Month: June 2008

Purdue's Andrew Langenfeld will race Michael Phelps and others for a spot on his dream team

As you’ve no doubt read here on Outsports, Jeff Sheng has been traversing the country photographing out high school and collegiate athletes for several years. His project is called the Fearless Campus Tour, during which time he’s captured images like the one below of an out Dartmouth runner. ABC News caught up with Jeff last […]

You are about to learn two things in this video. One, Shaq can’t rap. Two, Shaq hates Kobe. Oh wait, we already knew both those things. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=yLLIUr-NePw] Apparently, Shaq was given a mic at a night club and decided to use this opportunity to share his feeling on Kobe in a freestyle wrap. About 1:08 […]

We have had a couple of posts about New York Rangers hockey thug and fashion maven Sean Avery, which prompted me to joke that, given his tastes and interests, he is gayer than me. A summer intern at Vogue, Avery has a fashion photo slideshow, where he has the good sense in some shots to […]

First of all, let me give a warm welcome back to my future husband and Colorado Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki (all the way to the left), who has been on the DL for 71/2 weeks with a strained left quad. Oakland A’s third baseman Eric Chavez hit his 522nd extra base hit on Saturday with […]

Wimbledon has long prided itself on the purity of the dress of its participants, who must be clad in “almost entirely white.” Enter Maria Sharapova, one of the top contenders this year, who has announced she’ll wear shorts and a T-shirt this week. “I’m going with the traditional shorts, believe it or not”, she said. […]

In the Perez Hilton age of stealing photos and using them online however you please, one advertiser on Facebook has nabbed a pic of a shirtless Brady Quinn (right) with the caption: "Find other men who want what you want at findmen4men.com" Call me crazy, but I really doubt Quinn is trolling any Web site […]

The first signs of Olympic fever hit the airways this weekend. Olympic trials were held for two of what might be called the “heartland” sports: gymnastics and diving. Earnest young (often very young) faces-some of them competing against siblings or childhood friends-turned out from places like Indiana, Wisconsin and Texas. A reminder of how isolated […]

Hotly contested Wimbledon will give meaning to 2008 tennis season. By Wyman MeersOutsports.com Sport is essentially a heightened state of being. It magnifies the great pressures and critical stakes that elicit passion without the intrusion of everyday monotony. A reflex reaction can change the outlook of a tennis match as easily as a single decision […]

Eighth in a series. Broadcast: Colorado Rockies on FSN Rocky Mountain, Cleveland at Rockies, 6/19/08; Announcers: Drew Goodman (play-by-play), Jeff Huson (analyst), Alanna Rizzo (reporter, and woman number three to date) I’m not a fan of intrusions upon a game I’m watching. I don’t need the roving reporters popping in, especially if there isn’t anything […]

Seventh in a series. Broadcast: Milwaukee Brewers on FSN Wisconsin, Toronto at Brewers, 6/18/08; Announcers: Brian Anderson (play-by-play), Bill Schroeder (analyst), Trenni Kusnierek (reporter – and the second woman on a broadcast thus far) It isn’t news that every sports broadcast is inundated with advertising. Perhaps the event itself is named after a corporation. Often […]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ESPN is in talks with the NFL Network to carry some NFL Network programming on its ESPN Classic channel. The NFL is at war with Comcast and other cable carriers over financial terms and placement of the network on the cable systems. The NFL wants their network on […]

Actor Romany Malco (“40-year-old Virgin,” among others) has a way to improve pro hockey’s image and visibility — feature all the hot players. He gave an interview to Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. “I don’t know if I’m going to get myself in trouble here, but I’m going to throw it out there anyway. I […]

Soccer stud David Beckham likes it big and on top. His Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer sits atop the Western Conference, a position Beckham likes, according to his blog. And he towers above adoring fans in a billboard plastered across Macy’s in San Francisco’s Union Square that will soon be coming to cities […]

The oddsmakers hit the nail on the head as the favored Sydney Convicts won the Bingham Cup rugby championship with a decisive run through the tournament. The Convicts beat the Kings Cross Steelers of London, 18-3, in the finale of the event in Dublin, Ireland. They ended the tournament unbeaten at 6-0 and outscored their […]

That would be me. When I got notification last year that I won tickets to the Saturday and Sunday sessions of the U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, I was ecstatic. Finally, I’d get within 10 feet of Padraig Harrington! So, there I was, last Saturday morning, waiting in the stands at the first hole for […]

I’m going to be on a panel tonight (Wed., July 18) discussing 25 years of gay & lesbian sports. It’s going to be at the Gay & Lesbian Center on 13th Street in Manhattan tonight, 6pm-8pm. If you’re in town, stop by – RSVP info is after the break. -Cyd Zeigler jr. I’m going to […]

Tiger Woods has been lauded for several years now as possibly the greatest golfer of all time. He’s won Athlete of the Year awards. He’s No. 2 on the all-time list for Majors titles. But what he did this past weekend brought him from sports hero status to Sports Legend status. His victory in the […]

From Gay.com comes a nice story and gallery of Greg DeStephen, an All-American diver at the University of Missouri. His coming out story mirrored many we have written about, and despite support in high school, the initial reactions of his Mizzou teammates were less than positive. “It was uncomfortable,” Greg says. “A lot of the […]

I did not watch a second of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, but recorded it. After seeing that the Boston Celtics crushed the Los Angeles Lakers, 131-92, I figured I just saved myself two-plus hours. The Celtics won the series, 4-2, and the 39-point margin is the largest ever in a series-clinching NBA Finals […]