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 [...]
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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 [...]
Video: ESPN profiles Kye Allums
ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ Sunday featured a story on transgender basketball player Kye Allums hours before the start of the Women’s Final Four. The piece covered a lot of territory from Kye’s relationship with his mother, Rolanda DelaMartinez, to his high school basketball career, to the acceptance of his team at George Washington. Two videos [...]
ESPN’s Outside the Lines profiles Kye Allums
This Sunday’s ‘Outside the Lines’ on ESPN will feature a lengthy segment on transgender NCAA basketball player Kye Allums and other trans issues in sports. You can see a short clip of the segment after the jump, and it shows they ask Allums some tough questions, some of which we’ve delved into in our coverage [...]
Jocks get nude for ESPN the Magazine
Golfer Camilo Villegas, soccer’s Tim Howard, skater Evan Lysacek, the NBA’s Amar’e Stoudemire, the NFL’s Patrick Willis and baseball’s Hanley Ramirez are among 40 male and female athletes who posed naked (tastefully, of course) for the ESPN the Magazine body issue that hits news stands on Friday. Villegas is shot in a Spiderman pose, Lysacek [...]
Norman Chad’s cool with the gay thing
I stumbled across a great little tidbit from ESPN personality Norman Chad. It’s a part of his series, Couch Slouch, which he wrote for the Houston Chronicle. In it, he talks about unfounded rumors: Elsewhere online, you can find “Norman Chad: Gay?” threads. This happens largely because, on occasion during poker telecasts, I’ll talk about [...]
Neil Everett is so straight he hates speedos
ESPN SportsCenter hosts are so macho and cool. They’re the most awesome, masculine dudes around, man. Just take Neil Everett and Robert Flores. They proved it last night when they showed a diver in a speedo plummeting a good 30 meters to the water below. Everett’s comment on the dive: You know what’s not a [...]
Michael Irvin’s show canceled, accused of rape
For the last 18 months I’ve appeared regularly on one of radio’s gay-friendliest sports talk shows, The Michael Irvin Show. I called the show’s producer this morning to find out when we were going on, and he told me the show had not been picked up; And while the show was supposed to air today [...]
ESPN confirms: Johnny Weir is a real man
In case you were wondering, ESPN has confirmed that Johnny Weir is a Real Man. I guess maybe some people were wondering, since the figure skater dragged reporter Jim Caple (and yes, I’m sure it was ESPN’s idea, but that’s not how it’s played) for a mani-pedi during his interview with Weir for a “who-to-watch” [...]
Kornheiser and a hair-pulling Lambert
Univ. of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert has become the posterchild for mean-spirited, unsportsmanlike conduct following a series of onfield incidents aginst BYU in which she pulled opponents’ hair, kicked them and tackled them (video after the jump). All with video cameras watching. Not smart. She’s been suspended; No “soccer flop” was needed here. [...]
Outsports on ESPN Thursday
I am scheduled to appear on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” program Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern. The subject is gays in sports in conjunction with October being gay and lesbian history month. Former lacrosse player Andrew Goldstein is also scheduled to appear. I am not sure what their angle is yet. Share on Facebook
ESPN’s Body Issue bares (almost) all
ESPN the Magazine’s Body Issue is finally out, and there’s plenty of what they promised: Skin. Shockingly, the magazine seems to feature as many men as women. Yes, shocking. What’s unfortunate is that some of our advertisers tell us they will pull their advertising if we feature the same exact photos that ESPN is allowed [...]
Football in 3-D
ESPN is reportedly ready to announce that it will broadcast the Sept. 12 USC at Ohio State football game in 3-D, available at several outlets in L.A., Ohio and…Texas. This is the latest foray into 3-D sports. According to the L.A. Times: Last season the San Diego Chargers-Oakland Raiders game was broadcast in 3-D in [...]
ESPN the Mag planning all-nude issue
After we posted the item about the naked French pole vaulter, I kvetched that American athletes are mostly afraid of posing nude, and when they do it’s usually women. Well ESPN, of all entities, may be to the rescue. ESPN The Magazine is reportedly planning an October 2009 “Body Issue.” The magazine editor-in-chief Gary Belsky [...]
Justin Timberlake’s sports “man crush”
Justin Timberlake was on ESPN’s SportsCenter recently, and the two co-hosts asked him 10 sports-related questions. Question No. 9 was whom he had a “man crush” on. His answer: reigning NBA MVP LeBron James. “Man crush” is, as Urban Dictionary says, “When a straight man has a “crush” on another man, not sexual but kind [...]
That wacky Mike Golic gets waxed
That wild and crazy ESPN personality Mike Golic lost a bet on the NCAA tournament (big shocker). To pay off the bet, he got waxed on his show yesterday. Fun, right? Look at us at ESPN, we’re so hip and wacky! But all he had waxed were his arms and legs. Big deal. I guess [...]
ESPN apologizes for ‘fist kiss’ ad
ESPN has apologized for and stopped running an ad promoting its NBA coverage that some found homophobic (see background story here), and that GLAAD lobbied against. Ted Rybka at GLAAD sent us the network’s apology. We have dozens of executions of the “NBA on ESPN RV Tour” online campaign and none are intended to be [...]
Homophobic ESPN commercial?
Another case of “is it” or “isn’t it.” It’s Mike Breen attempting a “fist kiss” with Shaq; Some people are calling it homophobic while others are defending it. Take a look, and then take into consideration some history: Shaq helping police chase down gay bashers, Shaq’s reaction to questions about having a gay teammate, and [...]