Out pro rugby icon Gareth Thomas is headed to Los Angeles this week and will sit down with Ellen DeGeneres on her daytime talk show on Tuesday. As the show writes on their Web site: Rugby player GARETH THOMAS broke new ground when he became the first openly gay professional male athlete… in the world! [...]
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No Yankees. No Phillies. No problem.
Just a week or so ago, most people were probably imagining a rematch of last year’s Fall Classic participants, the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. Alas, both teams failed to win there respective leagues and instead the uncanny San Francisco Giants and the resilient Texas Rangers are facing off in the 2010 World [...]
Does watching ‘Glee’ make you gay?
I have been very frustrated with the way the Atlanta Braves have been playing the past couple of weeks. I never thought the Braves were going to run away with the National League East nor did I expect the Phillies were going to fade away. In fact I expect the race for this division to [...]
More athletes are ‘Dancing with the Stars’
Two-time NFL MVP Kurt Warner is one of the big names announced for the next season of Dancing with the Stars. Arizona Cardinals fans still holding out hope that Warner will come back to the team this season are crying today! Former Boston Celtic and Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox will also hit the dance [...]
Podcast: More out athletes on TV shows
In the last week we’ve heard of male athlete characters coming out of the closet on three shows: Degrassi, Glee and 90210. All of these shows target teens and twentysomethings. Why is this new trend taking hold now, and what effect can it have on our culture? We talk about the growing presence of these [...]
Now ’90210′ will have out gay athlete
Three days, three TV shows we feature that have or will have new openly gay athletes on the show. 90210‘s Teddy, the womanizing tennis pro (played by Trevor Donovan), will come out of the closet this season and embark on a relationship with another man this season. Executive producer Rebecca Sinclair explained how the story [...]
Gay football player on “Degrassi”
We mentioned yesterday that the show “Glee” will have a character who is a gay quarterback. We now hear from a reader that the show “Degrassi” already has introduced a character, Riley, who is a gay football player. “Degrassi” is a Canadian show that can be seen on Teen Nick in the U.S. Never having [...]
Glee, Kurt Hummel to get gay quarterback
It looks like a gay (or at least curious) athlete will soon be a part of the hit show GLEE. The uber-gay Kurt Hummel is about to get a boyfriend, and it’s going to be the quarterback of the football team. According to E!: Rumors that new cast member Chord Overstreet [right] will play Chris [...]
Tony Dungy finds new target in Rex Ryan
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy is now aiming his hardcore religious conservatism at New York Jets coach Rex Ryan. The latter’s language on HBO’s Hard Knocks has been profanity-filled and Dungy doesn’t like it one bit, telling Dan Patrick he hopes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gets involved! Dungy also said he wouldn’t hire someone “like [...]
Will Bragman bring an athlete out on TV?
With the announcement today that Hollywood publicist Howard Bragman is developing a show with A&E about celebrities coming out of the closet, I’m left wondering if athletes might be a part of that. Howard has helped many celebrities and singers come out, but he has also virtually cornered the market on athletes coming out over [...]
Jilted lover tries to out British footballer
We have speculated for years that the first out active athlete might not announce he’s gay…as much as a jilted lover might. We saw an episode like that with Ovie Mughelli. And now it’s happening in British soccer. Pink News is reporting on a reality TV star who claimed to have a year-long affair with [...]
Craziest match in tennis history ends, 70-68
In the craziest match in tennis history, John Isner beat Nicolas Mahut, 4-6, 3-6, 6-7, 7-6, 70-68. That fifth set looks like a basketball score. Isner got Mahut on a backhand rocket, the shot that had been the weakest part of Isner’s match. They played the equivalent of over three matches. Every length record was [...]
HBO sits down with Gareth Thomas
HBO’s Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel turns its attention Tuesday night (10pmET/PT) to openly gay Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas. Thomas talks about the lengths he went to to look straight, from hitting on the prettiest girls in bars to starting fights; He even says how excited he was to get arrested for assault because [...]
NY Post calls Lysacek “ice queen”
The New York Post, rag that it is, ran this headline on their website regarding the finale of “Dancing with the Stars,” in which Evan Lysacek lost to one of the Pussycat Dolls: “‘Dancing’ Doll Beats Ice King.” Yet, in their print edition, there was a slightly different headline… I’m not sure if this is [...]
Evan Lysacek looking for a “cool girl”
Evan Lysacek made it all the way to the Dancing with the Stars final two last night, only to get whipped by a Pussycat Doll. Now that DWTS is over, Evan says he’s looking for someone with whom to spend some quality time: I’m lonely. I need a girlfriend. I’m looking for funny, someone who [...]