OUTSPORTS: The Site for Gay Sports Fans and Athletes

Feb. 23, 2000

TOP OF THE WEEK: KIRK TRIPLETT

Single gays and lesbians everywhere can identify with pro golfer Kirk Triplett. Before Sunday's Nissan Open in Los Angeles, Triplett had gone 266 tournaments

without winning. That's like placing an ad, meeting 266 prospective mates for dinner and having nothing to show for it but credit card debt and an expanding waistline. But then #267 shows up and you're picking china patterns the next day.

Triplett barely beat out Swedish eccentric Justin Parnevik, whose offbeat sense of humor and wild attire are not normally associated with Scandinavia.

"I've never been in the lead that late in a tournament before and that kept gnawing at me," Triplett said. ``I was feeling a little queasy out there and (Parnevik's pink) pants helped calm me down."

Philadelphia 76er Alan Iverson is the leading scorer in the NBA - but, then, when you take 30 shots a game, you're bound to score 30 points.

Last Sunday, in a rough and tumble fourth quarter with the LA Lakers, Iverson got slapped, embarrassed, and was eventually topped by Shaq and his high-flying

Lakers. Iverson had zero points in the second half.

Ugly was the only word to describe what Boston's Marty McSorley did to Vancouver's Donald Brashear on Monday. McSorley, using both hands, sliced Brashear

in the head with his stick late in a game, leaving the Canuck twitching and unconscious on the ice. Off the ice this would be aggravated assault. McSorley was suspended by the NHL for the rest of the year, the strongest penalty in league history.

McSorley, a media favorite for his willingness to comment on anything, was once asked when with the Los Angeles Kings about his relationship with teammate

Wayne Gretzky.
"I'm Wayne's Janet on the road," he said, referring to Gretzky's wife, the B-Actress Janet Jones.

Dale Jarret won the Daytona 500 when he ... Wait, auto racing isn't a sport so forget it.

Dennis Rodman, feathered boa in tow and thehusband of Carmen Electra, came back into the league and immediately was ejected from a game. Nice to know

Rodman, who often frequents gay bars in Southern California (though he is absolutely straight), told CNN/SI that he lives his life as a ``man's man," which in Rodman-speak means parties, gambling, parties, drinking, parties, dancing and

Stanford, the "hottest" team in the nation, is back at #1, after Old Man Chaney coached the Temple Owls to an upset win at Cincinnati. That a 60-plus Chaney

toppled a 20 year-old Kenyon Martin (the Cincinnati star with a body that

would stop traffic on Santa Monica Blvd.) just shows how the brains are more important than the bod .... yeah, right.

Steffi Graf is denying reports that she is going to tie the knot with Andre Agassi on her birthday this June 14. We're guessing she's tired of him showing

She is, however, considering hooking up with Gabriella Sabatini for a farewell match on March 19. Maybe Andre had better see what Patrick Rafter is

Lesbians will love it, gay men will yawn. The annual Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is out. If you're into beautiful, scantily clad women (there's more

fabric in a shoestring then in these bikinis) whose idea of sport is applying sunscreen then this issue is for you. Guys we know would rather see these models'