Jim Buzinski

#1 on The List: Lassi Karonen of Sweden In 2008, American rower Megan Kalmoe put up a list of her 20 hottest male rowers and it has become so popular it is now called simply "The List" and rowers lobby to get on it (video montage of the 20 below). Kalmoe told the Toronto Star: […]

Sean Chapin, the San Francisco resident who helped get the baseball Giants to make an It Gets Better video in June, has now started a petition to get the 49ers to become the first NFL team to do the same. Chapin has garnered 6,068 signatures on an online petition asking the team to lend its […]

Australian rugby star David Pocock has a real sense of justice, supporting equal right and the fair trade movement. He’s also passionate about the rights of gays to marry, so much so that he and his partner, Emma, won’t legally marry until gays Down Under can. In a profile in the New Zealand Herald, Pocock […]

Maybe God does listen to the gays. Houston — like the rest of Texas — is in the middle of a terrible drought and in April, Gov. Rick Perry issued a proclamation officially praying for rain. His prayers were ignored, the drought continued and then Gay Bowl XI came to town this weekend. Sunday saw […]

Snowboarder Louie Vito, photo by Peter Hapak ESPN's the Magazine's "Body Issue" has become an annual tradition where the magazine gets male and female athletes to go naked (with all the naughty parts hidden) in celebration of their physical beauty. The Hope Solo shots have the straight websites all aflutter, but we focused on the […]

The NHL career of Sean Avery is in limbo after he was cut by the New York Rangers and assigned to the Connecticut Whale of the American Hockey League. His agent said Avery was considering playing in Europe if he did not join the Whale. We've been big fans of Avery for all the stands […]

The latest video in Outsports’ partnership with the It Gets Better Project™ is from Billy Bean, who played baseball with the Tigers, Dodgers and Padres from 1987-95. Bean is a gay sports pioneer, becoming one of the few pro athletes who publicly came out. I met Billy this weekend and we did a terrific interview […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Football, 1975: Dave Kopay was pissed. It was December 1975 and he had read an article in the Washington Star newspaper that dealt with the difficulties of being a homosexual in sports. It quoted, without naming him, an NFL player and […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Tennis, 1981: On Aug. 12, 2009, Billie Jean King was at the White House with 15 other prominent Americans to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was honored for her contributions to fights for gay and women's rights. When she […]

Hot player of the week Philly falls to 1-3; the Bills are no longer perfect, but the Lions are; Cardinals screwed by a bad call; the Steelers are in rough shape.How I saw Week 4 of the NFL, plus hot player of the week: The Philadelphia Eagles (1-3) are officially in trouble. It's one thing […]

The news that the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement adds sexual orientation to its non-discrimination clause has spurred a call for the NBA and its players union to do the same. The Resource Center Dallas, an LGBT advocacy group, sent a letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern and union head Billy Hunter asking that similar […]

Gay Games I medalists Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Multisports, 1982: Dr. Tom Waddell was an Olympic decathlete who had a dream of holding a sports event geared to gay and lesbians, to shatter the stereotype of what being an athlete meant. He was thwarted in […]

The Boston Red Sox led the Tampa Bay Rays by nine games on Sept. 4. And last night the lead went poof and the Rays completed the biggest September comeback for a playoff spot in Major League Baseball history. Not far behind were the Atlanta Braves, who blew an 8 1/2 game wild card lead […]

From Sean Chapin comes a video compiling the homophobic slurs that have been captured in the past four months, from Kobe Bryant, Joakim Noah and Wayne Simmonds. The message is that these slurs are not acceptable and have a negative impact on children who idolize sports figures. Bryant and Noah apologized and were fined. Simmonds […]

Georgetown University will host a talk on homophobia in sports with rugby player Ben Cohen, Friday at 4 p.m. at the ICC Auditorium on campus (open to the public). The event is sponsored by the Athletics Dept., IDEAA, GUPride and Clun Sports. Cohen has been touring the U.S. as part of his Standup Foundation, which […]

James Loney The Los Angeles Dodgers have released a terrific It Gets Better video that features several players and manager Don Mattingly. This video is even more noteworthy coming from an organization whose longtime ex-manager Tommy Lasorda never acknowledged that his son Tommy Jr. ("Spunky") was gay and died of AIDS. Watch: James Loney The […]

Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Baseball, 1999: A restaurant review in the Miami Herald changed Billy Bean's life. The article, in an oh-by-the-way fashion, mentioned that Bean and his partner in the restaurant were also partners in life. The item caught the attention of the New […]

Last week, I wrote about Sam, a Pennsylvania high school junior, who had started a blog to talk about his coming out process. I spoke with him Saturday and he said he planned on coming out to his sister in a few weeks and his parents by Christmas. After much reflection, Sam decided the time […]

James Casey of the Texans The Bills and Lions stay perfect and erase huge deficits; the Raiders stun the Jets; OK to be gay in the NFL; and the hot players of the week. How I saw Week 3 of the NFL: Two Rust Belt cities that are struggling economically have two exciting 3-0 teams […]

San Francisco softball team of the 1970s Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Softball, 1977: The owner of the Badlands bar in San Francisco teamed up with bar owners in New York to send the Ramrod team west to play in a best three-of-five series. Badlands won […]