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Eye on sports: Our favorite photos of the week

Categories: Photos

Tags: Alex Smith, Bryce Harper, Jason Witten, Photos of the week, Russell Westbrook

We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include a soccer celebration, Aussie Rules Football, English rugby, the NBA playoffs, track and field, baseball (including Bryce Harper’s hair), lacrosse and NFL minicamps featuring perennial faves Jason Witten, Danny Amendola and Alex Smith. Click image for larger, full-sized view: Photo 1: [...]

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Rick Welts moving Golden State Warriors back to San Francisco

Categories: NBA

Tags: David Stern, Golden State Warriors, Golden State Warriors move, Oracle Arena, Peter Guber, Rick Welts, San Francisco

The Golden State Warriors have not played in San Francisco since 1966. For most of the time since then they’ve called (what now is) Oracle Arena in Oakland their home. But new team president Rick Welts, along with team co-owner Peter Guber and NBA president David Stern, have announced the team’s return to San Francisco [...]

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Sports Illustrated article talks with Keelin Godsey, Kye Allums, other transgender athletes

Categories: Media, Olympics, Transgender

Tags: Bates College, Central Michigan, David Epstein, Joanna Harper, Keelin Godsey, Kye Allums, Lindsey Walker, Mike Bozeman, Pablo S. Torre, Sports Illustrated, trans athletes, transgender athletes, transgender Olympians, transgender Olympics

Pablo S. Torre and David Epstein have delivered possibly the most comprehensive article on trans athletes we’ve ever seen in the media. Simply titled The Transgender Athlete, the Sports Illustrated story revisits athletes like Key Allums and Keelin Godsey, whom we’ve written about on Outsports, in addition to some fascinating new figures. Lindsey Walker, a [...]

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Catholic “conversion” group uses sports to cure men of their gay urges

Categories: Homophobia, Religion

Tags: Homophobia

This is not an article from the Onion. There actually is a Catholic group called Courage that is holding a sports weekend as a way for men to channel their same-sex urges into more manly pursuits. From the Philadelphia Daily News: This weekend a group of men will gather at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary to [...]

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A dozen NFL players tell Outsports they would support a gay teammate

Categories: NFL, Straight Allies

Tags: Ahman Green, Antonio Pierce, Coby Fleener, Doug Martin, Eddie George, Jesse Palmer, Jevon Kearse, LaMichael James, Nick Foles, RG3, RGIII, Robert Griffin III, T.J. Graham, TJ Graham

Rookies Robert Griffin III, Trent Richardson, Coby Fleener and others join retired veterans Jevon Kearse, Ahman Green and Eddie George in supporting gay football players Football players have long been cast as some of the most homophobic men in our culture. Sports, and in particular the NFL, is branded as the last closet because of [...]

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Gays and sports bring religious zealots to Outsports

Categories: Homophobia, Religion

Tags: Bible, Manny Pacquiao, Ron Brown, Tim Tebow

Visitors to Outsports recently may have thought they had stumbled across the Focus on the Family website by accident, given all the comments by anti-gay religious zealots. I expect this whenever we write about Tim Tebow — he has a passionate fundamentalist fan base, which takes umbrage to anything negative written about him, even if [...]

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Oklahoma City fans celebrate by shooting eight people as Thunder beat the Lakers

Categories: Fans, NBA

Tags: gun, Los Angeles Lakers, NBA playoffs, Oklahoma City shooter, Oklahoma City Thunder, Russell Westbrook, shooter, Thunder shooter

I simply have no understanding of this. None. Zip. Zilch. We see it over and over again: A team wins a big championship…and the fans try to burn down the city. To Oklahoma City’s credit, this is the first time I can remember seeing “eight people shot” in the headline of a celebration story, so [...]

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MMA fighter Jessica Aguilar comes out as bisexual

Categories: Bisexual, Coming out, Mixed martial arts, Women

Tags: bisexual mma, Jessica Aguilar, Loretta Hunt, MMA, Sports Illustrated

Jessica Aguilar made her professional MMA debut in 2006, but it’s just now that she’s talking about her sexual orientation publicly. The fighter told Sports Illustrated‘s Loretta Hunt that she is bisexual and lives with her girlfriend. Unfortunately, she faces less-than-perfect acceptance from her mother. She’s also reached some comfort in sharing her bisexual orientation, [...]

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IOC asked to consider gay rights as part of Olympics invites

Categories: Homophobia

Tags: 2012 Olympics

British human rights lawyer and writer Mark Stephens has written a provocative article arguing that LGBT rights be the centerpiece of the London Olympics. Nations that still criminalize homosexuality should be banned by the International Olympic Committee, he argues, just like South Africa was under apartheid until 1992. He writes in the Guardian: When people [...]

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Former Green Bay Packer Ahman Green talks about his gay brother and lesbian sister

Categories: NFL, Straight Allies

Tags: Ahman Green, gay brother, gay sister, Green Bay Packers, NFLPA, NFLPA Premiere League

Also: A dozen NFL players tell Outsports they would support a gay teammate Ahman Green was about 10 feet away, kneeling as he changed out of his cleats. He had just made some former NFL players look silly as he juked his way toward the end zone in the NFLPA’s Premiere League flag football game [...]

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