Cyd Zeigler

Logo’s show about gay basketball team the “Rock Dogs” has a new title: “Shirts and skins.” I’m still holding out hope that producer Bill Kendall (right, in white t-shirt) will be able to steer the show in the right direction and not let people who are sports-senseless drive its direction. But the cliche, homoerotic title […]

Why does ESPN even have “experts” picking to talk about the NCAA tournament? Their insight is no better (actually, it’s worse) than simply looking at the seedings. Last year, we heard “look out for Long Beach State,” which got dismantled by Tennessee in the first round. This year, ESPN had five “experts” pick their Elite […]

Insufferable is the word that comes to mind when listening to ESPN’s screaming heads talk about anything these days, but the worst of the worst is their analysis of the NCAA basketball tournament. Like clockwork, Dick Vitale has found a team that has somehow been “wronged” by the selection committee in Arizona State. Because they […]

I guess the rumors of Tom Brady in his favorite pair of Calvins hasn’t sat well in the Manning clan. It’s now being rumored that Giants quarterback Eli Manning will model 2xist underwear in an upcoming campaign. It would make Manning the second Giant to model the gay-targeted (even if they say it’s not) underwear […]

Last night I caught former Indiana and Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight’s debut as a college b’ball analyst on ESPN. On a network that has become full of analysis-free screaming heads, Knight was a refreshing change of pace. He analyzed the games at hand in a way that showed deep knowledge of the game […]

By Cyd Zeigler jr. My worst fears about Eleven Men Out (originally released in Iceland in 2005 as Strákarnir okkar) was that it would be another Guys & Balls where a gay team of misfits somehow wins the World Cup (OK, the latter didn’t go quite that far, but it might as well have). While […]

By Dan Woog They were good. But they grew up, went to college, got jobs, came to terms with being gay, and had no time to smash a little white ball across a small green table. Eventually, though, they realized that life is more than going to work and clubs. They came back to Ping-Pong. […]

Tennessee Vols women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt apparently dislocated her shoulder this week chasing a beaver raccoon from her house. Said Summitt: “When I realized what could have happened, it almost brought me to tears. It wasn’t very smart on my part.” It’s a lesson women everywhere can learn from. When a beaver raccoon presents […]

Gotta love Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ message to fans over the weekend: “I’m not Brett Favre.” I haven’t exactly hidden my distaste for Favre on this Web site. I’ve never forgiven him for beating the Patriots in the Super Bowl some years ago. I had been hoping the Patriots would have been able to […]

Harvard has decided to ban men from certain gyms during some hours, catering to Muslim women who don’t feel comfortable exercising in front of men. The sexist policy certainly brings up fears of a slippery slope. If women can get men banned from gyms, why not ban blacks from gyms at certain times because some […]

NFL reporters really should just follow the players and take the offseason off. Or go scoop ice cream on the Jersey shore. Or put on a Goofy suit in Orlando. Or go cover cricket in Australia. Any of that would be more of a contribution to us all than the job they do covering the […]

ESPN has gotten hit-or-miss with their fan-voting contests that seem to creep up every few months. Their “Who’s now” contest was completely absurd and got no one talking. At least a few people are watching their “Greatest Sports Highlight of All Time” competition. It’s (yet another) NCAA-tournament-style contest pitting their top sports highlights against one […]

Grant Wahl at CNNSI.com examines the overly negative attacks that college basketball fans are levying on visiting players. He focuses particularly on the anti-gay chants and messages that some of these vulgar sociopaths are using to make those visiting players feel like crap: There may not be nearly as many ­incidents of racism and anti-Semitism […]

Scott Jordan, the St. Bonaventure swimmer who came out on Outsports in January, won two Atlantic 10 titles at the conference championships last weekend. He was the second leg of the winning 200-yard medley relay for St. Bonaventure; and he won his third consecutive conference title in the 100-yard breaststroke. He also finished second in […]

I’m not a huge golf fan per se. I enjoy playing it, despite the lack of birdies in my game. I enjoy watching a good, close match. But when Tiger Woods is in the hunt on a Sunday, it’s must-see TV for me. I’d take it over an NBA playoff game or the Wimbledon finals. […]

ESPN.com columnist and very good friend of Outsports LZ Granderson was gay-bashed in New Orleans last weekend while there for the NBA All-Star game. As he says in his column, he (ironically) was on his way to the Playboy party when he came across a group of guys who didn’t like how tight his shirt […]

I’m sure this was originally written for John Elway, Dan Marino and Joe Montana, but I certainly got a chuckle out of the 2007 version . . . Three quarterbacks, Peyton Manning, Tony Romo and Tom Brady, go to heaven to visit God to watch the Celtics play a game. God decides who will sit […]

Total Nonstop Action wrestling is making a tour of New York this weekend. It might not seem like a big deal, but it’s of interest to me for a couple reasons, not the least of which is how incredibly gay-friendly TNA and the TNA wrestlers have been in recent years. I did an interview with […]

Patricia Nell Warren, who writes a series for Outsports about gay-sports history and who contributes to this blog, is writing a two-part piece for Pat Griffin’s “It Takes A Team” about her experiences and observations about the influence of sports on the perception of gender and sexuality. It’s been a common theme in many of […]

By Dan Woog It's been over two decades since the winds of queer change swept through college campuses. Across America, universities now sponsor GLBT centers, offer gender studies programs, and pledge never to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. "Out" has become the new "in" – everywhere, that is, except the locker room. Finally, […]