Year: 2011

Steve Kornacki is a political reporter who has written for several publications and is now with Salon. I have seen him on TV many times and always been impressed by his knowledge and insight. And he also pinged my gaydar. Kornacki has now come out in a terrific column on Salon. I just didn’t fit […]

You just scored a big goal against your rival, you’re overwhelmed with excitement…so what happens if you “accidentally” celebrate by hugging a guy from the other team? In Sweden, Mora IK’s Henrik Eriksson found out when he scored in the second period last month against rival Leksand. Eriksson wrapped an arm around Leksand’s Alen Bibic, […]

HIVSport has announced that, to mark the occasion of World AIDS Day, the League Managers Association is once again supporting the annual HIVsport World AIDS Day campaign to raise awareness of the global threat of HIV and AIDS. The League Managers Association represents all Premiership and Football League managers in English soccer. To support the […]

Updated: Nov. 28, 2011, 1:15pmPT The North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance has settled a lawsuit brought by the National Center for Lesbian Rights on behalf of three players who were disqualified from the 2008 Gay Softball World Series in Seattle. In the settlement the players have been reinstated and their second-place finish is now […]

We’re approaching December, which means the 2012 hot-athlete calendars are rolling out. The latest is from the Coors Light Trafik Grizzlies out of Columbus, Ohio. One of the players featured is our good friend Pete Olsen, who runs the blog WideRights. The team (and the calendar) features a wide range of ages, shapes and sizes. […]

Steve Weatherford in Men’s Fitness Men's Fitness has a spread this month on an NFL player with 5% body fat, who's the strongest guy on the team pound for pound. That player is a punter, of all people, Steve Weatherford of the New York Giants. “His physique is just ridiculous,” said a fellow punter. “He […]

Hot player of the week Tebow is making the Broncos relevant; Peyton Manning just one of several key QBs out; Suh needs to sit; an idiot wide receiver; here come the Cowboys, hot player of the week. How I saw Week 12 of the NFL: Lord knows we've dumped on Tim Tebow a lot lately, […]

When you gotta go, you gotta go. We’ve all been there, when you just have the urge. But none of us urinate live during an NFL game on national TV. But San Diego Chargers kicker Nick Novak couldn’t wait to use the restroom, not with the game tied late against Denver. So, with a teammate […]

John Amaechi gave a fantastic speech at the DiversityInc 2011 Special Awards earlier this month. His speech was about the power of words. But instead of focusing on the negative words like “faggot,” Amaechi spoke about the power of positive words. Video of the full speech is below. It's a theme David Testo mentioned to […]

Dallas Cowboy Leon Lett committed a game-losing blunder in the final seconds in the snow on Thanksgiving 20 years ago. "It's Leon Lett! Noooooo!"

American Samoa scored its first international victory ever today, beating Tonga, 2-1. It seems it was a day of firsts for the team ranked dead-last in FIFA rankings, as the game featured American Samoa’s Johnny ‘Jayieh’ Saelua, who is reportedly the first openly transgender player in World Cup history. Grant Wahl Tweeted that onsite reporter […]

New York Post columnist Lenn Robbins has a great column slamming St. John’s Univesity college basketball fans for their use of gay slurs during last weekend’s game against the University of Arizona. I didn’t find anything clever about the St. John’s fans in the student section that were chanting “U of Gay” as a mocking […]

Major League Baseball and the players’ union will add sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy as part of a new labor deal, the New York Daily News is reporting. From Andy Martino: The new collective bargaining agreement adds “sexual orientation” to its section on discrimination, a person with direct knowledge of the agreement told the […]

Tim Tebow says he loves Jesus more than he loves his family and is not going to keep quiet about. In response to former Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer telling him to cool it with his public praise-the-Lord pronouncements, Tebow told ESPN, no way: “If you’re married, and you have a wife, and you really […]

Former Professional Bowling Association West Region Rookie of the Year Scott Norton, who came out of the closet in May, got married in October, according to the Windy City Times. Norton and his partner, Craig Woodward, tied the knot in Laguna Beach, Calif. Norton is a full-time attorney when he's not hitting the bowling lanes. […]

GLAAD teamed up with MKH2O to host their first-ever 1.5-mile swim fundraiser in Ft. Lauderdale on Nov. 12. Get Amped featured 35 swimmers, each of whom had a fundraising goal of $500 for the media watchdog organization. According to Open Water Source, Ricardo Valdivia was the first out of the water in about 22 minutes. […]

Jake Plummer Cyd's "Why I hate Tim Tebow" post continues to draw a lot of comments. Ex-Denver Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer likes and admires Tebow but wishes he would quit shoving his religious beliefs in our faces. And he said it quite well during a radio interview on XTRA Sports 910 in Phoenix: Tebow, regardless […]

Yale tight end Beau Palin is incredibly patriotic, is a talented barefooter…and incredibly comfortable in nothing but the smallest of speedos. Lucky us! If only every American athlete was as comfortable with their sexuality to pose for a video like this of him and his brothers at home in Wisconsin. On Saturday, Palin and his […]

He was talking about Tampa Bay running back Legarrette Blount, but methinks a double entendre was racing through Deion Sanders’ head. On Sunday he unleashed quite possibly the best line of NFL analysis I’ve ever heard when he said six Packers were all “trying to hit that blunt.” Deion probably thought of it in August […]

We were wondering why our traffic was very high today and then discovered the reason: Our list of words you couldn’t put on the back of an NFL jersey (our most-viewed page ever) was back in the news. It seems that it mirrors that being considered by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, which wants to ban […]