Jim Buzinski

One in a series of first-person accounts by athletes attending the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, July 31-Aug. 7. By Brian Galyean I remember when I was 14 years old and sitting at home that hot Texas summer watching the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Carl Lewis was all over the news with his […]

The NFL made a dumb decision in awarding the 2014 Super Bowl to the new Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey. An outdoor stadium for a game to be played in February. When the temperature ranges on average from between 24 and 40 degrees (with a 6:30 p.m. local kickoff, it will be cold) and there […]

Mikey, the teenage hockey blogger from Minnesota, seems beyond a reasonable doubt a late-fortysomething man from a Minneapolis suburb who likes travel, food, was married and has sex profiles on two gay hookup sites. His deceit was discovered when he fell in love with Jimmy, a contributor to his blog, and his story started to […]

Even though Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Dwayne Bowe referred to quarterback Matt Cassell as like a girlfriend, he wants us to know he doesn’t mean it in the gay way. Bowe told Nick Wright of 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City about starting his second season playing with Cassell: It’s like an extra year […]

Actor Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter”) is trying to buff out for a Broadway role and his physique idol is soccer’s Cristiano Ronaldo. Reports the Sun (under the headline “Daniel becomes Harry Hotter”), quoting a friend of the actor. “Daniel wants to completely re-sculpt his body and has taken Ronaldo as his inspiration. He envies his […]

Yahoo’s Michael Silver catches up with Minnesota Vikings tight end Visanthe Shiancoe, who has had more touchdown catches the past two seasons than all but two players. But what Shiancoe acknowledges he is most known for is a fleeting shot of his penis following a 2008 game. Fox was broadcasting the post-game locker room scene […]

Collegiate track and field athlete went from being a closeted and scared freshman to a tireless advocate for LGBT athletes on his Bucknell campus.

Our podcast this week features an interview with Blake Skejellerup, the New Zealand short track speedskater who is openly gay. He is living in Canada, where he is able to train full time. He was a terrific guest, lively and funny as he spoke about his career and life on the short track circuit for […]

Paul Bissonnette doesn't mind getting (mostly) naked in public.

Via SportsbyBROOKS, we learn that Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett took a shower live on the Internet, reportedly to win a $1,000 bet. On his Twitter account, Dockett wanted to make it known that he did didn’t want any dudes staring at his 6-4, 285-pound frame: Via SportsbyBROOKS, we learn that Arizona Cardinals defensive […]

From Vanity Fair, a short video of some of the World Cup stars featured in the Annie Leibovitz photo shoot in the upcoming issue. I would love to know where to buy that World Cup underwear shown briefly in the beginning: From Vanity Fair, a short video of some of the World Cup stars featured […]

Elite competitive swimmer Jeff Commings, who still swims in master’s meets, is coming out with a book later this month that chronicles his life as a swimmer who also happens to be gay and black. Here is the press release about the book (which can be bought here): Books written by gay athletes in diving, […]

Andrew McIntosh (New York Times photo) Today's New York Times profiles Andrew McIntosh, the lacrosse player at Oneonta University in New York, who came out publicly as gay in a column for Outsports. From the Times article: But this season, the team is developing a new reputation — as models of tolerance — after one […]

For your Friday viewing pleasure, Broadway dancers perform all sorts of homoerotic acts wearing football gear. I am not sure who created it, but the video even begins with a brief snippet of the CBS NFL theme and Hank Williams Jr. singing “Are You Ready for Football.” Music is “Let It Rock” by Kevin Rudolf. […]

Nick Ring, a competitor on the current season of “The Ultimate Fighter” is either openly gay or so comfortable with his sexuality that he doesn’t care if everyone else thinks he gay. After all, no other MMA fighter, when asked if he was gay, would answer, “No, but my boyfriend is.” Nor would they have […]

ESPN polled Major League Baseball players on what they think the reaction in the clubhouse would be to having a gay teammate and the reaction was mixed. On a scale of 1-10, with 1 being no big deal and 10 it being a huge deal, the average was 5.1. A 5 on the scale grabbed […]

New Zealand short track speed skater Blake Skjellerup, who competed in the Vancouver Olympics, has come out as gay in an interview with writer Lee Suckling in the Australian magazine DNA (disclosure: I am quoted in the article). Skjellerup says that he walked around Vancouver during the Games hand in hand with his boyfriend and […]

The NHL playoffs are in the conference semifinals, and along with them comes the worst hockey tradition — the playoff beard. I mean real beards, not some woman used for cover. It’s a tradition to start growing a beard at the start of the playoffs and not shave until the season is over. Normally hot-looking […]

Los Angeles Lakers head coach Phil Jackson has a theory as to why visiting teams fare so poorly in the NBA playoffs: They are shy about being seen in their underwear: “You have to remember these men are out there in their underwear, in their shorts. These aren’t like the old days but they are […]

Vitamin Water has a YouTube video showing New York Mets star David Wright working out with Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino from MTV’s “The Jersey Shore.” Sorrentino, as befits his character, is shirtless almost the whole commercial, but Wright never shows us whether his abs can match those of "The Situation." Vitamin Water has a YouTube […]