Month: November 2008

Titans and Giants keep rolling, McNabb's most bone-headed play, bettors stunned by end of Steeler game and the hottest new WR this season. How Cyd and Jim saw Week 11 in the NFL. E-mail Cyd The biggest shocker of the week. The only thing that was more shocking about Philadelphia and Cincinnati’s tie than the […]

The last play of the Pittsburgh Steelers 11-10 win over the San Diego Chargers had no effect on the outcome of the game. The Chargers’ last-gasp, multi-lateral play to try and win the game was foiled and the Steelers had won. But the referee’s weird and wrong ruling affected millions of dollars bet on the […]

Outsports has learned from various sources that openly gay Mike Survillion, the narrator and one of the stars of Logo’s gay-basketball series Shirts & Skins, has received an offer from the ABA’s San Francisco Rumble. Survillion’s amateur Rock Dogs team played a game against the Rumble earlier this year, losing 51-41. Survillion talks at length […]

I recently read an item (I think it was at philly.com) about how Eagles fans interested in seeing a road game could do so a little more cheaply. The article suggested going to Cincinnati, as the Bengals' struggles have led some ticket-holders to put them up for sale at reduced prices. Sure enough, right now […]

ESPN recently hosted Jeff Sheng's 'Fearless' display, and several of the athletes in the photo series were invited to talk to ESPN employees. Ted Rybka from GLAAD helped bring the display there, and he wrote about the experience: ESPN's headquarters is comprised of more than a dozen buildings, which they refer to as their "campus." […]

There was talk from the Baltimore Orioles braintrust that they wanted to scrap the current incarnation of their logo in order to go with a more aggressive version of the "swinging bird" logo. Of course, in today's world of steroids and growth hormones, you can't exactly have the bird incarnation of Barry Bonds on your […]

Warren Sapp apparently wants to be the only former Buc doing reality TV. Sapp, who’s currently on Dancing with the Stars, was asked on Inside the NFL about Keyshawn Johnson’s new interior design show. Said Sapp: Me, watch Keyshawn on an interior decorating show? Keyshawn, I knew you were a bitch. And thanks for making […]

Big kudos to the NFL for showing some sensitivity about the worsening economic situation. First, the league is lowering the playoff-ticket pricing guidelines for this season. According to NFL.com, the average ticket prices for playoff games should be about 10% lower this season, and for the first time the league has authorized lower prices for […]

In 2003, Out magazine named Eric Millegan “Hottest Up-and-Coming Openly Gay Actor of 2003.” He’s best known for playing Zack Addy, a regular character during the first three seasons on the Fox TV series Bones. Millegan is now indulging his passion for the NBA — and his beloved Portland Trail Blazers — with “Eric Millegan’s […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I'm putting them on our blog. It's the week of must-win games like not before this season. And it starts Thursday night; the Loser of the AFC East pole position has a steep hill to climb to […]

This is getting a lot of attention and shows what happens when a drunken University of Florida coed rushes to get the next bathroom stall. Hilarity ensues at the 1:10 mark of the video. This happened in 2004 but is just seeing the light of the Net now. Note: No stalls were injured during the […]

I have always been a big fan of running back Ricky Williams (now with the Miami Dolphins) for years since he thanked all his fans “straight or gay” during an interview. He posed for a famous ESPN the Magazine cover when he was drafted by coach Mike Ditka of the New Orleans Saints wearing a […]

Via Deadspin, we learn that the fomer Dodgers and Mets catcher Mike Piazza is writing his autobiography. Piazza is perhaps most well known for his bizarre 2002 press conference where he declared he was not gay. Piazza started a bit of a trend among jocks publicly declaring their heterosexuality, then marrying Playboy Playmates (see also: […]

(Nov. 17 update: The F.A.G.S won the title, defeating Bandana Rama, 5-2). A group of FAGS will play for their league championship Monday in the Los Angeles Dodgeball Society. The Fun Active Gentleman's Society is a group of 20 openly gay guys who play in the UpHigh/Down/Low league in L.A.'s Silverlake area. Wrote the Gay […]

Over the last two weeks, we've followed the story of two youth baseball coaches who allegedly use name-calling and homophobic slurs to motivate their young baseball players. The two coaches were suspended for a year and then un-suspended. And now, they are suspended for a year again. In another surprising turn of events, the Park […]

Sports Out Loud has been the only printed gay-sports magazine (as far as I know) for a couple years. We got wind that they would be changing their name a couple weeks ago. I had lunch with a friend last week and we talked about whether the mag’s new name had to somehow say “gay.” […]

Oh the blonde jokes that are popping into my head. Caitlin Davis was a New England Patriots cheerleader. Until she and some friends (allegedly) decided to draw penises and swastikas all over the body of someone Davis says she didn’t know, and then (not allegedly) take pictures of her holding a marker over the body […]

I am thrilled that rugby player Ben Cohen is incredibly gay-friendly and held a celebration last year for his gay fans. I also think it’s appropriate that he did not win the sports award from the London Stonewall gay rights group. The sports award instead went to the Stonewall Lions Football Club, an English gay […]

You could forgive Philadelphia Eagles fans if they thought coach Andy Reid took the red-eye to Arizona and was calling plays Monday night for the San Francisco 49ers. The 49ers lost to the Cardinals, 29-24, in a wild and weird game that saw their last drive die at the 1-yard line as time expired. The […]

Earlier this summer, a producer friend of mine was pitching a gay-football TV show to, among other networks, A&E. He was told that they didn’t want to do football shows. Apparently, they’re OK with a loud-mouthed football player doing an interior-design show: A&E Network has two real-life original series in production. The new series Keyshawn […]