Month: July 2009

The recession has affected turnout and one team has an unusual fund-raising tool. Also, being a gay Danish team in a straight league, a man and his tattoo and funny nicknames. Related: Day 2 photo galleryCOPENHAGEN – The global recession has provided a backdrop to the 2009 World Outgames. Registration is way down from predicted […]

Gay Olympic silver medalist Mark Leduc has died at the age of 47. He won his Olympic medal for Canada in boxing in 1992. He was apparently found dead in a sauna, and the assumption is that he died of heat stroke: A strange way to go for someone who made his career knowing the […]

The Washington Post has an insightful article about why the WNBA’s Washington Mystics don’t have a KissCam that so many NBA and other WNBA teams have implemented. The kiss cams generally show two people sitting next to each other and the crowd urges them to kiss. The reason the Mystics don’t do it: They don’t […]

Opening Ceremony dazzles, as do two beach volleyball players in skirts. Three gays attacked in town center. Related: Day 1 and Opening photos. COPENHAGEN — A couple of Thai players wearing matching skirts and halter tops won the hearts of the crowd and also won the gold medal in one of the divisions of beach […]

By Ross FormanOutsports.comCOPENHAGEN – The stage is set for second World Outgames to begin here Saturday night. Well, not completely. The stage for the Opening Ceremony, which actually is a catwalk in the middle of downtown Copenhagen, was still under construction on Friday. With a huge jumbotron TV and some rainbow flags, you know this […]

From the Sporting News, via Deadspin, comes this profile of Georgia QB Joe Cox answering some questions (he likes Greek chicken wings and Halle Berry) and wearing a very tight uniform that leaves little to the imagination. Photo below not necessarily safe for work even though it appears in a mainstream pub: From the Sporting […]

I know, it's been longer than a week, but as I believe I've said before, I procrastinate. Plus, I'm occasionally lazy. Sue me. 😈 At any rate, the Portland Trail Blazers' official Twitter feed is featuring updates from Team USA's minicamp in Las Vegas, where the Blazers' Greg Oden is one of 23 participants. Today, […]

The Hurley U.S. Open of Surfing is going on in Huntington Beach, Calif., this weekend and contributing photographer Brent sent us a couple of New Zealand surfer Richard Christie. Christie is 20, 6-1 and 182 pounds, and is a hot newcomer on the circuit. He described his surfing strength as "having the ability to surf […]

Matthew Mitcham Matthew Mitcham misfired on his final dive and finished out of the medals in the 10-meter platform event at the FINA world swimming and diving championships in Rome. This was the same event where the openly gay Aussie shocked the world last year at the Olympics by winning the gold with a sensational […]

There’s a great innaugural event taking place in New York next month: The Great South Bay Swim. It’s an open-water swim from Sayville to Fire Island Pines and it’s to benefit the Stonewall Foundation, a group that seeks to “better” the gay community. The swim is the brainchild of Michael Holtz (right), a former collegiate […]

Finally, the tape that Nike and LeBron James did not want you to see: Xavier’s Jordan Crawford dunks on James at the recent LeBron James Skills Academy. Soon after the dunk, it came out that Nike confiscated video of the event from a cameraman, claiming such video was unauthorized. This cameraman said a Nike rep […]

Outsports’ hetero % Via Deadspin I came across this silly yet addicting application from Stockholm Pride that analyzes a Twitter name and determines how heterosexual the person is based on certain keywords in their feeds. At least in Outsports' case, it's pretty accurate — we are listed as being 1% hetero. I was a bit […]

Two drag queens are apparently at the heart of an investigation into the murder of two ‘midget’ wrestlers in Mexico. According to Australia’s Daily Telegraph: Brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, known as Parkita and Espectrito II, were found dead in a hotel room last month. Police had first said they were looking for two hookers, […]

Oh boy. First the defending Super Bowl champion quarterback appeared at the ESPYs looking like he’s put on 50 pounds. Now, Ben Roethlisberger has been named the defendent in a sexual assault civil suit brought by Andrea McNulty, an employee at Harrah’s in Reno, Nev. Roethlisberger’s lawyer denied the accusation and pointed out that no […]

Without checking elsewhere, how many of you know who Erin Andrews is and why her story is all over the blogosphere and has spilled into the mainstream media? Give up? Keep reading. Without checking elsewhere, how many of you know who Erin Andrews is and why her story is all over the blogosphere and has […]

The Second World Outgames kick off this Saturday in Copenhagen, Denmark, this Saturday, July 25. Our very own Jim Buzinski will be there covering the event with news and notes and photo galleries of all the sports. If you’re going to be in Copenhagen, be sure to track Jim down and say hi! And if […]

Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times reviews the first two episodes of Terrell Owens’ reality show on VH1 thats airs tonight. It’s a pan, but McNamara did take note of Owens’ best asset — his body. Terrell Owens is one beautiful man and he knows it, oh, Lord, he knows it … Why else […]

I’ve been surprised to see some commentators and writers talk about 2009 British Open champ Stewart Cink (right) as a “villain” because he beat Tom Watson in a playoff to win the Claret Jug. From what I saw, Cink didn’t steal the title from Watson, the latter simply handed it to the younger Cink. I […]

It’s been two years since Michael Vick’s reputation was destroyed by his involvement in the torture and murder of dogs. Today he was released from Federal prison and he’s a free man. The question now for the NFL is, does the ex-convict “deserve” a second chance? I have a problem with the word "deserve." Despite […]

Brian Thornton of Spangle, a gay magazine in Cleveland, has done a great job in analyzing the three bidding cities for the 2014 Gay Games — Boston, Cleveland and Washington DC. The winner will be chosen in September and Thornton’s conclusion is that it’s wide open. He also offers advice to all three bidding cities: […]