Virginia Commonwealth is one of the surprise teams in the NCAA men’s basketball Sweet 16, having been one of the final entries into the expanded field. VCU also has a pep band that goes to every game with a band leader, Ryan Kopacsi, who likes to do a partial strip, not a surprise since he [...]
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Open lesbian Hawaiian Supreme Court judge Sabrina Shizue McKenna was basketball player
Ross Forman at the Windy City Times has a recent piece about newly appointed Hawaiian Supreme Court judge Sabrina Shizue McKenna. In addition to being one of the first openly gay person to serve on the state’s highest court. McKenna’s also familiar with another kind of court, having played for the University of Hawaii women’s [...]
March Madness is exciting and sloppy
I did not watch any regular season men’s college basketball but did watch a fair amount of the tournament the past four days. I had not realized the quality of the sport had dropped so much. Jay Bilas on ESPN said it is one of the weakest fields he’s seen in years, owing to college [...]
Morehead State and Kenneth Faried are reasons for gay fans to cheer
While most people saw Louisville’s loss to Morehead State as nothing more than a loss in their bracket, gay fans have a special reason to cheer. 13th-seeded Morehead State’s Kenneth Faried, a top NBA prospect, earlier this year revealed his mother is a lesbian; And he had nothing but wonderful things to say about her, [...]
Play the 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 CBS Sportsline this season. For the first two rounds, you will get the seed of the winner added to your points, which will reward correct upset [...]
There is crying in basketball
We hear it every time this year. Waaaaah. Waaaaaaaaaaaah. All the way from Bristol, Conn., the rest of the country can hear Dick Vitale and countless other commentators whining because so-and-so didn’t get into the men’s basketball tournament…despite the NCAA adding three more spots this year! You can see Vitale’s annual whining fit after the [...]
BYU suspends basketball star Brandon Davies for having sex with his girlfriend
How ready is BYU to persecute people who don’t follow the Mormon doctrine? Scarily so. The school this week suspended one of its star players, Brandon Davies, for having premarital sex with his girlfriend. The team was ranked No. 3 in the country, having lost only two games this season; But in their first game [...]
Kye Allums’ season ends. Looking ahead to surgery, his mom gives us exclusive interview
George Washington University has ended Kye Allums’ basketball season. The transgender junior guard played in only seven games this season as concussions kept him sidelined. In an Outsports exclusive, Allums’ mother, Rolanda DelaMartinez, says the school has mishandled Allums’ playing time and has prevented her son from talking with the media. In addition, she alleges [...]
Morehead State player’s lesbian mother
Kenneth Faried is an emerging player in the Ohio Valley Conference for Morehead State. In an article on ESPN.com, Faried talks about his mother, who is a lesbian. He talks beautifully about his mother’s wife and their relationship. “I think people have an aura about them and the first time I met her, I thought, [...]
Former Long Beach State baller is bisexual
You can count the number of Div. 1 college basketball players who have come out as gay or bisexual on one hand. Now count former Long Beach State 49er center Travon Free as one of the very rare openly bisexual former collegiate ballers. Free didn’t exactly light it up in college; he played in fewer [...]
Kye Allums battles concussions
George Washington University’s transgender basketball player Kye Allums is again battling the repercussions of a concussion he suffered in their Nov. 18 game against Coppin State, GW spokesperson Jesse Hooker has informed me. Allums had returned to play after Thanksgiving and lit up the scoreboard, leading the team in field goal percentage shooting 13-for-26 in [...]
Stanford ends UConn’s win streak at 90
The last team the UConn women’s basketball team lost to before winning 90 straight games was the Stanford Cardinal. On Thursday night Stanford ended that UConn streak beating the Lady Huskies in convincing fashion, 70-59. The win avenged Stanford’s loss to UConn in the national championship game last April. A video recap of the game [...]
Kye Allums returns with big game and win
Kye Allums missed his team’s previous three games with a concussion, but he came back Sunday with a vengeance, shooting 3-for-5 from the field scoring 10 points and pulling in two rebounds as George Washington beat George Mason, 67-58. The GWU Colonials trailed the George Mason Bulldogs, 30-17, at halftime before roaring back for the [...]
Kye Allums has big game, GWU gets first win
It took until the third game of the season, but openly transgender George Washington University point guard Kye Allums finally gave his fans a game to remember. Playing just 15 minutes, Allums racked up a game-high 12 points and hauled in 7 rebounds in the Colonials’ 63-42 victory over Coppin State. Seven of Allums’ points [...]
Kye Allums, GWU lose opener
Kye Allums’ first game as an openly transgender man ended in disappointment as his team lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay, 75-51, in the Best Buy Classic. The tournament is being held in Minneapolis, near Allums’ childhood home. Allums played 15 minutes and racked up 1 rebound and 1 assist. “Kye played pretty well,” Allums’ head coach [...]
Kye Allums’ mother claims death threats
As Kye Allums heads home with his George Washington University basketball team for the Best Buy Classic, his mother claims she has received death threats because of Kye’s revelation that he is transgender. In an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Rolanda Delamartinez claims she fears for the safety of her family. “Perhaps Minnesota is [...]
Kye Allums, George Washington, talk to press
The media attention for Kye Allums’ transition on a women’s basketball team has been so strong that the school held a special press conference to talk to the media…featuring Allums, the coach of the team, and a team captain. The Associated Press was there and did a great job with the highlights, and they even [...]
Kye Allums story gets huge media attention
When I started talking to Kye Allums last spring, I told him I wanted our story about his gender transition on a college basketball team to come out many weeks before his first game so that the media reaction wouldn’t distract him from playing. For various reasons, the story got pushed to Nov. 1, just [...]
Kye Allums, GWU make statements
George Washington University released new statements today regarding the story Outsports broke about the school’s transgender guard Kye Allums. Statement from Robert Chernak, Senior Vice Provost and Senior Vice President for Student Academic and Support Services: “Student-athlete Kye Allums has decided to live as a male student and be referred to as a male. The [...]
First NCAA publicly transgender basketball player
Today we’re thrilled to tell the story of Kye Allums, a guard for the George Washington University women’s basketball team. Earlier this year, Jenelle DeVits from Our Group took Outsports to task for not telling the stories of more women and racial minorities. I asked her to find us these stories and we’ll tell them. [...]