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Sean Dempster We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Aussie Rules Football players playing the surf as part of a recovery session, a Chipper Jones sighting, diving from Fort Lauderdale, NFL minicamps, track and field and triathlon. Click image for larger, full-sized view: Sean Dempster We present our […]

“The same thing that was a sin 2,000 years ago is a sin today. The thing that was right 2,000 years ago is right today.” –Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown. Brown has made headlines with his fierce opposition to gay rights, righteously citing the Bible as the source of his views. As he wrote […]

Trey Hardee Top medal hopefuls from the U.S. Olympic team were on hand in Dallas this weekend for a media meet-and-greet. US PRESSWIRE sent photographers to get some terrific portraits of some of the athletes. The male Olympians there were swimmers Michael Phelps and Alex Meyer, sprinter Wallace Spearmon, taekwondo's Steven Lopez, fencer Alexander Massiaias, […]

Jordan Eberle (Photo: Jean-Yves Ahern/US PRESSWIRE) Brian Elliott of the St. Louis Blues and Jordan Eberle of the Edmonton Oilers are the latest in a series of National Hockey League players to endorse the You Can Play project to fight homophobia in sports. "I support LGBT athletes everywhere," says Elliott in the video. The project, […]

Tennis great Billie Jean King threw out the first pitch at today’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros. King has owned the Philadelphia Freedoms of World Team Tennis since 1974. (Elton John’s song “Philadelphia Freedom” was written in honor of King, his friend). King was introduced to the crowd as "one of America's […]

9 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include Canada Cup diving, the NCAA men's volleyball championships, world rowing, mixed martial arts, NFL minicamps and the funky hair of Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals. Click image for larger, full-sized view (and that image for the largest view): 9 […]

Connor Barwin (Photo: Troy Taormina-US PRESSWIRE) President Obama's support for same-sex marriage was big news today, and it did not go unnoticed by Houston Texans linebacker Connor Barwin. The NFL player issued a cool series of tweets in support of the decision, saying, "Those of us with gay relatives and friends understand how meaningful and […]

Pro wrestler CM Punk supports gay marriage and is opposed to North Carolina’s Amendment One, which would ban gay marriage and civil unions (and which passed today). But he apologized for telling a homophobe on Twitter who said gays made him “sick” to “kill yourself.” From the Daily Mirror: CM Punk tweeted: “Same sex marriage […]

Jeff Karstens (Photo: Mark J. Rebilas-US PRESSWIRE) The Pittsburgh Pirates released an It Gets Better video last Friday before a home game at PNC Park that was designated youth night for the Pittsburgh Gay and Lesbian Community Center. The video was not just a one-off — the team is committed to fight bullying. From local […]

Gay Games 2010 The groups that run the Gay Games and the Outgames failed in their attempt to hold one worldwide LGBT sporting event in 2018. Board members from the Federation of Gay Games and the Gay and Lesbian International Sport Association met in Montreal over the weekend, but were unable to reconcile their differences. […]

Brandon McCarthy (Photo by Kim Klement-US PRESSWIRE) The Oakland A's have joined the list of Major League Baseball teams who have produced videos for the It Gets Better campaign. Though the A's video, aimed at teens who are being bullied, does not mention sexual orientation, one of the players featured is Brandon McCarthy, an outspoken […]

Megan Rapinoe (Photo by: Jerome Miron-US PRESSWIRE) Update: Megan Rapinoe officially comes out as a lesbian. U.S. star women's soccer player Megan Rapinoe, who will be on the Olympic team, answered "we're out there" when asked when a high-profile player would come out. It was a rather novel way to answer the question. Here is […]

15 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include celebrating a no-hitter, rugby practice, a shirtless soccer celebration, spring college football, baseball, NHL playoffs, Aussie Rules Football and track and field. Click image for larger, full-sized view and on that image for the largest view: 15 We present our […]

Photo from Barstool Sports Members of the Tufts University crew team were suspended, then reinstated for a race this weekend after they wore tank tops at a school social event that read "check out our cox." The athletes at the Boston-area school were suspended by their coach, then reinstated by the school's president, who cited […]

Photo: Joe Nicholson-US PRESSWIRE The people have spoken. Outsports readers picked American gymnast as the 2012 King of the Hardwood, emblematic of the hottest athlete. He beat out defending champion Eric Decker in the finals at the end of a 64-man tournament. Contest organizer Mariner Duck Guy (who does an amazing job putting this together […]

Junior Seau (Photo by: Greg M. Cooper/US PRESSWIRE) This is sad news about a player I watched and admired for years — former NFL linebacker Junior Seau was found dead today at his home in Oceanside, Calif., from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 43. Seau played a remarkable 20 seasons, the first 13 […]

Tom Waddell started the Gay Games in 1982. The groups that run the Gay Games and the Outgames are meeting in Montreal this weekend with a goal of organizing a unified worldwide sports and cultural event in 2018. This would end a schism that began in 2003 and it's about time. There have been Outgames […]

Alexander Dale Oen (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) The swimming world is stunned by the death today of Norwegian swimmer Alexander Dale Oen, 26, who died suddenly from cardiac arrest in his room at a pre-Olympic training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. Oen was the world champion in the 100-meter breaststroke and a favorite to medal […]

There is one day left to vote in the 2012 King of the Hardwood contest, run by Mariner Duck Guy from our Discussion Board, which crowns our readers’ choice as the hottest athlete in the world. In early voting, defending champion and Denver Broncos receiver Eric Decker has a slight lead over U.S. gymnast Jake […]

Click image for larger view For the first time, an English Premier soccer game was shown on ESPN's main channel. It was a huge match, with first place on the line between Manchester and Manchester City (City won, 1-0). The game started at 2:30 p.m. EDT on a Monday, meaning there was nothing else going […]