Abercrombie & Fitch has cut out the heterosexual pretense with two sports-themed ads from Bruce Weber that show guys and nothing but guys. These guys are — of course — young, shirtless (and all white), and they are wrestling around. One of the ads says, “Other sports require one ball, wrestling requires two.” There is [...]
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Former gay porn actor Dakota Cochrane debuts on ‘The Ultimate Fighter 15,’ loses
Update: Cochrane lost a split decision in the round of 32 during a live telecast March 9, so he won’t be on the show any more. Dakota Cochrane, who has talked openly about his gay porn past, will debut Friday on the opening episode of the reality series “The Ultimate Fighter 15.” The show airs [...]
Men in tights — the NFL combine ends
The NFL Combine, aka the Underwear Olympics, have concluded after four days of hopeful pros being tested, weighed, poked and prodded by a bunch of mostly middle-age men. Where else can you hear NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock call someone a “good-looking kid,” or have players’ bodies talked about in such great detail (we have [...]
Dudes in Spandex — NFL Combine, the “Underwear Olympics” starts
The NFL Combine starts Thursday in Indianapolis, a fleshfest of hopeful future pros lifting weights, running routes and doing drills all while wearing tight Underarmour-type outfits. It’s no wonder Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk dubbed them the “Underwear Olympics.” Not too long ago, the league even showed the weigh-ins, where the player would strip [...]
Watch Toyota’s gay-positive Super Bowl ad
I seldom watch Super Bowl commercials, since I watch every play of the game and use the breaks to get food, socialize or run to the bathroom. So I missed the ad for the Toyota Camry, but advertising columnist Stuart Elliott of the New York Times gave it a thumbs up: A commercial for the [...]
Football as a homoerotic ritual — are players really gay?
With the Super Bowl only days away, it’s time to revive a classic that has long been forgotten: An academic paper from 1978 by Cal-Berkeley anthropologist Alan Dundes called “Into the End Zone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football.” I can sum it up with this opening line from a 1978 Time [...]
Is the ‘lax bro’ culture keeping gays out of lacrosse?
Josh Acut of LaxAllStars.com dove headfirst this week into the question of gay athletes in lacrosse. He related an eye-opening story about talking to a group of college students about lacrosse’s “Grow The Game” initiative. What he came up against was lacrosse’s dominant “bro culture”: This week, I was talking at a school with an [...]
David Beckham to strip to his underwear for H&M Super Bowl ad
This is looking to be a fairly gay Super Bowl. Madonna is doing the halftime show and now comes news that gay icon David Beckham will be in his underwear as part of an ad by fashion retailer H&M. Beckham and his in-house creative team helped to design the collection, comprised of briefs, boxers, T-shirts, [...]
Shirtless Air Force video yanked after it shows up on gay websites
Two weeks ago, we reported on a fun and cool video of Air Force Academy cadets doing a shirtless lip-synch in their underwear to the song “I’m Sexy and I Know It.” The song was their entry for a “spirit” video prior to the Nov. 5 college football game against Army, but was banned by [...]
‘Blue Mountain State’ returns as homoerotic and gay-friendly as ever
There’s a great review of Spike TV’s ‘Blue Mountain State’ over at AfterElton, highlighting some of the nudity and some of the good-natured fun of the show. From Michael Jensen: While it would certainly be a stretch to say that Spike TV’s Blue Mountain State is free from stereotypical gay jokes and gay panic humor, [...]
Seattle Seahawks’ Clint Gresham executes crotch grab, adjustment on TV
You can’t get anything past Outsports reader Texas DayTripper. He was watching the Seattle Seahawks-San Francisco 49ers game today and saw something that made him stand up and take notice. Seattle long snapper Clint Gresham wasn’t feeling all that comfortable and just had to do a reach in, grab and adjust. We’ve all been there, [...]
Study says Buffalo Bills are the best-looking team in the NFL, Chiefs last
There is a fun, but utterly meaningless piece in today’s Wall Street Journal that attempts to rate the attractiveness of all 32 NFL teams. The no-duh revelation is that NFL players are overall better looking than the general population. And it found the Buffalo Bills the best looking team, with the Kansas City the least [...]
Jake Shields to fight Georges St. Pierre for UFC title, so let the gay rumors begin
Jake Shields is fighting Georges St. Pierre on Saturday for St. Pierre’s UFC welterweight title. This prompted my friend DJ to send me a note saying mixed martial arts fans are always questioning the sexual orientation of both fighters. DJ is right. Start typing in “Jake Shields” into Google and the second recommendation is “Jake [...]
Bruce Weber shoots Nick Youngquest for A&F
Nick Youngquest really has gotten into this whole male model thing. The gay-friendly Aussie rugby player with the smoldering looks and smoking body has been photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. These shots don’t do much for me. It’s almost as if they’ve prettified and homogenized Youngquest; in some shots they have airbrushed [...]
Nick Youngquest enjoys being a male model
Australian rugby player Nick Youngquest, now playing in England, is enjoying his second career as a model, and is comfortable being popular with gays. He has posed for the cover of gay magazines and had what we called a Twitter bromance last year with openly gay rugger Gareth Thomas. Youngquest, 27, first took up modeling [...]
Kickette: A site if you like hot soccer players
With articles like “Player Stalking: A User’s Guide” and “The Sizzle Query: The Tuesday Torso Trifecta,” the soccer (or “football” for their readers) site Kickette does not concern itself with on-field strategy or player transfers. Instead its mission is hell of a lot more entertaining: “all things fun, fluffy and footie-related. Multi-millionaire football star shenanigans, [...]
Art exhibit focuses on homoerotic desire
There is a fascinating exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery (that has gotten rave reviews) called “Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” In dozens of pieces that go back to the 1800s, the show demonstrates how same-sex themes made their way into American art, often going unnoticed by the public at large. One sports [...]
Videos: Dieux du Stade rugby calendar
The French rugby club Stade Francais is out with its 2011 calendar, another in the annual flesh fest of hot rugby players and other jocks baring all for our entertainment. The calendar is now for sale and costs $41. For some reasons, horses are one theme this year and it’s simply odd. Seeing a jock, [...]
Gallery: Halloween hot jocks
Our friend Brent, an awesome photographer, went to West Hollywood for Halloween and came back with these great shots of guys dressed in all manner of sports gear (most dressed in hardly anything at all). Among them were boxers, wrestlers, a Lane Kiffin clone, a Brian Wilson beard and some guy in full-body paint looking [...]
Nudes, nudes nudes: What NFL fans search for
Every Sunday during the NFL season, our Jock Talk Blog sees a bump in traffic. People watch the games, then scurry to their computers to type in various search terms. In the case of many Web surfers, it’s the nude stuff then want. “Brett Favre naked.” “Chris Cooley penis.” ‘Santonio Holmes naked” (photo right) were [...]