This past Wednesday night, I visited the Barnes & Noble in Philadelphia for my second book signing for The Outsports Revolution. It was great to see three of our most revered members there: Scottie, Joe In Philly and Phillyrunner. It was also great to see Anh, a triathlete in Philly whom I had met at […]

A fun story from Towleroad has Ben Roethlisberger getting crushed by an elephant at the Cincinnati Zoo. Apparently, the Bengals on hand weren’t up to the task. -Cyd Zeigler jr. A fun story from Towleroad has Ben Roethlisberger getting crushed by an elephant at the Cincinnati Zoo. Apparently, the Bengals on hand weren’t up to […]

What a shock — people in London actually speak English! Why, you could knock Miami Dolphina linebacker Channing Crowder over with a feather. This MENSA member told this to the Palm Beach Post: Maybe he was joking, but gregarious Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder confessed today he didn’t know until Tuesday that people spoke English in […]

Gay.com is running a poll to find their readers’ “MVP” between the Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox. Given that they’re only giving names and pictures, you can imagine what the votes will be based on. I don’t know why they don’t just call it the “We don’t think any of our readers actually care […]

There's advantages to getting live sports events on television on the West Coast. Since the TV schedules, correctly, cater to the more populous Eastern time zone, we out West get to see the end of games at a decent hour, not 1:30 am. However, the downside is I'm in traffic coming home from work when […]

Boston College stunned Virginia Tech, 14-10, by scoring two touchdowns in the final two minutes, once again proving the “prevent defense” only prevents you from winning. Virginia Tech led 10-0 and had been flustering and pressuring B.C. QB Matt Ryan all night, but with less than four minutes to go and the Eagles on their […]

Santhi Soundarajan, the Indian runner who won a silver medal in the 800-meter at the most recent Asian Games and then was stripped of it when she failed a gender test, has found a friend. Transgender Canadian cyclist Kristen Worley (who, via a third party, has contacted Outsports to let us know she considers herself […]

I was shocked to see this video on Deadspin that makes it look like someone in England actually cares about the NFL’s London matchup between the Giants and Dolphins this Sunday, including a giant Jason Taylor robot. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ijr1_6Q6C0] The NFL has been busting its butt to make this game relevant, but I’m not so sure […]

In an earlier post, I predicted the Boston Red Sox would win their World Series matchup over the Colorado Rockies in five games. Scratch that. The Sawx are going to sweep the Rockies. Game 1 tonight at Fenway Park was embarrassing as the Red Sox won 13-1; I don't see it getting any better for […]

This afternoon, I took a few minutes to watch ESPN’s “pre-game analysis” of the Breeders Cup. After that, it was back to the live coverage of the fires, where I’ve been glued. It was eerie to see the lurid red sunlight moving across on my media-room wall. Here in central Los Angeles, in that cloudless […]

Got this email from someone at Harpo. Oprah is doing a segment on “gay around the world” on Wednesday, and she’s talking to John Amaechi during the show. Wanna see the power of Oprah? Right now John’s book, ‘Man in the Middle,’ is #193,720 on Amazon . . . Got this email from someone at […]

By special request… 😛 The most mind-boggling thing isn’t how Andy Reid refuses to commit to the run. That’s an old, old story. Yesterday the running backs gained 5 yards per carry in the first half, but after 12 first-half rushes Brian Westbrook got the ball only 6 times rest of the way. Nor is […]

I have hated ESPN doing Monday Night Football and realize I should just watch without the sound, but that’s not always easy, especially when watching with friends. The biggest problem with the broadcast is Tony Kornheiser. He is terrific on “Pardon The Interruption,” but nothing but annoying on MNF. He constantly beats one point to […]

One of Outsports’ most prolific article contributors (and a prolific athlete, I might add), Ross Forman, is running his first marathon in Florence, Italy, later this month. He’s running in part to raise money for AIDS Foundation of Chicago. I was a distance runner for many years, and I’d never consider running a marathon, so […]

I know what Cleveland Indians fans are going through tonight. The empty feeling that comes with watching your team blow a 3-1 lead in a best-of-seven series and not even really putting up a fight doing so. Seeing the California Angels (as they were then) implode in spectacular fashion in 1986 against the Boston Red […]

I was at the Temple football game with the Outsports poster known as phillyrunner. During the game he made a trip to the men's room and returned in shock: "There are no urinals in there!" Sure enough, there were plenty of stalls with toilets — perhaps thirty or so — but not a single urinal. […]

This year I made the unlikely decision to buy a season-ticket package for Temple football. I have no ties to Temple. I’m not a major follower of college football. This year, however, they have a home game against Penn State. The individual ticket prices for the Penn State game are roughly double the cost of […]

People magazine is in the middle of an online contest to find the sexiest baseball fan alive. Only one guy, a Red Sox fan, has his team still alive in the playoffs (as of Thursday morning). My pick: Christopher Noonan (right), a Chicago Cubs fan. His answers are pretty lame, but he’s got a great […]

The man in the photo is not an actor on the new show “Caveman,” but rather the latest sex symbol in France. He is Sebastien Chabal, a rugby player,who has made French women swoon during the rugby World Cup being held in France. As the Times of London wrote: He's garnered attention for his bone-crushing […]

It was either that or the shots the guy was having bought for him. But after his Bears got spanked by undefeated Kansas on Saturday, 58-10, Baylor assistant coach Eric Schnupp stayed out a bit too late back home in Waco, Texas, and decided to urinate on the bar at Scruffy Murphy’s. While that name […]