About Us

Outsports.com was founded by Jim Buzinski and Cyd Zeigler, Jr.  They live in Los Angeles and met playing flag football.  They've been shooting hoops, catching passes, cheering on the Chiefs, Pats, Nittany Lions, and Cardinal for years - before they knew they were gay, and ever since.  

Outsports LLC is based in Los Angeles and was founded in Nov. 2000. 

Outsports' mission is to build the broadest, deepest, most informative and most entertaining gay sports community. This encompasses  sports fans, teams and leagues. A mixture of breaking news, commentary, features, member profiles, photo galleries, and discussion boards, Outsports is the place to go for sports fans and athletes. Nothing like Outsports exists either on- or off-line. 

Jim Buzinski, CEO 
jim@outsports.com
Jim combines extensive experience in journalism and management with a proven track record.  Jim's journalism background is varied and deep, with stints as a political reporter, city editor and sports editor.  In 1987 he was named sports editor of the Long Beach Press-Telegram in California at 29, the youngest ever at the suburban Los Angeles daily.  In his time in Long Beach, Jim's section won numerous journalism awards for writing, editing and design.  He was profiled in several publications for his trailblazing efforts as being the only openly gay male sports editor in the country.  Jim managed a diverse department with a staff of 30 and an annual budget of $1.5 million.  He was responsible for all aspects of the department, including hiring, equipment purchases and payroll. He left the paper in 1998.

A graduate of Penn State University with degrees in journalism and history, Jim is also an alumnus of Northwestern's journalism and management program.  He also is certified as a mediator in Los Angeles County.  His greatest sports accomplishment was quarterbacking his team to the gold medal in flag football at Gay Games IV in 1994 and Gay Games VII in 2006.  Jim is 49 and lives in Los Angeles.

Cyd Zeigler Jr., President 
cyd@outsports.com

Cyd brings a wealth of organizational and entertainment experience to Outsports.

In addition to running Outsports, Cyd is also a freelance editor for an investment bank and founded the New York Gay Flag Football League, the second largest gay football league in the world. He was most recently the associate editor of the New York Blade and the sports editor for Genre Magazine.

Before his move to New York in late 2003, he was a creative executive the original programming development department at Disney Channel.  While there, he oversaw over two dozen projects including the production of special promotion projects, the development of movie scripts, the post-production of movies, and special movie premiere events.  He also managed a team of ten project analysts who offer feedback and opinion on movie projects; and, he manages music supervisors for original movies.  He has also been the key point person for synergy between the development department and the other departments at Disney Channel.  Before development, Cyd was in the Sales & Marketing Department at Disney Channel during a period of network rebranding and restructuring as the network transitioned from a premium pay channel to basic cable.

Before Disney Channel, Cyd got extensive organization building experience as the Founder and President of Theta Delta Chi Fraternity at Stanford University for which he was named Man of the Year in the International Fraternity's Western Region in 1995.  While at Stanford, Cyd was also the hosting President of the 1994 California College Republicans Convention in Sacramento and served as a public speaking instructor in the Engineering Department for two years.  He graduated from Stanford in 1995 with a B.A. in Communication.  His greatest sports accomplishment was leading his high school track team in scoring three consecutive years.  Cyd is 32 and lives in New York.

(Photo, taken at the 2002 Gay Games in Sydney, by Brent Mullins)