Month: October 2013

Applications for the national award are due Nov. 26.

'An Orphan No More' tells the story of a father and an orphan who don't look the same.

College football fans don't need one day a year to dress up or go shirtless and paint themselves to show their school pride. From Florida to Oregon, a little body paint and imagination is all you need. More from Outsports:

Putin specifically welcomes people of any 'sexual orientation' to visit Sochi for the Winter Olympics

Charles Barkley has always made a ton of sense when talking about gay players in the NBA, saying for example that "every player has played with gay guys." So I was very interested to hear his take on the openly gay Jason Collins still being unsigned. He did not disappoint in this wide-ranging Q&A with […]

The summit will be held in February at the University of Richmond

Some homophobe defaced the Wikipedia entry for the St. Louis Cardinals with gay slurs for much of the afternoon Monday. As Deadspin noted, this was a problem for anyone doing a Google search for the team "because Google pulls information on baseball teams from Wikipedia." Here is how the entry read for an undisclosed amount […]

Br{ache The Silence recruits the UConn women to launch their Tour of Champions campaign

The Bucknell University player writes an open letter to people who still see being gay as wrong, a choice or immoral.

The former NFL defensive end made the homophobic comments to WTOP radio

Students and national governing bodies hear about LGBT athletes, while the Warwick Rowing Club again gets naked to fight homophobia

The anti-gay laws in Russia and their relationship to the Olympics continue to be a major story: Olympics: Boycott won't help gay rights, say ski champs | GlobalPostBoycotting the Winter Olympics in Sochi would do little to help gay rights in Russia, the world's top skiers said, asking that sports remain free of politics. Sochi: […]

National Governing Bodies from dozens of sports participated in conversations about gender, disabilities and sexual orientation

The boys of Warwick release photos and a video as a preview of the calendar

Figure skater Johnny Weir made official what had been apparent since he said last month he would not be trying out for the U.S. Olympic team in Sochi, Russia — he's retiring. Weir, 29, announced his retirement at the same time he took a job as an analyst for NBC's Olympics coverage. Anyone hoping that […]

Notre Dame running back Cam McDaniel is getting a lot of Internet attention after this Getty Images photo from the USC game by Jonathan Daniel made the rounds: As the Notre Dame blog One Foot Down put it: "Now, losing one's helmet in the midst of a maelstrom of angry 300-pound armored giants would cause […]

The World Series starts today between the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox, and if there is a patron saint of this series, it's Yogi Bear, not Yogi Berra. Facial hair will be front and center on both teams, with the Red Sox sporting the wilder beards. "The Red Sox have the bigger, fuller […]

A new video series will feature high school athletes, coaches and administrators in Colorado welcoming LGBT people into sports

The Bias Incident Response Team at the University of Mississippi said that 90% of audience members who attended an Oct. 1 performance of "The Laramie Project" have undergone an "educational dialogue" after the play was disrupted and cast members were heckled, including gay slurs. An unknown number of the school's football team were at the […]

Saunders High School head basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo talks about the importance of teamwork in sports and the LGBT sports movement