Jim Buzinski

About 3,000 fans at a pro volleyball match in Brazil taunted one player repeatedly with chants of “bicha,” which in Brazilian Portuguese is roughly the equivalent of “faggot” (see video below). The player, Michael (Brazilians refer to their athletes by their first name or nickname), came out publicly after the match as gay and said […]

New York Times reporter John Branch profiles Outsports in a story that just moved on the Web and will be in the Friday print edition. We met John out in L.A. back in December and spent a delightful afternoon with him. I think he wrote a terrific and insightful story. John hopes to write more […]

Mari Burningham was raised as a Mormon and wound up coaching at BYU. She long wrestled with her sexual attraction to women, married a man and tried to fit in. She writes about how she finally accepted who she was, left the church and found happiness.

In the wake of the suspension of basketball star Brandon Davies for having premarital sex with his girlfriend, BYU’s honor code has been in the news. Which led to questions of how it is to be a gay athlete at BYU. I interviewed a former BYU athlete, briefly on the football team and a star […]

Connecticut beat Butler, 53-41, in an NCAA tournament final that set men’s college basketball back 60 years. It figures that a game pitting the Bulldogs against the Huskies turned out to be a dog. The 53 points by Connecticut was the fewest for a champion since 1949, while Butler's 41 was the lowest since 1950, […]

He grew up Mormon, so going to BYU was a natural choice for an athlete who knew he was gay. He tells why he abided by the honor code and the freedom he felt upon leaving the school.

Two gay Vancouver Canucks fans are causing an Internet stir by dressing as the “Hockey Luvin Homos.” They go by the monikers Henrietta and Daniella, spoofing the Canucks’ Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel. The Homos got on TV during last night's Los Angeles Kings vs. Canucks game, when they were shown behind the Vancouver bench […]

Thanks to a reader for this shot of these studs looking hard and strong as steel: Thanks to a reader for this shot of these studs looking hard and strong as steel:

Our good friend Joe Guckin posts his 2011 baseball predictions on his terrific The Joe in Philly Experience blog. And, shocker, he picks his hometown Philadelphia Phillies to win the National League East. So do I and most experts I've seen (I am decidedly not a baseball expert). It's hard not to pick a team […]

VCU coach Shaka Smart Only two people out of 5.9 million people in ESPN'S NCAA men's basketball pool correctly picked the Final Four: Connecticut (3 seed), Kentucky (4), Butler (8) and Virginia Commonwealth (11). One of them was so bad in their other picks that they stand around 6,000. But Joe Pearlman, an I.T. worker […]

David Wright of the Mets Baseball, basketball, hockey and tennis take the stage as Round 2 begins in the 2011 King of the Hardwood contest, run by longtime Outsports poster Mariner Duck Guy. The field of 64 is now down to 32 ad we will reach the Sweet 16 after this weekend. Vote here for […]

Nick Youngquest really has gotten into this whole male model thing. The gay-friendly Aussie rugby player with the smoldering looks and smoking body has been photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. These shots don't do much for me. It's almost as if they've prettified and homogenized Youngquest; in some shots they have airbrushed […]

Denver Broncos quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow will be appearing this week in Jockey’s first ads featuring an athlete since the legendary ones in the 1970s with baseball’s Jim Palmer. I have yet to see any that show Tebow in underwear minus a T-shirt, but the always-pious Tebow says the ads will be […]

The ACLU is telling schools in Michigan and Missouri to stop blocking LGBT-oriented websites with filtering software. Among the sites being blocked is GLSEN, which just launched a program to combat homophobia in sports in schools, and the It Gets Better project. Making matters worse is that sites that promote “cures” for homosexuality are not […]

Last season I picked wide receiver Danny Amendola as my hot player of Week 1 in the NFL after he became a starter. He’s been certainly noticed by a lot more people and did a cover shoot for “Alive,” a lifestyle magazine in St. Louis. In a making-of video for the shoot, Amendola gets shirtless […]

Emma Delsohn is a 17-year-old senior basketball player at a girls Catholic high school in Southern California. It would not appear to be the easiest place to come out as a lesbian. But in an excellent first-person account for Outsports, Emma describes how she overcame her fears and reached out to her teammates. And how […]

Emma Delsohn plays basketball at a Catholic girls school and feared what her coming out would mean. She tells about her journey of self-acceptance and team-acceptance. By Emma DeIsohnFor Outsports.com I remember sitting in the kitchen late one night, with my mother and my father sitting at the table. My youngest sister was still oblivious […]

The King of the Hardwood hot jock voting continues in Round 1 and I am surprised to see openly gay rugby player Gareth Thomas trailing with one day left in the voting. Thomas is losing to U.S. decathlete Trey Hardee. Update: Hardee won by the narrowest of margins: Hardee 50.1% – Thomas 49.9%. I had […]

Ryan Kopacsi Virginia Commonwealth is one of the surprise teams in the NCAA men's basketball Sweet 16, having been one of the final entries into the expanded field. VCU also has a pep band that goes to every game with a band leader, Ryan Kopacsi, who likes to do a partial strip, not a surprise […]

The story of openly gay Swedish soccer player Anton Hysen continues to get a lot of play in England since he is the only out pro player in his sport. In a terrific BBC radio piece by Tim Franks, we hear Hysen, 20, describe his reaction to his first piece of hate mail. I just […]