High school football player Coy Sheppard is back on his team after his coach kicked him off the team for wearing pink cleats. He wore the cleats to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer; The cleats were the gift of his 82-year-old great grandmother, and he wore them in honor of his grandmother, [...]
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Parke & Ronen butch it up, dude
There was a cool “fashion” event on Melrose Ave. in Los Angeles and West Hollywood last week for which many of the boutique clothing stores opened their doors after hours. We headed to the event at Parke & Ronen, who specialize in casual wear like shorts and (very small) swimsuits. The theme at the store [...]
Carson Kressley does the U.S. Open
Sports Illustrated is featuring reviews by Carson Kressley of the outfits on the men and women at the U.S. Open. He had good things to say about some, but he others left him scratching his head. On Caroline Wozniacki: OK, this one really stumped me. What is this? It looks like a bathing suit and [...]
Remembering Ted Tinling, tennis designer
I know the hardcore tennis buffs will know all about him, but I was surprised to find a list of “gays you should know” that featured an athlete and sportsman I couldn’t remember reading about before. Ted Tinling was a mediocre-at-best tennis player who became one of the world’s most renown designers of women’s tennis [...]
Get your team uniforms for Gay Games now!
As athletes and teams gear up for the Gay Games in Cologne this summer, many location-based umbrella organizations are putting together their uniforms for the athletes march into the opening ceremonies. It’s cool to see people from cities and countries all dressed the same at the event – it’s very colorful. Out of Bounds in [...]
Kobe Bryant’s gayest. outfit. ever.
What in the name of all things decent was Kobe Bryant thinking? He was featured in an L.A. Times Magazine article a couple weekends ago in a story called, “Kobe Bryant: White Hot.” In the photo spread, he’s dressed in all white…and in the gayest outfits I’ve ever seen. If he showed up at the [...]
Hockey playoff beards — Ugh!
The NHL playoffs are in the conference semifinals, and along with them comes the worst hockey tradition — the playoff beard. I mean real beards, not some woman used for cover. It’s a tradition to start growing a beard at the start of the playoffs and not shave until the season is over. Normally hot-looking [...]
NBA players shy about being “scantily clad”
Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson has a theory as to why visiting teams fare so poorly in the NBA playoffs: They are shy about being seen in their underwear: “You have to remember these men are out there in their underwear, in their shorts. These aren’t like the old days but they are [...]
Museum gets Sidney Crosby’s used pants
The folks who run the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto are excited — they are getting the pants Sidney Crosby used to help Canada win the gold medal. And they’re not washing them. “It’s going to be beautiful,” [Kelly] Masse [of the Hall] said of the display. The sweat-soaked pants, of course, will not [...]
Athlete designs clothes for masculine women
Former Belmont University basketball standout Sheika Taylor is turning her eye to fashion and releasing a clothing line specifically designed for more masculine women. “It is inspired by my own masculine style, but features a lot of my creative personality,” she said. “I strive to display elements of art in my garments by using different [...]
Gorgeous Ronaldo photos. Hide your eyes!
Despite the cries of a few people who read Outsports, “pictures of attractive athletes” was the second-most requested item in our start-of-the-year survey; Plus, stories and blog posts about or containing pictures of attractive, fit men are our most-read pieces on the site. So while we are aiming in the coming days and weeks to [...]
Poll: The worst sports uniforms ever
The website Uniwatch is been having a contest to pick the worst sports uniform ever. The competition is fierce but for true ugliness, it’s hard to beat the baseball minor league’s Tucson Toros from 1980: Share on Facebook
Rate the NFL throwback uniforms
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Football League, and to sell more jerseys, the NFL is having former AFL franchises wear their original uniforms. This has been done in the past several years with various teams, but the AFL focus has prompted a fierce debate on the fashion aesthetics [...]
Grizzlies’ shiny new uniforms
For those who like simple blue-and-white uniforms, shield your eyes now. The Memphis Grizzlies have introduced their third alternate uniform for the 2009-10 season. The new unis are supposed to reflect (and they do reflect) the shine and shimmer of Memphis’ famous Beale Street. When I drove across the country last December, we stopped in [...]
Brad Gilbert calls Del Potro’s outfit “fruity”
That wacky “guys’-guy” Brad Gilbert has done it again. The tennis legend-in-his-own-mind had this to say about Juan Martin Del Potro’s seemingly masculine all-black outfit at the U.S. Open: I’m giving a big thumbs-up to Del Potro’s all-black gear. It looks physical, he’s stepping up. They had him in too much of a fruity-looking outfit [...]