday when West Virginia, the team that sent Duke packing, will face Sweet 16 draw Xavier. In the meantime, the NY Times has profiled the intriguing, basketball-obsessed star who has caused many to take a second look. Last season, [...]
Is activism a bad word in sports?
Are athletes involved in non-sports causes “activists”? And if so, why is that such a bad thing? A recent NY Times article profiled a letter-writing campaign headed by Ira Newble, an NBA player, aimed at pressuring China to intervene in the desperate situation in Darfur. Many of Newble’s teammates (he was with Cleveland at the [...]
Rock Dogs show now called “Shirts and Skins”
Logo’s show about gay basketball team the “Rock Dogs” has a new title: “Shirts and skins.” I’m still holding out hope that producer Bill Kendall (right, in white t-shirt) will be able to steer the show in the right direction and not let people who are sports-senseless drive its direction. But the cliche, homoerotic title [...]
A urologist’s guide to the NCAA tourney
I don’t have much to add to this CNN.com “news” item about a urology clinic in Oregon that is using March Madness to entice men to book vasectomy appointments. But I just couldn’t resist. It’s not every day you see groin-swelling journalism that combines NCAA basketball and the male reproductive organ (both of which, incidentally, [...]
Gay basketball show coming to TV
This week Logo announced the launch a show we’ve been watching the development of for about a year. Rock Dogs is the story of, well, the San Francisco Rock Dogs, one of the best (yes guys, probably the best) gay basketball teams in the world. We’re told the series will follow the players on the [...]
Sexiest fan alive
People magazine is in the middle of an online contest to find the sexiest baseball fan alive. Only one guy, a Red Sox fan, has his team still alive in the playoffs (as of Thursday morning). My pick: Christopher Noonan (right), a Chicago Cubs fan. His answers are pretty lame, but he’s got a great [...]
Closted basketball coach
On the discussion board is a new thread by a closeted gay high school basketball coach: “I have been struggling with the thought of coming out, but fear that the backlash would hurt my career. I am heavily involved and a leader of my peers at the local, state and national level,” writes the coach, [...]