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, [...]
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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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What does Favre mean to Cheeseheads?
While most NFL fans (and many non-fans) are rolling their eyes at Brett Favre’s second return from retirement, it’s the Packers and Favre fans who are hurting the most. Last night on Greta van Sustern’s show (she’s a huge Packers fan), she adorned a new kind of Cheesehead: Half-purple, half-yellow. I talked to a Packer [...]
Stunner: Tiger Woods loses major after lead
Tiger Woods lost the PGA Championship Sunday to Korean golfer Y.E. Yang, someone so obscure that when I first read the news on my cellphone my mind read it as “P.F. Chang.”
How improbable was Yang’s win? Woods had been 14-0 in majors after leading after three rounds. He had won his last 36 tournaments after [...]
Golf, rugby closer to becoming Olympic sports
The International Olympic Committee has recommended that golf and rugby sevens be included as sports in the 2016 Games. Softball, baseball, squash, karate and roller sports were not recommended, while women’s boxing will be a sport in 2012.
Golf and rugby will be put forward for ratification by the full 106-member IOC assembly in Copenhagen in [...]
Phillies Gay Night another success
The Philadelphia Phillies’ Gay Community Night notched another great success in its seventh year as Outsports member Larry Felzer’s event drew in an estimated 850 spectators to watch the home team play the Colorado Rockies. One of the local sports columnists said it was “refreshing that the Phillies held a public event reminding everyone that athletics [...]
Tuaolo, WAC commish weigh in on ‘fag bomb’
ESPN’s Outside the Lines did a good job of tackling the issues surrounding gay epithets today in a conversation with (among others) out former NFL player Esera Tuaolo and WAC Athletic Commissioner Karl Benson. The latter dropped a little bomb of his own, saying that if Hawaii coach Greg McMackin had uttered the word “faggot” [...]
When the Girls Beat the Boys
For you horse-lovers among Outsports fans — if you missed Rachel Alexandra’s hair-raising performance in the $1.25 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday, you can catch it on YouTube. This was the filly’s second go against top colts, and she left the boyz struggling in the slop as she barreled to a 6-length victory. Some [...]
Weekend hot jock: Walter Dix
For U.S. Independence Day, we’re going with an athlete who has literally wrapped himself with the flag: Sprinter Walter Dix. At the Beijing Olympics, Dix was the standout American sprinter taking bronze in the 100m and 200m and then doing laps with Old Glory. The former Florida State sprinter has eight individual NCAA sprinting titles. [...]
Roddick shocks Murray, to meet Federer in final
Andy Roddick still has some surprises left - just ask Andy Murray.
The former top baller pulled the biggest upset of the tourney taking out the third seed and second fave for the title 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (9), 7-6 (5) avenging his third round defeat to the Brit in 2006. And even though Muzz cracked more [...]
Gay polo up!
May 3 was the Will Rogers Polo Club’s “Club Chukkers” day…and one of the clubs invited to play was the Gay Polo League. It was your typical relaxed Southern California polo-match scene. Several horse pullmans were parked in the shade. Dozens of loaner polo ponies stood around quietly, tacked up and tails knotted. Beside the [...]
