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The Los Angeles Lakers began the regular season with Kobe Bryant demanding a trade and ended it with the best record in the Western Conference and top seed in the playoffs that start Friday. The Lakers’ resurgence was steady all season but went into overdrive when they traded for (stole?) center Pau Gasol from Memphis; […]

The third season of Work Out, Bravo’s mostly-gay gym drama, premieres this week. AfterEllen.com has an insightful article on the reality show and its star, Jackie Warner: Warner is a unique personality on the television landscape – a lesbian, an athlete and a businesswoman. In a medium where elite female athletes are not given much […]

NOTE from a confused writer: I don't know why this didn't show up on Sunday night, but here it is, late and not-at-all timely! *********** As I watched the final round of the Masters from a sunny but windy Augusta, I keep writing on stray bits of paper things like “Tiger horrible tee shot on […]

Tomorrow the NFL will announce its full 2008 schedule, with a two-hour program on NFL Network beginning at 2 pm ET. In Philadelphia, immediately after the schedule comes out the sports-talk hosts, newspaper writers, TV talking heads and fans will dissect the Eagles' schedule and decide how many games they'll win (pending the NFL draft, […]

Sean Avery may be gayer than Jim Buzinski (at least in Jim's opinion) but he's also one of the most obnoxious players in the NHL. He was at it again on Sunday night during game 3 of the conference quarterfinal series between Avery's New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils. During a 5-on-3 Rangers […]

New York’s most favoritest gay sports bar, Gym Sportsbar, opened in April 2005; and on their third anniversary this weekend they are (finally) able to unveil their much-anticipated downstairs space, lovingly labeled “the locker room.” The VIP party is Friday and it’s open to the public as of Saturday. Gym has been the most popular […]

It’s tough being an NFL coach stuck in a little corner of Florida called Jacksonville, but Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio is popular at Outsports for his good looks and affinity for wearing a suit on the sideline. Watching the final of the WTA Amelia Island tournament (won by Maria Sharapova in her first clay-court […]

Martin Lel of Kenya won today’s London Marathon in a record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes and 15 seconds, a performance that certainly locks him in as the favorite to win Beijing’s Olympic marathon in August. Lel also won the New York City Marathon last November. America’s top marathoner, Ryan Hall, flirted with the […]

It’s good to know that there are some sports where the old geezers can wipe up the floor with the young studs now and then. Auto racing is one of those…and NASCAR’s Mark Martin is one of the geezers. Drivers tell me that reflexes and teenager courage may count with the young guys…but the old […]

Tonight after I got home from softball and post-game drinking I turned on Versus to check out the New Jersey Devils-New York Rangers playoff game. Instead of hockey, there was some sort of rodeo event on the screen. I thought maybe something happened to delay or postpone the game. I switched to ESPN and saw […]

By the time you reach the age of 38, as a baseball player in the Major Leagues, you are not only about to be collecting retirement checks, but you should also be old enough to know when not to be a jackass. Al Reyes, relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays, is proving me wrong. […]

Except for English football, because I love hearing them use words like “insouciant” while describing a touchline pass, I never listen to announcers while watching sports; I turn the sound off and listen to music instead. The only downside is that I have to rely on the onscreen graphics for stats. The third day of […]

Screw the curse of the Bambino, it looks like the freshly built New York Yankees stadium has one of its own. The New York Post ran a great little blurb today that made me laugh, mostly because I am not a Yankees fan. A devilish Boston fan working on a concrete crew at the $1.3 […]

Let’s get what most sports fans care about out of the way at the beginning: Tiger Woods shot an even par 72, which puts him four shots off the top of the heap at the Masters in August, Georgia. In his previous four wins at the Masters, he’s been behind by at least three shots […]

One of the things that always cracks me up about sports is the concept of Anointed Ones. The Anointed Ones are people or teams or nations that are considered so superior to their competition that it’s almost akin to kicking a basket of puppies to have them play their supposedly inferior competition. Case in point: […]

Last year we wrote about Romain Barras, a French decathlete, and how he loved to be viewed as beautiful by gay men. “It is lucky to have articles [about me] on the gay websites … I found it to be super flattering on these sites to be surrounded by very beautiful guys. I always had […]

Johnny Cueto, the rookie sensation for the reds had a pretty amazing debut for the team against the Arizona Diamond Backs, when he walked no one and struck out 10 batters. How amazing is that you ask? 4,113 pitchers have made their debuts in the major league since 1956 and he is the only one […]

Justin Germano of the San Diego Padres has now had two starts, has a 0.00 ERA and has won no games. It would really be nice if his team could hit some runs and help him out. His next start will be next week against the Colorado Rockies. Brenton Metzler Justin Germano of the San […]

Jordan Schafer is writing the newest chapter in “Baseball for Dummies: Professional Edition.” The unfolding saga swirling around him will be summed up with his personal story, titled “How to Kill a Baseball Career.” Schafer, the No. 1 prospect for the Atlanta Braves despite not playing above Class A until this year, was suspended this […]

It struck me as pretty cool Monday evening when I heard the name announced at the end of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament that it is a gay man now singing “One Shining Moment” every early April on CBS. Luther Vandross was quietly gay (tough to call him closeted) before he died; and very soon […]