Month: October 2008

I was at the Wachovia-soon-to-be-Wells-Fargo Center for the 76ers-Knicks game tonight, as was Jimmy Rollins of the 2008 World Series Champion Phillies. (No, not together — he sat courtside while I was, well, not.) With so many people in the sports complex for the finish of the Phillies' parade, the 76ers came up with a […]

Note: Every week, I pick games against the spread on the Michael Irvin Show on ESPN Radio, and I'm putting them on our blog. This week is the midway point for the season, and it's time to start taking stock. Some teams that were out of it three weeks ago (the Browns) are suddenly back […]

New San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary became a media hit after dressing down his team following its drubbing by Seattle in his coaching debut. The former Bears linebacker, though, apparently used a visual aid to illustrate how his team got its ass kicked. From Dan Bickley of the Arizona Republic: At halftime of that […]

Jeff Kent of the Los Angeles Dodgers has given $15,000 to help pass Proposition 8 in California, which would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage. I had always heard that Kent was a major league jackass and this just confirms it. In a disclosure filed with the California secretary of state, Kent listed […]

Joe Guckin did a great recap of the Phillies winning the World Series, Philadelphia’s first major championship since 1983. But I wanted to give a shout out to fans who have been with Outsports from the start (I have no idea who the guy in the photo is, but he can join our team any […]

Philadelphia championship drought update: It's been ZERO years, ZERO days, a little over two hours, since a Philadelphia team has won a championship in one of the four major sports. I don't know how we Philadelphians can stand this much longer. (At this point in this post I'm clicking on one of the various emoticons […]

Two youth baseball coaches in Indiana, Scott Kaletha and Mike Schwanke, who allegedly engaged in the homophobic taunting of one of his 12-year-old players were suspended for a year after an investigation earlier this summer. But that suspension has been overturned by local Park and Recreation Board on a 3-2 vote after nine hours of […]

Charles Barkley has never pulled any punches on or off the court and that is true when it comes to discussing politics (or kissing ref Dick Bavetta, right). Yesterday, in an interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown, Barkley slammed evangelicals for dividing people. Great to hear a week out from the vote on Prop. 8 in […]

Al Sharpton has made his way back into headlines with an attack on a New York Post column about Giants WR Plaxico Burress, calling the column racist. In his Monday column, Post writer Steve Serby started his rant about Burress with: Good for Tom Coughlin. Good for Coughlin for tightening the noose around Plaxico Burress. […]

So now we know. This whole championship drought in Philadelphia was an act of God. And this World Series proves it. He has thrown everything at Major League Baseball to get them to end this Series before Philadelphia wins it. With the Phillies just 12 outs from the title, the Rays tied the game and […]

David “Wolfman” Williams is an Australian player in its National Rugby League. He’s also one of the rugby and Aussie Rules Football jocks who have posed for the “Gods of Football” calendar. The calendar (one of three) features the athletes as a fundraiser for breast cancer research. It didn’t take Williams, 22, that much thought […]

You gotta love this story out of Texas Tech. The Red Raiders are undefeated and have a legit shot at the BCS title. In their first seven games, their kickers missed six PATs. Not field goals, PATs. So their head coach decided to give a shot to a student, Matt Williams, who won free rent […]

Cyd is hoping that the Phillies can take the Series and bring Philadelphia its first pro title in 25 years. Should the Dodgers pay big for Manny? A hot pitcher in the series. And Christine Daniels becomes Mike Penner again. Cyd is hoping that the Phillies can take the Series and bring Philadelphia its first […]

A couple months ago, I was part of a panel discussion at the Gay Center in New York, hosted by Out Professionals. It was a general conversation about gays in sports, and there were some good voices on the panel. Out former WNBA player Sue Wicks was great and I hung on every word she […]

It’s the stretch run of a hotly contested political season and even athletes, historically non-political, are getting into the presidential race. “We spend an hour a day talking about this exact subject – in meetings, on the plane, in the locker room,” New Orleans Saints linebacker Scott Fujita told the AP. “I think it’s just […]

One more reason pro jocks overseas are less inhibited than their U.S. counterparts. Mark at DNA magazine in Australia sent us these four images of Youngquest, a pro player in Australian professional rugby league (now moving to play in France). In addition to the DNA spread, he is also one of 20 players to pose […]

The University of Washington football team is winless and one of the nation’s worst. A bright spot, though, in the Huskies loss Saturday to Notre Dame was the appearance of members of the men’s swim team on the sideline at a chilly Husky Stadium. Thanks to a reader for these two shots of the guys […]

The Phillies are one win away from the second World Series championship in their history, and the first championship for any Philadelphia team in the four major pro sports in 25 years. The anticipation of what might happen as soon as tomorrow night is already pounding my brain. This is bad news for Fox, however. […]

Giants beat the Steelers; the AFC is a muddle; coach sends player to showers; Favre shines for both teams How Cyd and Jim saw NFL Week 8 E-mail Cyd Singletary nothing but a jive turkey. I was really disgusted with San Francisco interim head coach Mike Singletary’s performance at his post-game press conference on Sunday. […]

The Governor took time away from electioneering to attend the Breeders Cup today, arriving at Santa Anita just before the running of the much-awaited Classic. So he was there to see Dettori ride British-owned Raven's Pass to an upset victory. Good-looking Dettori is Europe's top jockey, and makes himself famous on the other side of […]