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The Danish soccer club FC Copenhagen has an interesting motivational tool for its players — for every win, they get two porn films. One of the club’s sponsors, sex movie distributors BN Agentur, have promised the squad two porn movies every time they win. [The team has] risen to the challenge – winning nine of […]

The best NFL T-shirt you'll see this year, courtesy of The World of Isaac: The best NFL T-shirt you’ll see this year, courtesy of The World of Isaac:

ESPN’s been promoting the hell out of their new Web series, Mayne Street, featuring Kenny Mayne as he navigates the scary world of corporate ESPN. They’re three episodes in, and I did find myself laughing out loud at one of the episodes. The other two: Not so much. ESPN’s been promoting the hell out of […]

Jim Buzinski, a longtime Colts fan, has more superstitions about his team than the New England Patriots have Super Bowl titles. Jim's Peyton Manning doll, facing the floor and the wall of Jim's house, has helped his beloved Colts to the Super Bowl, and he has two shirts that determine whether his team wins or […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I’m putting them on our blog. This may be moot by the time you read it, but has anyone else noticed that the NFL Network's Thursday night games so far this season have been great, and both […]

Only 14 seconds long, this video is from the Nov. 19 Brazil-Portugal match and shows Ronaldo taking off his shirt at halftime (a shame the score graphic obscures part of the view). Only 14 seconds long, this video is from the Nov. 19 Brazil-Portugal match and shows Ronaldo taking off his shirt at halftime (a […]

One of our most popular Olympics posts was a photo gallery of Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland. Here is a video of Zonderland training for the Olympics. Watch only if you like muscular gymnasts working out. One of our most popular Olympics posts was a photo gallery of Dutch gymnast Epke Zonderland. Here is a video […]

This shot of a rowing team throwing its coach into the water (full image below) is from 1946 and comes courtesy of Google hosting Life magazine’s awesome photo library. It’s cool if you want to see Joe Namath shirtless (great if you like hairy chests) or images from the Civil War. The archive goes back […]

It's been 10 years since Julian Rubenstein wrote an article about the failure of professional sports leagues to adequately address homosexuality. The article was titled, so appropriately, "Suffer in Silence." It seems this was a topic of discussion for a "Sports and Gender" class at Bowling Green University recently, as a couple students there have […]

Every year for the last few years, gay watchdogs like GLAAD and Commercial Closet have given out kudos and/or handslaps to companies for their Super Bowl commercials, based on how gay-friendly the commercials are. Right now, Doritos is running a contest to see which commercial they will air during this year's Super Bowl. They've already […]

Boston sports radio station WEEI showed that segments of Massachusetts remain homophobic after it aired a segment both offensive and lame about the Gay Games possibly coming to Boston. Wrote the Boston Globe in an article about the fifth anniversary of gay marriage being legal in the state: Even in Massachusetts, gays and lesbians have […]

North Carolina for the men and UConn for the women lead our preseason Top 25, but the only thing that matters is whose cutting down the nets in April. By Frank JakkaOutsports.com Just like the election that just passed, there are early favorites for the respective 2008-09 NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball seasons. On […]

Kudos to Deadspin for catching this obviously well-balanced, well-intentioned Seahawks fan at a Seattle-based Pro-Prop 8 rally (actually, an Anti-Anti-Prop 8 rally, but who’s counting). The cop behind him is giggling for a good reason, as you can see in this picture. Of course, I couldn't begin to guess at the sexuality of anyone wearing […]

When I first saw yesterday that Donovan McNabb was unaware that NFL games can end in a tie, I thought it must have been misreported or he was joking. McNabb’s Philadelphia Eagles tied the Cincinnati Bengals, 13-13, in the first NFL tie since 2002. It turns out, though, that McNabb, a 10-year vet, and other […]

Hopefully it is a maneuvre that will catch on around the world of soccer. Italian pro soccer team Calcio Catania lined up for a penalty kick against Torino when three Catania players lined up in front of the goalie and pulled down their shorts so the goalkeeper couldn’t see the kick. Serie A side Catania […]

Titans and Giants keep rolling, McNabb's most bone-headed play, bettors stunned by end of Steeler game and the hottest new WR this season. How Cyd and Jim saw Week 11 in the NFL. E-mail Cyd The biggest shocker of the week. The only thing that was more shocking about Philadelphia and Cincinnati’s tie than the […]

The last play of the Pittsburgh Steelers 11-10 win over the San Diego Chargers had no effect on the outcome of the game. The Chargers’ last-gasp, multi-lateral play to try and win the game was foiled and the Steelers had won. But the referee’s weird and wrong ruling affected millions of dollars bet on the […]

Outsports has learned from various sources that openly gay Mike Survillion, the narrator and one of the stars of Logo’s gay-basketball series Shirts & Skins, has received an offer from the ABA’s San Francisco Rumble. Survillion’s amateur Rock Dogs team played a game against the Rumble earlier this year, losing 51-41. Survillion talks at length […]

I recently read an item (I think it was at philly.com) about how Eagles fans interested in seeing a road game could do so a little more cheaply. The article suggested going to Cincinnati, as the Bengals' struggles have led some ticket-holders to put them up for sale at reduced prices. Sure enough, right now […]

ESPN recently hosted Jeff Sheng's 'Fearless' display, and several of the athletes in the photo series were invited to talk to ESPN employees. Ted Rybka from GLAAD helped bring the display there, and he wrote about the experience: ESPN's headquarters is comprised of more than a dozen buildings, which they refer to as their "campus." […]