Basketball

Michele Van Gorp plays for the Minnesota Lynx and is and out athlete.

Earvin Johnson III, 20, hits the town with his reported boyfriend

The NBA legend tells HuffPost Live that he's never met a gay NBA player, but John Amaechi disagrees

The defending national champion talks about what it is to be a champion, and the personal attacks on her star player, Brittney Griner

Randy Boyd's list of the most likely NBA players to be gay featured both John Amaechi and Tim Hardaway.

Denver Nugget with two moms becomes an ambassador to do more focused work for LGBT athletes

NBA star who used a gay slur publicly two years ago shows how far he's come

A year after hiring Rick Welts as team president, the Golden State Warriors are giving fans in the Bay Area something to celebrate for the first time in a half-decade. The Warriors sit atop the Pacific Division with a 9-6 record, tied for the seventh-best record in basketball. While Welts isn’t in charge of personnel, […]

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 […]

Giants win (Photo: Tim Fuller-USA TODAY Sports) After two National League playoff series of living on the edge, the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in four games to win their second World Series title in three seasons. The Giants won Game 4, 4-3, in extra innings. The Giants had an amazing postseason. They […]

Hudson Taylor and Aaron McQuade featured in training video

Charlie Rogers (photo via Omaha World-Herald) Charlie Rogers, a former player on the University of Nebraska women's basketball team, crawled naked from her Lincoln home on July 22, bleeding from what she said were gay slurs carved into her body. Police now say she faked the whole thing and have charged her with making a […]

The former NBA All-Star talks to Outsports about his gay former teammate

The Golden State Warriors have not played in San Francisco since 1966. For most of the time since then they’ve called (what now is) Oracle Arena in Oakland their home. But new team president Rick Welts, along with team co-owner Peter Guber and NBA president David Stern, have announced the team’s return to San Francisco […]

The NCAA makes a big deal touting its commitment to “student-athletes,” even though they don’t let them share in the millions and millions they make for the organization and their universities. It’s too bad they can’t find someone at NCAA who can spell. The court signage at the men's Final Four had a series of […]

Photo: Derick E. Hingle-US PRESSWIRE Kentucky won the NCAA men's basketball title over Kansas, 67-59, in a boring, sloppy game that capped the worst tournament I can remember. The Wildcats were just too good and Monday's result was not much in doubt despite Kansas making a bit of a late run. This was a totally […]

Aaron Craft (Photo: Richard Mackson/USPRESSWIRE) The NCAA men's basketball tournament resumes with the Sweet 16, which will get down to the Final Four by the end of the weekend. We have selected 15 players and 1 coach representing all 16 teams. Ohio head coach John Groce is hotter than any of the players I was […]

Oliver McNally Corbin Miller (Photo by Greg M. Cooper-US PRESSWIRE) We asked our readers to select their hottest player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament and you responded. Below are various players who will be in this year's tournament, which starts with play-in games on Tuesday. With 68 teams and everyone having different tastes, it's […]

Joe Harris (Photo by Geoff Burke-US PRESSWIRE) Outsports has 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. We are using Yahoo this season. To play, simply go to our Outsports NCAA Pool link and fill out the sign-up info. […]

Brett Hayes Spring training is well underway with baseball season less than a month away, and it's the best time to see the players relaxed, smiling and just having fun. These photos below were taken at various training camps in Florida and Arizona. Alas, we don't have any of the Yankees filming their team photos […]