Jim Buzinski

English soccer star Joe Cole has surpassed David Beckham as the biggest icon among gay male soccer fans, according to a gay and lesbian dating website. Joe Cole and his Chelsea namesake Ashley’s wife Cheryl have scored a remarkable double in a popularity poll – for a gay website. JC has leapfrogged over David Beckham […]

In Game 1 of their NBA playoff series, the Atlanta Hawks were embarrassed in front of a national television audience. In their first playoff series in nine years, the team suffered a 104-81 blowout on the road in Boston. But I’m not talking about that embarrassment. Take a look at the new haircut Josh Smith […]

The NFL Draft is this weekend and I need an ice-cold shower after reading the profiles of the draftees on NFL.com. The analysis of their bodies had me thinking I had stumbled instead onto Craigslist M4M postings. A Craigslist post would have someone describing their “sexy and defined body with a tight bubble.” Leave out […]

Deadspin, an allegedly straight-run sports website, has a thing for linking to items about nude male jocks (we’re not complaining mind you, just sayin’). They unearthed what appears to be Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes, in the shower minus anything but a LIVE STRONG bracelet. Follow this link and it will take you to […]

One certainly can’t accuse the New England Patriots of lowering expectations as they head into the 2008 season. From The Smoking Gun: Three months after their bid for an undefeated season ended with a Super Bowl loss to the New York Giants, the New England Patriots are continuing to pursue trademarks on the phrases “19-0” […]

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The New York Times has a terrific article about Jackie Walker, a star linebacker for the University of Tennessee in the early 1970s who was known at the time to be gay. The story deals with his seemingly inexcusable absence from the Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame. Walker was gay, which he made no […]

We will have a new King of the Hardwood champ and it will either be New Zealand rugby player Dan Carter (left) or his English counterpart Ben Cohen. Voting has begun for the final so make your selection here. A huge tip of the hat to KOTH creator Layne (aka Mariner Duck Guy from our […]

Former NFL wide receiver Michael Westbrook, now an elite martial artist, discusses his 1997 fight with then Washington Redskins teammate Stephen Davis and the gay angle surrounding it. The fight in practice made headlines when Westbrook pounded Davis, a running back, after words were exchanged. Westbrook told his version in a profile on ESPN.com by […]

Bailey Chase (right) plays a closeted pro football player who is outed when his lover is murdered on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” which airs Tuesday April 22 at 10 p.m. EDT. Ken Storer, a writer on the show, told Outsports in an e-mail how he came up with the idea: I wanted to write […]

The NFL released its 2008 schedule today and it was shown live on the NFL Network. Fair enough (better than old NFL Films from 1975). But ESPN broke into its programming for its own NFL schedule show. Both networks then spent the next two hours(!) dissecting games that won’t be played for five months or […]

Former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star Herschel Walker reveals in a new book that he has multiple personalities and once played Russian Roulette. Walker, 46 and a successful Dallas entrepreneur, said he is still battling dissociative identity disorder (DID) and knows he will open himself up to people making jokes at his expense. "I […]

The Los Angeles Lakers began the regular season with Kobe Bryant demanding a trade and ended it with the best record in the Western Conference and top seed in the playoffs that start Friday. The Lakers’ resurgence was steady all season but went into overdrive when they traded for (stole?) center Pau Gasol from Memphis; […]

Australian Rules Football is buzzing about Barry Hall sucker-punching Brent Staker during a match. Hall has been labelled a thug, a prat and a coward, while the presence of any substance in his mid-section has been questioned. Staker’s parents have lashed out at the attack, with his father Alan calling Hall a “weak mongrel”. Staker’s […]

We are down to the Final Four in King of the Hardwood and it’s dominated by rugby players. In one bracket, Ben Cohen takes on baseball’s Brad Ausmus, while Sean Lamont takes on fellow rugby player Dan Carter. Vote here to push your favorite to the finals. Speaking for myself, this is a rather lame […]

“Carbon footprint” is a big buzzword among people concerned about global warming. It measures the “impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.” The goal is to have as small a carbon footprint as possible. Using these measures, the Olympic […]

Last year we wrote about Romain Barras, a French decathlete, and how he loved to be viewed as beautiful by gay men. “It is lucky to have articles [about me] on the gay websites … I found it to be super flattering on these sites to be surrounded by very beautiful guys. I always had […]

Jordan Schafer is writing the newest chapter in “Baseball for Dummies: Professional Edition.” The unfolding saga swirling around him will be summed up with his personal story, titled “How to Kill a Baseball Career.” Schafer, the No. 1 prospect for the Atlanta Braves despite not playing above Class A until this year, was suspended this […]

It’s crunch time in the King of the Hardwood as we are down to the Elite 8: Brady Quinn (NFL) vs. Ben Cohen (Rugby) Brad Ausmus (Baseball) vs. Robby Ginepri (Tennis) Sean Lamont (Rugby) vs. Brandon Templeton (Kickboxing) Dan Carter (Rugby) vs. Joe Mauer (Baseball) Check the pics and vote here! It’s crunch time in […]

Whatever one’s opinion is on protesting the Olympic torch run to criticize China’s human rights policies, it is clear that the protesters have won. I am watching live CNN’s coverage of the event, which would more accurately be titled the Olympic Torch Evasion. Viewers saw more pictures of buses, warehouses and boats in San Francisco […]