The story of Sarah Gronert has been at the back of my mind for a while, and a new Advocate article has finally spurred me to post about her. She’s an intersex (the I in LGBTQQI) player who has been cleared to play on the WTA Tour. The case is a first of its kind [...]
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UConn: One of the greatest ever?
Now that the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team has steamrolled to another national title and a 39-0 record, the question has to be asked: Where do they rank among the greatest college basketball teams of all time? Consider these tidbits. They are only the 11th Division 1 college basketball eam (men or women) to [...]
CNN tackles Rene Portland and new doc film
Tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7, 3pm-4pm ET) on Rick Sanchez’s hour of CNN Newsrooom, the cable network will promote the fantastic new documentary “Training Rules” and talk about the damage that anti-lesbian policies and negative recruiting have on its victims. I was interviewed this morning for the segment; We’ll see if I said anything semi-intelligent. You [...]
Never Faint On Live TV
Nikki Allen was making her debut on live television and was on Panama City, Florida’s WMBB morning show explaining what was going on in the beach volleyball community. Then… kaboom.
So that’s got to suck. Fainting on live TV and having your friend just gawk at you on the ground while the reporters desperately scramble to [...]
Pirates Prospect Has a CRAZY Wife
It’s not often we can write about the Pittsburgh Pirates, because, well quite frankly writing about how poorly managed a once proud franchise is, can be grating. So it’s always fun when get to a juicy story involving one of the players of a down-trodden franchise. Especially when you hear about said player being in [...]
Lesbian fans love college basketball
Thanks to Athletic Business for pointing us to an article out of Greensboro News & Record about the preponderance of lesbians at women’s college basketball games. The writer had been to the nearby ACC tournament earlier this month and wondered why college basketball teams and leagues aren’t marketing directly to this market that seems to [...]
Huge upset in college basketball
The biggest upset of the first round of the NCAA college basketball tournament has to be Ball State toppling Tennessee. In the women’s tournament. The Lady Volunteers are the two-time defending champs and were 42-0 in the first two rounds of the tournament before being routed by the Cardinals, 71-55. While the Volunteers had lost [...]
How special is 30-0 in women’s basketball?
The UConn women’s basketball team completed a perfect regular season at 30-0. How special is it? It’s better than losing a game, I suppose. Though some may argue that losing a game in the regular season helps a team focus, given they’ve won two by winning them all already, I don’t think that applies. But [...]
SI columnist rips swimsuit issue
Finally, a straight man who’s creeped out by Sports Illustrated’s all-girl swimsuit issue. I say all-girl and not all-woman because that’s Jeff Pearlman’s major beef with the sexy photo spread:
Now, I just find the issue strange. The average SI reader is probably a male in his mid-40s. The average SI swimsuit model is a girl [...]
Live blog from South Africa murder trial
Interested Outsports readers can “attend” the ongoing trial of lesbian soccer player Eudy Simelane’s accused murderers via a live blog at Human Rights Watch. HRW just emailed this notice:
On April 28, 2008, Eudy Simelane, 31 years old, was gang-raped and brutally murdered in her home township, Kwa-Thema, near Johannesburg in South AFrica. The apparent [...]
Pillow Fight League takes Canada by storm
Can Dina Mite reign supreme? Will Olivia Neutron Bomb steal the title? No, it’s not RuPaul’s Drag Race, it’s the Toronto-based women’s Pillow Fight League. The rules are simple: Women only, pillow-fighting only (no biting, Mike Tyson), and no rude behavior. And if someone isn’t pinned by the time limit, “Pillow fighters are judged based [...]
Trial for accused in lesbian soccer murder
Lesbian soccer player Eudy Simelane has become South Africa’s Matthew Shepard. Her grisly murder last year, following torture and gang rape by several young men, has set off a tidal wave of outrage in South Africa. Simelane, who once played on South Africa’s national women’s team, has become the tragic icon for [...]
Woman swims Atlantic Ocean
A few years ago, I wrote about our Diana Nyad’s attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, which boggled the mind. These days, long-distance swimmers set their sights on bigger things. Now 59-year-old Jennifer Figge of Colorado says she is the first woman to swim the Atlantic. Well, almost. She started from the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of [...]
Brenda Warner’s baaaaaack
During the St. Louis Rams’ two runs to the Super Bowl, one wife somehow grabbed the attention of the TV cameras more than any in a long time. Kurt Warner’s wife Brenda seemed to the Georgia Frontiere of the Warner family, even though Warner was taking home MVP trophies. The cameras at the Super Bowl [...]
Is 100-0 running up the score?
There’s a long-running debate on Outsports as to when “running up the score” is OK and when it’s wrong. I think it’s dependent on the level of play (in college sports dependent on polls and in the pros it’s OK, in high school it’s not). Others think it’s never OK. Some think it’s always OK. [...]
