While almost every other gay person in the mainstream sports media remains closeted, openly gay radio host Jared Max on WEPN/ESPN 1050 in New York won his time slot with key demos for the winter book. A very excited Max told me: Winter book ratings (Jan, Feb, March) just came out. My show ranked 1st [...]
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NHL commish Gary Bettman supports ‘You Can Play,’ doesn’t say ‘gay’
Dave Kaufman, radio host at TSN990 in Montreal, caught up with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. He was able to fire off two questions about the You Can Play project, which aims to show the support of NHL players for gay athletes. I think it’s the right thing to do. I’m fully supportive of it. And [...]
Jared Max ratings through the roof, ESPN radio host No. 1 in key demos
Jared Max came to ESPN Radio in New York City about a year ago. Shortly after arriving, he came out of the closet in a spur-of-the-moment decision on air. Now he’s sitting atop the radio dial and building a core audience that has made him No. 1 in key demographics. “Maxed Out in the Morning [...]
Jalen Rose has a problem with shirtless men chest-bumping one another
Jalen Rose is in hot water over calling Patriots tight end “white boy wasted” this morning on the Mike & Mike Show, but it’s his homophobic comment that has out wrestler Akil Patterson hot under the collar. According to Patterson, Rose (who is an expert on losing championships) said in his tirade against Gronkowski’s post-Super [...]
NBC: Tim Tebow didn’t snub Rosie…who likes Tebow’s eyes
12:40pmPT: Rosie O’Donnell has finally tweeted about meeting Tim Tebow: And apparently she tried to set up the Broncos back-up starting back-up starting quarterback with Jenny McCarthy: 11:21amPT: NBC Sports says the rumor is not true, and that Tebow talked to Rosie for about 30 seconds. We’ve heard from at least one person who heard [...]
ESPN Radio host Bruce Jacobs demonstrates a true apology
Athletes take notice: This is how you apologize. ESPN Radio host Bruce Jacobs in Albany, N.Y., made stupid comments last Tuesday when discussing the WNBA. He referred to two teams as the Los Angeles Lesbians and the Phoenix Dyke-ury (the two teams are the Sparks and the Mercury). According to the Albany Times-Union, Jacobs apologized [...]
Kye Allums, Steve Buckley, Jared Max make for sportiest Out100 ever
We can’t remember an Out100 list that included so many athletes and people from the sports world. We already reported on Gareth Thomas’ inclusion on the list. Today the magazine revealed the names of three more: Sports columnist Steve Buckley of the Boston Herald; ESPN radio host Jared Max; and former college basketball player Kye [...]
Moment #21: Tim Hardaway tells radio host, ‘I hate gay people’
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Basketball, 2007. Of all the homophobic actions by sportspeople in recent years, this may have been the stupidest. Just days after former NBA player John Amaechi came out of the closet, former NBA star Tim Hardaway told radio host Dan Le [...]
Is poker a sport?
I appeared on SiriusXM’s Derek & Romaine show yesterday for about an hour to talk sports. The hosts aren’t big sports fans (Romaine hates football), but we always mix it up for the sports fans and non-sports fans in their audience. Somehow yesterday we got to talking about auto racing and I said I personally [...]
DeSean Jackson calls a radio caller a ‘gay-ass faggot,’ Tweets he’s ‘standin tall’
Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson is the latest pro athlete to drop the F-bomb. He appeared on a cooky radio show on Eminem’s Sirius XM channel and snapped back at a caller saying he’s a “gay-ass faggot” (listen to the audio after the jump). I listen to Sirius XM all the time, and Howard [...]
Interview: Jared Max’s first day as an openly gay ESPN radio host
What was Jared Max’s coming-out day like for the ESPN radio host? It started at 1am without knowing whether he’d come out on the air or not. We talked with Jared about the first day of the rest of his life, and how he now wishes he’d come out long ago. The coolest thing about [...]
ESPN New York radio host Jared Max comes out as gay
When it rains it pours. ESPN 1050 in New York radio host Jared Max came out as gay in the final seven minutes of his radio this this morning. He talked about how the coming out of Rick Welts and Will Sheridan, along with the supportive words of Charles Barkley this week, made him take [...]
Robert Dover, Olympians talk ‘It Gets Better’
Four-time Olympic equestrian medalist Robert Dover hosted a who’s-who of gay Olympians on his radio show this week to talk about teen suicide and life for gay kids after high school and college. The show featured Guenter Seidel, Blake Skjellerup, Sherri Cassuto and David Pichler, along with messages from Mark Tewksbury and Bruce Hayes. You [...]
Pro athletes Standing Tough against bullies
Derek & Romaine, the top show on Sirius XM’s OutQ, have started a campaign showcasing top-level athletes taking stands against bullying. “Standing Tough” came from a brainstorm with professional wrestler Mick Foley. So far they have various pro wrestlers taking a stand, but some non-pro-wrestlers are coming soon. Romaine knows a thing or two about [...]
Two athletes included in Out 100
Athletes have returned to the Out 100 this year. Figure skating phenom Johnny Weir graces the pages with quite possibly his most feminine photo yet (if that’s possible) as Out’s “Diva of the year.” And former college lacrosse captain Andrew McIntosh (right), who came out publicly here at Outsports, also made the list. And on [...]
SiriusXM to broadcast Gay World Series final
SIRIUS XM Radio will broadcast live from the Gay Softball World Series final, and Outsports is a part of the historic broadcast. The satellite radio’s OutQ channel‘s popular Derek and Romaine (right) will broadcast a special Saturday edition live from 2pm-5pmET on Aug. 21 from Columbus, Ohio. I will provide in-game updates and color commentary [...]
The Michael Irvin Show moves to Miami
One of the gay-friendliest shows on sports radio is back, as The Michael Irvin Show starts Monday, July 26, on Miami’s 560 WQAM. The show will run noon-3pmET. The show will stream online at WQAM.com. Irvin spent his college career wearing No. 47 for the University of Miami. We’re working out the details, but it [...]
Howard Stern’s Tiger Woods mistress pageant
Since Artie Lange took a leave of absence from The Howard Stern Show, Howard has been better than ever. And the latest is a doozy. He’s been talking about this for weeks, and finally the Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant is just around the corner; Already many in the media are launching their predictable “holier-than-thou” [...]
Michael Irvin’s show canceled, accused of rape
For the last 18 months I’ve appeared regularly on one of radio’s gay-friendliest sports talk shows, The Michael Irvin Show. I called the show’s producer this morning to find out when we were going on, and he told me the show had not been picked up; And while the show was supposed to air today [...]
Hoping Artie Lange returns safe and soon
For those of us who are fans of sports and Howard Stern, the addition of Artie Lange to the show several years ago brought the perfect sports-fan voice to the show. He was loud, he was opinionated, he loved his team and he hated yours. Artie jumped onto the national sports stage in a big [...]