We are now onto Round 3 of the King of the Hardwood qualifying and once again you have the tough job of narrowing a great field down to the final 8. Layne, aka Mariner Duck Guy, the contest's creator, has made Round 3 heavy on Australian Rules Football and hockey. He also added a bull […]

Australian soccer player Andre Gumprecht, who was born in Germany, is in hot water after dressing up as Hitler during a celebration. Gumprecht wore his costume as part of a “Mad Monday” celebration to end the season. He will be disciplined after Jewish groups complained. Gumprecht, 33, attended a post-Grand Final ceremony on Monday for […]

The Florida Marlins, whose attendance has floundered for much (if not most) of the team's existence, have come up with a new strategy to lure people to Dolphins Stadium. Tryouts were being held Sunday for a new all-male cheerleading squad. The new cheerleaders will perform at Friday and Saturday home games during the season. I'm […]

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 […]

The next four days, if you want to look at hot, young, athletic men in skimpy clothes grunting and straining, put down the latest Falcon video and set your DVR to the NFL Network. The channel, owned by the league, has wall-to-wall coverage of the annual flesh fest known as the NFL Combine, a place […]

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 […]

Some videos for your weekend amusement: → An Australian streaker down the stretch of the horse race. → Behind the scenes at Reggie Bush’s GQ photoshoot. → King of the Hardwood contestant Linus Thornblad with a great high jump. → Hot not to work out your abs – having your friend pound on them with […]

A prediction: 36 to 48 months from now, at least one moronic pundit will go on and on about how those horrible Philly fans ran Ryan Howard out of town. Yes, just like with Curt Schilling, Scott Rolen, Charles Barkley, etc., the so-called expert will make that proclamation when Howard becomes a free agent and […]

Track and field athletes like pole vaulter Denis Goossens (check out Paul van der Linde’s photo gallery) highlight voting for Round 2 of the King of the Hardwood contest. Vote for who you think are the hottest jocks as the field gets winnowed to 64. There is still time to vote for the athletes in […]

From an interview in Chicago’s Windy City Times with Michael Weiss, a competitive figure skater now doing ice shows: WCT: Figure skating is often stereotyped as a “gay” sport. Do you have any comment on that? MW: Like with any stereotype, it's about not understanding the sport. Figure skating certainly has its share of gay […]

The most e-mailed story on the New York Times website Thursday dealt with the declining popularity of golf among the masses. Fewer people are playing, citing money and the time it takes to play a round. Jim Kass, the research director of the National Golf Foundation, an industry group, said the gradual but prolonged slump […]

Hours after writing the post below about Spanish soccer star Jose Maria Gutierrez Hernandez being caught by a tabloid kissing a man outside a restaurant, I came across evidence that he might have been kissing a woman with a very short haircut. Some reports on various soccer websites say that “Guti” was kissing the daughter […]

I had fun watching the Daytona 500 on Sunday. Lots of horse races prepares you a little for auto-racing. The strategies are fairly similar. After the horses leave the gate, the drivers — er, jockeys — save their mounts for the final craziness as they’re peeling out of the final turn. So the last 10 […]

(Update note: Read this followup that suggests he might have been kissing a woman). Original report: Jose Maria Gutierrez Hernandez, a soccer player for the elite Real Madrid team in Spain, is in the news after being caught by a tabloid kissing another man outside a restaurant (“Guti” is the guy on the left in […]

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, […]

For many New York Giants, there are advantages to winning a Super Bowl. From Rush & Malloy in the New York Daily News: The ladies at Scores West danced adoringly for big-tipping Ahmad Bradshaw. … Meanwhile, the strippers at Rick's Cabaret are offering free lap dances to all Giants. "They've spent a fortune here," says […]

On July 13, 2007, French long jumper Salim Sdiri was warming up near the infield at a meet in Rome when Finnish javelin thrower Tero Pitkamaki let one fly. His toss was errant and hit Sdiri in the back. Sdiri shouted and twisted. He grabbed at the javelin protruding from his body, then released his […]