This is your big chance to snag a date with an NFL star…or Jeremy Bloom. Patriot Rob Gronkowski and Lion Ndamukong Suh both headline the cast of celebrities enlisted to find dates on the new reality show The Choice. It would be fun if the producers trotted out a man (he might like Tim Tebow) [...]
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Exclusive: Serena Williams on the set of ‘Drop Dead Diva’
Pro tennis legend Serena Williams guest stars on this season’s Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime, and Outsports snagged an exclusive photo of her with one of the show’s stars, Kate Levering. Williams plays a lawyer representing Brandy Norwood’s character in a custody case against law firm head honcho Jay Parker (Josh Stamberg). Fresh off his [...]
Steven Tyler shows support for L.A.’s gay flag football league
Chris, a straight ex-Marine who plays in our gay-oriented L.A. Flag Football league, was pumped after his Blue Crew team won a thriller in league play on Saturday. So wearing his jersey, he headed to the nearby Oaks Gourmet for a burrito and wound up chatting with Steven Tyler of Aerosmith and “American Idol” fame, [...]
MSNBC news host Thomas Roberts: NASCAR racers go 500 mph
In the latest chapter of the gays-don’t-know-sports stereotype, openly gay MSNBC host Thomas Roberts invited NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France onto his show on Thursday to talk about how much fuel NASCAR burns, vis–à–vis Earth Day. Roberts dropped this bomb on France: The obvious draw for NASCAR is the speed, cars going up to about 500 [...]
Canadians say ‘You Can Play’
Several new ‘You Can Play’ videos have come out of Canada in the last week, and a couple have some interesting hooks (see all three below). The University of Ottawa’s athletic department (they’re called the Gee-Gees) teamed up to create a bilingual video in French and English. Ottawa borders the province of Quebec, which has [...]
‘Glee’ creator Ryan Murphy claims he dated ‘a lot of football players’ in high school
Some of the cast of ‘Glee’ went “Inside the Actors Studio” last night. Show creator Ryan Murphy went along with them and dropped an interesting lines about how popular he was in high school, and his inspiration for the football pieces of the show: I was an odd creature in high school because I was [...]
Anton Hysen has moves like Jagger
Out pro Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen took the stage for Just Dance, Sweden’s version of Dancing With The Stars. While the routine wasn’t super complicated, Hysen showed a real knack for dance. In the video below, he cha-chas his booty to Maroon 5′s Moves Like Jagger. Too bad they didn’t give him a male [...]
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 [...]
Michael Phelps, Head & Shoulders kick off impending flood of Olympic commercials
Michael Phelps and Head & Shoulders seem to be one of the first combos out of the gate with an Olympics-inspired commercial. This one features the Olympic gold medalist in a shower and a pool. While we’re not complaining about seeing his body on screen for 30 seconds, it’s funny to see a shampoo commercial [...]
Outsports confirms name of Patrick Burke’s new charity, launches this Sunday on NBC.
Outsports can confirm that Patrick Burke’s charity will be called the You Can Play Project. Eight NHL stars will appear in the launch video this Sunday, March 4, on NBC. Patrick (right) is the brother of openly gay former Miami (Ohio) University hockey manager Brendan Burke, who died two years ago; His father is Toronto [...]
Martina joins Twitter, shows off her sense of humor…and ping-pong skeelz
Martina Navratilova’s image for years has been that of a hard, somewhat gruff tennis robot. When I talked with her several years ago, I found her to be incredibly friendly and warm; So it’s nice to see her letting her hair down on her new Twitter account. Not only has she posted about being the [...]
Herm Edwards: Andrew Luck has “potatoes in his trunk”
It’s amazing to hear the comments that football analysts make about the guys in the NFL combine. It’s like they suddenly have license to examine the bodies of these top-notch athletes, and boy do they love it. The best I’ve heard so far came yesterday while former NFL coach Herm Edwards talked about presumptive No. [...]
Martina Navratilova on this season’s ‘Dancing With The Stars’
Out tennis legend Martina Navratilova will be one of the contestants on this season’s ‘Dancing With the Stars,’ ABC has announced. I’ve gotta believe she has a good shot, with her athletic prowess and her work ethic. Though I wonder if the anti-LGBT attacks faced by Chaz Bono will line up against Martina…. She will [...]
Oscars remind us…they’re no Super Bowl
I generally enjoy the Oscars. Some years are better than others, largely based on the movies nominated (not surprisingly, this year people didn’t love the telecast). I heard several times last week that Sunday’s 84th Academy Awards telecast would be the “gay Super Bowl.” Jim and I have said for years that the excitement of [...]
Richard Simmons should host Saturday Night Live
Every once in a while I go to Richard Simmons’ work-out class at his Slimmons Studio in Beverly Hills. I’ve noticed over the last year that more and more gay men are showing up. When I first went a couple years ago, it was 95% women; Now it’s probably 80-20. It’s a great workout no [...]
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 [...]
Minnesota Wild prospect Justin Fontaine suspended for Tweeting ‘faggot’
Two Houston Aeros players in the Minnesota Wild farm system don’t like the Foo Fighters very much; They also don’t blink when calling people “faggots.” So when the band showed up on the Grammys, Justin Fontaine had no trouble expressing to the world how he felt about them. Teammate Jon DiSalvatore quickly retweeted Fontaine’s thoughts: [...]
ESPN’s Rob Parker doesn’t like men dancing alone together
Updated at 2:43pmPT with comments from Charissa Thompson. Today’s episode of ESPN’s First Take tackled the issue of the New England Patriots’ post-game party. While Skip Bayless didn’t find much fault with the players dancing (possibly intoxicated) at a previously planed event, Rob Parker was most concerned about the fact that there didn’t seem to [...]
David Beckham’s Super Bowl H&M underwear ad and America’s Fear of the bulge
You don’t have to wait for the Super Bowl to see soccer hottie David Beckham’s underwear commercial for H&M. Whether you see it on TV or YouTube (after the jump), one thing you won’t see is Beckham’s famous bulge. There’s been a long-standing fear of the bulge in American culture. Why do so many American [...]