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Notre Dame is so bad –they'll forever, or at least for the next few weeks, be the team that got shut out by a team that lost to a minor league team– I can't be bothered much with gloating over their losses any more. So, no HA HA! from Nelson, just this: Nelson is bored […]

In celebration of the Advocate’s 40th anniversary, they asked their readers to submit their top 40 openly gay heroes. It was great to see four from sports make it: Billie Jean King (#6), Martina Navratilova (#11), Greg Louganis (#13), and John Amaechi (#38). What’s really sad (both for the person and as a commentary on […]

The Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers are both introducing all-you-can-eat tickets for their upcoming seasons. With each ticket you get a voucher that is exchanged for a wristband. Showing the wristband at designated concession stands gets you free hot dogs, soft drinks, popcorn and nacho chips and salsa. Great news, except for the price. The Flyers’ […]

Hooray to Radar Magazine for putting David Beckham and Posh Spice on its cover “The Overrated 100,” listing the “world’s most overhyped people, places and things.” In listing the Beckhams at the top the magazine writes: “It’s not that they’re untalented; it’s just that he’s an overpaid soccer star and she’s a pointless collection of […]

The London Times published an excerpt from a book by former English soccer player Graeme Le Saux on how the perception of him being gay almost wrecked his career. Because I had different interests, because I didn’t feel comfortable in the laddish drinking culture that was prevalent in English football in the late 1980s, it […]

The NFL has rendered its verdict in Spygate. From AP: New England coach Bill Belichick was fined the NFL maximum of $500,000 Thursday and the Patriots were ordered to pay $250,000 for spying on an opponent’s defensive signals. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also ordered the team to give up its own first-round draft choice next […]

For those of you who remember the saga of Olympic runner Derrick Peterson comes this latest press release. Peterson has been hired by the Univ. of Missouri as a track coach. Of particular interest is the last paragraph that says Peterson is married and has a child. And for those of you who don’t know […]

I am a lifelong Patriots fan, and I have no stomach for cheating. Do I think people in the NFL hate the Patriots’ success and want to undermine them? Yes. Said Boomer Esiason: “Everyone’s piling on right now, there’s no question about it. There’s 31 other teams that would love to knock the Patriots off […]

Last week, as part of their NFL preview, the Philadelphia Daily News published a special section focusing on Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks, past and present. The section was inspired by the drafting of Kevin Kolb to be Donovan McNabb’s heir apparent. Included in this section was a two-page spread in which the paper asked, “Who is […]

Is it me, or is Tom Brady getting better-looking with age? One thing’s for sure: He hasn’t slowed down his quaffed appearances in magazines. The latest is the agazine Vman (don’t worry – we’d never heard of it either), where he appears in a wet white t-shirt. He’ll be appearing on Sunday Night Football this […]

The NFL kicked off its first regular Sunday and it was a doozy. We saw three-last play field goals, 80 points total in Dallas and Randy Moss being a model citizen. The only third-string quarterback to get any attention was in Cleveland, where rookie Brady Quinn was shown holding a clipboard in the Browns’ 34-7 […]

In the time it’s been around, Deadspin has become a wildly popular sports blog. Its editor, Will Leitch, is not only a Friend of Outsports, he’s an unabashed St. Louis Cardinals fan. Furthermore, he really really really likes Rick Ankiel, in a guy-crush heterosexual way that sports fans have. After I read the Ankiel HGH […]

In a few days, this Chicago club will be celebrating their 25th year of fun, fitness and being in front at any speed. Ever since the late 70s, when the first Frontrunner clubs adopted the name of my novel, I’ve had the exciting opportunity to watch them making their mark in the sports world. “LGBT […]

I often wonder how much of this goes on, and how coaches guard against it happening to them. There seems to be a one-way sign outside Foxboro Stadium that points directly at the Meadowlands, because the Jets have been interviewing just about every player the Patriots have let go in the last couple weeks, the […]

From 10 questions for Terrell Owens on Time.com: “What’s your favorite TV show and why? Sascha Falahat, SOUTH BEND, IND. I'm going to mention two shows. The first is America's Next Top Model. I just like to see how people interact–women can be catty once they're together. And my other favorite is the channel HGTV. […]

Yes, a security guard tackles a man dressed as a toilet at Saturday’s Colorado State-Colorado game. Yes, a security guard tackles a man dressed as a toilet at Saturday’s Colorado State-Colorado game.

It’s no big secret that the NHL isn’t even one of the “Big Four” sports leagues anymore. The Dallas Stars know it, and they’re taking aim at the NBA and NFL in a new round of billboard ads. One reads, “The only thing our refs shave is the ice,” in an obvious slap at the […]

Openly gay gymnast Ji Wallace (right), who won a silver medal on trampoline in the 2000 Olympics for Australia, has come out of retirement and is on tour in World Cup competitions with Australia’s national team, hoping to make the team for the World Championships in November. Wallace came out in 2005. We’ve got Wallace’s […]

A disturbing story in the L.A. Times finds USC running backs coach Todd McNair engaged in dog fighting in the 1990s and was convicted of cruelty to animals, among other things. Beyond the usual disgusting aspects of the story, this paragraph is mind-boggling: “As part of the probation agreement, he was to donate $250 to […]

We just never know which of our stories the media will pick up and run with. Jim wrote a great story about the only openly gay Div. 1 college head coach in the country, and it was met with the chirping of crickets. Then, Matt Hennie of Atlanta writes a story for us about gay […]