Month: June 2009

Good morning fellow Outsportsters. During the overnight hours, Cleveland and Phoenix worked out a mega-deal. Shaquille O’Neal has been traded by Phoenix to the Cavaliers in exchange for Sasha Pavlovic and Ben Wallace. This is a straight-up salary dump for the Suns, Pavlovic is probably getting cut within the month and Ben Wallace has made […]

Toronto jocks at the 2006 Outgames. The second Outgames starts a month from today in Copenhagen, with Opening Ceremonies on July 25. The multisport event will be a cozy affair, with about half the athletes of the 2006 edition in Montreal and far fewer than Copenhagen organizers had hoped for. The number of registered athletes […]

How much are the attitudes of people in sports and the general society toward gay people changing? The gay Turkish soccer referee who was outed and fired by the Turkish football federation, Halil Ibrahim Dincdag, is fighting back and has found a groundswell of support, all thanks to the fact that he didn’t hide but […]

The 2009 World Outgames kick off with the Opening Ceremony in Copenhagen on Saturday, July 25. As the clock ticks down on training for the anticipated 5,000 sporting participants, writer Ross Forman This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it is profiling Outgames athletes in a continuing series. […]

Oguchi Onyewe of the U.S. This has to be one of the bigger sports upsets in a while: The U.S. men's soccer team beat Spain, 2-0, to reach the finals of the Confederation Cup in South Africa. How dominant had Spain been? It was the first defeat in 35 internationals for the European champions, a […]

Being down the street from Nike world headquarters has its perks … and apparently its drawbacks. The ever-molting Oregon Ducks have again changed their football uniforms. This season they will have five different jerseys that they will wear: Black, green, yellow and two white. They’ve also thrown in some silver, for good measure. As opposed […]

Beefcake? What beefcake? The Village Voice's latest Pride issue features a piece by the indomitable Steve Weinstein about the golden age of beefcake. And with more and more athletes willing to strip down to their skivvies (or less), sports hold a growing role in that. Even the hyper-masculine world of professional sports has become a […]

Maria Sharapova’s road to recovery hit a major speed bump as she was knocked out of Wimbledon’s second round. The 24th seeded Russian glamazon, who lost out in the same round last year, was defeated by Argentine Gisela Dulko 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 and was the victim of 9 double faults, 27 errors, and a determined […]

San Francisco 49ers tight end Vernon Davis might have the best physique in the NFL — tall, sculpted, all muscle. But he “hates that they don’t have enough high fashion designers for guys with my build.” It seems like an odd complaint until you realize that Davis is very much into clothes and looking good […]

Three Dallas Cowboy offensive lineman have signed a deal to put out a heavy metal album. Good think the ‘Boys got rid of T.O. and all of those distractions!! San Antonio Spurs trade three players (including Bruce Bowen) for Milwaukee’s Richard Jefferson. I’m just gonna steal Fark’s headline for this one because it’s so perfect: […]

European athletes continue to give us plenty to look at. The latest are some elite Italian swimmers who are the featured models for a new Dolce & Gabbana underwear campaign. Pictures after the jump. European athletes continue to give us plenty to look at. The latest are some elite Italian swimmers who are the featured […]

The USTA’s Missouri Valley magazine CrossCourt has a new story up about the Kansas City gay tennis group, the Kansas City Tennis Alliance. They even put the group on the cover of the magazine with the headline: Breaking Barriers, A KC Group Shares the Love. The magazine features tennis for all ages and all types, […]

Training Rules producer and director Dee Mosbacher wrote a short piece about how homophobia still rules in sports. In it she talks about the prevalence of homophobia in women’s sports despite the advances that society and some in sports have made. She lays out succinctly the biggest difference between gay men and lesbians playing elite […]

Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto, the team’s best hitter, has been on the disabled list since May 30 with what the team has termed “stress-related issues.” The team and Votto have been vague about what is causing his stress, so that has kicked the rumor mill into high gear in Cincinnati. One popular conclusion? […]

Roger Federer made his Wimbledon Centre Court debut today in his usual flair (couldn't Nike get him a better bag this year?) for his match against Chinese Taipei's Yen-Hsun Lu and his quest for a sixth Championship and record-breaking 15th major. The 5-time champ was in solid form today disposing of his foe 7-5, 6-3, […]

Congratulations to Lucas Glover, who notched his second tour victory today that happened to come at the U.S. Open on one of the toughest courses around: Bethpage Black. His 4-under final score was enough to hold off Phil Mickelson (who has now finished second in the tournament more than anyone else) and David Duval, both […]

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo often appears wearing short shorts and bathing suits. While some call it a “fashion crime,” others are obviously flocking to it as stores report a recent spike in sales of short shorts. According to Reuters: British department stores group Debenhams (DEB.L) said on Thursday sales of skimpy shorts leapt over 117 […]

Miracle on the Pitch! The U.S. soccer team needed to beat Egypt by 3 goals and have Brazil beat World Cup champion Italy by at least three goals. They got both and move on to the Confed Cup semifinals. They play top-seeded Spain next. Today’s tea-leaves: Favre is joining the Vikings, as the team has […]

Update: per the information in Jim's comment below, the Eli Manning on Twitter is apparently a fake. This week, as a change of pace, the Sports Tweet of the Week presents…no, that's not true. To be honest, I didn't look once all week at AthleteTweets.com or WeFollow.com to see what our Twitterlicious sports personalities were […]

Variety reports that “Moneyball,” the Steven Soderbergh film starring Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane (not to be confused with openly gay former ballplayer Billy Bean) may be in trouble. The report says that Columbia Pictures has put the production in “limited turnaround” because studio head Amy Pascal felt the final draft […]