Doc Rivers denies using slur against gay referee Bill Kennedy
"That was not true," the NBA coach says of a rumor from back when he coached Celtics.
By Jim Buzinski | December 15, 2015"That was not true," the NBA coach says of a rumor from back when he coached Celtics.
By Jim Buzinski | December 15, 2015Rajon Rondo is trying to excuse his use of an anti-gay slur as just "emotion." It's that same emotion so many sports fans and writers allow to get the best of them when lashing out at referees and officials.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 14, 2015Bill Kennedy is the third referee in the Big Four sports leagues to come out as gay. He had to endure homophobic slurs and threats from Rajon Rondo earlier this month.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 14, 2015Houston voters rescinded Houston's equal rights ordinance, effectively telling the world that discrimination against LGBT people is fair game in their city. Plus, a D1 basketball grad assistant comes out.
By Outsports | November 5, 2015Ryan Mizner has lived a double life, dabbling with being a gay man yet completely closeted with the Central Michigan University men's basketball team. On a trip to Fire Island last summer, he found the strength to make those two lives one.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 5, 2015The NCAA will not move its men's Final Four out of Houston after the city voted overwhelmingly to end discrimination protection for LGBT people.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 4, 2015Chris Burns came out publicly as a college basketball coach last week, and the reactions have been 100% positive.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 13, 2015Chris Burns was a star player at Bryant University and is now an openly gay coach at the school. We talk about the impact of and reaction to his story.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 9, 2015Chris Burns and Anthony Nicodemo were two gay coaches trying to navigate the world of basketball coaching while being gay. Now they are both out.
By Anthony Nicodemo | October 8, 2015Chris Burns has come out as gay, making the Bryant University basketball coach the first in men's Division I college basketball to do so. It's been quite a journey for the former star player to get to this place.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 7, 2015Chris Burns has held the secret that he's gay from everyone in college basketball. In an Outsports exclusive, the Bryant Univ. basketball coach writes about relationships, fear, community and finding his truth.
By Christopher Burns | October 7, 2015Outsports ran a column from a closeted Division I college basketball player who is gay, who is wrestling with whether he should come out. "I would like other people to see another gay athlete successfully playing in Division 1 athletics. I would like for a teenager battling the same things I struggled with to see […]
By Outsports | October 1, 2015NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes apart the destructive use of religion in America by Kim Davis, Mike Huckabee and other peddlers of hate and intolerance.
By Cyd Zeigler | September 10, 2015Israel Gutierrez has labored for a long time on how and when to come out as gay. A week before he gets married, he has decided now is the time.
By Cyd Zeigler | September 4, 2015Mike Leaf left the Winona State program five days after the incident.
By Jim Buzinski | August 21, 2015Team USA beat Canada on their home turf to win Parapan Am gold in women's wheelchair basketball, lead by out head coach Stephanie Wheeler.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 19, 2015School superintendent offers an apology and amends for what he says was an innocent, accidental omission of Dalton Maldonado from one page of the Betsy Layne High School yearbook.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 14, 2015Jesse Taylor comes from a small town in South Dakota. He came out privately for the first time a year ago Saturday. Now a year later he shares his story in hopes of connecting with athletes struggling with their identity.
By Jesse Taylor SD | August 14, 2015Gay basketball player Dalton Maldonado was left out of the Betsy Layne yearbook tribute to the boys basketball team. The school says it was an innocent mistake.
By Cyd Zeigler | August 12, 2015Having won gold with Team USA, WNBA player Seimone Augustus now feels a bit more equal after her marriage was made legal across the United States.
By Cyd Zeigler | July 27, 2015