Jim Buzinski

In September, we told you about the 2013 naked calendar by the Warwick University rowing club in Coventry, England, proceeds of which go to Ben Cohen’s StandUp Foundation to fight bullying of gay kids. The boys are now back with a video called “Brokeback Boathouse.” "Discover the unpixellated truth about what happens when sportsmen get […]

Editor’s note: Joshua Martino’s novel “Fontana” was called “illuminating and beautifully written” by the Advocate. Outsports asked him to write about his motivations for writing the book. By Joshua Martino One of a writer’s responsibilities, as I see them, is to dispel bad ideas. In my new novel, “Fontana”, I attempt to do just that […]

Indianapolis Colts To the list of possible hazards of playing in the NFL add "dangerous boners." That's the opinion of Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs, when asked about players using Viagra to help with (on-field) performance. From CBS Chicago: “I heard about that. I guess, boners. There’s gonna be a lot of dangerous boners on […]

Vince Pryor was gay to his TCU team years before Carder arrived on campus

Riley Sheahan (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) Riley Sheahan is a top prospect in the Detroit Red Wings organization and he spent two days before Halloween getting "super drunk," according to police. He used a teammate's ID to get into bars and was dressed as Tinky Winky (yeah, the "gay" Teletubby). He had a blood […]

Get a Twitter account, become an idiot who sends out offensive tweets, then either apologize, sort-of-apologize or stand firm. That seems to be the template for many athletes who start Twitter feeds. A check of Outsports archives finds 14 athletes who have made anti-gay tweets in some way since November 2011. This does not take […]

Anders Lindegaard (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) There may be no more well-known sports team in the world than Manchester United, so when one of its stars says soccer is ready for an openly gay player, it's news. Anders Lindegaard, 28, is the team’s goalie and in in a blog post he wrote for a […]

Calgary Stampeders running back won the Most Outstanding Canadian award in the Canadian Football League as his team prepares for Sunday’s Grey Cup championship game. In attendance was his mom, Margaret, a school teacher turned Anglican priest, now married to a woman. Cornish told the Calgary Herald how he came to learn about his mom […]

Orlando Cruz celebrates his Oct. 19 win (Photo: J. Meric / Getty Images) Orlando Cruz, the first openly gay active pro boxer, gives a wonderful interview to Lukas Eberle of the German website Spiegel. One revelation is that boxer Oscar de la Hoya once asked Cruz if he was gay. And I loved Cruz's answer […]

Jack Taylor of Division III Grinnell College in Iowa scored 138 points (not a typo) in leading the Pioneers to a 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible College on Tuesday. The number of points broke the record of 113 set in 1954. Taylor, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore from Black River Falls, Wis., made 27 of […]

Seth Davis, college basketball analyst for CBS and Sports Illustrated, is a dad and has no problem letting his sons watch two guys pummel each other in a boxing match. But he draws the line at mixed martial arts, because it’s two guys pummeling each other in a homoerotic way. Davis tweeted this on Sunday […]

Ivan Stuffer is a player in the Italian handball league and he didn’t take too kindly too when opponent Pasquale Maione kissed him on the cheek when they were bumping and jostling on the court this weekend. Stuffer shoved Maione, then walked to the center of the court and pulled his pants down and grabbed […]

Matthew Mitcham Australian diver Matthew Mitcham will be available to chat on Google+ on Monday at 6 p.m. EST. Check it out here. Mitcham will be talking about his new autobiography "Twists and Turns." In the book, as we reported Friday, Mitcham talks about his addiction to crystal meth and how he fought to overcome […]

British teenage diving sensation Tom Daley loves to take his clothes off and he does it again in a new video for charity. Daley is one of several British Olympians and Paralympians who danced to a video of “Do Your Thing” for the charity “Children in Need 2012.” Daley's the only one who shows any […]

Australian Olympic diver Matthew Mitcham was addicted to crystal meth in 2011 that almost derailed his career. He had treated it with rehab, hypnotherapy and help from friends, he writes in his new book, “Twists and Turns,” out Monday. “I certainly was addicted to crystal meth,” Mitcham told [Australia] Nine Network’s 60 Minutes. “I just […]

Chamique Holdsclaw in 2005 (Photo by: Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images) Atlanta police have issued an arrest warrant for former University of Tennessee basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw following an incident involving a woman who called herself Holdsclaw's ex-girlfriend. Holdsclaw allegedly fired a gun inside a vehicle the woman was driving. The warrant is for charges of […]

Chris Kluwe from his Twitter feed Being a huge advocate of same-sex marriage and posing shirtless for a gay magazine are not common for pro athletes, but Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings can lay claim to both. For his passionate support of marriage equality, Kluwe was named by Salon magazine its Sexiest Man of […]

It’s been a good week for lovers of the male butt, with players showing some bare ass (and Bear ass) in NFL locker rooms. Deadspin archived both images, which have since disappeared from their original sources. The latest was Chicago Bears Brandon Marshall, who tweeted a picture of himself getting gear from the University of […]

When Major League Soccer suspended a player three games for using a gay slur, it followed its own policy of zero tolerance towards any sort of discrimination on the pitch. It dovetails quite nicely with the league’s “Don’t Cross the Line” campaign, unveiled this fall (video below). When it comes to discrimination, we don’t cross […]

Ian Thorpe reiterates that he is not gay, and again asserts he is straight.