Month: February 2008

News is heating up that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will soon be a model for Calvin Klein. Reports Page Six of the New York Post: MOVE over, David Beckham – Tom Brady may soon strip to his skivvies. Calvin Klein Inc. is in talks to turn the hunky Patriots quarterback into an underwear […]

Northern Ireland Sports Minister Edwin Poots wins the award for clueless official of the year after he compared gay sports team to apartheid. Discussing Belfast’s Ulster Titans, a gay rugby team, Poots said: “I just cannot fathom why people see the necessity to develop an apartheid in sport.” “It would be unacceptable to produce an […]

ESPN has gotten hit-or-miss with their fan-voting contests that seem to creep up every few months. Their “Who’s now” contest was completely absurd and got no one talking. At least a few people are watching their “Greatest Sports Highlight of All Time” competition. It’s (yet another) NCAA-tournament-style contest pitting their top sports highlights against one […]

Put “Norwegian,” “shirtless” and “wrestlers” together and you get this: For a much larger view of the photo, click here. (On Firefox and IE you can easily zoom in and out by clicking on the photo). This photo is one of dozens on the site of Fritz Aanes, a Norwegian wrestler and Olympian. To see […]

Grant Wahl at CNNSI.com examines the overly negative attacks that college basketball fans are levying on visiting players. He focuses particularly on the anti-gay chants and messages that some of these vulgar sociopaths are using to make those visiting players feel like crap: There may not be nearly as many ­incidents of racism and anti-Semitism […]

Two items that caught my eye today struck me as examples, in their own way, of how money, the "root of all evil," has truly taken a toll on baseball. First up: a cretin named Sam Zell, the current CEO of the Tribune Co., the conglomerate that owns the Chicago Cubs. Zell told CNBC in […]

Lockview High School in Nova Scotia, Canada, has fired its volunteer boys hockey coach after the school discovered that someone altered the players’ bios in the team program. The glossy, magazine-style program contains a picture and short biography of each player, including his future plans. The majority of the write-ups are sexually suggestive. One player’s […]

Scott Jordan, the St. Bonaventure swimmer who came out on Outsports in January, won two Atlantic 10 titles at the conference championships last weekend. He was the second leg of the winning 200-yard medley relay for St. Bonaventure; and he won his third consecutive conference title in the 100-yard breaststroke. He also finished second in […]

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is the cover boy for the upcoming issue of the Boston Spirit, the city’s leading gay and lesbian magazine. But, alas, this is not a coming out story. The Evil Genius, sporting his shiny barber smock in the photo, really isn’t the focus of the Spirt cover story. Sadly. […]

Rod Llaneza competed with a point to prove – ‘Y’all got beat by a sissy’ By Matt HennieFor Outsports.com Rod Llaneza doesn’t shy away from a fight. In fact, he enjoys them, at least inside the ring. Through physical challenges (including a broken hand, toes and foot) and personal ones (growing up gay but covering […]

We are now onto Round 3 of the King of the Hardwood qualifying and once again you have the tough job of narrowing a great field down to the final 8. Layne, aka Mariner Duck Guy, the contest's creator, has made Round 3 heavy on Australian Rules Football and hockey. He also added a bull […]

Australian soccer player Andre Gumprecht, who was born in Germany, is in hot water after dressing up as Hitler during a celebration. Gumprecht wore his costume as part of a “Mad Monday” celebration to end the season. He will be disciplined after Jewish groups complained. Gumprecht, 33, attended a post-Grand Final ceremony on Monday for […]

The Florida Marlins, whose attendance has floundered for much (if not most) of the team's existence, have come up with a new strategy to lure people to Dolphins Stadium. Tryouts were being held Sunday for a new all-male cheerleading squad. The new cheerleaders will perform at Friday and Saturday home games during the season. I'm […]

I’m not a huge golf fan per se. I enjoy playing it, despite the lack of birdies in my game. I enjoy watching a good, close match. But when Tiger Woods is in the hunt on a Sunday, it’s must-see TV for me. I’d take it over an NBA playoff game or the Wimbledon finals. […]

ESPN.com columnist and very good friend of Outsports LZ Granderson was gay-bashed in New Orleans last weekend while there for the NBA All-Star game. As he says in his column, he (ironically) was on his way to the Playboy party when he came across a group of guys who didn’t like how tight his shirt […]

The next four days, if you want to look at hot, young, athletic men in skimpy clothes grunting and straining, put down the latest Falcon video and set your DVR to the NFL Network. The channel, owned by the league, has wall-to-wall coverage of the annual flesh fest known as the NFL Combine, a place […]

I’m sure this was originally written for John Elway, Dan Marino and Joe Montana, but I certainly got a chuckle out of the 2007 version . . . Three quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Tony Romo and Tom Brady, go to heaven to visit God to watch the Celtics play a game. God decides who will sit […]

Some videos for your weekend amusement: → An Australian streaker down the stretch of the horse race. → Behind the scenes at Reggie Bush’s GQ photoshoot. → King of the Hardwood contestant Linus Thornblad with a great high jump. → Hot not to work out your abs – having your friend pound on them with […]

A prediction: 36 to 48 months from now, at least one moronic pundit will go on and on about how those horrible Philly fans ran Ryan Howard out of town. Yes, just like with Curt Schilling, Scott Rolen, Charles Barkley, etc., the so-called expert will make that proclamation when Howard becomes a free agent and […]

Track and field athletes like pole vaulter Denis Goossens (check out Paul van der Linde’s photo gallery) highlight voting for Round 2 of the King of the Hardwood contest. Vote for who you think are the hottest jocks as the field gets winnowed to 64. There is still time to vote for the athletes in […]