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Gay-sports championship season started in earnest Memorial Day weekend with the NAGVA (volleyball) championships in Miami. Possibly the biggest of those championships is the Gay Softball World Series, of which Outsports is a proud media sponsor this year. This year the event is in Seattle, Aug. 22-30. They’ve got a great Web site for the […]

German decathlete Pascal Behrenbruch, center, and fellow athletes at a meet. Check out his website with tons of photos (click on “weiter” to see the images, like Pascal and his dog and heading into the pool). German decathlete Pascal Behrenbruch, center, and fellow athletes at a meet. Check out his website with tons of photos […]

John Amaechi, the former NBA player who came out as gay last year, is Amnesty International’s Olympics ambassador and he is urging athletes to speak out on behalf of human rights at this summer’s Beijing Games. "I would encourage athletes not to distract themselves by burying themselves in the nuance and facts and figures and […]

First, my new crush…even though this was against my beloved Colorado Rockies, Nick Evans, recently called up left fielder for the New York Mets, had three doubles in his first Major League game. (video after link) The Cleveland Indians amazing starting Pitcher, Cliff Lee, a man being talked about as a possible American League MVP, […]

The last American standing at the French Open has fallen. Robby Ginepri, the hottie who lives in Kennesaw, Ga., dropped his Fourth Round match against Fernando Gonzalez earlier today. Ginepri was the last male U.S. tennis player left in the tournament and the first to make it so far since 2003. Now there’s more time […]

When top jocks compete, they know how to accessorize. Tennis babe Maria Sharapova debuted at the French Open last week sporting a pair of Elsa Perretti Wave Earnings and a pearl button closure to fasten the back of her Nike dress. The earrings go for $1,150 on the company’s site. There’s more, according to the […]

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtnSuoew_1E] The Pittsburgh Penguins were done. Having blown a 2-0 lead in Game 5 of their Stanley Cup Finals to the Detroit Red Wings, the Penguins trailed 3-2 with under a minute to go and the Detroit fans getting ready to celebrate another title. But, stunningly, with 34 seconds to go in regulation, Maxime Talbot […]

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Re the ongoing thread of whether War Emblem is or isn’t gay: His Japanese stud-farm owners, the Shadai Stallion Station, continue to deal with his low libido. And their efforts are paying off — the horse has a growing list of progeny — 43 to date, with the oldest now racing as four-year-olds. Enough of […]

This was the full-page cover ad on the latest issue of Ad Age. It certainly raise a couple eyebrows when people walked into my office and saw the pic of this guy sitting on my desk for the better part of last week. It’s an ad for SoapNet’s scripted show MVP, a Canadian production about […]

Sport provides a challenge for wrestlers, gay or straight, of all ages. Chicago was host to 2008 tournament.Related: Wrestlers Withoutt Borders 2008 photo gallery By Ross FormanOutsports.comWhen Ross Capdeville started wrestling in 2005, it wasn’t to emulate Hulk Hogan, The Rock, Kevin Nash, Kurt Angle or any other pro wrestling superhero. And it definitely was […]

The New York Daily News brings us this delightful tale of a tourism brochure printed up by the Queens borough president's office. In the brochure there's an item on Shea Stadium that says it was built in 1962. The paper notes that groundbreaking for Shea began in October 1961 and the stadium didn't open until […]

Former welterweight boxing champion Emile Griffith, who in 1962 killed a man in the ring who taunted him as a “faggot,” has finally come out in a new book. From John Robert Cassidy in Newsday: Imagine this — a gay man being one of the greatest professional boxers in the history of the sport. You […]

Twenty-one years after the last time Bird and Magic met in the NBA Finals, the green and yellow will meet in the Finals. It’s been talked about since mid-season when the Lakers got Gasol and they started streaking. One of the things I find nice is that, because these two teams haven’t been there against […]

Two lesbians who kissed at a Seattle Mariners baseball game at Safeco Field said they were told to stop and are claiming discrimination based on their sexual orientation. Sirbrina Guerrero (photo) says she only gave her date a peck, but a mother sitting with her son complained to security and, as a result, they were […]

Mariah Carey was in Japan promoting her new album this week, so one of her handlers (not Benny Medina, we’re told) decided to get her a stint throwing out the opening pitch of a baseball game there. Of course, someone might have wanted to explain that the goal was to get the ball to the […]

Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of a rare event in the life of Philadelphia sports fans. On May 31, 1983, the 76ers finished off a four-game sweep of the Lakers to win the NBA championship. A Philadelphia team hasn't won a title since. No city with teams in all four major sports leagues (yes, for […]

A freak injury leads to a magical football season for this out Disney exec By Rich Ross Editor's note: I met Rich Ross in 1997 when I was working at Disney Channel. From the day I met him, he became a mentor and a friend, helping guide me along many major decisions in my life […]

I wrote a review of the excellent new documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.” One of the subjects is Greg Valentino, who sports freakish 27-inch biceps. As he says in the film, women aren’t exactly flocking to him. Here is a trailer for the film, with Valentino in the beginning of the clip. —Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=b7bS6FWiOcs] I […]

Carlos Guillen, first basemen for the Detroit Tigers had a rough game the other night, but it wasn’t for the regular reasons. No, it wasn’t an off night. No it wasn’t troubles at home. “He can hardly move — he’s got hemorrhoids so bad,” Tigers manager Jim Leyland said Tuesday. “He’s been playing with hemorrhoids […]