As the “Johnny Weir family-friendly” story goes viral, it’s interesting to look at the ice-show political background. Just two years ago, as 2008 came in, Johnny was set to skate for Champions on Ice, the gay-friendly tour where Rudy Galindo skated for an entire decade. Remember Rudy Galindo? Our 1996 U.S. [...]
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Weekend hot jock: Norwegian skier
One of the greatest alpine skiers of the last 4-5 years is Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal. He has won World Championship and Olympic medals (many of them gold) in Slalom, Giant Slalom, Combined, Downhill and Super-G. Born December 26, 1982, the 27-year-old raked in a gold, a silver and a bronze in Vancouver. He got [...]
IOC and gender inquisition
While the IAAF has been backing and filling on the Caster Semenya case, many of us have been waiting for the IOC shoe to drop. Yesterday the shoe dropped. In Miami Beach, a panel of so-called “experts” convened by the IOC and the IAAF has announced from their imperial heights, “Athletes who identify themselves [...]
Skating: Why We Should Believe In Sasha Cohen
The women’s event in the U.S. National Figure Skating Championships kicks off in Spokane tonight, and if you don’t follow the sport outside of the Olympic games you probably won’t see as many familiar faces as you’re accustomed to. The competitive lifespan of most skaters normally overlaps about 2 Olympic years, but this year [...]
What do you want to see on Outsports in 2010?
As we wind down another great year at Outsports, we also start a new one. Various conversations and blog comments in the last month have left me wondering what our readers truly want more of in the new year. Please tell us in the poll below and in the comments what you’d actually spend time [...]
Blog details life of closeted rugby player
Poppy is the pseudonym of a closeted pro rugby player in South Africa and the latest example of jocks who are using blogs to share what they otherwise keep private.
He calls his blog “Closet Rugby Guy. ” His reasons for blogging are pretty straightforward, he told me in an e-mail:
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The state of Twitter
Since Twitter jumped onto the scene, people have been wondering when the end of Twitter will begin. It seems it finally has. Quantcast is a respected service that measures traffic on Web sites. Some sites are measured directly (via coding placed on the site) while others are measured indirectly (no coding, only estimates). Twitter is [...]
David Stern says a woman will play in the NBA
In 1979, Ann Meyers Drysdale became the only woman to sign an NBA contract (she did so with the Indiana Pacers). She never saw the regular season, but the groundwork was set. Thirty years later, no woman has gotten closer to an NBA roster than Drysdale. But David Stern thinks someone may in the next [...]
Girl power strikes in Japan
Girl power was aiming to strike again at the Japan Cup yesterday evening. This is Japan’s most prestigious horse race, and 100,000 fans packed the Tokyo stands to watch their popular favorite, the big black superfilly Vodka, make her 3rd try at beating the boyz. They call her the “Japanese Zenyatta.” As with [...]
This year’s Out 100 is sports-less
The latest Out 100 has been released, and the glaring omission this year (there’s always at least one) is the complete lack of sports figures in the list. The most glaring of all those possible names is Brian Sims, who came out on Outsports earlier this year and who has since become a valuable advocate, [...]
Goalie fired after he boasts of hatred of gays
Polish soccer goalie Arek Onyszko gets my vote for Sports Idiot of the Year. He was released by his previous club in Denmark after spending time in jail for assaulting his ex-wife. He got a second chance from FC Midtjylland, another Danish club, which warned him to not continue writing a book he was working [...]
Three hot Olympic speed skaters
The Winter Olympics are just a couple months away, and we’re already seeing various groups using the up-and-coming faces of the Olympics in commercials. Three speedskaters grabbed my attention this past weekend.
First up was Chad Hedrick (right), who caught our eyes in 2006. Great smile, great hair. In Torino he won a gold, silver and [...]
Lance Bass, “Beefy, badass boxer?”
Out former pop star Lance Bass is the subject of a new photo spread by Branden Summers. The shoot took place in a boxing ring at Trinity Boxing Club in New York City. Apparently, it’s meant to make Bass’ image a little tougher, more “badass.”
Does the former N’Sync star look at home in a boxing [...]
New revelations in Caster Semenya case
According to the AP, the South African Olympic committee is finally investigating the Caster Semenya case. Questions about the runner’s gender, and how SA officials handled a “developing situation” prior to the IAAF world championships in Berlin, have continued to emerge in the SA press. The hearings began last Friday and are sure to [...]
Photo: Sergio Garcia, his crotch and his putter
Stephanie Wei writes the “Wei Under Par” blog and she captured this shot of golfer Sergio Garcia at the Barclay’s event. Stephanie’s caption:
He’s currently exploring patent opportunities to develop the PGA’s first “dick mount.”
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