One thing we’re proud of at Outsports is introducing our readers to up-and-coming athletes. Two years ago it was then-Florida wide receiver Riley Cooper. After his big game for the Philadelphia Eagles Sunday night, this post got a lot of attention so here it is again… Florida has a male model posing as a wide [...]
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BCS mess: Oklahoma State loses to Iowa State, so who’s No. 2?
I love it when the bogus BCS is a mess. Major college football stubbornly refuses to have a playoff and the result is a unsatisfying system that got turned upside down Friday night when Iowa State stunned previously unbeaten Oklahoma State, 37-31, in overtime. LSU and Houston are the only major unbeaten teams and Houston [...]
Jerry Sandusky showered with boys, insists he’s not a pedophile
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky proclaimed his innocence in an interview with Bob Costas of NBC (complete transcript). Sandusky said he regrets showering with boys, but says it was just “horse play” and that he is not a pedophile and did not rape a boy in the shower. Sandusky is free on [...]
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 [...]
Joe Paterno fired from Penn State, idiot students riot in response
It is fitting and appropriate that Joe Paterno was fired tonight by Penn State. The winning head football coach at one of the nation’s proudest programs simply could not take the field with the Nittany Lions against Nebraska on Saturday. Earlier in the day Paterno tried to cut off the school’s move by agreeing to [...]
The day Joe Paterno cursed me out, or why I am glad he is gone
I am a graduate of Penn State University and yet have never been a fan of football coach Joe Paterno. So I am not saddened that he is out, effective immediately. His actions – and rather inaction – in the child molestation case against former assistant Jerry Sandusky made it impossible for him to continue. [...]
LSU beats Alabama 9-6 in a snoozefest, not the “Game of the Century”
The only good thing about LSU’s dull 9-6 overtime win over Alabama in a game the media hyperventilated about all week is that we won’t see a rematch in the BCS title game. At least we better not. College football fans don’t deserve to be put to sleep again. I can appreciate a great defensive [...]
Same-sex pedophilia scandal rocks Penn State football, involving Jerry Sandusky
Penn State athletic director Tim Curley has been charged with perjury in connection with allegations that former football team defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky (right) sexually abused eight young men. According to the Associated Press: The attorney general’s office said Sandusky, 67, of State College, was arrested Saturday. Curley, 57, and Penn State vice president for [...]
Michigan State stuns Wisconsin, 37-31, on last-play Hail Mary touchdown pass
Wow. In what was the best ending I’ve seen in either a college or pro football game this season, Michigan State beat Wisconsin, 37-31, on a last-play throw-it-up-and-hope touchdown pass (video below). The pass was thrown by Kirk Cousins and was caught off a ricochet by Keith Nichol, a former QB. The refs first ruled [...]
Northwestern athletic department says ‘It Gets Better’
Joining the ranks of many Major League Baseball teams, the Northwestern University athletic department has put together an ‘It Gets Better’ video (after the jump) featuring school athletic director Jim Phillips, head football coach Pat Fitzgerald (right) and star men’s basketball player John Shurna, among others. Phillips said: We are excited to join with the [...]
Michigan to show anti-homophobia PSA at Saturday’s football game
Our good friend Howard Bragman has been busy helping to organize the 40th anniversary celebration of the nation’s oldest LGBT center on a campus, the University of Michigan’s The Spectrum. So it was with tons of excitement that he called today to tell us about this PSA that will air during their football game on [...]
TCU’s Vincent Pryor proved you can be an out gay man and play football
I hope people read the article we posted this week on Vincent Pryor, the TCU player who came out as gay to his team in 1994 and then set a school record for sacks in a game. His story is amazing and demolishes the idea that it’s not possible for an openly gay man to [...]
Meet Andrew Luck, former grizzly man
In November, 2009, we highlighted Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck as our weekend hot jock. We said then he was one to watch and that you’d be hearing a lot about him. Certainly his performance on the field has lived up to our hype – but the latest cover of ESPN the Magazine makes us rethink [...]
Moment #69: Ed Gallagher survives suicide attempt
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Football, 1985. Former Pitt Panther standout Ed Gallagher lied down atop the Kensico Dam, asked God for forgiveness, and rolled into the open space 100 feet above the ground. Gallagher had recently given into his gay sexual desires for the first [...]
Outsports partners with It Gets Better to highlight videos shot by athletes and coaches
Outsports is excited to announce a new partnership with the It Gets Better Project™. Together the two organizations will feature videos by out LGBT people in sports. We have begun contacting athletes, coaches and administrators whose coming out stories have appeared on Outsports to make videos, and the response has been enthusiastic. Among those who [...]