Month: July 2009

Today is the last day of racing at the storied racetrack built in a bean field in 1938 by movie mogul Jack Warner. A developer plans to raze the complex and build a low-income housing project and mall. Victim of the recession's impact on sports, Hollywood Park isn't going quietly. Noisy allegations are being made […]

This week’s episode of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List featured out former MLB player Billy Bean in his now long-time career of real estate agent. In between hobnobbing with Rosie O’Donnell and Gloria Estefan, Bean showed Griffin some incredibly expensive real estate in Miami. The climax of the episode came when Griffin made […]

Our coverage of the 2009 World Outgames in Copenhagen, July 25-Aug. 1: Photo Gallery archive: –Day 5: A wide world of sports–Day 4: Men in swimsuits and more–Day 3: Soccer players strip, plus track and field –Day 2: Swimming and more–Day 1 and Opening photo gallery Aug. 5, 2009Time to end gay sports medal inflationHTML […]

Our terrific contributing photographer Trackpic shot the recent European Athletics under 23 Championships in Lithuania. We will be posting a complete gallery soon but here is a sample. It is the French 4 x 100m relay team celebrating their silver medal: Back to Picture This.

ABC execs must be reaching for the Pepto-Bismol after seeing Tiger Woods stink up up the course at Turnberry Scotland at the British Open and miss the cut for only the second time in a major. Any event minus the game’s best player is no-see TV. Unless 59-year-old Tom Watson (a co-leader after two rounds) […]

He was supposed to be the man who ignited a desire in Americans to watch soccer. Instead, fans of the game are now booing him as he takes the field. That’s what happened last night as a crowd of 23,000 at the Meadowlands let Beckham know they didn’t appreciate his apparent lack of commitment to […]

Yesterday, as I listened to President Obama's rousing speech at the NAACP convention, I was reminded that a pioneering gay activist's adoptive mother was a charter member of the NAACP. The organization is celebrating its centennial of historic activity in American civil rights. Bayard Rustin's mother Julia Rustin, a black Quaker, distinguished herself for her […]

A high- or low-light for gay boxing? Out magazine again dips a toe into sports with this month's article about gay boxers in Manhattan, "Cinderella Men." There is some good color on the atmosphere of the featured Down Low boxing gym in New York and the boxers who venture there. There is also lots of […]

French decathlete Romain Barras has been an Outsports favorite since his webmaster asked permission to run some of our photos of Barras on his website. Unlike many jocks, Barras (29, 6-4 and 187 pounds) doesn’t run away from the gays. In fact, he is flattered to be considered hot since we have such good taste […]

Freddie Stroma is an actor/model who appears in the new Harry Potter movie. Luckily for us, he’s also a gymnast, and he takes to the rings in a new underwear campaign for Acne (why didn’t they just call it “STD” or “Fat Ass”?) underwear. A couple videos from the sexy campaign after the jump. Freddie […]

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo shows a nice sense of humor in this online ad for Starter where he discusses the 50,000 products he endorses, including protein pickles. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo shows a nice sense of humor in this online ad for Starter where he discusses the 50,000 products he endorses, including protein […]

The name Richard Jefferson has been tossed around for years as a possible gay man in pro sports. MediaTakeOut breathed life in the rumors in 2006 when they said a black New Jersey Nets player was in a relationship with a man (Jefferson was with the Nets at the time). So when I read that […]

The Beckhams are at it again, stripping down to their underwear for a new campaign from Emporio Armani. Next up is a reported Armani ad with Becks and Angelina Jolie, though Beckham says he wouldn’t do it because he’s married. Behind-the-scenes video after the jump. The Beckhams are at it again, stripping down to their […]

French tennis player Richard Gasquet was given the go-ahead to resume his career after being suspended 75 days for testing positive for cocaine use. The International Tennis Federation bought his argument that the cocaine entered his system after he kissed a woman at a Miami nightclub. Gasquet told the tribunal that he kissed a woman, […]

America’s great love affair is over. Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has broken up with Jessica Simpson, thereby eliminating the final excuse Romo has for sucking late in the season. “She loves Tony,” a source told People. “But it’s been difficult lately. He’s busy with his career and she’s getting ready to shoot her show […]

Leave it to Fox Sports to screw up what should be the easiest shot in baseball: The ceremonial first pitch. But that’s just what the bozos did at tonight’s All-Star Game in St. Louis, when we saw President Obama, clad in a Chicago White Sox jacket, throw the first pitch. Except, we never saw the […]

The T.O. Show is making it’s fourth NFL stop in Buffalo this season, and VH1 is bringing it to your home starting July 20. Until then, they’re unleashing a campaign featuring the well-built wide receiver naked on a football field. It caught my eye as I was driving down La Cienega Blvd. here in L.A. […]

Recognize these QBs? Hint: Only one was one of SI’s ‘franchise quarterbacks’ in 2005. Watching NFL Live lately, there's been lots of talk about "franchise quarterbacks." They don't have one in Minnesota, they drafted one in New York, one just died in Tennessee, and they still don't know if they have one in Oakland. The […]

Logan Campbell, a New Zealand taekwondo athlete, figures he needs to raise $300,000 to compete in the 2012 Olympics, so he’s opened a brothel with his 20-year-old business partner. “When people think of a pimp they think of a guy standing around on a street corner with gold chains,” he told the Sunday Star Times. […]

Lance Armstrong, cylcing’s combination of Brett Favre, Barry Bonds and Cal Ripken, is in third place after the ninth stage of the Tour de France, just 8 seconds behind the leader. You’ll remember that Armstrong retired over 3 years ago amidst accusations that he was taking performance-enhancing drugs. What if he wins the race? He’s […]