Football

The Baltimore Raven is the latest NFL player to join the pro-LGBT group

Minnesota Vikings punter brings his activism and passion

With the NFL season in its final three weeks, talk has heated up about the NFL MVP Award. As they do every year, some in the media have anointed Peyton Manning as the favorite. But several others have a good shot at the award. While he’s not my pick right now, I think Tom Brady’s […]

Goodell has always embraced the gay community thanks in part to his brother.

Todd Searcy played for Illinois in the Eighties.

Team passes the buck to head coach Pat Shurmur

Browns quiet on the topic

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

Team distances itself from linebacker's comments

Says he doesn't 'agree with being gay'

Does Stepfan Taylor look down to you? For all of the headlines about an undefeated Notre Dame team headed to the BCS title game, my mind lingers on a game in October they didn't win. Down 20-13 in overtime, Stanford faced a 4th-and-goal to send the game into a second overtime. Running back Stepfan Taylor […]

Browns linebacker is mostly sorry he got caught

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 […]

Football player in coma after attack.

Georgia-Florida in 2011 (Photo: Kim Klement-US PRESSWIRE) The universities of Georgia and Florida will play Saturday in Jacksonville like they have all but twice since 1933. Dubbed the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party," the game is a Southern tradition. Now, LGBT alumni and their allies from both schools warn the city that its anti-gay stance […]

Anyone who types in “cowboys.com” expecting to find out about Tony Romo, Miles Austin or Jason Witten, will instead find profiles allegedly of men looking for their own cowpoke. The site launched last week, five years after the Dallas Cowboys screwed up a bidding process to obtain the domain name cowboys.com. “We are extremely excited […]

The NFL has officially become a farce after replacement officials stole a game from the Green Bay Packers on the last play of Monday night’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. The Seahawks “won” 14-12 on a last-play TD pass from Russell Wilson to Golden Tate. Except, the pass was actually intercepted by M.D. Jennings, which […]

Robert Griffin III, Brendon Ayanbadejo and Rob Gronkowski all cool with a gay teammate

Greg Jennings, wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, says the tradition of players jumping into the stands after a touchdown — the “Lambeau Leap — has its downsides. As he told Erik Kuselias of NBC Sports Radio: “I try to go away from the men because the men get a little grabby,” Jennings said. […]