Month: January 2010

Details magazine has a fantastic story about a former high school quarterback who is now a lesbian filmmaker. Kimberly Reed was Paul McKerrow in high school: Starting quarterback and valedictorian in Helena, Montana. Beneath the surface of Paul's seemingly placid Rocky Mountain life was the feeling that, though he was attracted to girls, he wasn't […]

TMZ has announced it will launch a new sports-focused gossip blog following the travails of athletes the way it stalks Lindsay Lohan now. It’s not a big surprise, given TMZ was wall-to-wall Tiger Woods for weeks around the holidays. Some are wondering what effect this could have on closeted athletes. Right now, the sports media […]

By Cyd Zeigler An attorney for Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli has sent cease-and-desist letters to some Web sites that have published the allegations of a man who claims to have had a sexual relationship with Mughelli.Outsports has obtained a copy of the letter sent to Mediaoutrage.com by Phaedra Parks, an Atlanta-based attorney specializing in […]

Chargers screw up royally in upset loss to Jets, while the other three favorites cruise. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How saw the divisional round of the playoffs: I don’t have a whole lot to say about three lopsided games this weekend (Saints and Vikings each won by 31, while the Colts won by 17), but for […]

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, have filmed a 30-second ad for Focus on the Family that is set to air during the Super Bowl. Focus on the Family is antigay and gave $727,000 to support the passage of the antigay marriage Prop. 8 in California in 2008. Reports the Orlando […]

The NFL four divisional playoff games are this weekend and there will be no shortage of players to watch. I have chosen some from each of the four games: Cardinals and Saints; Ravens at Colts; Cowboys at Vikings and Jets at Chargers. Big thanks to Sportinlife, who clued me in on a couple of them. […]

In case you were wondering, ESPN has confirmed that Johnny Weir is a Real Man. I guess maybe some people were wondering, since the figure skater dragged reporter Jim Caple (and yes, I’m sure it was ESPN’s idea, but that’s not how it’s played) for a mani-pedi during his interview with Weir for a “who-to-watch” […]

Pia Sundage, the first non-American to coach the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team, is now also the first openly gay coach of the team. Sundage, who is Swedish, came out during an interview with TV host Lasse Bengtsson on Swedish TV: There has been no problem for me to be openly gay as head coach in […]

Rick Reilly has written a fantastic column for ESPN The Magazine bidding farewell to his friends Mike Penner and Christine Daniels. Penner was the LA Times sportswriter who transitioned famously to Daniels, who then transitioned quietly back to Penner. In November Penner took his life, and it left Reilly feeling like he lost two friends. […]

A Brewers fan blog called Miller Park Drunk has a great entry about “straight” guys who secretly admire the good looks of their favorite ballclub’s players. It’s that age-old question, “Bro, if you had to have sex with a Milwaukee brewer, who would it be, dude?” I have a question for the male readers of […]

Every couple months I start typing an address in my email and Mark Bingham’s name comes up. It’s been over eight years since I was last able to send him a message, but I can’t bring myself to delete the address. I was honored to be able to attend the Bingham Cup in 2006 when […]

Keifer Sutherland appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman last night in a dress (and an ugly one at that; looked more like window curtains). When Letterman asked him “wassup with the dress?” Sutherland admitted he put a little too much faith in Tom Brady: I lost a bet. Over the weekend, I was […]

The news out of Haiti following a 7.0 earthquake is hard to imagine — reports of tens of thousands dead and the capital Port-au-Prince rendered all but uninhabitable (details on how to donate below). One NFL player with roots to the island is trying to raise awareness and money to help those in need. “We […]

Even though the Los Angeles Dodgeball Society has always had Gay & Lesbian players and teams, some wanted to expand further into local gay communities and help create an atmosphere of competition and fun. Now Jake Mason has created a West Hollywood dodgeball league that is primarily made up of gay and lesbian players. In […]

Robert Skvarla, Inside Pulse‘s wrestling columnist, has written a fantastic piece about homophobia in wrestling. His premise: The use of stereotypes in entertainment is cheap and offensive, and wrestling should look long and hard at the constant labeling of gay characters as stereotypical heels. These stereotypes in some way all confirm society's worst views on […]

Despite the cries of a few people who read Outsports, “pictures of attractive athletes” was the second-most requested item in our start-of-the-year survey; Plus, stories and blog posts about or containing pictures of attractive, fit men are our most-read pieces on the site. So while we are aiming in the coming days and weeks to […]

I was so happy to see the Boston gay football league‘s dance video did finally end up on Ellen. It’s great exposure for gay athletes to be shown having fun on one of daytime’s most popular shows. On the flip side, it’s pretty disappointing that Ellen didn’t mention it’s a GAY flag football league! She […]

After the 2006 Outgames in Montreal lost millions of dollars, it’s great to see the revamped Outgames made a profit last year. From GLISA’s press release: The board of directors of the Gay and Lesbian International Sports Association (GLISA) is proud to announce that the Copenhagen 2009 Outgames has declared a profit of DKK 1.2 […]

We were thrilled to find out we’ve been nominated for GLAAD’s Outstanding Digital Journalism Article award for our ground-breaking article, “Former college football captain was openly gay.” The article chronicles the story of Brian Sims, the defensive tackle who came out to his Bloomsburg University football team in 2000. Since the release of the article […]

The NCAA National Convention is underway in Atlanta. On Thursday morning they’ll host an educational session from 9:30-11am called “Cross-Campus Engagement in Ensuring the Fair Treatment of LGBT Student-Athletes: Issues and Resources.” Panelists include It Takes a Team’s Pat Griffin; NCLR’s Helen Carroll; GLAAD’s Ted Rybka; Mt. Holyoke College’s Laurie Priest; and Rutgers’ Mark Schuster. […]