Jim Buzinski

You would have made a lot of money had you bet before the season that the World Series would pit the Texas Rangers against the San Francisco Giants. But that’s the reality after both teams won their league championship series in six games. On Friday, the Rangers beat the Yankees, 6-1, and on Saturday the […]

The German men’s gymnastics team finished third in the team competition at the world championships in the Netherlands. In looking at their roster, I came across the website for Matthias Fahrig. Fahrig has a terrific gallery that includes he and his teammates in all manner of poses. The gallery is all black and white and […]

Akil Patterson felt he never fit in as a college football player, where he spent a lot of time partying and coping with his sexual identity. He is now blossoming as a gay man and competitive wrestler.

The truly awful Monday Night Football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans still managed to attract more TV viewers than did Game 3 of the ALCS between the Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. I know the NFL is king, but even I was surprised. New York (No. 1) and Dallas-Fort Worth (No. […]

Former champion collegiate wrestler Hudson Taylor is a huge advocate for gay rights. Cyd and I interviewed him for our weekly podcast that is worth checking out. Taylor and his fiancee Lia Alexandra Mandaglio were also out in Los Angeles recently to appear in the NoH8 photo campaign to raise awareness of gay rights. He […]

No team stands out, but watch for the Patriots and Steelers; Jay Cutler, human pinata; hot player of the week; the Chargers continue to suck and there are way too many dirty hits. How I saw Week 6 in the NFL: Call it a season with no theme. There appear to be a lot of […]

Drew Brees is a hero in New Orleans and beyond.

The first BCS poll will be out Sunday and the big question is who the top two teams will be. It won’t be Ohio State, 31-18 losers to Wisconsin. The Buckeyes became the second straight No. 1 team to lose, following Alabama a week earlier. Oregon, which was idle, will almost certainly be one of […]

Australian diver Matthew Mitcham wound up with four silver medals at the just-concluded Commonwealth Games in India. The Games feature athletes from the 54 nations of what was formerly the British Commonwealth. Mitcham lost the 10-meter platform event to Tom Daley of Britain, who had one dive that had perfect 10s. Australian diver Matthew Mitcham […]

Daniel Puder stands 6-3, weighs 235 pounds and has an 8-0 record as an MMA fighter (he was also a pro wrestler). It’s hard to believe, though, that he was once bullied. He is now reaching out and offering help to victims of bullies. As he told TMZ: Anybody that’s getting bullied in the whole […]

Former NFL quarterback Kurt Warner has always been very public about his religion, citing God in virtually every interview. It’s also a popular topic on his Twitter feed. His overt religiosity was always annoying to me, but we never had a clear view of how he stood on gay issues. We got a bit of […]

Mike Chabala of the the MLS’s Houston Dynamo is the latest athlete to be photographed as part of the NoH8 campaign, a response to the passage of Prop. 8 in California in 2008. Subjects are photographed with duct tape over their mouths to symbolize being silenced by Prop. 8. “It was quite an honor when […]

Until Wednesday, there had been only one no-hitter in the postseason history of Major League Baseball — Don Larsen’s perfect game for the New York Yankees in 1956. Make that two. Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies was masterful in pitching a no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds in Game 1 of their National League playoff […]

File this under “shocker:” The New England Patriots have traded wide receiver Randy Moss to the Minnesota Vikings for a third-round pick in the 2011 draft. Great, Randy Moss now with Brett Favre. The two NFL players I dislike the most in the same huddle. Pass the popcorn and let the show begin. Moss has […]

Golfer Camilo Villegas, soccer’s Tim Howard, skater Evan Lysacek, the NBA’s Amar’e Stoudemire, the NFL’s Patrick Willis and baseball’s Hanley Ramirez are among 40 male and female athletes who posed naked (tastefully, of course) for the ESPN the Magazine body issue that hits news stands on Friday. Villegas is shot in a Spiderman pose, Lysacek […]

The absurdly hyped Vick-McNabb death match is a bust. The real action came elsewhere, with the Jags stunning the Colts. Bonehead coaching and plays took center stage in what is officially a bizarre year. The hot player of the week is rookie returner. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw Week 4 of the NFL: Much […]

Thanks to a reader for this submission, freshman kicker for the University of Alabama. Forget your preconceptions about kickers being the nerds of football in terms of their builds. Foster is 6-1 and weighs 221 pounds and has a terrific body. Photos: Thanks to a reader for this submission, freshman kicker for the University of […]

A phone number designed to direct buyers of Chad Ochocinco’s cereal to a children’s charity is instead that of a phone sex line. The company that makes the cereal for the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver is pulling boxes with the bad number from store shelves. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: The number on the boxes, 1-800-HELP-FTC […]

Birthday photos of Henry Burris, quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League, are making the rounds and he is laughing it off as a prank. The photos show Burris and a woman who is not his wife wearing bras. “It’s not a big deal,” he said Tuesday. “Basically, it was a birthday […]

Outsports readers are very familiar with Hudson Taylor, the champion University of Maryland wrestler (now an assistant coach at Columbia) who is a huge champion of gay rights. Taylor is one of those people we can count on in our fight for equality and acceptance. He's at it again, recording a video for the "It […]