Outsports female athlete of the year: Brittney Griner
The WNBA star had a year to remember on and off the court. Speed skater Ireen Wüst and shot putter Tina Hillman are our runners-up.
By Jim Buzinski | December 29, 2014The WNBA star had a year to remember on and off the court. Speed skater Ireen Wüst and shot putter Tina Hillman are our runners-up.
By Jim Buzinski | December 29, 2014Karen Morrison has helped changed the conversation about LGBT people in the NCAA. Nevin Caple has also helped break down barriers in women's sports.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 29, 2014The Outsports editorial staff will hand out six awards to honor the people who helped make change - and in one case the person who stood defiant of said change.
By Outsports | December 26, 2014Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated says the media's handling of Michael Sam was "tactful," with few missteps.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 19, 2014We'll look back at 2014 as another watershed year for LGBT people in sports with at least 109 people coming out publicly.
By Outsports | December 18, 2014Outsports counts down its 25 most-read stories of the year. Only two athletes show up more than once. Can you guess which ones?
By Outsports | December 10, 2014A third of Towleroad's list of comings out from 2014 are from the sports world.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 9, 2014No individual or group of people transformed the conversation around sports - and dominated headlines - for all of 2014 like LGBT people in sports.
By Cyd Zeigler | December 2, 2014Michael Sam, the openly gay defensive end, is acknowledged for the contribution of his coming out to society and sports.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 17, 2014Michael Sam's courage dominated sports news all year long.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 5, 2014Michael Sam accepted ESPN's Arthur Ashe Courage Award for coming out as gay before the NFL Draft. Now he sets out to write the final act in this transformative year in sports.
By Cyd Zeigler | July 17, 2014Gay NFL prospect Michael Sam will accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at ESPN's broadcast of the ESPYs in July.
By Cyd Zeigler | May 7, 2014It's Outsports' third GLAAD Award nomination. Nine nominations are related to sports this year.
By Outsports | January 30, 2014Honorees include Jason & Jarron Collins, Scott Norton, Kirk Walker, Helen Carroll and others. The event also celebrates the first anniversary of StandUp Magazine.
By Cyd Zeigler | November 11, 2013Applications for the national award are due Nov. 26.
By Cyd Zeigler | October 31, 2013This was very cool for Jim and me, to be named by Sports Illustrated as one of the top 100 sports Twitter feeds to follow on Twitter’s fifth birthday. A couple things that jump out at us. First, we’re by far one of the least-followed Twitter feeds on the list; Second is the process by […]
By Cyd Zeigler | July 14, 2011We were thrilled to hear yesterday that Outsports has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for the second year in a row. Jim’s piece last winter that introduced Hudson Taylor to the world was nominated for best Digitial Journalism article along with four other articles. Other sports pieces nominated include two documentary films (Prodigal […]
By Cyd Zeigler | January 21, 2011Outsports was well-represented at the GLAAD Awards in New York City Saturday night. While we didn’t win in the Outstanding Digital Journalism category in which we were nominated, we were very proud to be nominated with in such a strong category (with so many other sports-focused articles). Not only did we not win, we didn’t […]
By Cyd Zeigler | March 15, 2010This weekend are the GLAAD Awards in New York City where the sportiest of their 2010 Awards, Outstanding Digital Journalism-Article, will be handed out. It’s one of a select few awards being handed out on stage this year, which is a nice nod to the sports world. I’ll be attending, and Brian Sims (who inspired […]
By Cyd Zeigler | March 8, 2010