Sports

I spent all last year writing a monthly baseball column on here called this month in baseball and now I will be blogging about America’s favorite pastime. If you read my column you should expect some of the same, I’ll chime in whenever something irks me, whenever something astounds me or whenever a new hottie […]

Tennessee won the women’s NCAA basketball championship last night in a truly dominating performance against Stanford. Tennessee played great, led by Candace Parker (right), and they were helped out by a pitiful 24 turnovers (many of them unforced) by Stanford. Watching the game, I had mixed feelings. It was the first women’s college basketball game […]

It's another blow to democracy. Recently the New York Mets decided to run a poll on its website, asking fans to choose from among ten songs under consideration to replace Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" as their eighth-inning sing-along song. However, the website Fark.com suggested a write-in campaign, and their write-in candidate actually beat out the […]

My favorite sport, by just a little, is football. I grew up on it. Baseball was in the background and Colorado, where i originally hail from, didn’t even have a team until my freshman year. So it gives me great pleasure when I can write something in my baseball blog that has anything to do […]

The U.S. Olympic team is going preppy. Ralph Lauren Polo announced an agreement to outfit the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Teams with new threads for the opening and closing ceremonies, along with walking around clothes for their down time in the Olympic Village, during the 2008 Summer Olympics, which open Aug. 8. The Wall Street […]

The Summer Olympics keep growing and growing. The newest Olympic sport is called Flame Dousing. So far the French are winning. They managed to extinguish the Olympic flame five times during Monday’s glorious torch procession through Paris. On Sunday, the Brits made several daring swipes at the flame as it passed through London, but their […]

People in Boston really don’t take losing well. The Boston Phoenix has its list of the “100 Unsexiest Men on the Planet,” and among the honorees is the Golden Boy, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady: 100. Oh, how quickly we turn on our heroes! Once a loveable Everyman, he’s now an overexposed, supermodel-dating, out-of-wedlock-fathering, […]

This came in last week from Pat Griffin of It Takes A Team. If you’re a non-heterosexual coach (or former), definitely contact the researcher; we can’t get enough of this kind of research going. Looking for Non-Heterosexual Coaches for Research Study Are you interested in participating in a research study examining female collegiate coaches work […]

Bill Buckner and the ’86 Red Sox. Jean Van de Velde and the ’99 British Open. Memphis Tigers and the ’08 National Championship. Up 9 points with two minutes left, Memphis completed one of the great choke jobs in sports history Monday night, losing in overtime to the Kansas Jayhawks. Missed free throws. A key […]

It’s the most wonderful time of the hockey year: the Stanley Cup playoffs. To win the Cup a team needs to win 16 games, four best-of-7 series, with few days off between games in a series and limited days off between series if their series goes the full seven games. It’s a grueling proposition. Throw […]

Should the NCAA be taking a position on the (reportedly) heavily lesbian fanbase headed to the women’s Final Four in Tampa Bay this weekend? That’s the subject of an article by Orlando Sentinel columnist Shannon Owens today, for which I was interviewed. We chatted for about a half hour on the subject yesterday and both […]

Almost as deeply as he’s fought for gay civil rights, Mixner bleeds silver and black By Cyd Zeigler jr. Few gay-rights activists have a more colorful and impactful history than David Mixner (just ask his old pal, former President Bill Clinton). He was a founding member of the nation's first gay Political Action Committee, got […]

The man slouching in a beat-up camping chair is Kansas City Royals catcher John Buck, one of the “cover men” of the 2008 Royals charity calendar. It looks like he was shot on the loading dock of a Wal-Mart and the photographer was a Wal-Mart greeter. Makes you want to rush out and buy 100. […]

At a speech Thursday for Stonewall’s annual Equity Dinner in London, Sir Ian McKellen ended his keynote remarks with an interesting question: “Where are the sports people who will brave the ragging in the changing rooms and the heckling from the terraces?” Coming from him, this is more than a fair question. McKellen is openly […]

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart has gotten in some hot water after photos surfaced of him partying heavy at his home with buddy Nick Lachey and young co-eds. Now, The Dirty.com has a new photo showing Leinart expressing his inner man-love. So it’s true when people say the Cardinals suck. —Jim Buzinski Arizona Cardinals quarterback […]

A girl on a field trip to Fenway Park got buzzed by a red-tailed hawk on Thursday. The girl’s name: Alexa Rodriguez. Think the red-tailed hawk is a Red Sox fan? The girl’s fine, despite the hawk drawing a little blood from her scalp. The hawk has been nesting in the park and even has […]

When all is said and done, look for Tennessee to beat UConn for the title. By Frank JakkaOutsports.com As predicted here on Outsports in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament preview, Connecticut and Tennessee, top-seeds in their respective regions, along with LSU and Stanford, both two-seeds in their regions, pulled out big victories to gain the […]

Ohio State beat UMass for the NIT title Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. There was a time when the NIT meant something. Even as late as 1970, the NIT championship was regarded as a legitimate claim to a national championship. Since then, it’s become the race to see who’s the best team of those […]

So I spent all Friday and most of Saturday telling friends how Tyler Hansbrough wouldn’t be able to handle Louisville’s front line. No way he could put up big numbers against the combo of David Padgett and Derrick Caracter, not to mention having Earl Clark’s big arms near his face. Case closed – the Cards […]

A scholar looks at sports talk radio, focusing on Jim Rome, and how it deals with gay and lesbian issues. (An excerpt from the book "Beer, Babes, and Balls: Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio," by David Nylund. Reprinted by permission) By David Nylund In their analysis of sport media’s treatment of women, critical sport scholars […]