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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MMA fighter Jessica Aguilar comes out as bisexual
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, [...]
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue features female models and three male athletes
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue is out, and it again features lots of scantily clad female models. When we at Outsports get complaints that we feature shirtless athletes (like Gareth Thomas in his underwear), we always point to the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue as proof that “it’s not a gay thing, it’s a guy thing.” [...]
Moment #8: John Rocker spews homophobia to ‘Sports Illustrated’
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 [...]
Sports Illustrated names Outsports in top 100 sports Twitter feeds to follow
This was very cool for Jim and me, to be named by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 sports Twitter feeds to follow on Twitter’s fifth birthday. A couple things that jump out at us. First, we’re by far one of the least-followed Twitter feeds on the list; Second is the process by [...]
Manhunt ads on Sports Illustrated
At first I thought it was a random error, but I’ve noticed several Manhunt ads on Sports Illustrated’s Web site over the last few weeks. Michael MacDonald at Manhunt said it’s not a direct buy with Time Warner, but it’s an ad they’ve placed through Dedicated Media. Either way, I think it’s cool that a [...]
SI snubs Federer on its cover
Roger Federer becomes the first man to win 15 Grand Slam titles. Virtually every commentator talking about it dubs him “the greatest men’s tennis player of all time.” The match that puts him over the top ends with a 16-14 tiebreak in the fifth set of Wimbledon, the sport’s crowning glory. And days later, Sports [...]
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 [...]
A-Rod story gets a new wrinkle
So yeah, every sports channel you turn on now will probably have some talking head screaming at the top of his or her lungs at how much of a heel Alex Rodriguez is for allegedly testing positive for steroids. But one item that’s not being talked about that much is that the author of the [...]
Phelps is SI’s Sportsman of the Year
I’m not a big Michael Phelps fan, but even I would agree 100% with this selection. Sports Illustrated has named Phelps their Sportsman of the Year for his eight gold medals in Beijing and for his work with kids since the Olympics. I don’t know about all the “greatest Olympian ever” talk, but no athlete [...]