Month: February 2008

From an interview in Chicago’s Windy City Times with Michael Weiss, a competitive figure skater now doing ice shows: WCT: Figure skating is often stereotyped as a “gay” sport. Do you have any comment on that? MW: Like with any stereotype, it's about not understanding the sport. Figure skating certainly has its share of gay […]

The most e-mailed story on the New York Times website Thursday dealt with the declining popularity of golf among the masses. Fewer people are playing, citing money and the time it takes to play a round. Jim Kass, the research director of the National Golf Foundation, an industry group, said the gradual but prolonged slump […]

Hours after writing the post below about Spanish soccer star Jose Maria Gutierrez Hernandez being caught by a tabloid kissing a man outside a restaurant, I came across evidence that he might have been kissing a woman with a very short haircut. Some reports on various soccer websites say that “Guti” was kissing the daughter […]

I had fun watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Lots of horse races prepares you a little for auto-racing. The strategies are fairly similar. After the horses leave the gate, the drivers — er, jockeys — save their mounts for the final craziness as they’re peeling out of the final turn. So the last 10 […]

(Update note: Read this followup that suggests he might have been kissing a woman). Original report: Jose Maria Gutierrez Hernandez, a soccer player for the elite Real Madrid team in Spain, is in the news after being caught by a tabloid kissing another man outside a restaurant (“Guti” is the guy on the left in […]

Total Nonstop Action wrestling is making a tour of New York this weekend. It might not seem like a big deal, but it’s of interest to me for a couple reasons, not the least of which is how incredibly gay-friendly TNA and the TNA wrestlers have been in recent years. I did an interview with […]

Patricia Nell Warren, who writes a series for Outsports about gay-sports history and who contributes to this blog, is writing a two-part piece for Pat Griffin’s “It Takes A Team” about her experiences and observations about the influence of sports on the perception of gender and sexuality. It’s been a common theme in many of […]

By Dan Woog It's been over two decades since the winds of queer change swept through college campuses. Across America, universities now sponsor GLBT centers, offer gender studies programs, and pledge never to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. "Out" has become the new "in" – everywhere, that is, except the locker room. Finally, […]

For many New York Giants, there are advantages to winning a Super Bowl. From Rush & Malloy in the New York Daily News: The ladies at Scores West danced adoringly for big-tipping Ahmad Bradshaw. … Meanwhile, the strippers at Rick's Cabaret are offering free lap dances to all Giants. "They've spent a fortune here," says […]

On July 13, 2007, French long jumper Salim Sdiri was warming up near the infield at a meet in Rome when Finnish javelin thrower Tero Pitkamaki let one fly. His toss was errant and hit Sdiri in the back. Sdiri shouted and twisted. He grabbed at the javelin protruding from his body, then released his […]

A quarterback at Wartburg College in Iowa is being charged with throwing a homophobic slur at a gay student at the college. QB says he was just being a “dumb college kid.” Judge could send him to jail for 30 days where he could find out just how “dumb” gay sex really is. -Cyd Zeigler […]

→ The Oxford Swim Club gets down in a charity video for Oxfam → Charles Barkley on “fake Christians” and supporting gay marriage → Dan Carter: “The hottest rugby player” → One guy’s amazing abs → Billy Bean: Ex-gay sports therapy is ludicrous → Water polo’s Wolf Wigo in a Mikasa ad → The Oxford […]

Layne, aka Mariner Duck Guy, has put together the 2008 King of the Hardwood contest, a tournament where readers select from the 64 hottest athletes. Past winners have included Jeremy Bloom, Brad Ausmus and Sean Lamont. Layne has so many worthy nominees, that “American Idol” style, he is trimming the field via reader votes to […]

Philadelphia Phillies player Kyle Kendrick is the victim of an elaborate practical joke where he is told he has been traded to Japan for a player named Kobyashi. –Jim Buzinski [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=BPz3KY6H16g] Philadelphia Phillies player Kyle Kendrick is the victim of an elaborate practical joke where he is told he has been traded to Japan for […]

By a vote of 412-1 the U.S. House of Representatives this week approved a resolution congratulating the New York Giants for their Super Bowl victory over New England. The single vote against this resolution came from Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), whose suburban district also includes a small portion of Philadelphia. Murphy is a veteran of […]

Somewhere in a poor part of Nicaragua or Romania, a man, woman or child is wearing a piece of clothing unavailable in the U.S. It says, “19-0: World Champion New England Patriots.” Elsewhere in the developing world, someone still has a snazzy shirt from the 2006 Super Bowl champion Bears, 1991 Buffalo Bills or the […]

This is not sports-specific, but fascinating nonetheless. “In just a fraction of a second, people can accurately judge the sexual orientation of other individuals by glancing at their faces, according to new research,” Science reports. Researchers showed men and women photos of 90 faces belonging to homosexual men and heterosexual men for intervals ranging from […]

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The folks on ESPNEWS (and other places as well, I'm sure, but that's what I was watching at the time) were breathless a little earlier this evening. Just one day after the steroids showdown between Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee in a congressional hearing, it was reported that federal prosecutors, in papers filed in court […]

West Hollywood’s favorite horsey face new darling just might not be so gay-friendly. Despite pictures floating around the internet of Brady Quinn getting chummy with friends and dressing like the Village People, the Cleveland Browns overrated backup quarterback is being accused of yelling “faggot,” among other things, at gay passersby with a group of his […]