Cyd Zeigler

It’s been great to see and hear the reaction to Scott Jordan’s story we have been running since earlier this week. I found Scott because he had been entered in a contest on Gay.com to find the best (or something like that) gay athlete. I emailed him and asked him to write his story. He […]

– It’s been a bad year for Jason Kidd. Maybe he thinks he’s a Detroit Piston and it’s 1989. – I don't know what's worse about this story: That the Oregon State women's basketball team needed double overtime to beat an Arizona team with only four players, that Arizona finished with only two players on […]

GLAAD has announced its list of worst anti-gay defamation of 2007, which includes two incidents from the sports world: Snickers’ Super Bowl ad featuring two men kissing and Tim Hardaway’s infamous “I hate gay people” comment after John Amaechi came out. -Cyd Zeigler jr. GLAAD has announced its list of worst anti-gay defamation of 2007, […]

Three events in the next week that you might find of interest: Three events in the next week that you might find of interest:

By Dan Woog "We come from old VirginiaWhere all is bright and gay.Let's all join hands and give a yellFor dear old UVA!" As a college fight song, that's not exactly "Hail to the Victors." It's even less impressive because it's sung to the tune of "Auld Lang Syne." But "The Good Ol' Song" is […]

Being out is pushing Scott Jordan to success By Scott JordanSpecial to Outsports It was one of my first conversations with a teammate on the swim team after I’d decided to come out to them last summer. I was home in Connecticut talking with him on the phone about the upcoming season when talk turned, […]

Watching Roger Clemens on 60 Minutes made me even more convinced that the guy did something shady. Mike Wallace did a great job of grilling Clemens, and the Cy Young winner looked like he was sweating bullets throughout, drinking from his water bottle over and over and at times avoiding Wallace’s eye contact or fidgeting […]

Michael Vick is named Jerk of the Year Outsports polled its readers and discussion board members for the second straight year to determine the honorees of three year-end awards. Outsports Story of the Year: John Amaechi comes outThe coming out of former NBA player John Amaechi was the landslide winner of Outsports’ 2007 Story of […]

When the Boston Celtics and the L.A. Lakers took the court for one of the first really meaningful games between the two since the 1980s, the Lakers looked the part, donning short shorts that harkened back to the high-on-the-leg shorts work by NBA players in the NBA’s heyday. The fans, by several accounts enjoyed it. […]

– For the couple who never wants to be separated by more than six to eight inches comes the snowboard built for two. “On steeper hills you’re definitely looking for some drag,” the board’s creator said. – With Justin Gatlin’s 4-year ban in the news, several pubs are revisiting Gatlin’s claim that a masseur rubbed […]