Month: November 2010

My friend Evan Brody, a doctoral student at the USC School of Communication, is doing some research into getting a better understanding of why people choose to participate in recreational sports. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and is anonymous. It would be great if a lot of you took the time take […]

New York Jets cornerback Antonio Cromartie has posed for a photo for the NoH8 campaign. NoH8 is designed to raise awareness of gay rights and features its subjects with masking tape over their mouths. Cromartie, who formerly played for the San Diego Chargers, is the latest athlete to do such a photo and the first […]

Another university has taken up the fight against homophobia in sport. Athletes and sports department staff of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, will march in the school’s Pride Parade this afternoon fresh off the school’s lacrosse national championship on Sunday (right). The department also partnered with the Queer Students Community Centre (QSCC) to organize “Positive […]

Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder won’t be joining MENSA any time soon. Three years ago, before the Dolphins headed to London for a game, he said he had no idea where London was and thought it was a country. He might have topped himself Sunday when he confused Helen Keller with Anne Frank in a […]

Good luck trying to figure out who the best team is after the Pats lose by 20; Colts continue to get injured; Cowboys collapse could mean the end of Wade; a rant involving spitting and Anne Frank; hot player of the week. By Jim Buzinski How I saw Week 9 in the NFL: Here we […]

It is all but certain that there will be a new BCS champion in college football after Alabama fell to LSU, 24-21. It is Alabama’s second loss, all but eliminating them from title contention. The Tide's loss was good news for teams like Boise State and TCU, "non-automatic qualifiers." Both are still unbeaten (TCU crushed […]

I am not making this up — Australian rugby player Joel Monaghan is facing dismissal from the National Rugby League after a photo surfaced of him allowing a dog to perform oral sex on him. From the Canberra Times: Disgraced Canberra Raider Joel Monaghan is clinging to his NRL career after a photograph of him […]

The media attention for Kye Allums’ transition on a women’s basketball team has been so strong that the school held a special press conference to talk to the media…featuring Allums, the coach of the team, and a team captain. The Associated Press was there and did a great job with the highlights, and they even […]

When I started talking to Kye Allums last spring, I told him I wanted our story about his gender transition on a college basketball team to come out many weeks before his first game so that the media reaction wouldn’t distract him from playing. For various reasons, the story got pushed to Nov. 1, just […]

Our friend Brent, an awesome photographer, went to West Hollywood for Halloween and came back with these great shots of guys dressed in all manner of sports gear (most dressed in hardly anything at all). Among them were boxers, wrestlers, a Lane Kiffin clone, a Brian Wilson beard and some guy in full-body paint looking […]

I had the pleasure of getting an advance screening out a new documentary, “Out. The Glenn Burke Story.” My review is here (I call it a must-see). Burke was a Major League Baseball player with the Dodgers and Athletics, who was widely known while playing as being gay. The documentary does a great job of […]

The documentary tells the tragic yet also heroic saga of Glenn Burke, a gay professional baseball player, who was a man ahead of his time. “Out. The Glenn Burke Story” uses interviews from friends and former teammates to tell Burke’s story. By Jim BuzinskiOutsports.com There is a lot of talk in sports about who will […]

When the Women’s Sports Foundation lost funding for the It Takes a Team project earlier this year, we were worried that the venerable Pat Griffin would be limited in the work she could do to combat homophobia in sports. Fear not. In addition to co-authoring a great report on transgender athletes, now comes news that […]

Total Nonstop Action wrestling has launched an anti-hate campaign aimed to stop bullying of youth. The issue has garnered national attention in recent weeks with the suicides of various bullied gay youth. They’re putting some of their biggest stars and TV time behind the campaign, marking a true commitment to the effort. While so many […]

This is classic: Shaquille O'Neal as Beyonce doing "Sweet Dreams," proving once and for all that he is one of the cooler athletes in memory: This is classic: Shaquille O'Neal as Beyonce doing "Sweet Dreams," proving once and for all that he is one of the cooler athletes in memory:

Members of the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League record an "It Gets Better" video: Members of the Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League record an "It Gets Better" video:

George Washington University released new statements today regarding the story Outsports broke about the school’s transgender guard Kye Allums. Statement from Robert Chernak, Senior Vice Provost and Senior Vice President for Student Academic and Support Services: "Student-athlete Kye Allums has decided to live as a male student and be referred to as a male. The […]

Today we’re thrilled to tell the story of Kye Allums, a guard for the George Washington University women’s basketball team. Earlier this year, Jenelle DeVits from Our Group took Outsports to task for not telling the stories of more women and racial minorities. I asked her to find us these stories and we’ll tell them. […]

Kye Allums, the NCAA’s first Div. 1 publicly transgender basketball player, is starting conversations never before held in the sport. By Cyd Zeigler Not many people noticed a slight change on the George Washington University website earlier this year. It concerned a player on the school’s women’s basketball team named Kay-Kay Allums. Just a couple […]

The San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers, 3-1, to win the World Series in five games. It was the Giants first World Series title since 1954 and first since moving to San Francisco in 1958. It was a dominant series for the Giants, who won the first two games easily and recorded two shutouts. […]