Last year we ran the story of Akil Patterson, the former University of Maryland football player who is now an elite-level Greco-Roman wrestler. Today his hometown paper, the Baltimore Sun, ran a terrific front page story in sports recounting how Patterson substance abuse and anger issues were related to him dealing with his sexuality. What [...]
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Chris Jones, Illinois football player, involved in alleged hate crime, suspended from team
Illinois lineman Chris Jones has been arrested for aggravated assault stemming from an incident last weekend, and some say it was an anti-gay hate crime. Illinois head coach Ron Zook has suspended Jones indefinitely for the incident. Jones has been charged with aggravated assault and not a hate crime because the former carriers a heavier [...]
Former college football linebackers tell of atmosphere of homophobia while playing
Inside Higher Education has a comprehensive look at a research study focusing on seven former college football linebackers, all of whom identify as “non-straight,” and how awful their experiences were while playing. The study by Lawrence J. Mrozek and Elizabeth Burns found: When players were found out, they could become targets. One former student who [...]
Matt Barkley, USC quarterback, Tweets that he is against equality for gay Americans
USC quarterback Matt Barkley has taken issue with the Obama Administration’s decision to not defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Last Wednesday he Tweeted that he was shaking his head over the decision; Then he said he isn’t a homophobe, he’s just standing up for his belief that gay people are second class [...]
Did you watch the BullCrap Series game?
Someone lamented that we have not posted about the BullCrap Series game last night, so I’m filling the void. I was in annual “boycott the BCS title game” mode so I didn’t watch it. The system is a sham and I wish everyone would realize that we could get a playoff if we all stopped [...]
BCS hot jocks: Cam Newton, Jeff Maehl
The college football season ends tonight with the BCS title game between Oregon and Auburn. My pick is Oregon, 38-30, but one bonus will be to see some good eye candy on both teams. My picks for the hottest on each team are: Cam Newton (Auburn quarterback) and Jeff Maehl (Oregon receiver). Since we are [...]
Big Ten to reconsider names of divisions
The Big Ten has taken some heat for the new names of the conference’s two divisions: Legends and Leaders. How someone could give the final approval on those names is beyond my understanding. It seems the conference is debating whether to change the names because the response has been so terrible. And if they’re going [...]
Big Ten names award after anti-gay Tony Dungy
Also check out my column on this issue on the Huffington Post. The Big Ten may have chosen the worst division names in history, but they outsunk themselves by choosing to name the conference’s humanitarian award after openly homophobic Tony Dungy. The former Minnesota quarterback has raised money for a rabidly anti-gay organization that has [...]
Outsports at 10: Remembering Ed Gallagher
Outsports is 10 years old. It’s been an incredible journey for both Jim and me. The most fulfilling aspects of the first decade of Outsports has been meeting some incredible people and telling some incredible stories. For the rest of 2010 we’ll revisit some of the stories that touched us and that had an impact [...]
Weekend Hot Jock: Stephen Garcia
The SEC Championship game on Saturday featured two good quarterbacks…who both happen to be quite attractive. We’ll highlight the Heisman-Trophy candidate next week, but today we bring you South Carolina QB Stephen Garcia.I do wish he’d cut his hair again though; He looks much better without the locks. The 6-foot-2 junior will be one of [...]
Bill McCartney: Sorry for anti-gay comments
Former University of Colorado football coach Bill McCartney, back in the news since he wants his old job back, now says he is sorry if people took it the wrong way when he called homosexuality an “abomination” in 1992. From the Boulder Daily Camera: “The Bible says the whole gospel is found in the first [...]
Colorado urged not to hire coach over gay views
A group of employees at the University of Colorado are opposed to the school hiring Bill McCartney as its football coach because of his past actions that they deem homophobic and sexist. From a CU podium in 1992, McCartney referred to homosexuality as “an abomination against almighty God” in support of Amendment 2, which prohibited [...]
Podcast: Sports pet peeves
Before we give thanks later this month, we talk on our latest podcast about what bugs us in sports. We discuss the complaints we get from readers about topics we put on our blog. Also, the officiating in the NFL has gotten off to a false start this year. And then, of course, there’s the [...]
National champs? It won’t be Alabama
It is all but certain that there will be a new BCS champion in college football after Alabama fell to LSU, 24-21. It is Alabama’s second loss, all but eliminating them from title contention. The Tide’s loss was good news for teams like Boise State and TCU, “non-automatic qualifiers.” Both are still unbeaten (TCU crushed [...]
Ohio State loses, so who’s your No. 1?
The first BCS poll will be out Sunday and the big question is who the top two teams will be. It won’t be Ohio State, 31-18 losers to Wisconsin. The Buckeyes became the second straight No. 1 team to lose, following Alabama a week earlier. Oregon, which was idle, will almost certainly be one of [...]