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The Ladies Professional Golf Association is considering a change to its gender policy that would open the door to trans golfers playing on the women’s tour. Currently a member of the LPGA has to be born a biological female. The change would put the LPGA more in line with the International Olympic Committee. The change, […]

Bills rookie running back CJ Spiller doesn’t just need English lessons, he needs some sensitivity training too. He directed the f-bomb on Twitter at a former teammate last week and then quickly “apologized.” See if you can understand what he’s talking about. First he posted this at Eagles defensive end Ricky Sapp: Keep my name […]

Continuing our list of athletes or sports groups doing "It Gets Better" videos, here is one from the Boston gay flag football league: Continuing our list of athletes or sports groups doing "It Gets Better" videos, here is one from the Boston gay flag football league:

For the second straight year, Patriots build a 17-point fourth-quarter lead, but this time hold on. Jets find a way to keep winning, Vince Young may be done in Tennessee and hot player of the week is a Mike Alstott clone. By Jim Buzinski How I saw Week 11 of the NFL: New England’s 31-28 […]

It took until the third game of the season, but openly transgender George Washington University point guard Kye Allums finally gave his fans a game to remember. Playing just 15 minutes, Allums racked up a game-high 12 points and hauled in 7 rebounds in the Colonials’ 63-42 victory over Coppin State. Seven of Allums’ points […]

College basketball has started its regular season, a good time to turn our attention to new players. One of them, suggested by a reader, is Louisville University freshman Elisha Justice. What stands out is his rocking body, which prompted the Louisville website Cardinal Connect to exclaim: “Just want to make sure you take a closer […]

Forgive me for not writing about this earlier. I heard it on the Howard Stern Show on Monday and forgot about it…until today. Howard’s producer Gary Dell’Abate, aka Baba Booey, threw out an historically terrible opening pitch at a New York Mets game. Gary even put a photo of it on the back of his […]

Corey Hanson of Sheffield Players from the Sheffield Eagles of the Rugby Football League in Britain will wear jerseys at a game in February that read: "Homophobia, Tackle It." It's part of the RFL's campaign against homophobia that was kicked off with a reception in parliament. “The Government is committed to stamping out homophobia wherever […]

Another Croatian soccer chief has joined Vlatko Markovic, the president of Croatian Football Federation, in spewing homophobic comments meant to drive gay people away from soccer. Zdravko Mamic, the executive vice president of the Croatian team Dinamo Zagreb, says gays have no business in soccer. According to the Croatian Times: “I would not have Gay […]

The Cedar Springs strip in the gay section of Dallas will be the site of a block party planned for the night of Feb. 5, 2011, a day before the Super Bowl. It’s being billed as the world’s first Gay Super Bowl party, according to the Dallas Voice: Scott Whittall, president of the Cedar Springs […]

Today, no one is talking about dog fighting. They’re not talking about jail sentences. No, today they’re talking about the MVP-like performance that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick put on last night on Monday Night Football. His stats were record-breaking: 333 passing yards, 80 rushing yards, 4 TD passes, 2 TD runs. In our standard-scoring […]

Jeff Thomae, a graduate student at Minnesota State University in Mankato, and himself a diving coach, is seeking gay male college coaches for his thesis. He said he has three coaches already but needs more to be able to do the research. All respondents are promised confidentiality. Thomae describes what he is looking for: I’m […]

Rugby player Gavin Henson caused a stir in Britain when he kissed judge Bruno Tonioli during this week’s “Strictly Come Dancing.” Tonioli, an Italian dancer turned choreographer, is openly gay. Wrote the Daily Telegraph: The hitherto personality-free rugby player-cum-terracotta pot raced over to the judges’ table during his quickstep to kiss judge Bruno Tonioli, who […]

Before we give thanks later this month, we talk on our latest podcast about what bugs us in sports. We discuss the complaints we get from readers about topics we put on our blog. Also, the officiating in the NFL has gotten off to a false start this year. And then, of course, there’s the […]

Is it an apology or a non-apology? The head of the Croatian Football Federation Vlatko Markovic has issued an underwhelming statement following his claims last week that gays don’t play soccer because the sport is only played by “healthy people.” According to the Agence France-Presse: “I apologise to all those who were hurt by parts […]

Kye Allums’ recent coming out was incredibly well-received by most in the media. Of course, there are the occasional jerks like Michael Medved who have no interest in understanding and whose only objective is to be a raging asshole. Medved states in a blog post: An insane level of political correctness recently dictated that George […]

Wrestler Hudson Taylor is trying to get as many athletes as possible to show up for a NoH8 photo shoot, Monday Nov. 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. in Hoboken, N.J. Taylor, an assistant wrestling coach at Columbia, is one of the volunteer organizers for the shoot and describes the goal: The shoot is a […]

Queers4Gears founder Michael Myers Queers4Gears, the website for gay NASCAR fans, got a cool front page writeup in the Sunday New York Times Sports section, which focused on the site getting a group discount for tickets to Sunday's race in Phoenix. The deal, which is available to anyone through Queers4Gears, is among about 200 group […]

The “It Gets Better” project keeps growing, with more and more videos added each day. We have posted some sports-related videos (links below). Here are three more — the New York FrontRunners, the San Francisco Fog rugby and Seattle Quake rugby. The “It Gets Better” project keeps growing, with more and more videos added each […]

Kye Allums’ first game as an openly transgender man ended in disappointment as his team lost to Wisconsin-Green Bay, 75-51, in the Best Buy Classic. The tournament is being held in Minneapolis, near Allums’ childhood home. Allums played 15 minutes and racked up 1 rebound and 1 assist. "Kye played pretty well," Allums' head coach […]