Outrageous. Horrid. Unconscionable. These are some of the words being used to describe the refereeing in the USA-Slovenia match. But perhaps even worse than the calls themselves is the fact that US soccer fans were truly robbed of a watershed moment for the sport. Koman Coulibaly may sound like an unfamiliar name now, but it won’t in a [...]

According to a variety of published articles and sources a church in Memphis, Tennessee has told a softball coach and her team they can’t play in the church sponsored league. The Bellevue Baptist Church has told Jana J. Jacobson that she lives a “deviant lifestyle” and she and her team are not welcome to participate in [...]

Many of us in the sports journalist world, including myself and Rick the proprietor of Sportsfags, have always suspected but have never been able to nail down the fact that soccer is a gay, make that big time gay, sport. That is until now. A spokesman for the sport held a press conference and has finally [...]

Sorry guys I tried. Nope, can’t do it. I admit sometimes I have the attention span of a six year old but I just can’t get into watching grown men kicking or bouncing a ball off their head anymore than watching grown men hitting a little white ball over acres of land. The best line [...]

Last night saw several primaries held for the upcoming critical midterm elections, and much of the focus was on incumbents’ difficulties. For some unknown reason, however, a relatively overlooked theme of last night was the success of former NFL players running for office – overlooked, that is, except in the Wall Street Journal . In New Jersey, former Philadelphia [...]

Although it’ll be a good three months before the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings kick off the 2010-11 National Football League season, Fox has already sold a significant chunk of its most valuable pigskin inventory. According to a number of industry sources, the broadcaster has moved a whopping 80 percent of the available spots during its [...]

The Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, which marks the return of TNT’s “Wide Open Coverage” of the event will be presented in letterbox widescreen format, the Wide Open construct cedes the lower third of the screen to advertisers, allowing TNT to limit the number of ad interruptions during the race. The stretched-out aspect ratio also provides [...]

The Australian Rugby Union said an inquiry had been held into Tricia Brown, 31, after revelations she developed sexual relationships with two Year 12 students at a public and private Brisbane school. “Having finalised that review, ARU has decided not to impose any playing ban on Tricia Brown,” spokesman Peter Jenkins said. Brown is expected to play [...]

For the first time in its history, all participants in Gay Games VIII this summer in Cologne, Germany, will be subject to random testing for performance-enhancing drugs. Such an announcement might be considered as standard issue elsewhere – maybe with an eyebrow-raising “What took you so long?” But this is the Gay Games. Think about it. We [...]

I don’t believe as a general rule, when most people think of the Midwest in America they automatically think of a place where the LGBT community is embraced.  In fact, I would be willing to bet, that if you asked a group of randomly selected people where the most gay friendly places in the U.S. were, [...]

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson led a pre-race prayer at NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600. Dobson, who is the nation’s “most influential Evangelical leader” according to Time Magazine  is a controversial, and some say hypocritical choice to lead the prayer for the race. This isn’t the first time that Focus on the Family has been the [...]

DANICA PATRICK AT SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Yep it’s that time of the year … milk … hot cars and hot racing drivers like Danica and the offical start to summer. Can it get any better than this … oh yeah … NASCAR tonight too. Sorry gals and bi-guys Danica won’t be racing there, only at Indy.  Well ya can’t have everything … [...]

The Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner Dr Helen Szoke welcomed the recommendations of a new report providing leadership for changing the culture of homophobia in sport. Come out to Play, a report by the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living (ISEAL) and the School of Sport and Exercise at Victoria University, is the first [...]

Mediaite has a lengthy article written by Michael Triplett about OutSports and others who were duped into believeing a blog was written by a gay teen hockey player and how now OutSports has investigated and found the truth. Here’s some of the article from Mediaite with the full article at the link above. The gay sports blog [...]

This is just starting to make the rounds on some LGBT websites and blogs. In a writing at the Aussie paper and website the Herald Sun, AFL footballer Jason Akermanis discusses whether gays who are footballers should come out. Now, at least in this writer’s opinion, Akermanis isn’t the most articulate person as one can [...]

ESPN 3D takes the pitch on Friday, June 11, as host nation South Africa kicks off the quest for the Cup with the opening match with Group A rival Mexico. Thus far, Bristol plans to carry 25 of the 64 Cup matches on its 3D simulcast, including the Slovenia-USA tussle (June 18) and Portugal-Brazil (June 25). [...]

The following is a portion of a report from LGBT Asylum News . LGBT Asylum News has learned that despite a mass campaign in his support (and of others) a Nigerian gay footballer Cletus B has been removed by Austrian authorities. The Austrian government is a coalition with the Social Democrats forming the largest party with leader Werner Faymann as [...]

According to an article written by Linda Robertson at The Miami-Herald, Greg Louganis will be returning to the pool this time mentoring young divers. It was only fitting that the pet dogs of the greatest diver in history were running around inside the International Swimming Hall of Fame. A prominent display space is devoted to the dogs’ [...]