Charles Barkley wants someone to beat up Westboro Baptist Church members protesting first openly gay NCAA player
Derrick Gordon will take court tonight in NCAA tournament
By Jim Buzinski | March 17, 2016Bree Horrocks only publicly out player in NCAA women’s tourney
Representing LGBT trailblazers is important to the Purdue center.
By Erik Hall | March 16, 20166 Cinderellas to watch in the NCAA men’s tournament
One team has an openly gay player, another wears the rainbow.
By Jeremy Brener | March 16, 2016Derrick Gordon and Seton Hall destroy the ridiculous ‘gays as distraction’ myth
Derrick Gordon is the latest publicly out athlete to make a fool of people who think gay athletes are "distractions."
By Cyd Zeigler | March 14, 2016One openly gay player in NCAA men’s basketball tournament
Derrick Gordon makes history as Seton Hall reaches the Big Dance.
By Erik Hall | March 14, 2016Play the Outsports 2016 NCAA men’s tournament pool
Outsports has once again set up a pool for the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. Fill out your bracket and see how you do against other Outsports readers. To play, simply go to our Outsports NCAA Pool link and fill out the sign-up info. You can also log in using your Facebook or Google account. […]
By Jim Buzinski | March 14, 2016Gay basketball player Derrick Gordon about to accomplish this other incredible feat
Derrick Gordon previously played in the NCAA tournament for Western Kentucky and UMass. Now he's on the verge of completing a career hat trick with Seton Hall.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 29, 2016Warriors Coach Steve Kerr: More gay athletes need to come out
The NBA coach also says gay slurs are as bad as racist ones.
By Jim Buzinski | February 24, 2016Rick Welts profiled on HBO’s ‘Real Sports’
The openly gay NBA executive talks about his life five years after coming out.
By Jim Buzinski | February 23, 2016Magic Johnson plans to hit Manny Pacquiao in the wallet for anti-gay comments
Magic Johnson shared his disgust with Manny Pacquiao's anti-gay comments in three pointed tweets.
By Cyd Zeigler | February 18, 2016Jason Collins demolished Manny Pacquiao with this tweet
Jason Collins takes down Pacquiao in a passionate tweet. #ByeFelicia
By Cyd Zeigler | February 16, 2016Join Michael Sam, Rick Welts and Outsports at Hi Tops in San Francisco Friday night
Michael Sam, Rick Welts and Outsports will be at gay sports bar Hi Tops this Friday at 6pm.
By Outsports | February 3, 2016Patriots, Celtics, Red Sox, Bruins, Revolution offer support for transgender-rights bill
All of the Big Five pro-sports teams in Massachusetts have gotten behind a bill to prevent discrimination of transgender people.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 11, 2016Monmouth men’s basketball player ‘proposes’ to teammate during game
The guys on the Monmouth bench were at it again last night, celebrating gay marriage with a special proposal between teammates.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 5, 20162015
Outsports Person of the Year: Dalton Maldonado
Kentucky high school basketball player Dalton Maldonado exhibited rare courage by coming out privately then publicly, refusing to be quieted even in rural Kentucky.
By Outsports | December 22, 2015Outsports Female Hero of the Year: Layshia Clarendon
Indiana Fever guard Layshia Clarendon has embraced her role as an active professional athlete dedicated to supporting other LGBT people in sports.
By Outsports | December 21, 2015LGBT college athlete roundup: Purdue basketball player has career night
Bree Horrocks has a 15-point quarter in leading the Boilermakers.
By Erik Hall | December 17, 2015Outsports assholes of the year: Lance Berkman, Rajon Rondo
The baseball and basketball players win our most dubious award.
By Outsports | December 17, 2015Gay teen sports fan thanks NBA ref Bill Kennedy for coming out
He saw a need and an opportunity to share his sexuality and make an impact.
By Jeremy Brener | December 16, 2015How insincere is Rajon Rondo? He simply copy and pasted Kobe’s non-apology.
Rajon Rondo's non-apology for using a gay slur looks nearly identical to that of Kobe Bryant, which he (or the Lakers) wrote four years ago.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 15, 2015