Month: January 2010

It seems in the last year I’ve been rolling my eyes more and more at blunders and dumb mistakes made by sports commentators. We’ll highlight some of the gems we find here. We’d also love to hear about some that you stumble on. This little gem came from Phil Simms calling the Broncos-Eagles game a […]

Tiger Woods, one of the greatest golfers of all time, allegedly made a series of fascinating quips about lesbians, gays and sex.

A bronze sculpture of a nude hockey player taking a slap shot, that fuses the modern with the ancient, will greet visitors to the gay meeting place at the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Gay Whistler, which will sponsor PRIDE house at the ski resort during the Games, secured government grant money for "Slapshotolus," a […]

Professional soccer player Jesus Datolo is under fire from the president of his team for posing in his underwear in Argentinian gay magazine Romeo Mag. Napoli team president Aurelio De Laurentis is said to be considering sanctions against the player for his revealing spread. Oh yes, the Europeans (Napoli is an Italian team) are soooo […]

We’ve said over and over that our position on Johnny Weir is that he’s an openly gay man. And in conversations with Johnny, he hasn’t said we’re wrong. Thanks to an ESPN The Magazine article on Johnny Weir, Deadspin starts a new series in which they document “the sports media’s pained efforts to call the […]

Thanks to Brendan Burke, it seems the folks at Westboro Baptist Church now have the sport of hockey in their crosshairs. The “God Hates Fags” clan is infamous for protesting anything or anyone they believe has any connection to homosexuality. Now that the NHL has a general manager with a gay son, they have another […]

Over the holidays I got to watch a reality show most definitely worth watching, and with a couple lead characters truly worth cheering for. 650-Pound Virgin features David Smith who was, just a couple years ago, 650 pounds. While people that large are told their only hope is stomach surgery, David did it by changing […]

Forget the concept of ‘momentum;’ wild card picks, Welker injury huge for Patriots, hot player of the week. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com How I saw Week 17 of the NFL: Before I delve into my playoff picks, I wanted to write about the biggest myth concerning the playoffs — that of "momentum." It doesn't exist any […]

We featured several dozen athletes in our Weekend Hot Jock series this year, so we figured we’d start the new year with a recap of the best of 2009. Maybe the top standout was Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker. See other top picks after the jump… We featured several dozen athletes in our Weekend Hot […]

I like hockey, but don’t watch much until the NHL playoffs. But for the past three years, I’ve spent part of New Year’s Day watching the Winter Classic, games played outdoors. It’s a great concept and much more compelling than watching just another bowl game. This year's was played at Fenway Park and saw the […]