Month: March 2011

The Miami (Ohio) hockey team has a proud tradition, but few things make their players more proud than their accepting, welcoming attitude toward all people including gays and lesbians. We talked with several players and the team’s head coach for an article, out today. One of their strongest voices in the team’s fight against homophobia […]

NCAA scoring champ Andy Miele and other teammates who knew Brendan Burke talk about the use of anti-gay slurs, showering with a gay person and homophobia By Cyd Zeigler Miami seniors including LoVerde (2nd from left) and Miele (right). Photo credit Rachel Lewis. In sports, homophobic epithets are used on virtually every field, pitch, ice […]

Our good friend Joe Guckin posts his 2011 baseball predictions on his terrific The Joe in Philly Experience blog. And, shocker, he picks his hometown Philadelphia Phillies to win the National League East. So do I and most experts I've seen (I am decidedly not a baseball expert). It's hard not to pick a team […]

Opening Day 2011 has arrived! In an attempt not to have baseball played in November again, the 2011 season began a few days earlier than in seasons past. So I had no choice but to blow off work, buy some hot dogs & beer, and settle onto my couch and begin the journey of a […]

This Sunday’s ‘Outside the Lines’ on ESPN will feature a lengthy segment on transgender NCAA basketball player Kye Allums and other trans issues in sports. You can see a short clip of the segment after the jump, and it shows they ask Allums some tough questions, some of which we’ve delved into in our coverage […]

We have a great article from transguy triathlete Chris Mosier, who talks about once being an MVP in women’s sports to being a middle-of-the-pack dude in men’s triathlon. Trans issues in sports are getting increased visibility, and Chris is the latest example. Plus, he is on a mission to land a coveted sponsorship with training […]

Transgender triathlete Chris Mosier talks about his transition from competing against female athletes to now competing against men. He is vying for a national sponsorship to raise awareness of trans athletes. By Chris Mosier Editor's Note: In Chris' first race of the 2011, he finished 10th in his 30-34 age bracket. The TRX competition Chris […]

VCU coach Shaka Smart Only two people out of 5.9 million people in ESPN'S NCAA men's basketball pool correctly picked the Final Four: Connecticut (3 seed), Kentucky (4), Butler (8) and Virginia Commonwealth (11). One of them was so bad in their other picks that they stand around 6,000. But Joe Pearlman, an I.T. worker […]

Out WNBA star Sheryl Swoopes is returning to the WNBA after a 2-year hiatus. The 40-year-old last played for the Seattle Storm, but she has now signed with the Tulsa Shock. During her hiatus she played professionally in Greece and coached the girls basketball team at Mercer Island High School in Washington. She said she’s […]

David Wright of the Mets Baseball, basketball, hockey and tennis take the stage as Round 2 begins in the 2011 King of the Hardwood contest, run by longtime Outsports poster Mariner Duck Guy. The field of 64 is now down to 32 ad we will reach the Sweet 16 after this weekend. Vote here for […]

Nick Youngquest really has gotten into this whole male model thing. The gay-friendly Aussie rugby player with the smoldering looks and smoking body has been photographed by Bruce Weber for Abercrombie & Fitch. These shots don't do much for me. It's almost as if they've prettified and homogenized Youngquest; in some shots they have airbrushed […]

Denver Broncos quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow will be appearing this week in Jockey’s first ads featuring an athlete since the legendary ones in the 1970s with baseball’s Jim Palmer. I have yet to see any that show Tebow in underwear minus a T-shirt, but the always-pious Tebow says the ads will be […]

The ACLU is telling schools in Michigan and Missouri to stop blocking LGBT-oriented websites with filtering software. Among the sites being blocked is GLSEN, which just launched a program to combat homophobia in sports in schools, and the It Gets Better project. Making matters worse is that sites that promote “cures” for homosexuality are not […]

Butler coach Brad Stevens Only two of the Final Four teams were supposed to be in the Sweet 16, and none were supposed to make it to the Elite 8. But here we are, with the most upside-down Final Four I can think of. 11-seed Virginia Commonwealth; 8-seed Butler; 4-seed Kentucky; 3-seed Connecticut. It's such […]

Just a week after the WWE claimed a new commitment to stop homophobia and bullying in the pro wrestling organization, one of their commentators Tweeted that another WWE commentator is a “faggot.” Michael Cole sent the jab at Josh Matthews because, you know, that’s the worst thing you can call someone in the WWE. Still. […]

I haven’t paid much attention to the NCAA tournament this year; The decline in talent, poor officiating and lack of compelling storylines just left me disinterested. But I got a lot more interested this morning when I saw BYU lost last night! For the last two weeks we've had endure columns praising BYU for "standing […]

Last season I picked wide receiver Danny Amendola as my hot player of Week 1 in the NFL after he became a starter. He’s been certainly noticed by a lot more people and did a cover shoot for “Alive,” a lifestyle magazine in St. Louis. In a making-of video for the shoot, Amendola gets shirtless […]

Emma Delsohn is a 17-year-old senior basketball player at a girls Catholic high school in Southern California. It would not appear to be the easiest place to come out as a lesbian. But in an excellent first-person account for Outsports, Emma describes how she overcame her fears and reached out to her teammates. And how […]

Hudson Taylor, whom we originally profiled a year ago, was a featured guest today on MSNBC to talk about gay equality in sports and his non-profit group Athlete Ally. Check out the video of his 4-minute appearance after the jump. Hudson Taylor, whom we originally profiled a year ago, was a featured guest today on […]

Editor’s Note: Out Olympic speedskater Blake Skjellerup is visiting his home country New Zealand this week for the first time since a devastating earthquake there. He shares his thoughts with us here. It has been one month since a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit my hometown of Christchurch, New Zealand. In my first time home since […]