Month: July 2012

Ryan Lochte (Photo: Andrew Weber-US PRESSWIRE) The biggest takeaway from the highly entertaining ESPN the Magazine piece on sex in the Olympic village is that if you want to have fun as an Olympian, be single. “My last Olympics, I had a girlfriend — big mistake,” swimmer Ryan Lochte says. “Now I’m single, so London […]

Concrete Hero Team Kick A$$ Photos and videos from the event below. When my friends Jason Duguay and Fred Arens asked me to join Team Kick A$$ for the first-ever Concrete Hero obstacle course raising money for AIDS Project Los Angeles, I didn't know what to expect. "Oh it'll be fun," they said, "you'll just […]

New Jersey Devils enforcer Cam Janssen this week unleashed a John-Rocker-esque string of remarks offending gays, women, and everyone living in Los Angeles. Unlike Rocker, however, Janssen has issued a heartfelt, sincere apology and has pledged to support inclusion. Janssen was appearing on Internet-based The Thom and Jeff Show when the conversation turned a little […]

Outsports hit the red carpet of the 20th annual ESPY awards on Wednesday. As we did for the NFLPA event in May, we wanted to talk with athletes and coaches about LGBT issues from having a gay teammate to the perception that pro athletes are big, dumb, homophobic jocks. We got our wish. Stationed at […]

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh has leveled serious allegations with far-reaching implications in his report on the investigation of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation case. Freeh’s report claims that Joe Paterno knew about Sandusky’s actions and treated them with no urgency or importance. It also claims that Penn State acted to cover up the incident. […]

Esera Tuaolo has had a tough couple of years. In 2010, he was arrested for domestic abuse after an altercation with his then-boyfriend. Despite neither the boyfriend nor the boyfriend’s parents pressing any charges, big headlines were made out of the arrest and charges of assault (which were later dropped). As Tuaolo tells Ross Forman […]

Pride House was born at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics as a place where LGBT fans and athletes would be welcomed to the Olympic Games. Plans for a bigger venue in London fell through when organizers faced a lack of funding. Now several organizations including the Federation of Gay Games have stepped forward to host Pride […]

4 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings, on the typically slow early July news week, include Italian soccer players training as only they can (on a beautiful beach); rising stars at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game; Olympic basketball training and a victorious mixed martial artist. Click image […]

The issue of homophobia in women’s sports is one that is pervasive and still exists even though the climate has changed. Over the years we have heard of numerous female coaches and players who are lesbians (and whose orientation is known within their circle) but who don’t want to come out publicly because of the […]

I’ve long thought Stanford University had the best mascot. I mean, how can you beat a dancing tree — sometimes palm, sometimes pine — that’s always high as a kite? Well, the Rhode Island School of Design has put the dancing tree to shame. We're not talking Div. I here. Heck, we're not even talking […]

The days of top-level athletes not wanting to bare their bodies are falling away, and the latest sign is New England Patriot tight end Rob Gronkowski’s revealing photo shoot for ESPN the Magazine’s body issue. According to the Boston Globe, he even made the cover. ESPN also released a behind-the-scenes video (below) in which Gronk […]

Chicago Fire’s Gonzalo Segares The Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer have joined forces with Equality Illinois to help combat homophobia. Members of the team marched with Equality Illinois in Chicago's gay pride parade last month. From Gay4Soccer: The partnership continued this past Friday night with Soccer Ally Jay Nolly and teammate Gonzalo Segares scheduled […]

Insane or determined? Diana Nyad is one or the other…or a little of both. After failing to swim from Cuba to Florida on her first three attempts (two of which came last year), the 63-year-old is at it again this summer with a fourth attempt. Nyad talks about her summer 2012 attempt in the latest […]

Doug Christie and his wife Jackie have remarried on their anniversary for years. This year, for their 17th wedding anniversary, they wanted to show their support for same-sex marriage rights. So they decided to hold the ceremony at the gay club Eleven in West Hollywood. This past Sunday, July 8, dozens of their friends packed […]

Brian Burke Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke gave a fantastic interview to TVOntario, talking for 25 minutes about his role in combating homophobia in sports, the growth of the You Can Play project, and his late son, Brendan. Both Burke and the interviewer, Piya Chattopadhyay, make this a must-watch interview. So often in […]

I thought Roger Federer was done. Not in in the done-done sense of the word, but there was no chance, in my mind, he would win another Grand Slam title. His record against Rafael Nadal since losing to the Spaniard in the 2008 Wimbledon finals was abysmal, and Novak Djokovic played nearly flawless tennis in […]

Eamon Sullivan (L) and James Magnussen (R) Swimming is one of Australia's national sports and their star swimmers get rock star treatment. Stephanie Rice is the queen of Aussie swimming, while the new king looks to be freestyler James Magnussen. The 21-year-old is the current world champion in the 100-meter freestyle and the favorite for […]

Tom Daley, 18, is the most popular Olympian in Britain and a medal favorite in the men’s 10-meter platform diving event at the London Games. He graces the cover of magazines shirtless, makes playful music videos and commercials (see below), has 254,000 Twitter followers and has girls screaming every place he appears. He was also […]

The Kluwes: Chris and Isabel with daughters Remy (left) and Olivia Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe has produced a second terrific ad for Minnesotans for Equality against a ballot initiative this November that would write marriage discrimination into the state’s constitution. Kluwe, who gave a must-read interview to Outsports where he talked about his support […]

A 2010 newspaper column by Aussie Footballer Jason Akermanis (right) that ignited a firestorm against the athlete…was actually designed to combat homophobia. The column was designed to continue an AFL Players Association campaign of inclusiveness for gay athletes and fans; Instead, the reaction to the piece killed the AFLPA’s efforts to combat homophobia. From the […]