Cyd Zeigler

Becky Hammon, who plays for the WNBA’s San Antonio Silver Stars, has stirred up controversy with her announcement that she’ll play in the Olympics for Russia. Born and raised in the U.S., she also plays professional basketball in Russia and became a Russian citizen to help her basketball career. Now the U.S. women’s basketball coach, […]

In case you missed it, the U.S. Open is going to a fifth day on Monday as Tiger Woods hit a 12-foot birdie putt (that nearly missed the hole) on the 18th hole to force a playoff with 45-year-old Rocco Mediate. It was another memorable fourth round on Sunday. Tiger entered up a shot, but […]

I’ve gotta say, I’m loving the controversy that Tim Donaghy’s confession about the NBA telling referees to cheat is stirring up. For anyone watching the NBA over the last eight to 10 years, this can’t be much of a surprise. It seems everyone remembers that Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals in which […]

By Northwest Quest staff It’s summer time and the living is easy. Especially so this summer in Seattle where the snowcapped mountains reach high into blue skies and cries of “Play Ball!” echo across the championship-caliber softball fields surrounding the “Emerald City”. The attention of the Gay softball world will be focused on Seattle the […]

Oregon State coach is only out male Division 1 head coach Outsports readers have spoken, and Oregon State head softball coach Kirk Walker is the first inductee of the Outsports Coaches Hall of Fame. The award is part of Logo's NewNowNext Awards, airing now on Logo and available on the NewNowNext Web site. Voting took […]

The gay party to be at in Manhattan Thursday night was openly gay former high school football player Corey Johnson. Corey’s a good friend of Outsports and helped us win a gold medal in football at the Gay Games in 2006. I tease Corey that he is the true mayor of New York, and you […]

Gay-sports championship season started in earnest Memorial Day weekend with the NAGVA (volleyball) championships in Miami. Possibly the biggest of those championships is the Gay Softball World Series, of which Outsports is a proud media sponsor this year. This year the event is in Seattle, Aug. 22-30. They’ve got a great Web site for the […]

This was the full-page cover ad on the latest issue of Ad Age. It certainly raise a couple eyebrows when people walked into my office and saw the pic of this guy sitting on my desk for the better part of last week. It’s an ad for SoapNet’s scripted show MVP, a Canadian production about […]

Twenty-one years after the last time Bird and Magic met in the NBA Finals, the green and yellow will meet in the Finals. It’s been talked about since mid-season when the Lakers got Gasol and they started streaking. One of the things I find nice is that, because these two teams haven’t been there against […]

Mariah Carey was in Japan promoting her new album this week, so one of her handlers (not Benny Medina, we’re told) decided to get her a stint throwing out the opening pitch of a baseball game there. Of course, someone might have wanted to explain that the goal was to get the ball to the […]

A freak injury leads to a magical football season for this out Disney exec By Rich Ross Editor's note: I met Rich Ross in 1997 when I was working at Disney Channel. From the day I met him, he became a mentor and a friend, helping guide me along many major decisions in my life […]

New golf-themed gay movie connects on some swings, flubs key strokes By Mark Kari Director: Chip HaleWriter: Charlie DavidStarring: Charlie David, Derek Baynham, Dan Payne, Thea GillOfficial website: http://www.mulligansthemovie.com/ In golf, if a player flubs his tee shot he may be given a second chance by his playing partners and be allowed to shoot again […]

In America, we’ve had corporations buy the naming rights to stadiums. We’ve had them enter into exclusive partnerships with leagues. We’ve even had them buy teams and name them after themselves (the New York Red Bulls being the most recent). Now the WNBA is selling leaguewide space on their jerseys; and the first buyer is […]

This picture was posted at blogxilla a few days ago. It’s Tennessee Titans QB Vince Young shirtless at a party. Obviously, he’s surrounded by lots of dudes with their shirts off. So a site called The Online Wire posted a cropped, shrunken pic in which you couldn’t really tell that any women were there (looks […]

Photographer Jeff Sheng looking for out high school and collegiate athletes for his book and project By Cyd Zeigler jr. For several years now, a young photographer named Jeff Sheng has been crossing the nation looking for out gay and lesbian high school and collegiate athletes. His goal is to photograph 100 athletes before putting […]

As Goodell told reporters after meeting with Matt Walsh: “I don’t know where else I would turn.” Of course, the memory of this whole episode will live with Patriots fans and Patriots haters for years to come. But it’s clear we’ve seen the last of this. Sorry Rams fans: You lost the Super Bowl fair […]

If Jason Taylor can dance, can Terrell Owens act? We’ll find out Wednesday when he makes his thespian debut on MyNetworkTV’s “Under One Roof” with one of the few people who act crazier than T.O.: Flavor Flav. Could the pom-pom-waving one be headed to a career in Hollywood when he’s done in Dallas? “If I’m […]

Could a drag queen possibly have a future as a New York Jet cheerleader? In an interview with WNYC, Denise Garvey, director of the New York Jets flight crew (i.e., their cheer squad) left the door open to some guys in skirts shaking more than their pom-poms: GARVEY: We don’t have any strict requirements. No […]

Logo's NewNowNext has created a series of awards recognizing the best of the best in today and tomorrow's gay culture. They're recognizing blogs, music artists, actors, TV shows and much more. They approached us several weeks ago asking us whom we'd like to honor in the sports world; the choice was easy for us. Athletes […]

It seems former Patriots videographer Matt Walsh, who’s said he has a smoking gun that will indict the Patriots, doesn’t have much more than a tired, used water pistol. According to the NYT, he handed over eight tapes to the NFL that show the Patriots videotaping offensive and defensive signals: Charges the League has already […]