Month: April 2008

Former NFL wide receiver Michael Westbrook, now an elite martial artist, discusses his 1997 fight with then Washington Redskins teammate Stephen Davis and the gay angle surrounding it. The fight in practice made headlines when Westbrook pounded Davis, a running back, after words were exchanged. Westbrook told his version in a profile on ESPN.com by […]

Bailey Chase (right) plays a closeted pro football player who is outed when his lover is murdered on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU,” which airs Tuesday April 22 at 10 p.m. EDT. Ken Storer, a writer on the show, told Outsports in an e-mail how he came up with the idea: I wanted to write […]

The NFL released its 2008 schedule today and it was shown live on the NFL Network. Fair enough (better than old NFL Films from 1975). But ESPN broke into its programming for its own NFL schedule show. Both networks then spent the next two hours(!) dissecting games that won’t be played for five months or […]

Former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL star Herschel Walker reveals in a new book that he has multiple personalities and once played Russian Roulette. Walker, 46 and a successful Dallas entrepreneur, said he is still battling dissociative identity disorder (DID) and knows he will open himself up to people making jokes at his expense. "I […]

The Los Angeles Lakers began the regular season with Kobe Bryant demanding a trade and ended it with the best record in the Western Conference and top seed in the playoffs that start Friday. The Lakers’ resurgence was steady all season but went into overdrive when they traded for (stole?) center Pau Gasol from Memphis; […]

The third season of Work Out, Bravo’s mostly-gay gym drama, premieres this week. AfterEllen.com has an insightful article on the reality show and its star, Jackie Warner: Warner is a unique personality on the television landscape – a lesbian, an athlete and a businesswoman. In a medium where elite female athletes are not given much […]

NOTE from a confused writer: I don't know why this didn't show up on Sunday night, but here it is, late and not-at-all timely! *********** As I watched the final round of the Masters from a sunny but windy Augusta, I keep writing on stray bits of paper things like “Tiger horrible tee shot on […]

Tomorrow the NFL will announce its full 2008 schedule, with a two-hour program on NFL Network beginning at 2 pm ET. In Philadelphia, immediately after the schedule comes out the sports-talk hosts, newspaper writers, TV talking heads and fans will dissect the Eagles' schedule and decide how many games they'll win (pending the NFL draft, […]

Sean Avery may be gayer than Jim Buzinski (at least in Jim's opinion) but he's also one of the most obnoxious players in the NHL. He was at it again on Sunday night during game 3 of the conference quarterfinal series between Avery's New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils. During a 5-on-3 Rangers […]

New York’s most favoritest gay sports bar, Gym Sportsbar, opened in April 2005; and on their third anniversary this weekend they are (finally) able to unveil their much-anticipated downstairs space, lovingly labeled “the locker room.” The VIP party is Friday and it’s open to the public as of Saturday. Gym has been the most popular […]

It’s tough being an NFL coach stuck in a little corner of Florida called Jacksonville, but Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio is popular at Outsports for his good looks and affinity for wearing a suit on the sideline. Watching the final of the WTA Amelia Island tournament (won by Maria Sharapova in her first clay-court […]

Australian Rules Football is buzzing about Barry Hall sucker-punching Brent Staker during a match. Hall has been labelled a thug, a prat and a coward, while the presence of any substance in his mid-section has been questioned. Staker’s parents have lashed out at the attack, with his father Alan calling Hall a “weak mongrel”. Staker’s […]

Martin Lel of Kenya won today’s London Marathon in a record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes and 15 seconds, a performance that certainly locks him in as the favorite to win Beijing’s Olympic marathon in August. Lel also won the New York City Marathon last November. America’s top marathoner, Ryan Hall, flirted with the […]

Brown University water polo player Hank Weintraub is setting an example for gay athletes on campus everywhere By Dan Woog Hank Weintraub is a gay athlete. He kicks, scratches, elbows and grabs opponents’ balls. That makes him no different than any straight athlete playing water polo. In that game, anything goes, so long as officials […]

It’s good to know that there are some sports where the old geezers can wipe up the floor with the young studs now and then. Auto racing is one of those…and NASCAR’s Mark Martin is one of the geezers. Drivers tell me that reflexes and teenager courage may count with the young guys…but the old […]

We are down to the Final Four in King of the Hardwood and it’s dominated by rugby players. In one bracket, Ben Cohen takes on baseball’s Brad Ausmus, while Sean Lamont takes on fellow rugby player Dan Carter. Vote here to push your favorite to the finals. Speaking for myself, this is a rather lame […]

“Carbon footprint” is a big buzzword among people concerned about global warming. It measures the “impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of green house gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide.” The goal is to have as small a carbon footprint as possible. Using these measures, the Olympic […]

Tonight after I got home from softball and post-game drinking I turned on Versus to check out the New Jersey Devils-New York Rangers playoff game. Instead of hockey, there was some sort of rodeo event on the screen. I thought maybe something happened to delay or postpone the game. I switched to ESPN and saw […]

By the time you reach the age of 38, as a baseball player in the Major Leagues, you are not only about to be collecting retirement checks, but you should also be old enough to know when not to be a jackass. Al Reyes, relief pitcher for the Tampa Bay Rays, is proving me wrong. […]

Except for English football, because I love hearing them use words like “insouciant” while describing a touchline pass, I never listen to announcers while watching sports; I turn the sound off and listen to music instead. The only downside is that I have to rely on the onscreen graphics for stats. The third day of […]