Month: March 2010

After we featured Purdue’s Chris Kramer, a reader suggested Duke guard Jordan Davidson. Love or hate the Dookies, you have to admit that Davidson looks great in a suit (below). Post some of your other NCAA hotties. After we featured Purdue’s Chris Kramer, a reader suggested Duke guard Jordan Davidson. Love or hate the Dookies, […]

As we did for the U.S.-Canada hockey game, we’re going to host an online chat during Day 1 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. We’ll be live for all the action: noon to midnight ET on Thursday. The chat is now LIVE after the jump. And be sure to enter our free bracket pool! As […]

Once again we will host an NCAA men's basketball tournament pool. The field of 65 is set, with Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Syracuse the four No. 1 seeds. You can sign up any time prior to the start of the first game Thursday. Once again we will host an NCAA men's basketball tournament pool. The […]

Tonight’s episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel features a segment called “The Big Switch,” about three transgender sportswriters: Christina Kahrl of Baseball Prospectus; Bobbie Dittmeier of MLB.com; and the late Christine Daniels of the Los Angeles Times. When they came out as transgender, they formed an unlikely sisterhood. And, as Gumbel says in the […]

The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament starts Thursday, and in addition to the great hoops action, it’s also an eye-candy feast. Let us know who some of your favorites are. I'll offer, via a reader, Purdue senior guard Chris Kramer: The NCAA men’s college basketball tournament starts Thursday, and in addition to the great hoops […]

It was big news when Tiger Woods announced that his first golf tournament since his scandal broke in November would be the Masters on April 8-11. One British bookie has already made Woods the 4-1 favorite to win.The Masters is as tightly controlled as an old Soviet politburo meeting, so Woods won’t be asked a […]

The Golden State Warriors held their first-ever gay night last week. Not only were there gay fans, but the Oakland-East Bay Gay Men’s Chorus sang the national anthem and Cheer San Francisco (incorrectly dubbed the “world’s only gay-identified cheerleading team” by the San Francisco Chronicle) performed at halftime. From the Chronicle: Although no public announcement […]

Outsports was well-represented at the GLAAD Awards in New York City Saturday night. While we didn’t win in the Outstanding Digital Journalism category in which we were nominated, we were very proud to be nominated with in such a strong category (with so many other sports-focused articles). Not only did we not win, we didn’t […]

This is not sports-related, though who knows in the future. I was just made aware of a new site that is pretty addicting — The Wishing Well, an anonymous forum where men can post their innermost secrets. Love, betrayal, longing, humor … it’s all there. Such as the one that begins, "i cheat on you […]

The Cleveland Browns traded Brady Quinn to the Denver Broncos, meaning the NFL’s hottest quarterback will now be residing in the Rockies. Quinn, a 2007 first-round pick who has been mediocre at best, was traded for fullback Peyton Hillis, a sixth-round pick in 2011 and a pick in 2012. The Cleveland Browns traded Brady Quinn […]

One of the greatest alpine skiers of the last 4-5 years is Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal. He has won World Championship and Olympic medals (many of them gold) in Slalom, Giant Slalom, Combined, Downhill and Super-G. Born December 26, 1982, the 27-year-old raked in a gold, a silver and a bronze in Vancouver. He got […]

UPDATE: Johnny Weir (via Access Hollywood, via Towleroad) talks about the snub: It is for real. I’ve never been invited to do ‘Star on Ice’ before, which is the only figure skating tour in the U.S., and it’s disappointing that I can’t perform for my American fans… all because I’m not ‘family friendly’ enough…. I […]

From a blog at Canoe in Canada, comes this chart from the Edmonton water utility that shows water use during the Olympic gold medal hockey game between the U.S. and Canada: From a blog at Canoe in Canada, comes this chart from the Edmonton water utility that shows water use during the Olympic gold medal […]

As the "Johnny Weir family-friendly" story goes viral, it's interesting to look at the ice-show political background. Just two years ago, as 2008 came in, Johnny was set to skate for Champions on Ice, the gay-friendly tour where Rudy Galindo skated for an entire decade. Remember Rudy Galindo? Our 1996 U.S. National Champion who was […]

Andrew McIntosh Andrew McIntosh, captain of the Oneonta University lacrosse team in New York state, wrote about his coming out process in a moving piece for Outsports. His story touched a lot people and McIntosh has been deluged with e-mail from athletes, coaches and fans. His local paper, the Oneata Daily Star, has published a […]

We’ve gotten a couple of e-mails recently from openly gay college athletes wanting to tell their story on Outsports. Over the years, we’ve told the stories of dozens of out college and high school athletes. What makes these young men different from the other stories we’ve read is that they don’t want to use their […]

Tim Joyce writes about ending sports’ Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy for Real Clear Sports. While people talk about sports leading to cultural change in racial equality in the ’40s and ’50s, Joyce points out that it was the military, not sports, that lead the way; And hopefully sports will follow the military’s (hopefully) impending […]

Chris Morgan, who has won gold medals at the Gay Games in Powerlifting, has won the “Best Lifter” award at the British Deadlift Championships. Outsports has featured articles in the past about Morgan, known as Chunky. He was lifting in the British drug-free single-lift championships, held in Horncastle, England, and made lifts of 462 pounds […]

Johnny Weir’s been a media blitz after his strong performance at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and he was thought to be in contention for a medal at the World Championships this month. But we got word today, via Weir’s publicist, that he won’t be competing at the Championships. From Johnny: I want to thank everyone […]

For those who have been calling for the last six years for a united quadrennial gay-sports event, that possibility is now on the horizon. The FGG and GLISA are considering merging their Gay Games and Outgames events and holding a joint event in 2018. From the European Gay & Lesbian Sport Federation, who held their […]