Jim Buzinski

Ray Knight, a color analyst for the Washington Nationals and former Major League Baseball player and manager, apologized for using the word “sissy” during a June 5 telecast, the Washington Blade reported. Knight said this when discussing hitters being hit by pitchers who throw inside: “So you don’t go up there playing the game like […]

University of Texas-El Paso college basketball player John Bohannon got himself in trouble when he tweeted: “#letsbereal it is NOT cool to be gay! (Zro voice) *jordan shrug*.” Bohannon was apparently reacting to the public service announcement aired during the NBA playoffs where Grant Hill and Jared Dudley of the Phoenix Suns said it was […]

Canadian fans can act as idiotic as fans anywhere and Canucks fan are especially bad losers. From the New York Times: Rioting hockey fans overturned vehicles and set them ablaze, broke store and hotel windows and set several small fires in downtown areas here moments after the Vancouver Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley […]

The DC Gay Flag Football League is publishing a 24-month calendar to help raise money for gay and lesbian youth. The calendar will be available starting in August. The calendar will feature both gay and straight players from the league. DCGFFL has released two It Gets Better videos, one that had straight players talk about […]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been strangely silent these NBA playoffs, uncharacteristic for a guy who never hesitates to say what’s on his mind. Cuban left his self-imposed cone of silence after the Mavs won their first NBA title, beating the Miami Heat in six games. On "SportsCenter," Cuban let fly with some profanity […]

The verdict is in on “The Decision”: TKO, Dallas in six. The Dallas Mavericks won their first NBA championship, beating the Miami Heat, 105-95, in Game 6 of the Finals. But outside of Dallas, all most people will focus on is the failure of LeBron James to win a championship the year he bailed from […]

Downtown Soccer Toronto will host its annual Toronto International Pride Cup June 17-19, with games at L’Amoreaux Park South. This year, eight teams and 110 players have registered. In addition to Toronto, teams will come from Chicago and Philadelphia. There are five open teams and three women's teams. Chicago Blaze Soccer has won the last […]

Former Villanova star Will Sheridan came out in May. Have we reached a tipping point in the gays in sports debate? Will we be seeing an openly gay pro athlete soon? Will it be that big a deal? I have been thinking about this a lot in the aftermath of a wild eight weeks that […]

Here is an “It Gets Better” video with a twist: Straight players telling why they enjoy playing in a gay-oriented league. The players are with the DC Gay Flag Football League. Their stories dovetail with my experience here in LA with our flag football league. This season, about a third of the players are straight […]

From the Muddy York rugby club in Toronto comes this clever and creative recruiting video. "The Gay Who Wasn't Gay Enough: Coming Out of the Closet Was the Easy Part" has great production values and a terrific sense of humor. It is worth a watch: From the Muddy York rugby club in Toronto comes this […]

We have written a lot about rugby player Ben Cohen, who has now retired and started his StandUp foundation. His goal is to fight homophobia, specifically in sports. Cohen sat down last week with Thomas Roberts on MSNBC to discuss his recent tour of the U.S. and what he hopes to accomplish. Roberts, himself openly […]

Sam Maden and his late uncle Chris Nutile The Boston Red Sox have announced they will produce an anti-bullying "It Gets Better" video. The Red Sox will be the third Major League Baseball team to do so; the San Francisco Giants released theirs last week and the Chicago Cubs announced Friday they will produce one. […]

A federal judge in Washington state ruled that NAGAAA, the national gay softball association that runs the annual Gay Softball World Series, can keep its rule that limits the number of straight players per team. However, he allowed a lawsuit against NAGAAA by three men to go to trial. US District Judge John Coughenour wrote […]

After seeing San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry Zito appear in the team’s It Gets Better video, I was reminded of the great cartoon Dylan Edwards did for us back in 2002 when Zito was with the Oakland As. I thought the cartoon perfectly captured the stereotypes gays and straights have about sexual orientation and figured […]

In the distractions of the holiday weekend, I totally missed this Q&A in the weekend New York Times, where Phoenix Suns star Steve Nash discussed, among other things, gays in the sport. Here is one answer that caught my eye: Q. Is the N.B.A. ready for an openly gay player? In the distractions of the […]

Add Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Warren Moon to the list of athletes who don’t think having an openly gay teammate would be a big deal. Moon played 17 years in the NFL, with his prime being with the Houston Oilers. Moon told the Victor and Matt Sports Podcast on Radio Exiles in May that […]

Dirk Nowitzki The NBA Finals (Dallas vs. Miami) tips off Tuesday, followed the next day by Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals (Vancouver vs. Boston). Both series look intriguing with some fresh faces in the Finals. For Miami and Dallas, this is their second trip each to the Finals (they played in 2006), while […]

We have written before about Vlatko Markovic, the rabidly homophobic president of Croatia soccer, who has said among other things that gays can’t be on the national team because “only healthy people play football.” Two lawsuits have been filed against him for his comments, with a Croatian court throwing one out a month ago. Canadian […]

Our good friend at Trackpic is shooting the yearly decathlon in Gotzis, Austria, and on his way there he stopped by Munich and shot some rowers preparing for a world cup meet. Here is a sample of what he took. We will post more from rowing and a complete decathlon gallery when he returns. Our […]

The recent fines in the NBA for Kobe Bryant and Joakim Noah using “faggot” has engendered a lot of talk about language and what is and isn’t a slur. Mike Freeman of CBS Sportsline has a provocative column where he says that calling someone a “faggot” is the same as calling a black person a […]