Congratulations to lontime Outsports friend Bill Konigsberg, who won a Lambda Literary Award last night for his book about a gay high school football player, Out of the Pocket. The award was for LGBT Children’s/Young Adult. Bill’s been on the forefront of gay visibility in the sports media since he came out at ESPN in [...]
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RIP Polamalu/Fitzgerald
The fans of 30 teams in the NFL have just breathed a sigh of relief. EA Sports has revealed the cover athletes for Madden 10, and as you can see, we’re going to get two horrific injuries/derailed careers this year instead of just one! Troy Polamalu of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Larry Fitzgerald of the [...]
Corey Johnson, 10 years later
It was 10 years ago that high school football player Corey Johnson came out to his team in Massachusetts, and Corey marked that anniversary recently with an appearance at the GLSEN Boston conference. Bay Windows caught up with him and asked why his story got so much attention nine years ago:
Part of it was timing. [...]
Matt Ryan, Michael Vick a study in contrasts
The differences between Matt Ryan and Michael Vick are pretty apparent. But it never gets tiring to see the disparities play out for the current and former quarterbacks for the Atlanta Falcons.
Consider this most recent example: Ryan spent Monday at the headquarters of ESPN shooting a new spot for the network’s “This is SportsCenter” campaign. [...]
Footballer: Stay away from Greek baths
Former UConn defensive tackle Robert Lunn (No. 65) is now playing pro football in Portchach, Austria. He’s obviously got a sense of humor, with a blog called Thoughts From a Fat White Guy. He recently shared his European experiences with Deadspin and had this to say about a Greek bathhouse his teammates took him to:
Our [...]
Straight guys play annual ‘Gay Bowl’! Lol! :-P
Nothing to organize protests over, but still showing of what so many straight guys think of gays. The Gay Bowl is an annual event held every Columbus Day Weekend and features 20 gay flag football teams from across the country. The Gay Bowl is also, apparently, an annual football game held every Thanksgiving in Eureka, [...]
The face of new pro football league
The United Football League will kick off in October with a whopping four teams. The league has recruited some medium-sized names to coach said teams, but no man is bigger than Denny Green, who will head up the San Francisco team (he previously coached in the Bay Area with the 49ers and at Stanford). The [...]
The Curious Case of Matt Cassel
Over the weekend, the New England Patriots traded both LB Mike Vrabel and QB Matt Cassel to the Kansas City Chiefs for the Chiefs’ second round draft pick in this year’s draft, the 34th overall pick. This instantly sent shockwaves through the NFL community as Cassel was being shopped heavily as bait for the Carolina [...]
Gay jocks on MTV’s old ‘Undressed’
From 1999 to 2002 there was a sexy after-dark show on MTV called “Undressed.” It featured sex-based storylines and from time to time had two guys jumping in the sack with each other. I recently stumbled across one such episode on YouTube, and it brought back memories of the redundant storylines, terrible acting and fun-loving [...]
