Month: October 2012

Out magazine has an amazing, incredibly well-written, thoughtful feature on Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe. Kidding! I wrote the piece…But frankly, it only reads well because Out magazine editor Aaron Hicklin and his staff to a fantastic job weaving writers’ words into gold. Seriously – these guys are pros. Kluwe is the second NFL player […]

Matt Barnes (Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-US PRESSWIRE) Matt Barnes of the Los Angeles Clippers called a policeman in Manhattan Beach, Calif., a "f—ing faggot" in a July 30 incident where the cop was trying to arrest Barnes for an outstanding warrant. A video of the incident surfaced today on TMZ: TMZ has obtained video of cops […]

Derek Holland (Photo: Jake Roth-US PRESSWIRE) Texas Rangers pitcher Derek Holland says a tweet from his account calling a fan a "fag" was not sent by him and his account was hacked. The only other person with access to his account is his fiancee and she also says she did not send it. Major League […]

Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk wrote an op-ed against same-sex marriage in Minnesota this week, and now he’s appearing in an online video explaining more of why he believes same-sex couples do not deserve equal rights. In the video he says he can stomach higher taxes and removing God from schools, but same-sex marriage goes […]

British Olympic bronze medal diver Tom Daley certainly does not shy away from attention and is a natural for Twitter. His Twitter feed has 1.9 million followers and he is shooting for 2 million. One way he tries to get people coming back is by posting a photo of the day (or at least most […]

Matt Birk (Photo: Mitch Stringer-US PRESSWIRE) We've written a lot about NFL players Chris Kluwe (Minnesota Vikings) and Brendon Ayanbadejo (Baltimore Ravens) and their support of gay marriage in upcoming ballot initiatives in those states. Now comes the other side from current Ravens center and former Viking Matt Birk, who wrote an opinion column for […]

Brian Mitchell and Ivan Carter Former Washington Redskins running back and return specialist Brian Mitchell is featured in a new video supporting the You Can Play project (video below). The former Pro Bowler, who holds a slew of NFL special-teams records, is now a co-host on Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic's Sunday night show Sports Plus. He […]

The first reference I can find to Outsports calling NFL referee Ed Hochuli “Guns” was 2002, and while we can’t claim to have coined the nickname, it certainly has stuck. CBS in Phildelphia, for example, has a 21-photo gallery of the buff 61-year-old ref with the bulging biceps. Hochuli, called the rock star of NFL […]