The results are in from the Gay Softball World Series, and the winners are . . .
A-Division: Phoenix Toros over Orlando Force.
B-Division: Chicago Spin Cougars over Orlando Crush.
C-Division: Ft. Lauderdale Cyclones over Seattle Maulers.
D-Division: Nashville Players over Seattle Avengers
Interesting little tidbit from the B-Division. Because it’s double-elimination, the Cruisers and Crush had to play one [...]
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Gay Softball World Series results
GSWS Day 5: Final day here we come!
Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week.
Championship Saturday has arrived at the NAGAAA Softball World Series, an anxious night awaits A, B, C, and D division teams still standing after the grueling demands of the week long tournament. Full coverage of all championship games will [...]
GSWS day 4: Talent and heartbreak
Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week.
Wednesday night’s talent show was a monumental success, with over 14,000 dollars being raised for several local Aids Service Organizations. The show was hilarious with a good mix of comedic drag routines along with some outstanding vocal performances by [...]
Photos: Gay Softball World Series
The Gay Softball World Series is underway in Milwaukee (see our blog posts here), and Ross Forman is shooting the event for us. We will be posting an extensive photo gallery in the days ahead, but here are a few shots to give you a taste of the athmosphere:
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GSWS, Day 3: History and tough losses
Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week.
We are so thrilled to be here in Milwaukee, this beer chugging town has a rich gay softball history. In 1977, four teams arranged “pick-up” games to play softball during summertime. Each week these teams would compete against one [...]
GSWS, Day 2: A Mayor’s welcome
Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week.
With over 4,000 participants and fans from 37 leagues in North America, NAGAAA’s Gay Softball World Series is the world’s largest annual GLBT sporting event. Monday night was filled with fun, and Tuesday was filled with softball!!
The NAGAAA World [...]
Gay Softball World Series: Chilly Day 1
Editor’s note: Mark Ertel will be writing daily updates from the Gay Softball World Series this week.
Milwaukee is playing host to the largest gay softball event in the country this week: the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance World Series. Softball teams from all across America and Canada have invaded the Midwest city to compete [...]
A lesbian coach, her firing and sheep feces
A Maine jury will have to decide whether a high school softball coach was fired because she is a lesbian or because she made her team walk through sheep feces as part of a hazing ritual. A Maine court said this week that a jury would have to decide why Kelly Jo Cookson was not [...]
Local Groups Challenge: SoCal affair
As a lead-up to our Outsports Local Groups Challenge, we’ll be profiling the five first-round matchups on the blog. Voting starts Thursday.
Southern California may be the most active gay-sports area in the world. Including San Diego, Long Beach and Los Angeles, dozens upon dozens of gay teams and leagues flourish. Two of them are matched [...]
Gay-sports legend Jack McGowan dies
We can count hundreds of gay-sports leagues all around the world today, but we should never take for granted the work that a few people did 30 and 40 years ago to set the stage for this explosion. One of those people was Jack McGowan, who died of heart ailments last month at the age [...]
Dallas team takes GSWS C Div.
The Dallas Woody’s X-Plosion Softball Team won the “C” division at the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Association (NAGAAA) World Series to become only the second team from Dallas to capture the “C” Division World Series and the first since 1994. Dallas Woody’s X-Plosion emerged from a field of 47 teams from across the country [...]
L.A. takes top title at Gay World Series
The Gay Softball World Series in Seattle closed on Saturday with a geographic spread that would make any mapmaker proud.
In the Open Division, the Los Angeles Vipers took the A title, returning to grab the crown they owned in 2005-06. The Boston Club Cafe Crew took B, the Dallas Explosion won C and the Seattle [...]
Boston softball mourns death of player
A tragic story out of Boston, passed on to us by Benoit Denizet-Lewis:
I just wanted to let you know that it has been an extraordinarily painful week in Boston’s gay sports community. Dave Hildebrandt, a beloved 29-year-old player in the Beantown Softball League (he also played for four years in the gay basketball league [...]
Outsports sponsors Gay Softball World Series
Gay-sports championship season started in earnest Memorial Day weekend with the NAGVA (volleyball) championships in Miami. Possibly the biggest of those championships is the Gay Softball World Series, of which Outsports is a proud media sponsor this year. This year the event is in Seattle, Aug. 22-30. They’ve got a great Web site for the [...]
Great example of sportsmanship
The feel-good story of the month: Women’s senior college softball player with .153 career average hits first career home run. Tears a knee ligament running to first. Two opponents carry her around the base paths to make sure she touches them all and gets credit for the home run. Tears ensue.–Jim Buzinski
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