Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2009: There are other lesbians coaching college basketball but Sherri Murrell is the only one who is open. Murrell coaches at Division 1 Portland State and she has had great success, taking her team to the NCAA’s in 2010 and [...]
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Moment #87: Jen Harris sues Penn State
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2005: Harris was kicked off Penn State’s basketball team in 2005 by coach Rene Portland, who accused her of being a lesbian. Portland had a long history of homophobia, claiming she would not have lesbians on her team. In December [...]
Outsports wins NLGJA award; LZ Granderson named Journalist of the Year
It’s been quite a year for sports, and Outsports has certainly benefited. After Jim’s piece on Hudson Taylor was nominated for a GLAAD Award, now my piece on Kye Allums has won third place for the NLGJA Award for online journalism. The Allums piece was a project of passion for me, and it ignited a [...]
College basketball player John Bohannon tweets: ‘It is NOT cool to be gay’
University of Texas-El Paso college basketball player John Bohannon got himself in trouble when he tweeted: “#letsbereal it is NOT cool to be gay! (Zro voice) *jordan shrug*.” Bohannon was apparently reacting to the public service announcement aired during the NBA playoffs where Grant Hill and Jared Dudley of the Phoenix Suns said it was [...]
Will Sheridan releases new video, “302″
Former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan came out publicly as gay last week, and in his Outsports interview he talked about the passion he has for his music. His recent video “Welcome to the Jungle” has gotten a lot of YouTube play. Sheridan has released his latest music vide, “302,” named for the area code [...]
27 sports people have already come out in 2011: athletes, journalists, coaches and execs
Updated: May 19, 2011 When Ross Forman of the Windy City Times asked me to come up with a list of all the people in sports who have come out publicly this year, I had no idea the number would eclipse two dozen. And still counting. From the two men who kicked off this year, [...]
Will Sheridan: Level of response to his coming out story has been ‘unreal’
I had a chance to talk today with Will Sheridan, the former Villanova basketball player who came out publicly this week in an ESPN.com article. We spoke for more than an hour and he was engaging, articulate, funny and passionate. I have written a Q&A where he touches on a variety of topics relating to [...]
Kye Allums leaves GWU basketball team, will accept NCLR award this weekend
Kye Allums, the first transgender Div. 1 college athlete whose story Outsports broke last November, has decided to not play on the women’s basketball team his senior season. While we can’t discuss specifics, we know this decision has been coming for a while. Having known Kye now for over a year, I know there were [...]
Will Sheridan, former Villanova basketball player, comes out as gay
Former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan, who graduated four years ago, is only the second former Div. 1 male basketball player to publicly come out of the closet as gay. John Amaechi was the first. Former Long Beach State 49er Travon Free previously came out as bisexual. Sheridan will be interviewed on ESPN’s Outside the [...]
CJ Leslie apologizes for homophobic tweets
NC State basketball start CJ Leslie apologized today on Twitter for saying yesterday he would not want a gay teammate in the locker room. Leslie said he saw an ESPN show (my guess is Outside the Line’s segment on gay rights yesterday) and that opened his eyes. His two apologetic tweets read: Wanna apologize for [...]
NC State responds: CJ Leslie not available for comment until after final exams
NC State assistant athletic director for media relations Annabelle V. Myers has released a statement to Outsports regarding the anti-gay tweets of basketball star CJ Leslie. She said Leslie will not be available for comment until after his final exams are over: CJ is in exams right now and Coach Gottfried is attending ACC meetings. [...]
John Amaechi responds to CJ Leslie’s anti-gay tweets
NC State basketball star CJ Leslie tweeted last night that he wouldn’t want gay people in his locker room, and that John Amaechi is “to [sic] big to be gay.” We reached out to Amaechi, who was also on ESPN’s Outside the Lines earlier today, for a response to Leslie’s comments. I would advise him [...]
NC State basketball star CJ Leslie tweets he doesn’t want gays in his locker room
NC State basketball star CJ Leslie decide to follow Uptown Sports’ lead yesterday and spew homophobia on his Twitter account last night. He also said that John Amaechi is too big to be gay; I guess he hasn’t met Esera Tuaolo. He has since deleted the offending posts (captured below). We have contacted the school [...]
Women outscore men for championship
While Jim wrote Monday about the dreadful UConn-Butler men’s national championship game, the women took center stage last night and put up 52 more points than the men could muster as Texas A&M won its first women’s basketball national title, 76-70, over Notre Dame. Could this be a turning point for women’s basketball? One complaint [...]
Connecticut beats Butler in stupdendously awful NCAA men’s basketball final
Connecticut beat Butler, 53-41, in an NCAA tournament final that set men’s college basketball back 60 years. It figures that a game pitting the Bulldogs against the Huskies turned out to be a dog. The 53 points by Connecticut was the fewest for a champion since 1949, while Butler’s 41 was the lowest since 1950, [...]
Video: ESPN profiles Kye Allums
ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Sunday featured a story on transgender basketball player Kye Allums hours before the start of the Women’s Final Four. The piece covered a lot of territory from Kye’s relationship with his mother, Rolanda DelaMartinez, to his high school basketball career, to the acceptance of his team at George Washington. Two videos [...]
ESPN’s Outside the Lines profiles Kye Allums
This Sunday’s ‘Outside the Lines’ on ESPN will feature a lengthy segment on transgender NCAA basketball player Kye Allums and other trans issues in sports. You can see a short clip of the segment after the jump, and it shows they ask Allums some tough questions, some of which we’ve delved into in our coverage [...]
2 people out of 5,900,000 correctly pick men’s Final Four in ESPN pool
Only two people out of 5.9 million people in ESPN’S NCAA men’s basketball pool correctly picked the Final Four: Connecticut (3 seed), Kentucky (4), Butler (8) and Virginia Commonwealth (11). One of them was so bad in their other picks that they stand around 6,000. But Joe Pearlman, an I.T. worker in New Jersey is [...]
Just how unpredictable was this Final Four? And will you be cheering for Brad Stevens?
Only two of the Final Four teams were supposed to be in the Sweet 16, and none were supposed to make it to the Elite 8. But here we are, with the most upside-down Final Four I can think of. 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth; 8-seed Butler; 4-seed Kentucky; 3-seed Connecticut. It’s such a shocking Final Four [...]
God has spoken! BYU is gone! Thank you Florida! (Plus Arizona’s win over Duke…)
I haven’t paid much attention to the NCAA tournament this year; The decline in talent, poor officiating and lack of compelling storylines just left me disinterested. But I got a lot more interested this morning when I saw BYU lost last night! For the last two weeks we’ve had endure columns praising BYU for “standing [...]