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Animal rights group PETA is angry with Wimbledon officials for killing pigeons (as a last resort) to keep them off the courts and away from restaurant tables, but meanwhile odds-makers are ready to protest now that more title contenders have been shot down. In an upset no one saw coming, 2004 titlist Maria Sharapova was […]

Swimmers break over 150 world, national and meet records at gay meet Thursday, June 26, 2008 – An astounding 152 swimming records were broken during the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships in the greater Washington, DC area from June 19 – 22. Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and former Olympian Glenn Mills turned in particularly impressive races, […]

When it comes to Candace Parker, the former Lady Vol turned forward for the Los Angeles Sparks, there are few limits to her athletic prowess. On Sunday, she became the second WNBA player to dunk in a game. That’s right, dunk. To prove it wasn’t a fluke – and few doubted it was – she […]

According to the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Astros pitcher, who set a franchise record with 9 non-decisions to start the season was recently demoted to the bullpen, causing him to get…well, a little angry. When GM Ed Wade came to see him before their game against Texas… Wade wanted to meet with Chacon in manager […]

There will be no rugby or flag football at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, but you can win a medal in sport shooting. Air Rifle (10 meter) and Air Pistol (10 meter), both sport shooting disciplines offered in the Olympic Games, will be fired at the Cologne Gay Games in 2010. Air Rifle […]

The New York Knicks, in the first round of the NBA Draft, selected Italian star forward Danilo Gallinari. Of course, being in New York, he was promptly booed when his name was called Thursday. What’s amusing is that Gallinari’s nickname is “Il Gallo,”or the cock (rooster, not what you were thinking), which has prompted the […]

Imagine watching this past season’s Super Bowl. Time running out, New England trailing the Giants and trying to score the go-ahead score. The Pats move inside the Giants’ 20 when all of a sudden Fox loses its TV feed and the next 10 minutes of the game is blacked out and you only hear New […]

Australian Open champion and 2007 Wimbledon semifinalist Novak Djokovic has been unceremoniously dismissed from this year’s Championships by enigmatic talent and Outsports-favorite Marat Safin in the second round, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Of course, the hunky Safin is a two-time Grand Slam winner with the game – if not the temperament – to rival any […]

Tenth in a series. Broadcast: Washington Nationals on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Los Angeles Angels at Nationals, 6/23/08; Announcers: Bob Carpenter (play-by-play), Don Sutton (analyst), Debbi Taylor (reporter, and the fifth woman I’ve encountered — on these broadcasts, that is 😉 ) I don’t recall particularly liking Don Sutton in all the years he worked […]

Ninth in a series. Broadcast: Boston Red Sox on New England Sports Network (NESN), Arizona at Red Sox, 6/23/08; Announcers: Don Orsillo (play-by-play), Jerry Remy (analyst), Heidi Watney (reporter, and woman number four so far) Jerry Remy is celebrating twenty years in the Red Sox broadcast booth. We know this because there were at least […]

As a writer for Outsports, I have regular moments of panic when I submit an article and inevitably there is a mistake. Historically, there hasn’t been anything truly major – a type-o here, a misspelling there – yet there is still cause for obsessing. Well, imagine my angst when I realized yesterday that my preview […]

Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano has found himself in some hot water over comments he made that essentially say gay people suck at sports. Via GLAAD’s Web site: “Every time I go to U.S. Cellular, or Comiskey … people start screaming at you and saying all kinds of things, calling you all kind of things. […]

You are about to learn two things in this video. One, Shaq can’t rap. Two, Shaq hates Kobe. Oh wait, we already knew both those things. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=yLLIUr-NePw] Apparently, Shaq was given a mic at a night club and decided to use this opportunity to share his feeling on Kobe in a freestyle wrap. About 1:08 […]

We have had a couple of posts about New York Rangers hockey thug and fashion maven Sean Avery, which prompted me to joke that, given his tastes and interests, he is gayer than me. A summer intern at Vogue, Avery has a fashion photo slideshow, where he has the good sense in some shots to […]

First of all, let me give a warm welcome back to my future husband and Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (all the way to the left), who has been on the DL for 71/2 weeks with a strained left quad. Oakland A’s third baseman Eric Chavez hit his 522nd extra base hit on Saturday with […]

Wimbledon has long prided itself on the purity of the dress of its participants, who must be clad in “almost entirely white.” Enter Maria Sharapova, one of the top contenders this year, who has announced she’ll wear shorts and a T-shirt this week. “I’m going with the traditional shorts, believe it or not”, she said. […]

In the Perez Hilton age of stealing photos and using them online however you please, one advertiser on Facebook has nabbed a pic of a shirtless Brady Quinn (right) with the caption: "Find other men who want what you want at findmen4men.com" Call me crazy, but I really doubt Quinn is trolling any Web site […]

The first signs of Olympic fever hit the airways this weekend. Olympic trials were held for two of what might be called the “heartland” sports: gymnastics and diving. Earnest young (often very young) faces-some of them competing against siblings or childhood friends-turned out from places like Indiana, Wisconsin and Texas. A reminder of how isolated […]

Hotly contested Wimbledon will give meaning to 2008 tennis season. By Wyman MeersOutsports.com Sport is essentially a heightened state of being. It magnifies the great pressures and critical stakes that elicit passion without the intrusion of everyday monotony. A reflex reaction can change the outlook of a tennis match as easily as a single decision […]

Eighth in a series. Broadcast: Colorado Rockies on FSN Rocky Mountain, Cleveland at Rockies, 6/19/08; Announcers: Drew Goodman (play-by-play), Jeff Huson (analyst), Alanna Rizzo (reporter, and woman number three to date) I’m not a fan of intrusions upon a game I’m watching. I don’t need the roving reporters popping in, especially if there isn’t anything […]