Cyd Zeigler

Brown University water polo player Hank Weintraub is setting an example for gay athletes on campus everywhere By Dan Woog Hank Weintraub is a gay athlete. He kicks, scratches, elbows and grabs opponents’ balls. That makes him no different than any straight athlete playing water polo. In that game, anything goes, so long as officials […]

It struck me as pretty cool Monday evening when I heard the name announced at the end of the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament that it is a gay man now singing “One Shining Moment” every early April on CBS. Luther Vandross was quietly gay (tough to call him closeted) before he died; and very soon […]

Tennessee won the women’s NCAA basketball championship last night in a truly dominating performance against Stanford. Tennessee played great, led by Candace Parker (right), and they were helped out by a pitiful 24 turnovers (many of them unforced) by Stanford. Watching the game, I had mixed feelings. It was the first women’s college basketball game […]

Adam Goslin came out as a two-sport athlete at Washington University. Now he's returned to his high school as a coach.

This came in last week from Pat Griffin of It Takes A Team. If you’re a non-heterosexual coach (or former), definitely contact the researcher; we can’t get enough of this kind of research going. Looking for Non-Heterosexual Coaches for Research Study Are you interested in participating in a research study examining female collegiate coaches work […]

Bill Buckner and the ’86 Red Sox. Jean Van de Velde and the ’99 British Open. Memphis Tigers and the ’08 National Championship. Up 9 points with two minutes left, Memphis completed one of the great choke jobs in sports history Monday night, losing in overtime to the Kansas Jayhawks. Missed free throws. A key […]

Should the NCAA be taking a position on the (reportedly) heavily lesbian fanbase headed to the women’s Final Four in Tampa Bay this weekend? That’s the subject of an article by Orlando Sentinel columnist Shannon Owens today, for which I was interviewed. We chatted for about a half hour on the subject yesterday and both […]

Almost as deeply as he’s fought for gay civil rights, Mixner bleeds silver and black By Cyd Zeigler jr. Few gay-rights activists have a more colorful and impactful history than David Mixner (just ask his old pal, former President Bill Clinton). He was a founding member of the nation's first gay Political Action Committee, got […]

A girl on a field trip to Fenway Park got buzzed by a red-tailed hawk on Thursday. The girl’s name: Alexa Rodriguez. Think the red-tailed hawk is a Red Sox fan? The girl’s fine, despite the hawk drawing a little blood from her scalp. The hawk has been nesting in the park and even has […]

Ohio State beat UMass for the NIT title Thursday night at Madison Square Garden. There was a time when the NIT meant something. Even as late as 1970, the NIT championship was regarded as a legitimate claim to a national championship. Since then, it’s become the race to see who’s the best team of those […]

SoapNet, the Disney-owned cable network that has been airing reruns of daytime and old school soap operas for years, has announced its second original program; this one based on the wives of professional hockey players. From The Hollywood Reporter: “MVP: The Secret Lives of Hockey Wives” (working title), produced by Toronto-based Screen Door, revolves around […]

The gay movie featuring a couple of surfers who fall in love, Shelter, finished last weekend making $28,210 on six screens, according to Boxoffiemojo.com. But according to John Cleland in the marketing department at here!, the film actually grossed around $31,000 on seven screens because some tracking numbers don’t count a theater in New York […]

Miami Dolphins star defensive end Jason Taylor is tearing up the dance for this season on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. But the NFL hasn’t exactly embraced their star’s stellar appearance on the show, says Yahoo Sports columnist Michael Silver. He offers several reasons this might be, one of which harkens back to a particular […]

The Women’s Final Four is headed to Tampa Bay this weekend, and following suit will be scores of lesbian basketball fans. At least, so says the St. Petersburg Times, which said in an article that local businesses are banking on it. Starting Friday, Tampa will become a national epicenter for gay women, thousands of whom […]

Orlando, Fla, seems to have a problem with men’s nipples. A giant billboard in the city for WrestleMania XXIV yesterday featured some of the top draws of the event – including John Cena, Big Show and boxer Floyd Mayweather (right) – with their nipples airbrushed out. -Cyd Zeigler jr. Towleroad: Orlando orders male nipples erased […]

The NFL is set to for a couple announcements about their kickoff game that has traditionally been the Thursday after Labor Day for the last few years. It seems the game will feature the Washington Redskins at the New York Giants this year; the last Super Bowl winner has hosted the last few. But the […]

By Cyd Zeigler jr. Shelter(3 stars out of 4)here! FilmsRunning Time: 88 minutesRelease Date: March 28 in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Palm SpringsThere are enough shallow, stereotypical, light-on-character gay movies out there to line Southern California beaches from Malibu to San Diego. Since its inception, here! TV has brought us a […]

You’ve got to wonder what Dale Earnhardt’s public relations people were thinking when they were pitched a candy bar called Big Mo’. Regardless of where the apostrophe is, it seems like an odd choice for the name of a candy bar. But, I guess his gay fans can hope . . . . -Cyd Zeigler […]

Yes, there are haters even in golf. Tiger Woods lost his first PGA match since September 3. That was almost seven months ago. He finished two shots back Monday morning in the rain-delayed completion of the final round at Doral. It seems there’s always some two-bit golfer ready to pile on when Woods loses (and, […]

Longtime friend of Outsports (and speaker at our first convention many years ago) Helen Carroll (right) today let us know about a segment of ESPN’s Outside the Lines this Sunday that will tackle the issue of negative recruiting in women’s sports and how it hurts lesbians. From Helen’s email: In October 2006, NCLR co-hosted an […]