Month: November 2013

Your Thanksgiving week offerings includes twins from Australia, both drafted by Aussie Rules Football teams; college football and basketball; soccer; and a kickboxer breaking a balloon filled with water. More from Outsports Follow @outsports Follow @SBNation Things we give thanks for in 2013 gay sports This year’s 10 biggest turkeys in LGBT sports Alan Gendreau […]

The kicker's voice is as strong as his leg, and he shows it off in his cover of Michael Buble's 'Home'

Athletes and coaches, like Phil Jackson, MMA fighters and the Ole Miss football team, said and did really stupid anti-LGBT things this year. Here's just a smattering.

Like offensive linemen, the role of straight allies is to create opportunities for LGBT people, not themselves

Here are things we are thankful for in 2013 in the gay sports world: Nick Symmonds thanks his gay friends after winning medal. Symmonds won the silver medal in the 800 meters at the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow. This was just weeks after Russia passed draconian anti-gay legislation. After the race, Symmonds […]

Adam Weinstein, a writer for Gawker and other sites, writes a chilling account of his days as a writing instructor at Florida State University and the culture of entitlement around the football program. Most disturbing is the gay instructor whose student — who plays in the defensive secondary on the team — wrote a personal […]

Mike Freeman exposes reported cold feet by an NFL team and player, and a conspiracy by some teams and the NFL to track gay players

Former Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Shawn Andrews says his time with the team was a "living hell," and he blames his then-quarterback Donovan McNabb for being part of a group that teased him and spread rumors he was gay. McNabb denied the accusations Andrews made. In an article in Sync Weekly online in his hometown […]

Mike Freeman, a longtime NFL reporter now with Bleacher Report, writes that a gay NFL player was ready to come out this offseason but a team that offered him a contract backed out fearing the media and public attention. Freeman does not name the player, nor does he know who the player is, and says […]

With the fight for marriage equality heating up in Oregon, the state's biggest company has gotten fully behind it

Despite saying that Fox isn't the better fighter and has disadvantages, Evans-Smith doesn't think Fox should fight women

The duo wore their suits as a Halloween costume and liked it so much they did it again.

Like the ‘controversial' no-call in the Super Bowl, the whiners want the refs to do their team's dirty work

His NFL career ended prematurely due to injuries and his not wanting to hide. Bryant takes a shot at Jason Collins and speculates on when a gay player will come out.

While Eastern Michigan fired coach Ron English for a gay slur (and for having a terrible record), a Rhode Island high school has embraced trans coach Stephen Alexander

Vitaly Mutko, the minister of sports in Russia, says his country should have waited until after the Olympics to pass anti-gay legislation because of the reaction from the West. "Perhaps the state authorities should have waited a little," Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko was quoted as saying by the RBK business newspaper on Monday. "It […]

High school basketball coach says the locker room isn't all it's cracked up to be

The new Web site is a strong resource for trans athletes

Today's roundup of gay sports news hits a lot of different angles. Soccer Star Robbie Rogers — Dating the Guy Who Created 'Arrow' | TMZ.comL.A. Galaxy stud Robbie Rogers — the first active openly gay male athlete in major U.S. team sports — has got himself a boyfriend … and the guy is a pretty […]

After sitting on the shelves for a dozen years, the rainbow on the Hawaii uniforms is back