Month: January 2009

He has nicknames like “Wolfman” and “Teen Wolf,” but rugger David Williams is one of the hottest things going. He is a young 22 years old and plays for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League of Australia. He got the nicknames for growing long locks and a shaggy beard, but he’s since […]

During the St. Louis Rams’ two runs to the Super Bowl, one wife somehow grabbed the attention of the TV cameras more than any in a long time. Kurt Warner’s wife Brenda seemed to the Georgia Frontiere of the Warner family, even though Warner was taking home MVP trophies. The cameras at the Super Bowl […]

The British tabloid The News of the World is getting attention for its “scoop” that shows American swimmer Michael Phelps smoking pot at a party in Columbia, S.C., in November. The story was given a prominent link via red type on the Drudge Report. (Phelps has now apologized; see below) This is the astonishing picture […]

Spain’s Fernando Verdasco lost a five-set marathon semifinal match to Rafael Nadal in 5 hours, 14 minutes, the longest in the history of the Australian Open. In reading about the match and then doing a search, I was reminded that Verdasco posed last year for Cosmo (image here) and the ATP even did a video […]

Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller came into the conscience of many gay people when he pulled Brokeback Mountain from the movie theaters he owned. Now comes news that Miller has had both of his legs amputated 6 inches below the knee due to complications related to diabetes. Many have wondered what he may have said […]

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. It's been a while since a Super Bowl featured two teams of such contrasting styles. Not even Colts-Bears fits the bill; I'd say you have to go back to the Rams-Patriots […]

Instant classic . . . Hat tip to Sam L. Instant classic . . . Hat tip to Sam L.

Who’s the hottest hunk playing in Super Bowl XLIII? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution offers its eight choices in a photo gallery and a chance for you to vote on whether they are hot (or not). Among the choices is Hines Ward, Ben Roethlisberger, Kurt Warner (photo) and Mike Tomlin. If you like your men a little […]

In honor of the big game, here is the latest Super Bowl by Dylan Edwards, a cartoonist for Outsports who has now landed a book deal thanks to his work that appeared here. We are so happy for Dylan and invite you to check out his Outsports cartoon archive. In honor of the big game, […]

The Gods of Football have come out with a behind-the-scenes trailer video. Wow. It's all for charity, mind you! Hat tip to Aussielicious. The Gods of Football have come out with a behind-the-scenes trailer video. Wow. It's all for charity, mind you! Hat tip to Aussielicious.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was live on the Michael Irvin Show today from the Super Bowl’s radio row, where the show has been broadcasting from all week. Irvin and his partner Kevin Kiley wasted no time jumping right in with questions for Rodgers about Brett Favre. Rodgers said he has tried to reach […]

The Dallas Cowboys slapped tight end Martellus Bennett with a $22k fine for his cuss-word and epithet-filled rap that was yanked quickly off of Youtube, which is about a dollar for every person who watched the video. Now Bennett has a new rap “apologizing” for the first rap: Why they hatin on me, it was […]

The 2009 World Outgames kick off with the Opening Ceremony in Copenhagen on Saturday, July 25. As the clock ticks down on training for the anticipated 8,000 sporting participants, writer Ross Forman will be profiling Outgames athletes over the next six months in a new continuing series: The Outgames Athletes. To kick off the series, […]

Ian Thorpe, the now chubby Australian swimming icon, grabbed his public megaphone and declared again today that he’s not gay. Thorpe again came out as not gay to address media speculation that he’s in more than a bromance with housemate Daniel Mendes after the two were photographed on holiday in Brazil. “In the past, on […]

CBC hockey commentator Mike Milbury is in hot water with a gay-rights group over his coining of the term “pansificiation.” He has used it a couple times on air to describe what will happen to the NHL if the league kowtows to calls for a ban on fighting. Egale Canada is picking up the fight, […]

Whether cheerleading is a sport at all could be the subject of great debate. But that’s just small potatoes: The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that cheerleading is a contact sport, just like football, and under Wisconsin law, you can’t sue someone for accidental injury in a contact sport. The case was brought by Brittany […]

Is it just me, or does this Super Bowl have all the makings of a snoozer? No disrespect to the two teams involved, but I can’t remember a Super Bowl I had less interest in. For each of the last seven years, I feel we’ve been blessed with great storylines, heroes and villains headed into […]

It's not usually proper form to smack your teammate in the balls after he scores a goal. Details from Off the Post. It's not usually proper form to smack your teammate in the balls after he scores a goal. Details from Off the Post.

Nine years after John Rocker was suspended from baseball for racist and anti-gay slurs, he’s still at it. Before allegedly being tossed from the grand opening of a new W Hotel in Buckhead near Atlanta, Rocker reportedly called local sports talk show host Steak Shapiro a ‘Jew faggot.’ "[Faggot] is one of his favorite terms […]