Jim Buzinski

One great thing about the Olympics is that every four years the media discover athletes that for the most part toil in obscurity and make them cover material. Swimmer Michael Phelps is certainly not obscure, but rival and friend Ryan Lochte is little known outside his sport. But Men's Journal put them put on the […]

12-team gay flag football event sees a thrilling ending in Chicago Related: Pride Bowl photo gallery By Ross FormanOutsports.com CHICAGO — The inaugural Pride Bowl flag football tournament in Chicago featured a thrilling, hail-filled championship game in the Competitive Division.The San Diego Bolts surprised tournament favorite Los Angeles BET, 39-35, in the finals of the […]

From the Miami Herald: Efrain Veiga, founder of Yuca restaurant and co-creator of Nuevo Latino cuisine, and partner Billy Bean (photo), a former Major League Baseball player, have split after 13 years. ”Sometimes things don’t work out,” Veiga says. “There’s still love.” Says Bean: “It’s a very difficult period, and we’re both trying to get […]

Spain, the perennial underachievers, shed that label with a 1-0 win over Germany to win the Euro 2008 tournament, its first since 1964. The only goal was scored by Fernando Torres (photo) in the 33rd minute. I watched the last half of the match and was pleased to see that ABC stuck with the post-match […]

I was doing a Google News search of “Olympic + homosexual” to see if there was any news regarding gays and the upcoming Games. It was then I learned that sprinter Tyson Gay had actually changed his name, at least on one website: OneNewsNow, where these links point to, is an online new site run […]

Dylan "NDR" Edwards is a writer, artist, and cartoonist living in Austin, Texas. His cartoons have been featured in Sojourner: The Women's Forum, The Antioch Record, FTM International, Transhealth and various other publications. His illustrations have graced the Boston Phoenix, as well as items ranging from T-shirts to greeting cards to web sites, and his […]

There will be no rugby or flag football at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, but you can win a medal in sport shooting. Air Rifle (10 meter) and Air Pistol (10 meter), both sport shooting disciplines offered in the Olympic Games, will be fired at the Cologne Gay Games in 2010. Air Rifle […]

The New York Knicks, in the first round of the NBA Draft, selected Italian star forward Danilo Gallinari. Of course, being in New York, he was promptly booed when his name was called Thursday. What’s amusing is that Gallinari’s nickname is “Il Gallo,”or the cock (rooster, not what you were thinking), which has prompted the […]

Imagine watching this past season’s Super Bowl. Time running out, New England trailing the Giants and trying to score the go-ahead score. The Pats move inside the Giants’ 20 when all of a sudden Fox loses its TV feed and the next 10 minutes of the game is blacked out and you only hear New […]

We have had a couple of posts about New York Rangers hockey thug and fashion maven Sean Avery, which prompted me to joke that, given his tastes and interests, he is gayer than me. A summer intern at Vogue, Avery has a fashion photo slideshow, where he has the good sense in some shots to […]

Hotly contested Wimbledon will give meaning to 2008 tennis season. By Wyman MeersOutsports.com Sport is essentially a heightened state of being. It magnifies the great pressures and critical stakes that elicit passion without the intrusion of everyday monotony. A reflex reaction can change the outlook of a tennis match as easily as a single decision […]

Actor Romany Malco (“40-year-old Virgin,” among others) has a way to improve pro hockey’s image and visibility — feature all the hot players. He gave an interview to Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. “I don’t know if I’m going to get myself in trouble here, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I […]

Soccer stud David Beckham likes it big and on top. His Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer sits atop the Western Conference, a position Beckham likes, according to his blog. And he towers above adoring fans in a billboard plastered across Macy’s in San Francisco’s Union Square that will soon be coming to cities […]

The oddsmakers hit the nail on the head as the favored Sydney Convicts won the Bingham Cup rugby championship with a decisive run through the tournament. The Convicts beat the Kings Cross Steelers of London, 18-3, in the finale of the event in Dublin, Ireland. They ended the tournament unbeaten at 6-0 and outscored their […]

From Gay.com comes a nice story and gallery of Greg DeStephen, an All-American diver at the University of Missouri. His coming out story mirrored many we have written about, and despite support in high school, the initial reactions of his Mizzou teammates were less than positive. “It was uncomfortable,” Greg says. “A lot of the […]

I did not watch a second of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but recorded it. After seeing that the Boston Celtics crushed the Los Angeles Lakers, 131-92, I figured I just saved myself two-plus hours. The Celtics won the series, 4-2, and the 39-point margin is the largest ever in a series-clinching NBA Finals […]

Cristiano Ronaldo can’t keep his jersey on. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The soccer stud helped lead Portugal over the Czech Republic on Wednesday, scoring his first goal in eight months and moving on to the quarterfinals of the European Championship. Portugal plays Switzerland on Sunday. “If we’re carrying on playing like this […]

Edwin Poots, who called gay sports “apartheid,” has been fired from his job as Northern Ireland’s minister for arts and culture. Poots lost his job in a cabinet reshuffle and it apparently had nothing to do with his anti-gay remarks, according to news reports, but rather with his support for a controversial stadium proposal. Earlier […]

ATP’s website has a video. Thanks for reader “Two Hander” for the link. ATP’s website has a video. Thanks for reader “Two Hander” for the link.

The swimming arms race continues unabated as the national teams from Japan and Germany have decided to use the newest high-tech body suits. Japan will use Speedo’s LZR suit, which was unveiled this winter, while Germany will use one being developed by Adidas. Other companies are also working on their versions of the suits, which […]