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Tennessee Titans running back LenDale White is reportedly the slimmest he's been since high school, losing 30 pounds in the offseason. How'd he do it? He says it's all thanks to quitting tequila. "I really got to be honest," White said. "It wasn't a lot of major diet changes. (It was) watching what I drink. […]

Has the world of sports journalism gotten any better for the women who have made a career there? Longtime sports journalist Susan Reimer thinks it may have improved (there was a time when she wasn’t allowed in the Orioles locker room), but there’s still a long way to go. A woman ran a seminal and […]

Members of Team Samurai American tennis player Sam Querrey won the L.A. Tennis Open on Sunday by defeating Karsten Ball. After the match, Querrey posed with a group of shirtless young men, ages 17 to 23, who cheered on his every move. They call themselves Team Samurai and are buds of Querrey from Thousand Oaks […]

Another report just in from my Aussie friend Neil Keele, who competed in several men's age-group swimming events and logged some PBs. (Congrats to Neil!) He was right there in the middle of the Outgames, yet he evidently got a less detailed picture on the bombing than we got from the media here in the […]

The future of the World Outgames depends on large amounts of public money. This could be a tough sell given the global recession and the large dropoff in attendance between 2006 and 2009. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com Now that the second World Outgames have ended in Copenhagen, the question of will there be a third is […]

Spanish pro tennis player Fernando Verdasco has been giving us plenty to look at lately. The latest is a hot little photo spread for Hola! magazine. The 25-year-old Spaniard is perfect model proportions: 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds. He’s won two clay-court titles in his time on the tour and this year made his first Grand […]

The University of Hawaii handed down a multi-pronged action against football coach Greg McMackin for his “faggot” comment at a Thursday press conference. Among other things, the coach is suspended without pay for 30 days, will have his salary reduced, and will participate in various pro-gay-tolerance initiatives. You can see all the details here. I […]

Last year it was an offensive lineman (Todd Herremans). This year, the Philadelphia Daily News switched to defense, naming Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Stewart Bradley as one of its 2009 Sexy Singles. The annual feature selects single men and women, chosen from hundreds of entries, as the hottest bachelors and bachelorettes in the region. Bradley, who […]

Openly gay tennis legend Billie Jean King will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a ceremony on Aug. 12. King and Harvey Milk are the two openly gay people receiving the award in August. Jack Kemp joins King as the only sports figures on the latest list. Some gay people consider it a lovely […]

Five years ago, the Toronto Triggerfish water polo team went winless in tournament play. When they won their first match in 2005, it was a cause for celebration. And Thursday at the Copenhagen Aqua Arena, the team was over the moon winning its first-ever medal in competition. We have reports from water polo, swimming, track, […]

Nice lei. Hawaii head football coach Greg McMackin dropped the f-bomb during a WAC news conference today, referring back to his team's embarrassing loss to Notre Dame last December. “I know most of the coaches in the country are rooting for us to beat Notre Dame,” McMackin said. “Charlie gives this talk, ‘We do something […]

Which looks gayer to you? As the debate over the length of competition swimsuits rages, some people are crying "homophobia" as others fight the reinstatement of the traditional brief. Longtime IGLA and Gay Games officer Charlie Carson has stayed on top of the growing debate and came across these disturbing accusations in articles on SwimNews.com; […]

VH1’s Brooke Knows Best follows the daughter of Hulk Hogan. And if you’ve watched it, you know that every episode features a gay guy in her roommate, Glenn Packard (right, with Brooke). The show dips in and out of sexual orientation from time to time; In one episode, Glenn went on a “straight” date while […]

Hurray for Outsports for covering this event so thoroughly. Some other gay media are pretty much ignoring it. I posted an article about it at the Bilerico Project, and would like to repost and share some of that perspective here, about the ramifications of this outbreak of violence at these international Games. The fact is […]

If you like seeing two Danes and a Swedish soccer player strip to their Aussie Bums, then this photo gallery from the World Outgames is right up your alley. If you like seeing two Danes and a Swedish soccer player strip to their Aussie Bums, then this photo gallery from the World Outgames is right […]

By Ross FormanShow of support: Steven Prins, 30, from The Hague in the Netherlands, has the full support of his management consulting firm, House of Performance. In fact, he sported a stylish, black, hooded bathrobe here at the swimming events of the second World Outgames with the company’s name stitched on the front and back. […]

Toronto Triggerfish water polo team wins first medal in competition with help from a coach who kept her cool. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.comCOPENHAGEN – Five years ago, the Toronto Triggerfish water polo team went winless in tournament play. When they won their first match in 2005, it was a cause for celebration. And Thursday at the […]

Maybe no man has benefited financially more from the ridiculous race to have the fastest swimsuit than Michael Phelps. Well, now the fastest suit is on another athlete. German Paul Biedermann beat Phelps in the 200m freestyle and broke his year-old world record wearing a suit that is all the rage, is brewing a controversy, […]

Dean Koga, left, being kissed by Giampiero Mancinelli Dean Koga of the Seattle Frontrunners was injured when shrapnel from a 9-inch bomb, one of three tossed, hit him during the track and field competition here in Copenhagen at the World Outgames. The incident is being called a hate crime. Koga, photo right, is being kissed […]

‘There was blood flowing from the baton,’ Seattle runner says after being injured by one of three bombs tossed during track and field at the World Outgames in Copenhagen. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com COPENHAGEN — Dean Koga got the best revenge against a bomb-wielding attacker determined to wreak havoc at the World Outgames track and field […]