When BYU suspended basketball star Brandon Davies for having premarital sex with his girlfriend, we heard about the Mormon school’s “honor code.” Among its no-no’s are sex, drinking swearing. And, of course, “homosexual behavior.” Homosexual behavior is inappropriate and violates the Honor Code. Homosexual behavior includes not only sexual relations between members of the same [...]
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Should Garrett Wittels be able to play?
Florida International shortstop Garrett Wittels is accused of raping a woman in the Bahamas in December. He’s also three games shy of breaking Robin Ventura’s NCAA record for consecutive games with a hit. The University announced yesterday that Wittles will be allowed to play in his team’s season-opener this Friday. Some argue he hasn’t been [...]
Video: CBS Sports remembers Brendan Burke
CBS Sports has created a segment on the late Brendan Burke. They talked exclusively to members of the Miami (Ohio) hockey team that Brendan managed. This week marks the one-year anniversary of his accidental death. Check out the video after the jump. Thanks to Hudson Taylor for pointing us to it. Share on Facebook
Belmont University now protects gays
A couple months for allegedly firing head soccer coach Lisa Howe for being a lesbian, Belmont University trustees have added sexual orientation to their nondiscrimination policy. This comes just a day after ESPN Outside the Lines featured two segments on the controversy. “This is a great victory for the values of inclusion, human dignity and [...]
Lesbian coach Katie Brenny sues Minnesota
Out lesbian golf coach Katie Brenny has filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota claiming she was removed from her coaching position at the university because she is gay. According to Golf Week: “The atmosphere that was created became more and more hostile, to the point where it made it intolerable for me to [...]
Out athlete Ryan Quinn publishes first book
The successful and sometimes controversial novelist Anne Rice offers the following advice to aspiring writers: write the book you want to read and that doesn’t yet exist. Another piece of advice she has: don’t listen to other peoples’ advice. I wasn’t aware of these words of wisdom at the time, but my instincts told me [...]
Metro council steps up pressure on Belmont
At the behest of the Tennessee Equality Project, the Nashville Metro Council is considering a bill that would strip Belmont University of its lease of a city park where the school is building sports facilities to the tune of $7 million. The bill is co-sponsored by Councilmen Jamie Hollin (right) and Mike Jameson. “It’s not [...]
A runner comes out, then goes back in
For my money the strangest story we covered in our 10 years (and there were a few that qualify) was the 2002 story of University of Missouri runner and track coach Derrick Peterson (who asked to be called “Deric” for the article). I was the sports editor of Genre magazine at the time (Andy Towle [...]
NCAA: Allums, trans athletes, can have surgery
While many have believed that a transgender female-to-male athlete cannot have gender-reassignment surgery and still play women’s sports, the NCAA has clarified that there is nothing preventing those athletes from doing so: As discussions continue and after further review of this topic at the national office, generally speaking a female who wants to be socially [...]
McMaster University marches for gay in sports
Another university has taken up the fight against homophobia in sport. Athletes and sports department staff of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, will march in the school’s Pride Parade this afternoon fresh off the school’s lacrosse national championship on Sunday (right). The department also partnered with the Queer Students Community Centre (QSCC) to organize “Positive [...]
Out athletes abound at Yale
Think out NCAA athletes are still rare? That’s changing fast. There’s a fantastic article in the Yale Daily News about gay athletes on campus there, and they name names of a half-dozen out athletes at the school, including diver Colton Staab ’12 (right). The best story of the bunch involves a swimmer (the one out [...]
Eastern Michigan adds gay-athlete group
A new group supporting gay athletes has popped up at Eastern Michigan University this semester. The group, called Student Alliance for Gay Athletes, was founded by Maggie Manville, the former starting goalkeeper of the women’s soccer team. The group has 75 Facebook members and includes gay athletes and straight allies. Via the school’s student newspaper, [...]
Michigan athletes support gay student president
University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong has come under attack recently from Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell simply for being gay (Shirvell’s hateful blog is now readable by invitation only). But athletes from football, baseball, hockey, gymnastics, rowing, softball and many other sports aren’t standing for it. Instead, they have posed for [...]
More ‘horrible to come out in sports’ chatter
This one comes from the Stanford Daily, I’m afraid. One of their writers, Tom Taylor, has no idea what he’s writing about. None. He even gets some basic statistics wrong (he says there are 100 players on each NFL team, and he says there are about 100 openly gay professional athletes in the world) before [...]
Pac-10 building a superconference?
Despite the incredible number of NCAA Championships won by the Pac-10 in the last two decades (averaging nine per year), many on the East Coast still view it as a weak conference. But if they pull of their plan, they will have reshaped the entire NCAA landscape. The conference has approved a plan to expand, [...]