The director of Eleven Men Out, the 2005 film about a soccer player who reveals that he’s gay and is promptly kicked off his team, is among the judges of a poster competition spotlighting homophobia in soccer. (The DVD was recently reviewed by Cyd Zeigler.) The contest is being conducted by an Austrian group to […]

I want to go to Davidson College. Like right now. Not a second later. You see, the school is going a little crazy with this Sweet 16 stuff, and now wants its students to be in Detroit for Friday’s showdown with Wisconsin. How badly? Well, badly enough: The school sent out this email, one reported […]

So I realize there’s a lot of Joe Alexander fans on this board, many disappointed his Mountaineers are out of the tournament. For you, I’ll allow a moment of silence. Ok, moment’s over. Here's why you should root for the scrappy bunch of ballers that knocked off Joey A and his mountain men, the Xavier […]

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 […]

The San Francisco Rock Dogs, defending Gay Games gold medal team, took on the San Francisco Rumble of the American Basketball Association Tuesday night in an exhibition game at Kezar Recreation Center in San Francisco. The game was taped for the LOGO cable channel’s documentary series “Rock Dogs: Shirts & Skins,” due to air this […]

Diana Taurasi makes a reported $49,000 a year as a star for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. That’s walking around money compared to her salary playing in Russia before mostly empty arenas of non-paying customers. Her Russian team pays her 10 times her WNBA salary. Shabtai von Kalmanovic, who spent time in an Israeli prison on […]

Former NBA basketball player John Amaechi, who came out as gay a year ago, says he was inspired to make his move by Sir Ian McClellan. "I nearly just decided not to ever go back to America and just stay here and say "let them froth around in their own mess," but I went to […]

A 5,000-word profile in the New York Times Magazine takes a hard look at the underground fight club Felony Fights and the mixed martial arts world through the eyes of Shad Smith, a professional fighter with a long criminal resume. He’s also gay, a piece of his personality that writer Paul Wachter explores but does […]

The new high-tech swimsuit is making waves after a slew of world records have been set by swimmers wearing them. It’s the $800 swimming costume that has rocked the sport from its foundations. Australian coach of the year Stephan Widmer warned swimming’s governing body, FINA, to police any further development of Speedo’s controversial LZR Racer. […]

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 […]

An intrepid reporter at azcentral.com has uncovered the edgy and increasingly acceptable phenomenon known as bromance, defined in this article as “the complicated love and affection shared by two straight males.” I read this and thought, why does it have to be between straight males? I’d say I’ve been wrapped up in a few bromances, […]

Can’t get enough of Joe Alexander? We don’t get to see him in action again until Thursday when West Virginia, the team that sent Duke packing, will face Sweet 16 draw Xavier. In the meantime, the NY Times has profiled the intriguing, basketball-obsessed star who has caused many to take a second look. Last season, […]

Via Deadspin comes this image from a Duke college basketball message board. It was after Duke lost to West Virginia and was bounced from the NCAA men’s tournament. And all we hear is how classy the Duke fans are: Via Deadspin comes this image from a Duke college basketball message board. It was after Duke […]

So the first weekend wasn’t too bad: Took Thursday and Friday off, watched dozens of hours of hoops on my brother’s snazzy HD wide screen TV, saw my Xavier Musketeers roll through two games, enjoyed Western Kentucky and Davidson rolling to the Sweet 16, and yelled at Billy Packer more than any man should be […]

The 85,000 mile Olympic torch relay began today in Greece and is scheduled to pass through 134 cities on five continents, including stops on the summit of Mt. Everest and in the Himalayan town of Lhasa, where Chinese authorities used deadly force to break up pro-independence protests last week. The flame lighting ceremony was briefly […]

Chicago Bulls coach Jim Boylan had a novel way of showing player Andres Nocioni all was forgiven. Andres Nocioni was standing in front of a media throng after practice Monday, apologizing again for his outburst Saturday toward interim coach Jim Boylan, when Boylan snuck up from behind and planted a wet one on Nocioni’s cheek. […]

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, […]

The other day Jim Buzinski offered up an idea to speed up the end of college basketball games: limiting the number of timeouts a team can take at the end of the game. However, if Dick Vitale had his way, Jim's suggestion would likely do no good. Vitale was on ESPNews last night discussing the […]

Casper Landeweerd is a Dutch water polo player and one of 16 athletes in the Southeast Regional in the King of the Hardwood contest. In his bracket, Landeweerd faces high jumper sprinter Linus Thornblad, the jock who sometimes wishes he was gay. Go here to vote in the Midwest and check out the photo gallery […]

Kyle Hawkins enjoys his new life after turmoil in Missouri By Ross FormanOutsports.com Kyle Hawkins is back coaching lacrosse, but worlds away from his last gig as the head coach at the University of Missouri.And the fact he’s gay isn’t just a non-issue with his new team, but also the way they discovered him. Hawkins […]