Mike Bozeman, the man who blamed transgender player Kye Allums for his team’s horrific 2010-11 season, has been fired as the head coach of the George Washington women’s basketball team. Bozeman has been replaced by Notre Dame assistant coach Jonathan Tsipis, whose team lost in the national championship this year. Bozeman was a complete disaster [...]
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Baylor Lady Bears cap perfect 40-0 season with win over Notre Dame
The Baylor Lady Bears women’s basketball team became the first college basketball team to record a 40-0 record, crushing Notre Dame for the national championship Tuesday night, 80-61. Their run through the 2011-12 season was as impressive as any in college sports history. They had only four games decided by single digits. They knocked off [...]
NCAA says 2013 men’s basketball Final Four to be held in Lithuania
The NCAA makes a big deal touting its commitment to “student-athletes,” even though they don’t let them share in the millions and millions they make for the organization and their universities. It’s too bad they can’t find someone at NCAA who can spell. The court signage at the men’s Final Four had a series of [...]
Kentucky the top cat in college basketball after beating Kansas in final
Kentucky won the NCAA men’s basketball title over Kansas, 67-59, in a boring, sloppy game that capped the worst tournament I can remember. The Wildcats were just too good and Monday’s result was not much in doubt despite Kansas making a bit of a late run. This was a totally unmemorable tournament, virtually devoid of [...]
Homophobia among chief reasons for decline in female college coaches
With the NCAA women’s Final Four underway, ESPN has produced an exhaustive story that looks at the dwindling number of women coaching women’s college teams (it’s down from a high of 90% in 1970 to 42.9% now). Sexism plays a huge role in it, with women finding it hard to get second jobs after they’ve [...]
Gallery: 16 hotties for the Sweet 16
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament resumes with the Sweet 16, which will get down to the Final Four by the end of the weekend. We have selected 15 players and 1 coach representing all 16 teams. Ohio head coach John Groce is hotter than any of the players I was able to see. Share on [...]
Play the 2012 Outsports NCAA pool
Outsports has set up a pool for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. Fill out your bracket and see how you do against other Outsports readers. We are using Yahoo this season. To play, simply go to our Outsports NCAA Pool link and fill out the sign-up info. You can also log in using your [...]
Gallery: Outsports readers pick the NCAA men’s basketball hotties
We asked our readers to select their hottest player of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and you responded. Below are various players who will be in this year’s tournament, which starts with play-in games on Tuesday. With 68 teams and everyone having different tastes, it’s impossible to list everyone. But if you feel someone deserves [...]
Who are the hotties of March Madness?
Next week we’ll highlight some of the players to watch this March Madness in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. And we’d like your help finding them! With so many small schools making their way onto CBS next week, we know there are many out there most of us have never seen. Help us find them: [...]
Vanderbilt removes UK2GAY Kentucky shirts from online store
Update: These shirts may have been originally used in 2010. Either way, they’re not available now. Unidentified Vanderbilt fans, presumably students, had created a T-shirt (right) for the Commodores’ upcoming game against No. 1 Kentucky on Saturday. Creators of the shirt, with the phrase “UK2GAY,” included this disclaimer on the Web site for the shirt: [...]
GLAAD media awards nominees announced; sports virtually absent
Over the last few years we’ve been very pleased to see GLAAD recognize the increasing LGBT work done in sports with multiple sports-related nominees for their media awards. This year, as far as we can tell only one of the 151 nominees is directly related to sports: ESPN’s segment on Kye Allums. What makes that [...]
Will Sheridan releases new music video for ‘Set Fire to the Streets’
Openly gay former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan has release a new music video in anticipation of his debut album release in February. His music name is actually W!ll Sheridan; You can read more about him at his blog. The remix of ‘Set Fire to the Streets’ by Great Tiger is pretty damn good! I can absolutely [...]
Video: Anderson Cooper talks with Kye Allums
A few weeks ago, Anderson Cooper featured transgender youth on his program. For the last few minutes of the show he chatted via Webcam with trans former George Washington basketball player Kye Allums. Allums talked about his struggles being accepted, particularly by his mother. Video after the jump. Allums comes in at minute 36:00. Share [...]
St. Michael’s College athletics teams combine for awesome It Gets Better video
This is cool — players from the men’s and women’s basketball teams, men’s hockey team and tennis team have combined to produce an It Gets Better video for St. Michael’s College in Vermont. One of the editors of the video is Brian Healey, captain of the Purple Knights men’s tennis team, who says this: I’m [...]
St. John’s basketball fans called out for anti-gay chants at game
New York Post columnist Lenn Robbins has a great column slamming St. John’s Univesity college basketball fans for their use of gay slurs during last weekend’s game against the University of Arizona. I didn’t find anything clever about the St. John’s fans in the student section that were chanting “U of Gay” as a mocking [...]
Director: Joe Paterno had his hands in the Rene Portland scandal, too
Editor’s note: Fawn Yacker is director of the award-winning film ‘Training Rules,’ about homophobia in Penn State’s women’s basketball program. She is currently working on a project about homophobia in men’s pro sports. Joe Paterno describes the current “tragedy” at Penn State as “…one of the great sorrows of my life.” He should add to [...]
Kye Allums, Steve Buckley, Jared Max make for sportiest Out100 ever
We can’t remember an Out100 list that included so many athletes and people from the sports world. We already reported on Gareth Thomas’ inclusion on the list. Today the magazine revealed the names of three more: Sports columnist Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald; ESPN radio host Jared Max; and former college basketball player Kye [...]
Pat Summit, winningest coach in NCAA history, has dementia
She’s one of the lightning rods of women’s sports with a tough coaching style and lots of national championships. But no matter what side of the fence you’re on, your heart has to feel for Pat Summit. The legendary Tennessee Lady Vols coach announced this week that she suffers from the early onset of dementia [...]
Moment #44: Kye Allums comes out
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2010. When Kye Allums contacted Outsports in the spring of 2010, he was afraid of the repercussions of coming out as the first publicly out transgender male playing women’s college basketball. Other trans athletes like Keelin Godsey had come [...]
Moment #47: Penn State fires women’s basketball coach Rene Portland
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. College basketball, 2007: Rene Portland had a simple rule during her 27 years as Penn State’s women’s basketball team — no lesbians were allowed. Finally, in 2007, after the culmination of a lawsuit by former player Jen Harris and fought by [...]