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Athletes have returned to the Out 100 this year. Figure skating phenom Johnny Weir graces the pages with quite possibly his most feminine photo yet (if that’s possible) as Out’s “Diva of the year.” And former college lacrosse captain Andrew McIntosh (right), who came out publicly here at Outsports, also made the list. And on […]

Bill Romanowski As part of the debut of "Out. The Glenn Burke Story," Comcast SportsNet Bay Area had a series of panels discussing the issues of gays in sports (see whole list). I watched a panel with former NFL players Bill Romanowski and Loreno Neal, along with sportswriter Ray Ratto. It was a good discussion, […]

High school football player Coy Sheppard is back on his team after his coach kicked him off the team for wearing pink cleats. He wore the cleats to bring awareness to the fight against breast cancer; The cleats were the gift of his 82-year-old great grandmother, and he wore them in honor of his grandmother, […]

As Kye Allums heads home with his George Washington University basketball team for the Best Buy Classic, his mother claims she has received death threats because of Kye’s revelation that he is transgender. In an interview with the St. Paul Pioneer-Press, Rolanda Delamartinez claims she fears for the safety of her family. “Perhaps Minnesota is […]

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan made way at a press conference this week for his brother Rob, who is the defensive coordinator for the Jets’ Week 10 opponents, the Cleveland Browns. Oh, wait, that’s not Rob, that’s…wow, in that sweatshirt-that-doubles-for-a-dress, I could have sworn he was trying to look like his sister. Either […]

It’s early November, and that means the stores are decorating for Christmas. This year, Blake Skjellerup is getting a jump on the holiday by writing an early letter to Santa Claus. In the letter, the Olympic skater asks Saint Nick to help make his home country of New Zealand, and the rest of the world, […]

Bravo to German soccer player Mario Gomez for encouraging gay soccer players to come out publicly. It would help their careers, the 25-year-old says in an interview with Die Zeit. They would then play as though they’d been unshackled,” Gomez told magazine Bunte. “Being gay hasn’t been a taboo topic for a while.” Bravo to […]

The NHL made a really cool decision regarding its Jan. 30 All-Star game in Raleigh, N.C. — the captains of the two teams will pick their teams from among all the All-Stars selected. Just like when they were kids on the schoolyard (or rink in this matter). Why this hasn't been done until now is […]

While many have believed that a transgender female-to-male athlete cannot have gender-reassignment surgery and still play women’s sports, the NCAA has clarified that there is nothing preventing those athletes from doing so: As discussions continue and after further review of this topic at the national office, generally speaking a female who wants to be socially […]

NCAA clarifies its position on transgender eligibility vis-à-vis surgery and hormone treatment By Cyd Zeigler The NCAA has clarified conflicting statements made in the last two weeks concerning the ability for transgender athletes to undergo gender-reassignment surgery and keep their NCAA eligibility. NCAA spokesperson Erik Christianson relayed the clarification in an email to Outsports Monday […]

Note: There is a deadline of Nov. 15 to enter this contest. English rugby player Ben Cohen, popular among Outsports readers for embracing his gay fan base, is out with a 2011 calendar. See below for some photos and how you can win a signed copy of the calendar. A photo shoot for the calendar […]

In yet another example of the rampant homophobia in European sports, Croatian Football Federation president Vlatko Markovic has said gays are not welcome in his league. "While I'm a president of the Croatian Football Federation, there will be no homosexuals playing in the national team", Vlatko Markovic said in an interview with Croatian national daily […]

New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie has posed for a photo for the NoH8 campaign. NoH8 is designed to raise awareness of gay rights and features its subjects with masking tape over their mouths. Cromartie, who formerly played for the San Diego Chargers, is the latest athlete to do such a photo and the first […]

Another university has taken up the fight against homophobia in sport. Athletes and sports department staff of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, will march in the school’s Pride Parade this afternoon fresh off the school’s lacrosse national championship on Sunday (right). The department also partnered with the Queer Students Community Centre (QSCC) to organize “Positive […]

Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder won’t be joining MENSA any time soon. Three years ago, before the Dolphins headed to London for a game, he said he had no idea where London was and thought it was a country. He might have topped himself Sunday when he confused Helen Keller with Anne Frank in a […]

Good luck trying to figure out who the best team is after the Pats lose by 20; Colts continue to get injured; Cowboys collapse could mean the end of Wade; a rant involving spitting and Anne Frank; hot player of the week. By Jim Buzinski How I saw Week 9 in the NFL: Here we […]

It is all but certain that there will be a new BCS champion in college football after Alabama fell to LSU, 24-21. It is Alabama’s second loss, all but eliminating them from title contention. The Tide's loss was good news for teams like Boise State and TCU, "non-automatic qualifiers." Both are still unbeaten (TCU crushed […]

I am not making this up — Australian rugby player Joel Monaghan is facing dismissal from the National Rugby League after a photo surfaced of him allowing a dog to perform oral sex on him. From the Canberra Times: Disgraced Canberra Raider Joel Monaghan is clinging to his NRL career after a photograph of him […]

The media attention for Kye Allums’ transition on a women’s basketball team has been so strong that the school held a special press conference to talk to the media…featuring Allums, the coach of the team, and a team captain. The Associated Press was there and did a great job with the highlights, and they even […]

When I started talking to Kye Allums last spring, I told him I wanted our story about his gender transition on a college basketball team to come out many weeks before his first game so that the media reaction wouldn’t distract him from playing. For various reasons, the story got pushed to Nov. 1, just […]