The King of the Hardwood qualifying round has not moved onto the NFL players. Miami Dolphins lineman Jason Taylor is drawing votes in early balloting, but the early leaders are mostly quarterbacks. Vote here and before you do check out the terrific slideshow of all the athletes and the winners of previous elimination rounds. The […]

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 […]

I admit that the charms of NASCAR (or any auto racing) have always eluded me, but I did like the analogy of why one gay Atlanta drag queen, Betty Jack Devine, loves the sport. “Part of what I like about it is the same things I love about opera,” Devine told the Southern Voice. “I’ve […]

Outsports readers have always had a soft spot for quarterback Joey Harrington going back to his days at the University of Oregon. A lot had to do with the fact that he is considered pretty hot and a lot to what seemed like a great personality and his ability to play the piano. A lot […]

Video of a 26-year-old streaker getting decked by Australian cricket player Andrew Symonds during a match in Brisbane. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vje4KhIoAAM] Video of a 26-year-old streaker getting decked by Australian cricket player Andrew Symonds during a match in Brisbane. [youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vje4KhIoAAM]

The question has become an annual ritual: how long will Brett Favre keep playing? He's been nothing less than a diva about making the decision each year — I remember the year when, after weeks of speculation, the Packers quarterback held a press conference to say that he still hadn't made up his mind. However, […]

Some stories just write themselves, such as this pitch Outsports received for “Gods of Sport,” a 224-page pictorial featuring 24 stars of Australian Rules Football and Rugby League. Creatively inspired by the homoeroticism of tough guy movies such as Fight Club, in “Gods of Sport” [photographer] Pedro Virgil conceptually depicts the machismo and sporting combat […]

Oakland Athletics pitcher Lenny DiNardo showed off his pecs for charity during an annual spring training event where players participate as waiters, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Lenny DiNardo, who is known in the A's clubhouse for his chiseled upper body, was induced to do shirtless bare-knuckle pushups on the stage, and he earned […]

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 […]

With two weeks left in qualifying, the next couple of days are devoted to the baseball elimination round in the King of the Hardwood contest to choose the hottest athlete. Cleveland Indians star Grady Sizemore (photo) is among those vying to reach the round of 64. Vote here and before you do check out the […]

"Choir-queer" enters the ring on MTV show By Ross FormanOutsports.com Chris Hendricks is being “made” into a professional wrestler, thanks to some fellow Detroit-area residents who also stars for Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling, the second-biggest wrestling company in the world. Hendricks, 15, of Highland, Mich., is a student at Milford High School, and a […]

News is heating up that New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady will soon be a model for Calvin Klein. Reports Page Six of the New York Post: MOVE over, David Beckham – Tom Brady may soon strip to his skivvies. Calvin Klein Inc. is in talks to turn the hunky Patriots quarterback into an underwear […]

Northern Ireland Sports Minister Edwin Poots wins the award for clueless official of the year after he compared gay sports team to apartheid. Discussing Belfast’s Ulster Titans, a gay rugby team, Poots said: “I just cannot fathom why people see the necessity to develop an apartheid in sport.” “It would be unacceptable to produce an […]

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 […]

Put “Norwegian,” “shirtless” and “wrestlers” together and you get this: For a much larger view of the photo, click here. (On Firefox and IE you can easily zoom in and out by clicking on the photo). This photo is one of dozens on the site of Fritz Aanes, a Norwegian wrestler and Olympian. To see […]

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 […]

Two items that caught my eye today struck me as examples, in their own way, of how money, the "root of all evil," has truly taken a toll on baseball. First up: a cretin named Sam Zell, the current CEO of the Tribune Co., the conglomerate that owns the Chicago Cubs. Zell told CNBC in […]

Lockview High School in Nova Scotia, Canada, has fired its volunteer boys hockey coach after the school discovered that someone altered the players’ bios in the team program. The glossy, magazine-style program contains a picture and short biography of each player, including his future plans. The majority of the write-ups are sexually suggestive. One player’s […]

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 […]

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick is the cover boy for the upcoming issue of the Boston Spirit, the city’s leading gay and lesbian magazine. But, alas, this is not a coming out story. The Evil Genius, sporting his shiny barber smock in the photo, really isn’t the focus of the Spirt cover story. Sadly. […]