Month: November 2011

Penn State athletic director Tim Curley has been charged with perjury in connection with allegations that former football team defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky (right) sexually abused eight young men. According to the Associated Press: The attorney general's office said Sandusky, 67, of State College, was arrested Saturday. Curley, 57, and Penn State vice president for […]

When Gus Johnston posted a video on YouTube talking about being gay in sports on Sept. 13, he became the highest-level male field hockey player in the world to be publicly out. The video featured Johnston talking for 12 minutes about his feelings on the discrimination that kept him in the closet for so many […]

Apparently someone in Miami didn’t learn the lesson of the Denver Nuggets. The latter featured one of the ugliest logos in sports for years, with a rainbow silhouette of the Denver skyline. Now the Miami Marlins (formerly of Florida) are trading in their longtime teal-and-black combination for — well — a rainbow. And while the […]

Talked about messed up. Iran is considering administering 74 lashes to two soccer players who had a butt grope after scoring a goal Saturday (video below). The two, Mohammad Nosrati and Sheys Rezaei, play for Persepolis and have already been suspended and fined $40,000 for what are being called “immoral” acts. Talked about messed up. […]

While Ben Cohen’s Stand Up foundation to fight bullying has gotten lots of attention in the gay community, MMA fighter Daniel Puder has created a pretty fantastic anti-bullying and self-worth program himself. My Life My Power is a school-based program that recruits high school students who carry the positive messages to younger students in the […]

Logo will take a break from catty bitches in New York and Dallas this weekend to air a CBC documentary about openly gay former Miami University hockey team student-manager Brendan Burke. ‘The Legacy of Brendan Burke’ will air Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8pm. Burke’s coming out and untimely death made our list of 100 most […]

Photo via Sodahead The Boy Scouts of America does not allow gays or lesbians to serve as scouts or scout leaders, saying it "believes that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the obligations in the Scout Oath and Scout Law to be morally straight and clean in thought, word, and deed." Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is […]

I was watching the exciting Chiefs-Chargers game on Monday night when at the end of the first half ESPN cut to a shot of Chiefs coach Todd Haley mouthing an f-bomb into his headset. I replayed the scene on my DVR several times in slow motion and it’s obvious what Haley was saying. And from […]

The Out 100 has had a smattering of athletes in the past, but this year’s list will feature the most ever. At the top of the list is Gareth Thomas, the out Welsh rugby player. Aaron Hicklin, the magazine’s editor, sent us this gorgeous exclusive photo of Gareth that will run in the table of […]

Chris Cormier, center, with DCGFFL teammates Team DC, the umbrella gay sports organization in Washington DC, handed out awards on Oct. 22 at their Champions Awards reception. The most impressive component of the awards are the scholarships given to student-athletes. Three athletes received college scholarships: Northern Virginia Community College's Joe Acevedo; Washington University's Nate Eckland; […]