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 [...]
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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 [...]
Michigan athletes support gay student president
University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong has come under attack recently from Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell simply for being gay (Shirvell’s hateful blog is now readable by invitation only). But athletes from football, baseball, hockey, gymnastics, rowing, softball and many other sports aren’t standing for it. Instead, they have posed for [...]
Weekend Hot Jock: Cade Foster
Thanks to a reader for this submission, freshman kicker for the University of Alabama. Forget your preconceptions about kickers being the nerds of football in terms of their builds. Foster is 6-1 and weighs 221 pounds and has a terrific body. Photos: Share on Facebook
Is The Rock a stereotypical ‘gay biker’?
We now know how CBS’ Bleacher Report thinks gay bikers look, as they rip on The Rock’s sports fandom. I’m not sure if it’s the bald head, the goatee, or the little tanktop, but for some reason this is the image of a gay biker at CBS Sports. Or maybe it’s the pointless rambling of [...]
Boise State gets week 1 must-win
Week 1 of the college football season is in the books, and the big winner was Boise State. The No. 3 Broncos beat No. 10 Virginia Tech, 33-30, to stake an early claim to a legitimate spot in a national title race. Boise State had to show a lot of heart, trailing by 4 points [...]
Podcast: Dave Kopay previews football
Out former NFL player Dave Kopay joins us to preview the upcoming football seasons. He thinks Washington’s Jake Locker is the greatest athlete he’s ever seen. And he loves watching Aaron Rodgers and Peyton Manning. Plus, he says the dirty hits today have to stop. Listen to the podcast here or look for it on [...]
Post-Tim Tebow Florida looks like crap
If the University of Florida is the fourth-best college football team in the country, then it will be an incredibly weak year in college football. Florida beat Miami of Ohio, 34-12, but that score is highly misleading. It was 20-12 in the fourth until the Gators scored on a 72-yard run and a lucky throw-it-up-in-the-end-zone-and-pray [...]
College football’s shirtless photos trend
With college football starting this week, the Wall Street Journal looks at what it terms “college beefcake photos,” which have become more widespread thanks to the Internet (see gallery below). What’s missing is any discussion of the homoerotic aspects of the photos, though there is some discussion about “sending the wrong message.” At some schools, [...]
Join college football pick-em
Longtime Outsporter Layne (aka Mariner Duck Guy) has put together a college football pick-em, and he wants you to join! Many other Outsporters are playing, and we’d love to see you be a part of it! It’s the closest thing to a gay BCS championship we have! We’ll have ocassional updates on the pick-em standings [...]
Northwestern coach makes players hold hands
Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald has had enough of in-camp fighting between his team members, and the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein reported on Fitzgerald’s unique way of dealing with it. Via Twitter: Funniest moment from #Northwestern practice: Two players scuffle, take some swings at each other’s helmets … You guys are idiots!” Fitz (head coach Pat [...]
Notre Dame QB Dayne Crist against homophobia
There is a terrific feature from Chicago Tribune writer Brian Hamilton today about new Notre Dame quarterback Dayne Crist. The guy gets involved in a lot of causes and is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. Ending homophobia appears to be one of those causes. On a July afternoon, Crist, a [...]
Alabama tops AP preseason football poll
No surprise, but defending BCS champ Alabama is the overwhelming favorite to repeat as No. 1 in college football, if the preseason AP poll is accurate. The Tide garnered 54 of the 59 first-place votes. Rounding out the Top 5 are Ohio State, Boise State, Florida and Texas. It’s Boise State at No. 3 (the [...]
Roses Are Red… And So Are Fields?
Boise State is going into the season ranked #5 in the Coaches’ Poll. And the first thing many people think about when they say Boise State is that insane blue field they’ve got up there. Well, someone at Eastern Washington University saw that pretty little 5 by Boise State’s name and a light bulb turned [...]
NCAA hit wrong target with USC sanctions
The NCAA has found that Pete Carroll, Reggie Bush and the USC football program cheated in the early 2000s. Bush apparently got benefits he should not have gotten. And now that Carroll and Bush and virtually everyone else who benefited from it are gone, the NCAA has punched the new players and coaching staff in [...]
Pac-10 building a superconference?
Despite the incredible number of NCAA Championships won by the Pac-10 in the last two decades (averaging nine per year), many on the East Coast still view it as a weak conference. But if they pull of their plan, they will have reshaped the entire NCAA landscape. The conference has approved a plan to expand, [...]