Month: March 2012

Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin Herm Edwards has complained that the Saints' search for an interim head coach has not included any black coaches. The NFL's "Rooney Rule" requires that a minority candidate be interviewed for every vacant head coaching position. The Saints is an interesting situation, and it will be interesting to see what […]

Charles Barkley, the venerable Round Mound of Rebound, decided to drop some of his mound and slim down. He lost 42 pounds with Weight Watchers, and now he wants other guys to join him. So he put on a dress (video below). It’s a nice dress, maybe a little modest. But nice. Though I’m not […]

John-Michael-Liles Xtra, the Canadian gay and lesbian wesbite, has a video with three members of the Toronto Maple Leafs discussing how they would deal with having a gay teammate. Luke Schenn, Mike Komisarek and John-Michael Liles don't have anything groundbreaking to say, but that they're discussing it at all is cool. We have heard countless […]

Martin Kaymer is one reason to watch golf Outsports reader Kenneth Burns has a fun, breezy article in the Isthmus, a Madison, Wisc., weekly, on how he became hooked on golf. Part of it is the nature of the sport, part of it is the clothes and part of it is how the golfers look […]

Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano was the target of an extortion attempt by a former high school classmate. According to the Meriden (Conn.) Record-Journal, Christian Bedard, 36, contacted Pavano’s sister, Michelle DeGennaro, claiming he had a three-year “emotional and physical relationship” with the big league pitcher while the two where in high school. From the […]

Colin Clark (Photo: Kelvin Kuo-US PRESSWIRE) Major League Soccer has handed down the punishment to Colin Clark of the Houston Dynamo for calling a ball boy a "faggot" — a three-game suspension with pay, a fine and he must undergo sensitivity training. From MLSoccer.com: “Major League Soccer will not tolerate this type of behavior from […]

To celebrate its 45th anniversary this year, The Advocate has named one hero for every year the publication has been around. In a powerful statement about the importance of sports in our movement, three athletes are included in the list. Figure skater Rudy Galindo, one of the very few male athletes who came out during […]

U.S. Olympic gymnast Paul Hamm announced his retirement yesterday, as he tried to make it back to the Olympics for the first time since 2004; He missed 2008 with an injury. Hamm said his body, at 29 years old, simply couldn’t handle the rigors of training, and that he faced more injuries. I talked to […]

Tebow at his Jets press conference (Photo: Ed Mulholland-US PRESSWIRE) The New York Times has a terrific piece on Tim Tebow and religion, headlined "Tebow, a Careful Evangelical." The story by Mary Pilon and our friend John Branch discusses how careful Tebow is to sidestep almost any question on a controversial issue. He did a […]

Johnny Weir was at the same time the “sparkliest” and the sportiest thing (would you have it any other way?) on the red carpet at the GLAAD Media Awards Saturday night in New York City. He attended the event with his new husband, attorney Victor Voronov. The two showed off their wedding rings (Johnny’s is […]

When Mickey Rourke announced his plans to portray Gareth Thomas in a biopic about the gay rugger, many questioned how the 59-year-old would play the character of a super-fit professional athlete in his early 30s. Over the weekend it seemed Rourke had finally decided that playing a character half his age was too much for […]

Abercrombie & Fitch has cut out the heterosexual pretense with two sports-themed ads from Bruce Weber that show guys and nothing but guys. These guys are — of course — young, shirtless (and all white), and they are wrestling around. One of the ads says, “Other sports require one ball, wrestling requires two.” There is […]

Brad Keselowski drives for MillerCoors, which gets 100. Some may think of rampant homophobia when the top if NASCAR comes up, but that's much more about the stereotypical fan than the people in the sport. Queers4gears did a review of HRC's Corporate Equality Index and found the companies participating in NASCAR are much more pro-gay […]

Dave Kopay started paving the way in the ’70s Slate.com asked its readers to predict when a professional male athlete in the United States will come out of the closet. The average: October 2014. The most common guess was June 2013, with the majority of voters saying it will be by the spring of 2014. […]

The Team Britain Olympic uniforms, designed by Stella McCartney, were unveiled to some critical reviews. The chief complaint — there was not enough red in them and they were so blue they looked too Scottish. And sports psychologists said the lack of red was a competitive mistake. Professor Robert Barton co-authored a report in 2005, […]

Colin Clark (Photo: Kelvin Kuo-US PRESSWIRE) Major League Soccer is investigating Friday's incident where Houston Dynamo player Colin Clark called a ball boy a "faggot" during a game in Seattle. Clark was mad that the ball boy threw in a ball low, forcing him to bend down to pick it up. Via Twitter, Clark said […]

Colin Clark (Photo: Drew Hallowell / Getty Images) Colin Clark, a midfielder for the Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer, apologized on his Twitter feed after calling a ball boy a "faggot" during a game Friday in Seattle (video below). From the AP via ESPN.com: Clark … can be seen in a video replay jogging […]

From Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario comes a fantastic story about a gay athlete and his redeemed college volleyball team. Bryan Fautley had quit the team in 2010 because he was closeted and could not handle the casual homophobia on his team. When the coach found out the reason for his resignation, she changed the […]

The biggest beneficiaries of the Tim Tebow trade to the New York Jets are the media, specifically the tabloids. In the two days since the trade, the New York Post has used “God him,” “Halo, New York” and “Love Thy Backup” in headlines. The New York Daily News had the Statue of Liberty Tebowing (right). […]

Sunil Babu Pant in Nepal The story of Nepal's first "gay Olympics" got a lot of attention from the mainstream press this week: The Wall Street Journal:“Welcome to South Asia’s Most LGBT-Friendly Country” – this may well become the new motto for Nepal, which is set to host the region’s first sports competition for the […]