Month: February 2012

We’re less than six months away from the start of the London Summer Olympics, and Australian diver Matthew Mitcham will be hoping to win another gold medal. Mitcham has an active Twitter feed and he often answers questions sent in by fans. This might fall into the TMI category, but Mitcham discloses that he has […]

Every once in a while I go to Richard Simmons’ work-out class at his Slimmons Studio in Beverly Hills. I’ve noticed over the last year that more and more gay men are showing up. When I first went a couple years ago, it was 95% women; Now it’s probably 80-20. It’s a great workout no […]

Notre Dame’s Harrison Smith The NFL Combine starts Thursday in Indianapolis, a fleshfest of hopeful future pros lifting weights, running routes and doing drills all while wearing tight Underarmour-type outfits. It's no wonder Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk dubbed them the "Underwear Olympics." Not too long ago, the league even showed the weigh-ins, where […]

A little bit of levity with baseball spring training starting, courtesy of reader Dan — photos of San Diego Padres relief pitcher Huston Street looking terrific in a swimsuit. Plus, a shot of him cross-dressing (probably rookie hazing) and one of him with the ladies. From the San Diego sports website Lobshots: I have zero […]

The Football Association in England has launched a new campaign to end homophobia in soccer. The program, called ‘Opening Doors and Joining In,’ is aimed at making football more inclusive of both players and fans. It clearly shows the FA wants to get serious about the issue (though some question whether it will have much […]

Colorado Mesa University football player Shane Williams has been arrested for the alleged assault of a lesbian outside a bar early Friday morning. Chelsea Gallagher was sent to the hospital with a fractured skull after she and her girlfriend, Ashley Davis, were allegedly harassed with anti-gay language by Williams and at least one friend. Gallagher […]

Rapper Erick Sermon denies that he is gay and says it’s not possible to be a gay rapper or an athlete. The EPMD member said that Hip Hop will never have openly gay rappers because it can play against an emcee to admit to homosexuality. “No. It’s the same about when you talk about sports […]

Brady Quinn Denver Broncos backup quarterback Brady Quinn is backtracking from comments made to GQ about his teammate Tim Tebow. Quinn was among a bunch of NFL players and observers quoted by Michael Silver about the meteoric rise of Tebow this season. Here is the Quinn quote that has gotten a lot of attention: “If […]

We’ve seen plenty of athletes toss around gay epithets at presumably straight people, but this is one of the rare occasions when an athlete has the balls to target an openly gay fan. Walsall FC defender Manny Smith got into an exchange with Kevin Paddock last Friday and had some choice words for the Walsall […]

Homophobia is alive and well in English soccer, where only 16 of 160 clubs in seven divisions reacted positively to an initiative to support gays in the sport, the Independent reports. This comes at the start of a weeklong international imitative, Football vs. Homophobia. The campaign wrote to every professional English club asking them to […]

Phil Mickelson hit a drive into the last place you’d expect to find the golf pro’s ball: Another guy’s shorts. What did the guy get out of it? A few minutes of national attention and a ball signed by Mickelson. Not the guy’s ball, Mickelson’s ball. In his shorts. Anyhow, Mickelson lost Northern Trust Open […]

ESPN has fired the employee responsible for a racially charged Jeremy Lin-inspired headline on their mobile site. They have also handed a 30-day suspension to their network anchor who used the term ‘chink in the armor’ to refer to Lin. In their statement this morning they said: We again apologize, especially to Mr. Lin. His […]

Saturday Night Live did a send-up of the controversy surrounding various racially sensitive comments about Jeremy Lin late last week (video here). The skit reflects what we’ve heard from various comments on Outsports and other sites: The ‘chink in the armor’ and other comments would have been handled with more ferocity if they were about […]

Last night, ESPN’s mobile site used a headline with a racially charged double entendre to describe Jeremy Lin’s game against the Hornets. This morning they have ap0logized and are promising a review of the process that lead to the insensitive headline: Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at […]

Can you imagine several San Diego Chargers standing outside their stadium before a game handing out pamphlets against homophobia in sports? Or how about Vincent Jackson and Shaun Phillips showing up to coach San Diego’s gay flag football league? Yet Exeter City FC is doing exactly that: Players have already had a coaching session with […]

Wow, how did we miss this one? Dolce & Gabbana had previously tapped Italian ruggers and Italian swimmers to appear in their underwear campaigns. Somehow we failed to notice that in 2010 they featured five Italian soccer players for their Calcio collection until I stumbled across it at ATV this week. There are more photos […]

Gay bowling is scary, huh? The Portland Community Bowling League, an LGBT sports group, claims they are being force from their home Hollywood bowl bowling alley because the owner doesn't want a gay league there. Towleroad has a full account from one of the league members. But the alley owner says they have simply gotten […]

We first wrote about Paul Tagliabue, then the NFL commissioner, and his support for gay rights in 2005. Then he was honored by PFLAG with a leadership award (Tagliabue has a gay son, Drew). This pat week, Tagliabue was at Bowdoin College in Maine to participate in the third annual “Anything But Straight in Athletics” […]

Update Sunday, 8:30AMPT: ESPN has fired and suspended people responsible for headline, comments. Update Saturday, 8:20AMPT: ESPN has apologized for the headline. ESPN has been the biggest champion of New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin's rise during the team's seven-game winning streak. But they have potentially undone it all with a horribly racist headline that […]

Australian Football League chief executive Andrew Demetriou said at an anti-violence program that the league would stand with an athlete who decided to come out of the closet. Demetriou highlights that coming out is a personal decision and still a matter of personal choice. “But if a player wanted to make it public about his […]