The Tampa Bay Rays have joined the growing list of MLB teams to create an ‘It Gets Better’ video. Included in the video are players Johnny Damon (right), BJ Upton, Sam Fuld, Sean Rodriguez (who sends a message in Spanish) and manager Joe Maddon. Damon talks about being teased because he had a stuttering problem: [...]
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Huntington Beach beats Japan on last at bat to win Little League World Series
Most athletes at some point pretend as a child that they’re a pro player, the championship is on the line, and they make the winning shot/run/catch/throw…. When I was 12 I was Larry Bird shaking off a defender and hitting a fadeaway jumpshot to win the NBA title. For Nick Pratto of the Huntington Beach [...]
DC United is first MLS team to create ‘It Gets Better’ video
The DC United are the first Major League Soccer team to create and ‘It Gets Better’ video (watch after the jump). In fact, as far as I know they’re the first non-MLB pro team of any other sport to make a video. It features United players Josh Wolff and Clyde Simms. This one also has the [...]
The ‘Flying Squirrel’ wrestling move goes viral
Forget Rocky and Bullwinkle, this guy’s got a flying squirrel that I can’t stop watching. American junior wrestler Ellis Coleman is stretching the limits of creativity in the wrestling world with a new move that sends him airborne and over the head of his opponent. I wonder how Akil Patterson would stop the move. See [...]
Outsports It Gets Better video: Kirk Walker, softball coach, Oregon State
The second video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project comes from Kirk Walker, the head softball coach at Oregon State. Walker was first profiled by Outsports in 2007 as the only openly gay male coach in Division I sports. Said Walker: “I am in a unique situation. I am a Division I [...]
Outsports partners with It Gets Better to highlight videos shot by athletes and coaches
Outsports is excited to announce a new partnership with the It Gets Better Project™. Together the two organizations will feature videos by out LGBT people in sports. We have begun contacting athletes, coaches and administrators whose coming out stories have appeared on Outsports to make videos, and the response has been enthusiastic. Among those who [...]
Moment #95: Muffin Spencer-Devlin becomes first pro golfer to come out
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Golf, 1996. Few out lesbian athletes have experienced more professional success than Muffin Spencer-Devlin. She was a three-time tournament winner on the LPGA Tour in the mid-to-late ’80s. She is in the top 100 on the Tour’s all-time money list (at just [...]
Moment #96: Savoy Howe becomes first out lesbian in women’s boxing
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. Boxing, 1993. Savoy Howe shot into the sports world out of a cannon. She first stepped foot in a boxing ring in 1992; A year later she was fighting in Toronto’s first-ever sanctioned women’s boxing event. And in 1993 she agreed to [...]
Red Sox release powerful ‘It Gets Better’ video with Francona, Youkilis, Varitek
The Boston Red Sox are now the third MLB team to release an ‘It Gets Better‘ video. And this one’s the best of them all. It features manager Terry Francona (right) and star players Kevin Youkilis and Jason Varitek. It also includes various members of the LGBT community. It’s the first video I’ve felt speaks directly [...]
Minnesota Twins to make ‘It Gets Better’ video; Mets unlikely?
The Minnesota Twins are the latest to announce they will make an ‘It Gets Better’ video. This comes soon after a lesbian couple accused a Twins security guard of homophobia. The Twins are the fifth MLB team to make a commitment to the video series, joining the Giants, Cubs, Red Sox and Mariners. We had [...]
Chicago Cubs release ‘It Gets Better’ video with Mike Quade, Ryan Dempster, Marlon Byrd…
The Chicago Cubs have released their 1-minute promised “It Gets Better” video aimed at telling kids that life gets better and telling everyone else that bullying shouldn’t be tolerated. They’re the second MLB team to produce an “It Gets Better” video. They rolled out some heavy hitters for the video: club manager Mike Quade, first base [...]
Former New York Giant David Tyree speaks out against gay marriage, claims it leads to anarchy
Former New York Giant wide receiver David Tyree has come out vocally against gay marriage, recording a video for anti-equality organization NOM (video after the jump). He talks about how children need fathers (thus two lesbians can’t be parents) and mothers (thus two gay men can’t be parents). His only argument behind his positions is [...]
New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch supports gay marriage
As we reported last week, New York Giants owner Steve Tisch has joined the campaign for marriage equality in New York in a new video released today (video after the jump): As an owner of the New York Giants, I am proud to join the chorus of professionals in sports working for fairness both on [...]
Michael Strahan supports marriage equality. Giants owner Steve Tisch will be next.
Former New York Giants superstar Michael Strahan is the latest public figure to lend his voice for New York marriage equality in a video spot. He will soon be joined by Giants chairman and executive vice president Steve Tisch, multiple sources have told Outsports. Tisch will be the first pro-sports-team owner to be part of [...]
Bret Lockett, Patriots safety, joins NOH8 campaign, supports gay marriage
While many are talking today about his alleged ties to Kim Kardashian, New England Patriots safety Bret Lockett is the latest professional athlete to pose in front of Adam Bouska’s camera for the NOH8 campaign (click on photo for full image). A former standout at UCLA, Lockett spent last season on injured reserve after his [...]