Month: October 2009

Who’s the cute guy with the lip gloss who accompanied Peyton Manning to the Oklahoma-Texas game on Saturday? Just askin’… Complete picture after the jump. Who’s the cute guy with the lip gloss who accompanied Peyton Manning to the Oklahoma-Texas game on Saturday? Just askin’… Complete picture after the jump.

The annual Red River Shootout is this Saturday in Dallas between Oklahoma and Texas. All eyes will be on UT quarterback Colt McCoy (#12) and his receiver/BFF Jordan Shipley (#8). You’ll hear how the two of them are roommates, how their dads were college roomies at Abilene Christian, how they share the same Christian values. […]

Remember in elementary school when you learned that you have to dribble a basketball to run with it? Well the NBA has changed all that. This season they are allowing players to take two full steps with the basketball before coming to a stop. It’s believed that this is the first time any major basketball […]

Last week French Muslim soccer team Creteil Bebel refused to play a league match against Paris Foot Gay (right). Earlier this week, they decided to play the game. Now, the Muslim team has been expelled from the league permanently for refusing to play against another team in the league based on discriminatory reasons. According to […]

The blog Andrey’s World gave a flash back to the picture book Athlete/Warrior this week, so we will too. It’s from the photographer duo Anderson & Low and features gorgeous black & white images of student-athletes at our country’s top military universities. This one is just a sample, and there’s another after the jump. Stunning […]

What do high school football parents, players and administrators think of gay people? Exhibit No. 692 comes to us from Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo. It seems two players got into a little shoving match at practice recently. As penance, the coach made them run a lap holding hands. Cute, right? They weren’t getting […]

San Diego Bolts finish second; Silicon Valley Crash take Consolation title The Los Angeles Motion became the second team to win three Gay Bowl championships at Gay Bowl IX in Washington, D.C. The Motion defeated the San Diego Bolts in what some have called the greatest Gay Bowl championship game ever. Los Angeles took a […]

Last week ESPN columnist LZ Granderson (right) shared some insights into his conversations with closeted professional athletes. One athlete in particular got the bulk of his keyboard’s attention: A pro athlete who, for the first time in Granderson’s career, told LZ that he’ll think about coming out. The impetus? The athlete has met someone he’s […]

With all the kerfuffle over the reported bid by Rush Limbaugh to become a minority owner of the St. Louis Rams, one thing has gotten lost — his political views would fit in well with the current owners of the 32 teams. Robert Schlesinger in U.S. News writes that NFL stands for “Not For Liberals.” […]

Rugby players love to get naked, and no rugby players love to get naked more than the Sheffield Hallam University Rugby Football Club. They’ve been putting out naked DVDs and calendars for years, and it’s become quite a fundraising tool for them. Now they’re gearing up for their 2010 edition with new guys and new […]

Ricardo Arona Quinn Wolfe goes to my gym in the Silver Lake section of L.A. Quinn and I somehow got on the topic of how hot some Mixed Martial Artists are. He started giving me his list, then added, "But I'm straight. Will that hurt my credibility?" It will only enhance it, I said, giving […]

This might be the most excruciating way to possibly lose a football game. I can't think of a worse one I've ever seen, though the commentators said something about an Iowa-Northern Iowa game. To make the play of the year and then to forget one crucial detail…I feel so bad for the white team and […]

Last week we reported on a Muslim soccer group in France that refuse to play a gay team in their league. Their refusal was based on their “principles.” Word comes now that the group has changed its mind and they will play the gay group. The Muslim team’s director said their initial refusal wasn’t based […]

Cris Carter was spewing his infinite wisdom on ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown tonight about new New York Jet Braylon Edwards. Carter’s brilliant analysis included his cliche advice to the wide receiver: Choose whether you’re an NFL player or a model, because you can’t be both. The other chuckleheads nodded in agreement as though he said […]

Jim and I were both away for a few days, as we had said, at Gay Bowl IX in Washington DC this weekend. It was a magical weekend as our Los Angeles Motion team beat the San Diego Bolts in the championship game, 31-30! With two plays left, the Bolts got within 1 point and […]

According to the AP, the South African Olympic committee is finally investigating the Caster Semenya case. Questions about the runner's gender, and how SA officials handled a "developing situation" prior to the IAAF world championships in Berlin, have continued to emerge in the SA press. The hearings began last Friday and are sure to produce […]

The two newest additions to the sports lineups of the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics were announced on Friday: Rugby and Golf. IOC President Jacques Rogge said, “Both golf and rugby are very popular sports with global appeal and a strong ethic. They will be great additions to the Games.” This will be the first time […]

Gym Sportsbar in West Hollywood opened Friday night to a packed house: When the doors opened to the general public at 9pm, the bar was already at capacity. The bar itself has a very different feel from the New York establishment: It’s newer and sleaker; Instead of the brick of New York, it features a […]

Washington DC is the place to be this weekend, with the National Equality March and Gay Bowl 9 both taking place! Both Jim and I will be there, playing in the Gay Bowl for the Los Angeles Motion: It's the first time since 2004 that we played together. What other Outsporters are going to be […]

A Paris Foot Gay player at a Pride event. A soccer club composed of Muslims refused to play a scheduled league game this week against a gay-oriented team from Paris, saying it would clash with its religious beliefs, the gay French site Tetu reports. (The article is available only in French, but online translators and […]