Month: July 2008

French swimmer Alain Bernard, a medal favorite in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle events. He has one of the best bodies I have ever seen on a swimmer (his competitors call him the "Horse.") See why after the jump. Photo: French swimmer Alain Bernard, a medal favorite in the 50- and 100-meter freestyle events. He […]

He’s got his own reality TV show, he’s a teen heartthrob, and now he’s gracing the cover of ESPN The Magazine. Ryan Sheckler is one of the very few X-Games athletes (he’s a skateboarder) who have been able to make the leap from obscurity to near-super-stardom. It’s easy to tell why. He’s super cute, has […]

U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm (with Morgan, half of the Hamm brothers) won’t be going to the Olympics to defend his all-around gold medal, thanks to a broken right hand and a rotator cuff injury. It’s always a shame to see nice guys – and in this case a gay-friendly athlete – unable to go in […]

Until photographer and Outsports reader Martin Kennedy e-mailed, I had never heard of the sport of canoe polo. Yep, it’s basically polo played in the water. What’s amazing is the swimming horses they use. Well, they use kayaks instead of ponies, but the latter would certainly make the game more enjoyable to watch, though I […]

Nineteenth in a series. Broadcast: St. Louis Cardinals on FSN Midwest, Milwaukee at Cardinals, 7/24/08; Announcers: Dan McLaughlin (play-by-play), Al Hrabosky (analyst) With one out in the top of the 9th inning of this game, Cardinals pitcher Ryan Franklin was named the “Budweiser Great Player of the Game.” At that moment, Franklin was on the […]

Jim B. was joking with me the other day that I could post whatever I wanted to about the Olympics, but to lay off the pictures of British equestrians. Well, I never! Realizing that I knew squat about the equestrian competition, I took a poke around some websites and found out that, as I expected, […]

We've been hearing for years about the smog dangers in Beijing. The Chinese have reportedly been shutting down factories and limiting car use for months to stave off the international embarrassment of having the IOC postpone events due to smog. With under two weeks left before the Opening Ceremonies, reports are coming in that on […]

How the Olympics, set for China, are a little like a gay pride parade. By Ryan Quinn Outsports.com The Olympic Games are a uniquely human phenomenon — an extravagant exercise in cultural diversity, commerce, politics, road construction, and the idealistic premise of sport: let the best man win. But an unusual suspense marks the days […]

Our terrific contributing photographer Finneye shot the recent Hypo decathlon meet in Austria. We have already posted one gallery and a second is coming this week. Here is a preview shot, with van Alphen of Belgium on the right:

Some gay bloggers (and activists) huffed and puffed and Nike backed down. A portion of its Hypderdunk campaign is no more. On Friday, the company dropped three print and billboard pieces of the campaign, a move coming just days after intense criticism and charges of homophobia surfaced on several gay blogs. Nike’s three-paragraph statement on […]

The Hamm brothers certainly gained a lot of attention in Athens in 2004, but this time around it will likely be the Lopez taekwondo trio the press will latch onto. The elder statesman of the bunch is Steven Lopez (left), who is a two-time gold medallist; Mark and Diana are making their Olympic debuts this […]

We’ve been excitedly awaiting first word about Logo’s upcoming series Shirts & Skins, and we’ve finally got it. Apparently, the first couple of episodes have been delivered and word is that it’s really good. Our big worry has been that Logo would drive the show to focus too much on the skin aspect of the […]

Oh, to be Tom Brady. The NFL’s 31-year-old MVP of last season and three-time Super Bowl winner has a super model for a girlfriend, more money than he’ll ever need and he’s a stud (though he did lose his off-season parking space at Gillette Stadium). He’s also got a 3,000-square-foot condo in New York’s Time […]

Re the recent brutal gang-rape and slaying of South African player Eudy Simelane, Outsports reader Wayne Jones emailed me from South Africa to add: “As you mentioned, there have been other lesbian murders (in black townships/ghettos) where the motive has been simply because the women were gay. Township women don’t have it easy here: last […]

Domestic partners sue San Diego Mesa College for gender and sexual orientation discrimination By Cyd Zeigler jr. The National Center for Lesbian Rights on Thursday filed a lawsuit in California State Court on behalf of two lesbian coaches, Lorri Sulpizio and Cathy Bass, who were terminated in April 2007 as women’s basketball coaches at San […]

From the “We Can’t Make This Up” file: The U.S. Olympic Committee sent a cease-and-desist letter to the gay group The Northwest Bears after they called their summer campout the ‘Kamp Kodiak 2008 Olympic Village.’ The USOC owns all the trademarks, rights and imagry surrounding the Olympics and did not take kindly to a group […]

The Patrick/Duno dust-up, followed by the Pierson/Parker dust-up, reminds us that it was male athletes, not females, who filed the first copyright on temper fests during competition. Call it the dark side of sports if you will…or the twilight of sportsmanship. But a lot of fans live for it, especially when the races or the […]

Does anyone remember seeing the pictures of a rambunctious (read: bratty) 7-year old Andrew Giuliani almost ruining his father’s inauguration as mayor of New York City in 1994? Well in the time between then and now, Andrew has focused all that energy into becoming a golfer, and a pretty good one at that. However, it […]

"I think our plans are fairly good," Outgames marketing director says Related: Outgames money troubles By Ross FormanOutsports.com The Countdown to Copenhagen is at a milestone marker. Opening ceremonies for the second World Outgames are one year away, scheduled for July 25, 2009, as the capital of Denmark prepares for what likely will be the […]

Ran across this cool little article (video after jump) about a high school football coach who had less than 1,000 students enrolled in his high school and was facing schools with 2,000 or more enrolled. In an attempt to combat the larger schools on the field, Kurt Bryan, head football coach of the Piedmont Highlanders […]