Month: June 2008

Openly gay former Stanford swimmer Brian Jacobson will swim July 4 for a spot on the Olympic team By Cyd Zeigler jr. Last week we ran one of our most popular stories in over a year: The story of out swimmer Andrew Langenfeld headed to the Olympic Trials. One of the best results was our […]

Eleventh in a series. Broadcast: Toronto Blue Jays on Rogers Sportsnet, Cincinnati at Blue Jays, 6/26/08; Announcers: Jamie Campbell (play-by-play), Pat Tabler (analyst), Sam Cosentino (reporter) This was another broadcast where the analysis was better than the play-by-play. There was no real flow to Jamie Campbell’s call of the game. It seemed like he was […]

American Gladiators has gotten some traction in the sports media, so we’ll dive in there for a moment with the appearance tonight of their first openly gay male contestant: Sean Hetherington, a stand-up comedian who lost 100 pounds in 2003 and who has become a personal trainer (and waiter). On his online profile for AG, […]

From the Miami Herald: Efrain Veiga, founder of Yuca restaurant and co-creator of Nuevo Latino cuisine, and partner Billy Bean (photo), a former Major League Baseball player, have split after 13 years. ”Sometimes things don’t work out,” Veiga says. “There’s still love.” Says Bean: “It’s a very difficult period, and we’re both trying to get […]

Spain, the perennial underachievers, shed that label with a 1-0 win over Germany to win the Euro 2008 tournament, its first since 1964. The only goal was scored by Fernando Torres (photo) in the 33rd minute. I watched the last half of the match and was pleased to see that ABC stuck with the post-match […]

I was doing a Google News search of “Olympic + homosexual” to see if there was any news regarding gays and the upcoming Games. It was then I learned that sprinter Tyson Gay had actually changed his name, at least on one website: OneNewsNow, where these links point to, is an online new site run […]

Dylan "NDR" Edwards is a writer, artist, and cartoonist living in Austin, Texas. His cartoons have been featured in Sojourner: The Women's Forum, The Antioch Record, FTM International, Transhealth and various other publications. His illustrations have graced the Boston Phoenix, as well as items ranging from T-shirts to greeting cards to web sites, and his […]

Hank Weintraub, a water polo player at Brown University, is doing a research project this summer on gay/bi athletes, focusing in particular on Ivy League males. He will be looking at the coaching and administrative policies by interviewing current or recently graduated student-athletes about their experiences. He’s looking for athletes who are interested, or who […]

Animal rights group PETA is angry with Wimbledon officials for killing pigeons (as a last resort) to keep them off the courts and away from restaurant tables, but meanwhile odds-makers are ready to protest now that more title contenders have been shot down. In an upset no one saw coming, 2004 titlist Maria Sharapova was […]

Swimmers break over 150 world, national and meet records at gay meet Thursday, June 26, 2008 – An astounding 152 swimming records were broken during the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics Championships in the greater Washington, DC area from June 19 – 22. Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen and former Olympian Glenn Mills turned in particularly impressive races, […]

When it comes to Candace Parker, the former Lady Vol turned forward for the Los Angeles Sparks, there are few limits to her athletic prowess. On Sunday, she became the second WNBA player to dunk in a game. That’s right, dunk. To prove it wasn’t a fluke – and few doubted it was – she […]

According to the Houston Chronicle, the Houston Astros pitcher, who set a franchise record with 9 non-decisions to start the season was recently demoted to the bullpen, causing him to get…well, a little angry. When GM Ed Wade came to see him before their game against Texas… Wade wanted to meet with Chacon in manager […]

There will be no rugby or flag football at the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, but you can win a medal in sport shooting. Air Rifle (10 meter) and Air Pistol (10 meter), both sport shooting disciplines offered in the Olympic Games, will be fired at the Cologne Gay Games in 2010. Air Rifle […]

The New York Knicks, in the first round of the NBA Draft, selected Italian star forward Danilo Gallinari. Of course, being in New York, he was promptly booed when his name was called Thursday. What’s amusing is that Gallinari’s nickname is “Il Gallo,”or the cock (rooster, not what you were thinking), which has prompted the […]

Imagine watching this past season’s Super Bowl. Time running out, New England trailing the Giants and trying to score the go-ahead score. The Pats move inside the Giants’ 20 when all of a sudden Fox loses its TV feed and the next 10 minutes of the game is blacked out and you only hear New […]

Australian Open champion and 2007 Wimbledon semifinalist Novak Djokovic has been unceremoniously dismissed from this year’s Championships by enigmatic talent and Outsports-favorite Marat Safin in the second round, 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Of course, the hunky Safin is a two-time Grand Slam winner with the game – if not the temperament – to rival any […]

Tenth in a series. Broadcast: Washington Nationals on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network (MASN), Los Angeles Angels at Nationals, 6/23/08; Announcers: Bob Carpenter (play-by-play), Don Sutton (analyst), Debbi Taylor (reporter, and the fifth woman I’ve encountered — on these broadcasts, that is 😉 ) I don’t recall particularly liking Don Sutton in all the years he worked […]

Ninth in a series. Broadcast: Boston Red Sox on New England Sports Network (NESN), Arizona at Red Sox, 6/23/08; Announcers: Don Orsillo (play-by-play), Jerry Remy (analyst), Heidi Watney (reporter, and woman number four so far) Jerry Remy is celebrating twenty years in the Red Sox broadcast booth. We know this because there were at least […]

As a writer for Outsports, I have regular moments of panic when I submit an article and inevitably there is a mistake. Historically, there hasn’t been anything truly major – a type-o here, a misspelling there – yet there is still cause for obsessing. Well, imagine my angst when I realized yesterday that my preview […]

Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano has found himself in some hot water over comments he made that essentially say gay people suck at sports. Via GLAAD’s Web site: “Every time I go to U.S. Cellular, or Comiskey … people start screaming at you and saying all kinds of things, calling you all kind of things. […]