The Golden State Warriors have not played in San Francisco since 1966. For most of the time since then they’ve called (what now is) Oracle Arena in Oakland their home. But new team president Rick Welts, along with team co-owner Peter Guber and NBA president David Stern, have announced the team’s return to San Francisco [...]
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Oklahoma City fans celebrate by shooting eight people as Thunder beat the Lakers
I simply have no understanding of this. None. Zip. Zilch. We see it over and over again: A team wins a big championship…and the fans try to burn down the city. To Oklahoma City’s credit, this is the first time I can remember seeing “eight people shot” in the headline of a celebration story, so [...]
Kris Humphries in revealing Christopher Logan photo shoot for WestEast magazine
While this may look like just another hot beefcake photo, there’s quite a bit of significance to it for me. It’s a beautiful shot by New York photographer Christopher Logan of NBA player Kris Humphries (for WestEast magazine, via HollywoodLife.com, which has more photos). Sure, Humphries has gotten a certain reputation, but he’s still a [...]
Athletic Equality Index for pro sports teams?
Hudson Taylor would like to see the sports world follow HRC’s corporate index and institute and Athletic Equality Index to determine just how gay-friendly each pro sports team is. Though professional sports are moving in a positive direction, they need the transparency and metrics of an equality index to institutionalize a proactive rather than reactive [...]
Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week
We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include baseball and soccer celebrations, college football in the spring, the NBA, fencing, Olympic trials kayaking, swimming and Cristiano Ronaldo. Click image for larger view (and on that image for an even larger view): Share on Facebook
A year after coming out as gay, Warriors president Rick Welts at peace
A year ago, Rick Welts was known only in the NBA world as an executive with the Phoenix Suns. Then came a front-page story in the New York Times in May, where he came out as a gay man and his world changed. He suddenly was seen as a positive force for change in a [...]
Charles Barkley in a dress for Weight Watchers
Charles Barkley, the venerable Round Mound of Rebound, decided to drop some of his mound and slim down. He lost 42 pounds with Weight Watchers, and now he wants other guys to join him. So he put on a dress (video below). It’s a nice dress, maybe a little modest. But nice. Though I’m not [...]
Slate readers: Pro athlete will come out October 2014, will be in baseball
Slate.com asked its readers to predict when a professional male athlete in the United States will come out of the closet. The average: October 2014. The most common guess was June 2013, with the majority of voters saying it will be by the spring of 2014. Either way, their readers think it’ll be in the [...]
Mark Cuban makes distasteful ‘boyfriend’ joke at the expense of Bill Simmons, apologizes
Mark Cuban has seemed to be a great ally of the LGBT community over the years, even saying that the first out pro athlete in North America would make a boatload of cash. But there’s still a little uneasiness in Cuban that came out during a podcast with Bill Simmons at the MIT Sloan Sports [...]
Kevin Love’s sexual ‘reading’ of Dr. Seuss’ ‘The Cat in the Hat.’ Tebow: Green Eggssss and Ham
On Tuesday, Twin Cities Public Television posted a YouTube video of Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love reading Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. The video is part of Read Across America Day, which also happens to be Dr. Seuss’ birthday, March 2. The guys at Manhunt Daily found the 11-minute reading a bit long, [...]
Gay Asian blogger says Jeremy Lin ‘Linsanity’ is getting him more sex
Gay Asian blogger I Am Yellow Peril, aka Justin, has noticed a trend in the last month with the growing Linsanity over New York Knick Jeremy Lin. Since the Harvard grad started on his tear through the NBA, Jason has been getting more attention from guys at bars…and more sex propositions on gay meet-up sites. [...]
Saturday Night Live spoofs Jeremy Lin racism controversy
Saturday Night Live did a send-up of the controversy surrounding various racially sensitive comments about Jeremy Lin late last week (video here). The skit reflects what we’ve heard from various comments on Outsports and other sites: The ‘chink in the armor’ and other comments would have been handled with more ferocity if they were about [...]
ESPN fires, suspends employees responsible for ‘chink in the armor’ headline, comment
ESPN has fired the employee responsible for a racially charged Jeremy Lin-inspired headline on their mobile site. They have also handed a 30-day suspension to their network anchor who used the term ‘chink in the armor’ to refer to Lin. In their statement this morning they said: We again apologize, especially to Mr. Lin. His [...]
ESPN apologizes for ‘chink in the armor’ headline, promises review
Last night, ESPN’s mobile site used a headline with a racially charged double entendre to describe Jeremy Lin’s game against the Hornets. This morning they have ap0logized and are promising a review of the process that lead to the insensitive headline: Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at [...]
ESPN uses racial epithet in headline of Jeremy Lin story
Update Sunday, 8:30AMPT: ESPN has fired and suspended people responsible for headline, comments. Update Saturday, 8:20AMPT: ESPN has apologized for the headline. ESPN has been the biggest champion of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin’s rise during the team’s seven-game winning streak. But they have potentially undone it all with a horribly racist headline that [...]
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue features female models and three male athletes
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out, and it again features lots of scantily clad female models. When we at Outsports get complaints that we feature shirtless athletes (like Gareth Thomas in his underwear), we always point to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as proof that “it’s not a gay thing, it’s a guy thing.” [...]
Deadspin reaches with item wondering if Dirk Nowitzki used gay slur
I am a fan of Deadspin, read it daily and often find stories for this site on stuff they’ve run. But they are really reaching with an item today with the headline: “Did Dirk Nowitzki Shout A Homophobic Slur After Hitting The Shot That Locked Up Tonight’s Mavericks Win?” Here is the item in its [...]
Rick Welts talks about ‘fear of the unknown,’ says he never experienced homophobia
Rick Welts gave an interview to LZ Granderson at a forum for the 2011 Out & Equal Workplace Summit in which he talked about coming out at work. When asked about what made Welts think he couldn’t come out of the closet in the NBA for so many years, he reiterated what we’ve been saying [...]
Rick Welts to receive Out & Equal advocacy award
Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts, who came out of the closet last May, will receive Out & Equal’s advocacy award for coming out in the front office of his former team, the Phoenix Suns. Rick Welts is the first openly gay executive of a professional sports team. He publicly came out in an interview [...]
Vote: Who is Outsports’ Person of the Year?
Last day to vote! Every year we ask our readers to crown the Outsports ‘Person of the Year.’ Last year’s honorees were Brian & Patrick Burke, who garnered over 60% of the vote! This year we have many incredibly deserving people, and we have narrowed it down to these final six. We’ll announce the winner [...]