Month: April 2012

Our friend Kathy Lyford at FoxSports.com has brought us a list of the sexiest players in Major League Baseball. The New York Yankees seem to be the most-represented team (including Robinson Cano, right), followed by the Seattle Mariners. The Phillies, Rays, Cardinals, Angels, Dodgers and Twins all get some good lovin’. Others on the list […]

In March, Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown drove 60 miles to another city to pressure their city council against protecting gay people from discrimination in the workplace. He failed. Now his own city of Lincoln is considering a similar ordinance that would make it illegal to fire someone from being gay. Batten down the […]

AIDS Project Los Angeles has a cool annual fundraiser called Concrete Hero. The event is a 5k obstacle course through Downtown Los Angeles on July 15. There are a couple ways you can help! First, I'm racing in this crazy event on Team Kick A$$ (it's about fundraising, after all), and I would appreciate any […]

Click image for larger view For the first time, an English Premier soccer game was shown on ESPN's main channel. It was a huge match, with first place on the line between Manchester and Manchester City (City won, 1-0). The game started at 2:30 p.m. EDT on a Monday, meaning there was nothing else going […]

Derick White By Derick White I’ll get right to the point. My name is Derick White and I am a former collegiate head coach. I am also gay. I remained in the closet for my entire coaching career because of one simple factor – fear. I will explain this in more detail in a bit, […]

Coby Fleener Stanford tight end Coby Fleener is reunited with Andrew Luck as the Indianapolis Colts selected the two former teammates with their first two picks in the NFL Draft. Our Grindr preview of the NFL Draft had Fleener looking for "More Good Luck," and that's exactly what he got. With Dallas Clark and Jacob […]

In the 10 years the National Center for Lesbian Rights has had their sports project, they have accomplished a hell of a lot. In fact, their work is all over our 100 most important moments in LGBT sports history. Project director Helen Carroll talks about many of the ways they have opened doors for LGBT […]

14 We present our favorite photos of the past sports week. This week’s offerings include the U.S. Olympic wrestling trials, spring college football, soccer, baseball, rugby, Aussie Rules Football and track and field. Click image for larger view (and on that image for an even larger view): 14 We present our favorite photos of the […]

Various sources report that an unidentified NFL scout has called Iowa State offensive tackle Kelechi Osemele soft because “he was raised by women.” NFL.com reports that Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sports reporter Bob McGinn quoted the scout as saying: I just don't know if football is that important to [Osemele]. He was raised by women, which bothers […]

Kate Levering and Serena Williams on set of ‘Drop Dead Diva’ Pro tennis legend Serena Williams guest stars on this season's Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime, and Outsports snagged an exclusive photo of her with one of the show's stars, Kate Levering. Williams plays a lawyer representing Brandy Norwood's character in a custody case against […]

Cesare Claudio Prandelli, manager of Italy’s national soccer team, has written the foreword to a book on homosexuality and sport. Prandelli has been a fixture in the Italian soccer world since the 1970s. In his foreword he talks about the importance of ending homophobia in sports and advocates for athletes to come out: Homophobia is […]

Oakland A’s pitcher Brandon McCarthy has expounded on his stance against homophobia. He previously tweeted about seeing the Kiss Cam mock gay people. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Gwen Knapp covered his latest comments with a great column: “There’s that stupid, little comedic value of it if you don’t really think about what it implies,” he […]

Nebraska assistant football coach Ron Brown said he’ll keep speaking out against gays, even if it costs him his job, but his bosses support him. Brown said in an interview with The Associated Press that “to be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn’t win enough […]

Here is a nice, refreshing story from India, where 2008 Olympic bronze medal boxer Vijender Singh says he enjoys being a gay icon. “It’s nice to be desired,” said the 26-year-old, who will compete in the London Olympics. But how does the angel react to rumors of his link-ups with both men and women and […]

/Baskit/ wear and photographer Thomas Synnamon have teamed up to bring a new ad campaign featuring the beautiful body of former MMA fighter Adam Von Rothfelder (three photos below). A little on Von Rothfelder: Von Rothfelder moved to California in 2009 to pursue his professional career further. He trained with the Body Shop and Antonio […]

I put ‘Presidential’ in quotes because Fred Karger has no chance of becoming the proverbial dog catcher, let along President. The openly gay ‘Presidential’ candidate has released a soft-porn campaign video highlighting shirtless twenty-somethings throwing a Frisbee on a beach. We’re always thrilled to see sports and athletes make their way into the political arena, […]

Former college football captain Brian Sims took a huge step towards becoming the first openly gay member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by apparently unseating longtime Rep. Babette Josephs in the Democratic primary for the Center City and South Philadelphia 182d district. With 87% of the vote counted, Sims had 51.6% (3,661 votes) to […]

Bedford Blues rugger Sacha Harding has gotten lots of attention recently for some revealing photos of himself posing for the cover of Britain’s Gay Times magazine and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. This month, Harding is the cover story for HIVPlus magazine. Harding told the mag that he’s a part of various health campaigns, including […]

We’re thrilled to see two athletes that Outsports introduced to the world, Brian Sims (right) and Galen Dodd, named to the Advocate’s Forty Under 40 list. In Sims case, I guess we “re-introduced” him, as he was a captain of a successful college football team several years before he came out publicly on Outsports. Sims […]

The WTA No. 6 player in the world, Caroline Wozniacki, has released a new dance single titled ‘Oxygen‘ (video below). It’s so good…it’s not even mentioned on her own Web site. Poor thing. Hopefully she’ll stick to tennis from here on out. Brace yourself… Hat tip to Deadspin. The WTA No. 6 player in the […]