Jim Buzinski

“For me, he was the most ungay person who ever was,” a rugby teammate says of Welsh star Gareth Thomas, who came out as gay last year. “Our coach would point to him and say, ‘There’s an example of a real man.’ I don’t make gay jokes anymore since I found out about Alf.” That […]

New Denver Broncos quarterback had an instant attraction (in a football sense, I think) when he met coach Josh McDaniels at the scouting combine prior to the draft. As Tebow told the L.A. Times (via Pro Football Talk): “I was jacked leaving that room,” Tebow said. “I didn’t even want to visit another room. It […]

After I wrote yesterday about hockey blogger Mikey likely being a fraud, I received a request from Jackson to run an article he was writing. I verified his identity (including his photos) and agreed to not use his last name. As someone in the same peer group that Mikey was targeting in his blog, Jackson […]

May 20, 2010 update: Mikey found to be a deception Original article: This will be a short post and I will follow up, but there is something weird going on with "Mikey," the teen-age hockey player-blogger I first wrote about in December. On the front of his site is a post by "Jimmy," a Canadian […]

The decision this week by a gay rights legal group to sue the national gay softball organization over its policy limiting the number of straight players has stirred up a great debate on Outsports. But it has also been covered by the non-gay media because of its inherent news value. Barry Petchesky of the mega-sports […]

Tim Tebow must be ecstatic — not only was he drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos, his new home will be only 69 miles from Colorado Springs, home to Focus on the Family. He can practice in the morning and cut an advocacy ad in the evening. This […]

The NFL has rendered its verdict on Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, accused but not charged with sexual assault in Georgia: A six-game suspension that can be reduced to four if he meets certain conditions. “I recognize that the allegations in Georgia were disputed and that they did not result in criminal charges being filed […]

Here’s a twist on a story involving race: Being white will hurt Stanford’s Toby Gerhart in this week’s NFL Draft, because there are virtually no white running backs in the league. As Michael Silver of Yahoo reports: One longtime NFL scout insisted that Gerhart’s skin color will likely prevent the Pac-10’s offensive player of the […]

When I saw photos of Manchester United’s Gary Neville kiss teammate Paul Scholes on the pitch after Scholes scored a late goal to give ManU a key win Saturday, I thought no big deal. Soccer kisses are pretty routine, especially in Europe. But the Neville smooch has drawn headlines in Britain and at least one […]

Former University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow says his decision to appear in Super Bowl ads for Focus on the Family cost him endorsement deals. Tebow appeared in ads that stressed a pro-life message for Focus on the Family, a political advocacy group that is extremely homophobic. Tebow was the featured speaker at a dinner […]

The headline is a mashup of two terms used by Willie Colon, a Pittsburgh Steelers teammate of Ben Roethlisberger, who was with the quarterback in Milledgeville, Ga., the March night he was accused of sexual assault by a 20-year-old in a bathroom of a bar. Roethlisberger was not charged. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation report, […]

Australian swimmer Daniel Kowalski, who won four Olympic swimming medals before retiring, came out as gay in an opinion article he wrote for Australia’s Sunday Age. “Living the lie and deflecting the innuendo grows tiring. It is emotionally exhausting and it flat out hurts no matter how hard you try to block it out,” he […]

Mason Raymond of the Canucks Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault, whose team plays the Los Angeles Kings in the NHL playoffs, has no problem with his players having as much pre-game sex as they wish. While the coach said the team can control the diet, workout and even sleep regimen of the players, sex was […]

A prosecutor in Georgia this week did not charge Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger with the sexual assault of a 20-year-old woman, saying he could not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But the 572 pages of records into the investigation will convict him in the eyes of many. It's never a good thing […]

Darren Chiacchia, 45, an Olympic bronze medalist in equestrian, faces 30 years in a Florida prison after being charged with not revealing his HIV status to a former boyfriend after they had multiple sexual encounters. The case, which goes to trial in June, stems from laws selectively used in 32 states that make it a […]

Liberia is a West African country that has a tropical climate, no electricity grid and where half of the people live on less than $1 a day. It also a place where the concept of ice hockey is totally foreign. Which is why it’s strange that among the most coveted items are NHL jerseys. Bonnie […]

AFL’s Daniel Jackson Players and coaches of the AFL, the Australian rules football league, have launched a campaign against homophobia (photos below), a hugely positive step in a sport seen by gay men in a recent survey as being hostile and threatening. The campaign is timed to the May 17 International Day Against Homophobia. Almost […]

Not surprisingly, one of the all-time most popular posts on our blog is the one that links to Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes naked in the shower. Every time Holmes does something newsworthy — like catch the winning TD in last year’s Super Bowl or be accused of throwing a drink in a woman’s […]

The NFL Draft will take place starting April 22, and the past few months have been spent with teams evaluating players, both physically and emotionally. As for the physical part, thanks to our readers, we have found shirtless shots of five expected draftees. They are: Eric Decker (receiver, Minnesota); Tim Tebow (quarterback, Florida) inside a […]

Tennis great Martina Navratilova has a noninvasive form of breast cancer and will undergo radiation treatments. She called the diagnosis her “personal 9/11.” Reports the New York Times: The early form of cancer for which Navratilova is being treated is known as D.C.I.S., or ductal carcinoma in situ. It is not a tumor and is […]