The soccer chant could be heard on BBC TV coverage. Kick It Out describe it as “homophobic and discriminatory” while Chelsea FC have also condemned the language used.
By Jon Holmes | January 9, 2024Hitzlsperger is the only Premier League footballer to have come out, doing so after retiring a decade ago. The German’s autobiography will be released in March.
By Jon Holmes | January 8, 2024Donivous was the team’s first male cheerleader. They now have seven.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 8, 2024Tran Thi Thu, who played at the FIFA Women’s World Cup, got hitched to girlfriend Nguyen Thi Thuong in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.
By Jon Holmes | January 7, 2024Fans are celebrating Richard Kone’s soccer journey from the Homeless World Cup to the EFL — but the Ivorian striker is not yet ready to discuss his personal story.
By Jon Holmes | January 6, 2024
Jared McCain was a social-media star before he arrived at Duke. The freshman is already one of the team’s top scorers.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 6, 2024The event is now in its fifth year and will again be held at the UK’s National Football Museum in Manchester in February. Pro referee Lloyd Wilson and Charlotte Galloway were winners in 2023.
By Jon Holmes | January 6, 2024Olympic fiancées Laura Stacey and Marie-Philip Poulin helped Montreal pick up its first PWHL win and embarrassed a homophobic Twitter troll.
By Ken Schultz | January 5, 2024The former rugby sevens player, part of the victorious Australia team from Rio 2016, talks to the BBC LGBT Sport Podcast about freedom and fatherhood.
By Jon Holmes | January 5, 2024The Jaguars have become a focus for many LGBTQ fans, as the team has the NFL’s only publicly out male coach.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 4, 2024The owners of Salt Lake City’s first sports bar are fans and athletes themselves and opened it to fill a niche.
By Jim Buzinski | January 4, 2024Prokop’s game-winning shot from the blue line is a thing of beauty.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 3, 2024Need a dose of optimism in an election year? Keep your eyes on Sha’Carri Richardson, Tom Daley and the 49ers.
By Ken Schultz | January 3, 2024Alex Carpenter and Jill Saulnier were on target as New York won, 4-0, at Toronto in the first game of the Professional Women’s Hockey League.
By Jon Holmes | January 2, 2024Advocates both for and against trans women in women’s sports are unhappy with USA Boxing’s policy.
By Cyd Zeigler | January 2, 2024The Lyon teammates posted a celebratory image to Instagram, on holiday in a country where gay relationships are still criminalized by law.
By Jon Holmes | January 1, 2024