Month: August 2010

Dallas, Austin and Boston beat the rain and take other division titles By Cyd Zeigler The Gay Softball World Series in Columbus, Ohio, saw something the event had never seen in its 34 years: A tie for one of the championships. The Orlando Force and the Los Angeles Vipers shared the A-Division title when heavy […]

Columnist Mark McGuire of the Albany Times-Union paper in upstate New York posits that having an openly pro gay male athlete will happen sooner than most people think. As he wrote in his Sunday column: The first openly gay player in a major North American team sport will be revealed in the not-too-distant future. Columnist […]

Pitchers are only as good as their outfielders. The Hiroshima Carp proved this yesterday evening as their centerfielder Soichiro Amaya made an absolutely incredible catch. Watch it here: Now, that's impressive. But here's something that's even more impressive… This is the second time the Carp pull this off this year! (Video after the jump…) Pitchers […]

Bama QB Greg McElroy No surprise, but defending BCS champ Alabama is the overwhelming favorite to repeat as No. 1 in college football, if the preseason AP poll is accurate. The Tide garnered 54 of the 59 first-place votes. Rounding out the Top 5 are Ohio State, Boise State, Florida and Texas. It's Boise State […]

The 2010 European swimming and diving championships were held this month in Budapest, Hungary. And thanks to G. Scala at Deepbluemedia.eu, we were able to put together a photo gallery from the event. One of my favorites is this French foursome who got real close to each after a relay win: The 2010 European swimming […]

As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the stars of the track and field sprints. As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the […]

As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the stars of the track and field sprints. As we update our extensive Gay Games photo galleries, check out our latest: Athletes and their medals. This Swedish runner was one of the […]

The headline is 100% accurate. On Twitpic, Chad Ochocinco of the Cincinnati Bengals is posing with a towel that looks like … well, just see the picture below. "Ladies only — after my surgery," he writes. Yes, we possibly can't have any of them gays staring. The headline is 100% accurate. On Twitpic, Chad Ochocinco […]

The Orlando Force and Orlando Fireball Run Driver took the top seeds after pool play of the A- and D-divisions (respectively) of the open competition at the Gay Softball World Series in Columbus, Ohio. The Boston Alley Gators won the pool play in Division B, and the Dallas Fuse have taken the top seed in […]

It was a wonderful week for the 9,500 participants and (my guess) 10,000 other attendees who made the trek to Cologne, Germany, for the Gay Games. The people were welcoming, the gays were friendly, the sports were well-organized, and the parties were fun. Jim and I reflect on the Gay Games and think ahead to […]

I know the hardcore tennis buffs will know all about him, but I was surprised to find a list of “gays you should know” that featured an athlete and sportsman I couldn’t remember reading about before. Ted Tinling was a mediocre-at-best tennis player who became one of the world’s most renown designers of women’s tennis […]

Outsports is a big fan of the photo site Trackpic, which specializes in shooting track and field events in Europe, with an emphasis on the decathlon. Decathletes are amazing athletes, who need the ability to run fast and for distance, in addition to strength for events such as the pole vault and discus. Trackpic has […]

It seems that cooler heads have prevailed as the Federation of Gay Games has voted, 48-4, to permanently ban across-the-board random drug testing at the Games. From Roger Brigham of the Bay Area Reporter: The immediate effect of the motion is to restore the policies used in 2006 in Chicago, in which three sports (bodybuilding, […]

Openly gay umpire Billy Van Raaphorst, the subject of a homophobic rant by a manager, was back on the diamond last weekend for the first time since the incident and the news was that there was no news on the field. Off of it, Van Raaphorst has been deluged with positive reaction. “It was good […]

Zzzzzzz. That’s pretty much been the response to Brett Favre’s announcement today that he is coming back for a 20th season in the NFL. Sports Illustrated has obviously decided not to play into his bullshit, going with baseball and a feature on athletes and domestic violence as their two main stories instead of the once-again […]

An out lesbian is making noise in the boxing ring with a big personality and some hard hits. Boxing “bad girl” Melissa “Huracan” Hernandez of the Bronx returned to New Mexico on Aug. 14 to claim the interim WIBA Lightweight title in an eight-round battle with Albuquerque’s Victoria Cisneros. The fight was the featured match […]

When Quinnipiac University cut women’s volleyball and kept cheerleading, the volleyball players sued saying it violated Title IX. A judge has agreed, forcing the university to add more women’s sports scholarships. The decision raises the question about whether cheerleading is a sport. My greatest cheerleading memory was at a Stanford-Cal football game. One of the […]

Ski Bums, the world’s premiere gay ski/snowboard club, has announced it’s schedule for the upcoming season, and it’s pretty exciting. They’re visiting five states and three foreign countries this year, kicking off this December at Steamboat Springs (one of the least-gay places you’ll ever ski, but a fantastic ski resort) and ending next May in […]

Former NFL coach Tony Dungy is now aiming his hardcore religious conservatism at New York Jets coach Rex Ryan. The latter’s language on HBO’s Hard Knocks has been profanity-filled and Dungy doesn’t like it one bit, telling Dan Patrick he hopes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell gets involved! Dungy also said he wouldn't hire someone "like […]

Tebow and mom in Super Bowl ad The Tim Tebow Effect continues in Denver, as the anti-gay group Focus on the Family has bought TV ad time on more than a dozen Denver Broncos games this season. Tebow, drafted by the Broncos, was in a Super Bowl ad this year bought by the political advocacy […]