A breath of very good news from the Coors Cup hockey tournament: Despite the economic recession, they’ve been able to retain Coors as a sponsor. The event, which moves between Los Angeles and Denver, is hosted by the Colorado Gay Ice Hockey Association and the Los Angeles Blades hockey club. T...

As a lead-up to our Outsports Local Groups Challenge , we’ll be profiling the five first-round matchups on the blog. Voting is open now ! These two groups are quite the contrast. Golden Gate Wrestling has been around since the very early days of organized gay sports, since even before the Gay Game...

As a lead-up to our Outsports Local Groups Challenge , we’ll be profiling the five first-round matchups on the blog. Voting is open now ! There may be no two sports considered more masculine than rugby and ice hockey, and this matchup features a great representatives of each: GForce hockey and the...

As a lead-up to our Outsports Local Groups Challenge , we’ll be profiling the five first-round matchups on the blog. Voting starts Thursday. Southern California may be the most active gay-sports area in the world. Including San Diego, Long Beach and Los Angeles, dozens upon dozens of gay teams and...

There was a fun column in the University of Arizona student newspaper last Friday about homoeroticism in sports. All-male sports teams create a unique fraternal bond between participants. These types of bonds create the strongest friendships. Combine that fraternal bond with constant body contact an...

Today we announced the bracket for our 2008 Local Groups contest, showcasing 37 great gay sports teams and leagues around the world. We tried giving some storylines to the first couple rounds, creating potentially “interesting� matchups. Some we finally settled on: There are two matchups featuri...

Finally, a straight man who’s creeped out by Sports Illustrated’s all-girl swimsuit issue. I say all-girl and not all-woman because that’s Jeff Pearlman’s major beef with the sexy photo spread: Now, I just find the issue strange. The average SI reader is probably a male in hi...

“Con el culo al aire.” In Spanish it means “with the butt to the air.” Some members of the Galáctico Pegaso soccer team in Spain quite nearly took it literally last week as they dropped their shorts on the field, apparently in protest of not getting paid. I say they nearly t...

The Memphis Tigers quite nearly became the targets of some jovial ribbing and some nasty, targeted attacks when they pushed to wear uniforms of FedEx’s colors (orange, purple and white) in their upcoming game this Wednesday night, instead of their usual blue and white. The NCAA actually gave t...

We introduced you earlier this week to Spencer Duhm, the latest gay-athlete contestant on ‘Survivor.’ Thpenther apparently isn’t of the “live and let live” gay variety; he’s of the “gay men shouldn’t act ‘gay’” variety. He doesn’t like ...