Updated at 2:43pmPT with comments from Charissa Thompson. Today’s episode of ESPN’s First Take tackled the issue of the New England Patriots’ post-game party. While Skip Bayless didn’t find much fault with the players dancing (possibly intoxicated) at a previously planed event, Rob Parker was most concerned about the fact that there didn’t seem to [...]
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Andrew Goldstein, America’s first out pro team-sport athlete, issues a challenge
When we put together our list of the 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history, we knew we’d probably overlook something. Maybe an Austrian hurdler came out in the Eighties, or some Slovakian soccer player had said something horribly homophobic and damaging. And we may have missed something like that. But I was incredibly [...]
GLAAD media awards nominees announced; sports virtually absent
Over the last few years we’ve been very pleased to see GLAAD recognize the increasing LGBT work done in sports with multiple sports-related nominees for their media awards. This year, as far as we can tell only one of the 151 nominees is directly related to sports: ESPN’s segment on Kye Allums. What makes that [...]
ESPN shows a little Crimson Tide nudity during Alabama postgame interview
The inadvertent locker room penis shot during a TV interview is an Internet staple and the latest comes via ESPN, which on its YouTube channel has an interview with Alabama wide receiver Kevin Norwood. It was filmed after the Tide beat LSU in the BCS title game. Alert reader David points out the brief nudity [...]
ESPN Radio host Bruce Jacobs demonstrates a true apology
Athletes take notice: This is how you apologize. ESPN Radio host Bruce Jacobs in Albany, N.Y., made stupid comments last Tuesday when discussing the WNBA. He referred to two teams as the Los Angeles Lesbians and the Phoenix Dyke-ury (the two teams are the Sparks and the Mercury). According to the Albany Times-Union, Jacobs apologized [...]
Renee Richards gets ESPN treatment
The documentary film ‘Renee,’ about transgender tennis player Renee Richards, will air tonight at 8pm as part of ESPN’s ’30 for 30′ documentary series. Richards was originally denied eligibility to play in the women’s U.S. Open in 1976; Her legal victory in U.S. courts winning the right to play is our #12 most important moment [...]
Moment #19: ESPN airs “World of the Gay Athlete”
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 1998: ESPN made the issue of gays in sports the centerpiece for coverage on the air and online in late 1998 and into 1999. “The World of the Gay Athlete” was groundbreaking in that a major mainstream media outlet devoted [...]
Moment #39: ESPN the Magazine hires LZ Granderson as NBA editor
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports media, 2004. When I first met LZ Granderson he was writing sports for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and opening a gay bar in Atlanta. From our first meeting, Granderson struck me as a smart, personable, soulful guy who was on the [...]
Meet Andrew Luck, former grizzly man
In November, 2009, we highlighted Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck as our weekend hot jock. We said then he was one to watch and that you’d be hearing a lot about him. Certainly his performance on the field has lived up to our hype – but the latest cover of ESPN the Magazine makes us rethink [...]
ESPN criticized for covering gay sports issues
ESPN is being criticized by a media watchdog group for giving too much attention to the issue of gays in sports. The Media Research Center Network, a media critique site run by self-described social and religious conservatives, is upset with ESPN’s recent coverage. Gay ‘rights’ and same-sex marriage have been all over the news lately. [...]
LeCharles Bentley, Cyd Zeigler get into it as ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ talks gays in sports
Outsports generated some heat on ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ on Friday when former NFL center LeCharles Bentley and I got into it. Bentley said I’m “one of the pariahs within the gay community” because Michael Irvin appeared without his shirt on on the cover of Out magazine. When the host asked me to respond, I [...]
Adam Schefter, Steve Wyche, other colleagues tweet support for Michael Irvin
While a good portion of the thousands of comments across the Internet about Michael Irvin’s appearance in Out magazine are hateful, most have been positive and supportive. “Michael Irvin” is a top-5 trending term on Twitter today as thousands of people have taken to the site to share their thoughts. Among them some of the [...]
ESPN’s Jamele Hill’s poorly considered, poorly argued defense of David Tyree
On ESPN.com yesterday, columnist Jemele Hill said she accepts and respects David Tyree for being so active and vocal in his belief that gay people should be treated as second-class citizens. The column is a sorry excuse for the quality we’ve come to expect from ESPN. Not just because as a black woman she should [...]
Interview: Jared Max’s first day as an openly gay ESPN radio host
What was Jared Max’s coming-out day like for the ESPN radio host? It started at 1am without knowing whether he’d come out on the air or not. We talked with Jared about the first day of the rest of his life, and how he now wishes he’d come out long ago. The coolest thing about [...]
ESPN New York radio host Jared Max comes out as gay
When it rains it pours. ESPN 1050 in New York radio host Jared Max came out as gay in the final seven minutes of his radio this this morning. He talked about how the coming out of Rick Welts and Will Sheridan, along with the supportive words of Charles Barkley this week, made him take [...]