Month: March 2008

In a way, it was business as usual for Allen Iverson. In his first game in Philadelphia since being traded to Denver in late 2006, the Wachovia Center was full, Iverson was greeted with a long, loud standing ovation in the pregame introductions, and he led all scorers with 32 points. Oh, and his team […]

7 have legit shot to win the title By Frank JakkaOutsports.comRealistically, there are seven teams that have the necessary pieces to win the 2008 NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament: Top ranked Connecticut, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, Stanford, LSU and Rutgers.These teams have a few common denominators, all needed to reach and win in Tampa – solid […]

Fitness icon David Rich has made a name for himself with his boyish good looks and his skinny-kid-to-muscled-adonis workout program. He's sharing some of his best tips and tricks in a series of videos we'll be running here on Outsports. To see more of David go to www.DavidRichFitness.com or get his DVDs at www.DavidRichDVD.com Six-Pack […]

U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir was asked by the New York Times about his sexual orientation and he came off with a classic response. “There are some things I keep sacred,” Weir said. “My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.” Getting more serious, Weir continued: “If I […]

(Editor’s note: Sean Jackson wrote our preseason men’s college basketball preview in which he picked UCLA to win it all. Having watched the entire season unfold, he is back with his tournament preview): So what have we learned this season? Just a few things. – Turn your phone to vibrate if you know Kelvin Sampson […]

Get ready. Deion Sanders, his wife Pilar, and his kids are ready to hit “Prime Time” together on Oxygen (yes, that Oxygen) in a Bobby/Whitney-esque show that follows the family’s travails together on a show called, “Deion and Pilar Sanders: Prime Time Love.” On the one hand, it looks funny. On the other hand, I’m […]

Many Americans won’t recognize him, but 20 years ago Welsh hurdler Colin Jackson won a silver medal in the 110 hurdles in the Olympic Games. Gay rumors have dogged him for at least the last couple years; in 2006, a male flight attendant spread rumors that they had had an affair. Now, Jackson is an […]

Recent incidents around a women's soccer league that plays in the Glendale Sports Complex in southern California were reported today in the WeHo News. Three different lesbian players have been assaulted during actual play on several occasions, by some of the other women players. The lesbians were also been subjected to verbal insults and abuse […]

From the L.A. Land blog on the Los Angeles Times: A quickie: an e-mailer points out the fire-sale price for Bear Stearns — just $236 million on Sunday night — wouldn’t even be enough to buy out soccer star David Beckham, whose five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy, plus endorsement opportunities, has been valued […]

English rugby star plans London event, BENediction By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com English rugby player Ben Cohen, one of the most pro-gay jocks we’ve ever seen, has announced details of his May 28 event in London to honor his gay fan base. “Moving away from the more traditional rugby testimonial theme, the Ben Cohen Testimonial Committee is […]

Are athletes involved in non-sports causes “activists”? And if so, why is that such a bad thing? A recent NY Times article profiled a letter-writing campaign headed by Ira Newble, an NBA player, aimed at pressuring China to intervene in the desperate situation in Darfur. Many of Newble’s teammates (he was with Cleveland at the […]

Increased security is a given at many sporting events these days. Often fans are subject to bag searches, hand-held metal detector waves and even pat-downs. This is supposedly for our own safety. I'm not crazy about it, but I can understand it. But I'd like security measures to be as unobtrusive as possible and applied […]

Bristol is the only motor speedway where the grandstands wrap all the way around the half-mile oval track, completely enclosing it. With 40 cars hurtling round and round at up to 160 mph, and 160,000 fans screaming for their heroes from the steep tiers, the place turns into a vortex of noise so intense that […]

After seven rounds of voting, the field of 64 has been announced in the King of the Hardwood contest, in which you pick the hottest jocks in the world. The voting in the opening round starts Monday for three days in the East Regional, then moves to the Midwest, Southeast and West. Top four seeds […]

The bracket to your right is my best guess for this year’s NCAA men’s college basketball tournament. The operative word here is “guess.” For the record, my Final Four are UCLA, North Carolina, Kansas and Pittsburgh, with UNC beating UCLA. You can clearly do better. Sign up here and play for free. We will give […]

Logo’s show about gay basketball team the “Rock Dogs” has a new title: “Shirts and skins.” I’m still holding out hope that producer Bill Kendall (right, in white t-shirt) will be able to steer the show in the right direction and not let people who are sports-senseless drive its direction. But the cliche, homoerotic title […]

Today was the Food City 500 at Bristol, and Lady Luck was busy kicking people’s lives around on that tricky track. No matter what a superdriver you are, no matter how good your car was running yesterday, the Lady says, “Today is another day.” Especially at Bristol. So the world-famous oval grandstand was packed with […]

By NDR This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Special to Outsports Dylan “NDR” Edwards is a writer, artist, and cartoonist currently living in Massachusetts. His cartoons have been featured in Sojourner: The Women’s Forum, The Antioch Record, FTM International, Transhealth and various other publications. His […]

Why does ESPN even have “experts” picking to talk about the NCAA tournament? Their insight is no better (actually, it’s worse) than simply looking at the seedings. Last year, we heard “look out for Long Beach State,” which got dismantled by Tennessee in the first round. This year, ESPN had five “experts” pick their Elite […]

Insufferable is the word that comes to mind when listening to ESPN’s screaming heads talk about anything these days, but the worst of the worst is their analysis of the NCAA basketball tournament. Like clockwork, Dick Vitale has found a team that has somehow been “wronged” by the selection committee in Arizona State. Because they […]