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Arizona beats Green Bay in highest-scoring playoff game ever; the Patriots fall apart; who’s smarter than Wade Phillips?; conference semifinal picks and hot player of the week. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw wild card weekend: After three relative snoozers, the last game of the weekend was a playoff classic – Arizona 51, Green Bay […]

Editor’s note: Dan Majerle is a longtime friend of Outsports and hard-core figure skating fan. His posts will appear throughout the skating season. 7 Days, 13 Hours, 14 minutes and 07 seconds says the countdown widget on spokane2010.com – the official website of the 2010 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships – and this skating fan […]

Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning won a record fourth NFL MVP award in a landslide. When the news was posted on Pro Football Talk, there were the predictable comments praising Manning or decrying the choice. But one comment had me both laughing and saying WTF for its sheer idiocy — Manning was chosen because he's […]

Tony Romo The Dallas Cowboys whipped the Philadelphia Eagles, 34-14, for their first NFL playoff win since 1996 and cemented the Eagles' rep as the most underachieving team of the past decade. The Cowboys dominated the wild card game and beat the Eagles for the second time in six days. It was a stunning turnaround; […]

Meet the latest heartthrob from Aussie Rules Football, Marc Murphy. The 5-foot-11, 175-pound midfielder was the first overall pick in the 2005 AFL draft by the Carlton Blues. He immediately translated his high draft status into on-field performance, winning the league’s 2006 Best First-Year Player Award. His father, John Murphy, is in the Australian Football […]

In honor of the start of the NFL playoffs this weekend (Jets-Bengals, Eagles-Cowboys, Ravens-Patriots, Packers-Cardinals), it's time to watch again one of the greatest NFL coaching rants ever. Courtesy of then-Colts coach Jim Mora in 2001: In honor of the start of the NFL playoffs this weekend (Jets-Bengals, Eagles-Cowboys, Ravens-Patriots, Packers-Cardinals), it's time to watch […]

Much of the media has been atwitter for the last day over the rumor that a woman is claiming Tiger Woods had sex with men. It’s pretty tough to believe given a host of circumstances: We at Outsports have never heard about Woods being anything but straight (and we hear about everybody); The woman says […]

For those of us who are fans of sports and Howard Stern, the addition of Artie Lange to the show several years ago brought the perfect sports-fan voice to the show. He was loud, he was opinionated, he loved his team and he hated yours. Artie jumped onto the national sports stage in a big […]

Move over Avatar! Something less blue but even more glittery is coming to theaters! Pop Star On Ice, one of my favorite films of 2009, gets its theatrical release January 20 at the IFC Center in New York City. The film follows Johnny Weir, chronicling his ascension in figure skating and handling his sexuality with […]

The Houston Hurricanes are hosting their first-ever gay flag football tournament March 12-14 at the Houston Sportsplex. All teams are welcome! If some of you teams in the North are having trouble deciding whether to go or not, consider the average March temperature in Houston is 61. You can check out the tournament Web site. […]

Texas’ Jordan Shipley Unlike Cyd (see post below), I will watch the BCS title game between Alabama and Texas. Not because I think the winner is the college football national champion (no one ever is with this flawed system), but because it's a game pitting two unbeatens with a lot of national attention. I'm one […]

Tennis star Andy Roddick was upstaged during a visit to an Australian koala sanctuary by two of the animals getting it on. Tennis star Andy Roddick was upstaged during a visit to an Australian koala sanctuary by two of the animals getting it on.

Alabama beat Texas, 37-21, to win the BCS title game in the Rose Bowl, in a game that was pretty much over when Longhorn QB Colt McCoy hurt his shoulder on his fifth snap and never returned. 'Bama won the game and their fans can celebrate, but the Tide was less than impressive. It came […]

David Brandon, the Chief Executive of Domino’s Pizza, has decided to leave his position there to become the new Athletic Director at the University of Michigan. Domino's as you may know is evil for several reasons: Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's is a very avid anti-gay crusader who gives money to wonderful organizations like […]

If you’re like me and won’t be watching the BS game Thursday night, I figured I’d point out what else you can watch on TV. While the networks are throwing up their predictable January reruns, there’s plenty to watch on cable… MGM Channel has Body of Evidence (right), the 1993 kinky flick starring Madonna.ESPN2 counter-programs […]

Tiger Woods, one of the greatest golfers of all time, allegedly made a series of fascinating quips about lesbians, gays and sex.

A bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player taking a slap shot, that fuses the modern with the ancient, will greet visitors to the gay meeting place at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Gay Whistler, which will sponsor PRIDE house at the ski resort during the Games, secured government grant money for "Slapshotolus," a […]

Professional soccer player Jesus Datolo is under fire from the president of his team for posing in his underwear in Argentinian gay magazine Romeo Mag. Napoli team president Aurelio De Laurentis is said to be considering sanctions against the player for his revealing spread. Oh yes, the Europeans (Napoli is an Italian team) are soooo […]

We’ve said over and over that our position on Johnny Weir is that he’s an openly gay man. And in conversations with Johnny, he hasn’t said we’re wrong. Thanks to an ESPN The Magazine article on Johnny Weir, Deadspin starts a new series in which they document “the sports media’s pained efforts to call the […]

Thanks to Brendan Burke, it seems the folks at Westboro Baptist Church now have the sport of hockey in their crosshairs. The “God Hates Fags” clan is infamous for protesting anything or anyone they believe has any connection to homosexuality. Now that the NHL has a general manager with a gay son, they have another […]