Sports

A look at the 12-team field and their strengths and weaknesses. Plus, Week 17 notes and our hot player of the week is a champion for gay rights.

Cameras caught Lupfer calling Washington State's quarterback a "faggot" during the New Mexico Bowl

Teammates and team executives knew about the gay players and everyone got along just fine.

Gay athletes came out, and straight athletes stripped down, in our most popular stories of 2013

We will in fact have at least three out LGBT athletes as part of the White House delegation in Sochi

If you watched Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker single-handily outscoring the Detroit Lions, 18-16, Monday night, you might have heard his post-game comments where he talked about fantasy football. Must Reads College football’s most telegenic player Jim Buzinski Must Reads College football’s most telegenic player "I've been getting hit up quite a bit on the […]

Robbie Rogers joins various Belgian sports groups to end homophobia in soccer in one of the world's current hotbeds for the sport

Today's news roundup is heavy on Olympics news as the Sochi Games are less than two months away. Our lead item is not specifically gay, but deals with bullying, a subject we care about. And it concerns a great gesture by some elementary school kids towards a teammate, with as assist from Tom Brady of […]

Anthony Nicodemo gets his first win as an openly gay coach with a 55-53 victory over Nanuet in stunning fasion

Jason Collins and Martina Navratilova join a panel of to discuss LGBT discrimination in international sports

Athletes won't be allowed to make political demonstrations. Some will be allowed to protest in particular areas. 2014 will be no different from 2008 and every other Olympic Games.

The University of North Carolina athletic teams has released a terrific video for the You Can Play Project. It has the most diverse group of sports and athletes of any of these I've seen. Especially notable are the appearances of J.P. Tokoto and Nate Britt from men's basketball and football players Shakeel Rashad, Allen Champagne, […]

The university will cut men's gymnastics, but three gay former gymnasts talk about how the program nurtured a brotherhood that embraced everyone and helped them out of the closet. They have helped start an online petition to save it.

Outsports joins group of celebrities and activists aiming to support and raise money for LGBT Russians

Jack Harry, a sportscaster in Kansas City, has denied he called the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team the "Gayhawks" during a Sunday broadcast: I listened to it numerous times and it sounds like Harry does say "Gayhawks." According to multiple reports, he is known as rooting for the University of Missouri, Kansas' big rival, and […]

While big names like Jason Collins and Brittney Griner are there, Towleroad also highlights stories from high school and college sports

The 2014 calendar hopes to promote the sport of swimming, and apparently the gorgeous bodies of swimmers themselves

Openly gay speed skater Skjellerup missed out on an automatic bid to the Sochi Olympics by one position.

Pride House International was rejected by the Russians, now they want to take their LGBT-inclusive message to cities around the world this February

When Dafforn came out to his Boilermakers team his senior year, they were only mad he hadn't come out sooner