Worldwide reaction to Tom Daley’s bisexual revelation
People across the Web and around the world react -- mostly positively -- to the diving sensation's news that he's dating a man
By Cyd Zeigler | December 2, 2013People across the Web and around the world react -- mostly positively -- to the diving sensation's news that he's dating a man
By Cyd Zeigler | December 2, 2013Annenberg Institute of Sports, Media & Society presents three days of conversation about the intersection of the media, sports & the LGBT community
By Cyd Zeigler | October 15, 2013Mark Cuban. Kevin Durant. Arian Foster. Floyd Maywether. Outsports. We’re so thrilled to again be listed as part of Sports Illustrated‘s Twitter 100. The list is compiled by polling the magazine’s staffers, who are all “hard-core Twitter users.” And while we can’t compete with Bill Simmons’ 1.8 million Twitter followers, it’s awesome to see the […]
By Cyd Zeigler | September 19, 2012Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 1998: ESPN made the issue of gays in sports the centerpiece for coverage on the air and online in late 1998 and into 1999. "The World of the Gay Athlete" was groundbreaking in that a major mainstream media outlet devoted […]
By Jim Buzinski | September 13, 2011New York Times reporter John Branch profiles Outsports in a story that just moved on the Web and will be in the Friday print edition. We met John out in L.A. back in December and spent a delightful afternoon with him. I think he wrote a terrific and insightful story. John hopes to write more […]
By Jim Buzinski | April 7, 2011As I read Selena Robert's SI smug, judgmental piece about Tiger Woods' press conference, and noted other media's smug, judgmental allegations that Tiger aims to hijack some attention from the Vancouver Games, I wondered how many other Americans are getting turned off by the smug, judgmental national attitude that is building around the golfer's awful […]
By Outsports Archives | February 21, 2010In the U.S., a lot of coverage of the Winter Games will be on tape delay, especially on the West Coast (even though Vancouver is in the Pacific Time Zone). But there are ways to watch coverage online. The terrific website Lifehacker tells you how. In the U.S., a lot of coverage of the Winter […]
By Jim Buzinski | February 12, 2010For four years, GLAAD had a president in Neil Giuliano who was a strong advocate for work in the sports world. He created the sports desk, hired Ted Rybka to run it, and worked constantly to bring members of the sports media into the GLAAD fold. Giuliano left GLAAD last year, and I caught up […]
By Cyd Zeigler | January 29, 2010I am scheduled to appear on ESPN's "Outside the Lines" program Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern. The subject is gays in sports in conjunction with October being gay and lesbian history month. Former lacrosse player Andrew Goldstein is also scheduled to appear. I am not sure what their angle is yet. I am scheduled to […]
By Jim Buzinski | October 28, 2009What are the odds that a thrown cricket ball could knock down a pigeon? It happened at this English match: What are the odds that a thrown cricket ball could knock down a pigeon? It happened at this English match:
By Jim Buzinski | June 2, 2009The folks at Spike TV are having a sexy athlete contest, and I guess they assume that 100% of their male audience is straight the way the contest is billed: Back for its 3rd year, Spike’s Guys Choice is asking you once again to vote on all that’s important to men everywhere. The folks at […]
By Jim Buzinski | May 7, 2009I've chatted with a couple people who say they have Olympics fatigue: That after a week of watching the Olympics every night, they've tired of it. I can understand it. The first week was so extravagant with the opening ceremony, and so dramatic with Phelps' chase, that this week has so far seemed a bit […]
By Cyd Zeigler | August 19, 2008Just a little note that I'll be a guest on the Derek & Romaine Show on Sirius OutQ Channel 109 Monday night from 7:15pm-8pmET. If you haven't heard it before, it's a great show, very fun. We'll be talking Olympics for the hour, I'm sure focusing on gymnastics, diving, swimming, track & field, and yes, […]
By Cyd Zeigler | August 17, 2008Most every Olympic Games becomes known by a dominant storyline — the return of the event to its historic roots in the 2004 Athens Games, the first post-Cold War Games in 1992 in Barcelona, the first commercially televised Summer Games in 1960 in Rome. What will become the storyline of the Beijing Games? The Smog […]
By Outsports Archives | August 12, 2008If you can’t get enough of sports, jocks and punditry about them, ESPN has just the thing. The all-sports network this morning launched a six-hour daytime version of “SportsCenter,” anchored by Hannah Storm and Josh Elliott (photo). I’ve always wondered why, in this age of 24/7 media outlets, ESPN always ran “SportsCenter” repeats the next […]
By Outsports Archives | August 11, 2008Every two years, we’re blessed here at Outsports with a flood of traffic during the Olympics, and this year is no different. It’s great to see so many gays and everyone else taking such an interest in sports; and other gay sites are getting in on the act. Over at AfterElton, Jim and I wrote […]
By Cyd Zeigler | August 10, 2008For anyone who wondered about American interest in the Beijing Games: For anyone who wondered about American interest in the Beijing Games:
By Jim Buzinski | August 9, 2008Google always gets theirs. The company’s YouTube unit will get a sliver of the Olympic pie, getting about three hours a day of exclusive content after striking a deal with the International Olympic Committee. Just when you thought NBC’s $894 million broadcasting deal was enough. Don’t fret, interested viewer. The YouTube content, including highlight reels […]
By Outsports Archives | August 5, 2008I just love the Olympics. If nothing else, it provides a distraction to media outlets who’ve been hyperventilating all summer about the presidential race, high gas prices or how California is burning, quaking or destroying the sanctity of marriage. Now there’s this: No more Ferret Olympics, Olympets, Raw Olympics (not what you might think), the […]
By Outsports Archives | August 1, 2008A little poetic justice in the land of tightly controlled media. On a day that saw journalists reeling from the news that the IOC and Chinese authorities had misled them about the censoring of access to certain web sites, a South Korean broadcaster leaked footage of a secret and heavily guarded rehearsal of the Opening […]
By Outsports Archives | July 31, 2008