Month: August 2009

Has the world of sports journalism gotten any better for the women who have made a career there? Longtime sports journalist Susan Reimer thinks it may have improved (there was a time when she wasn’t allowed in the Orioles locker room), but there’s still a long way to go. A woman ran a seminal and […]

Members of Team Samurai American tennis player Sam Querrey won the L.A. Tennis Open on Sunday by defeating Karsten Ball. After the match, Querrey posed with a group of shirtless young men, ages 17 to 23, who cheered on his every move. They call themselves Team Samurai and are buds of Querrey from Thousand Oaks […]

Another report just in from my Aussie friend Neil Keele, who competed in several men's age-group swimming events and logged some PBs. (Congrats to Neil!) He was right there in the middle of the Outgames, yet he evidently got a less detailed picture on the bombing than we got from the media here in the […]

The future of the World Outgames depends on large amounts of public money. This could be a tough sell given the global recession and the large dropoff in attendance between 2006 and 2009. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com Now that the second World Outgames have ended in Copenhagen, the question of will there be a third is […]

Spanish pro tennis player Fernando Verdasco has been giving us plenty to look at lately. The latest is a hot little photo spread for Hola! magazine. The 25-year-old Spaniard is perfect model proportions: 6-foot-2 and 180 pounds. He’s won two clay-court titles in his time on the tour and this year made his first Grand […]

The University of Hawaii handed down a multi-pronged action against football coach Greg McMackin for his “faggot” comment at a Thursday press conference. Among other things, the coach is suspended without pay for 30 days, will have his salary reduced, and will participate in various pro-gay-tolerance initiatives. You can see all the details here. I […]