Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1999. When Jeff Pearlman was assigned by Sports Illustrated in 1999 to write a story about Atlanta Braves relief pitcher John Rocker, he was expecting to pen an image-rehabilitation article. Pearlman told Outsports this week: I knew he was something of [...]
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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 [...]