Outsports Radio

There's no place on earth I'd rather be than a big league ballpark. I've been visiting them on vacation ever since I was nine years old and have always tried to plan road trips around taking in a game somewhere. Sometimes I think I'd run through Hell itself to go to a ballpark. And then I remember I've already gone to St. Louis. I've been to 21 of the current MLB parks and on this episode, I'm joined by Yankee fan Theo Rabinowitz (CBS Sports) who's been to even more. So we decided to compare our Top 10s of all time. There's a few you'd expect (Wrigley, Fenway, San Francisco) and a few that will probably surprise you. We also discuss our all-time underrated and overrated parks as well as where our favorite places for food are. If you're a fan of baseball travel or an MLB owner who just wants to recall the days when actual people showed up to fork over a second mortgage for nachos, this is the episode for you! Speaking of cheap-ass owners, we recorded this on the night the Cubs non-tendered Kyle Schwarber. As y

Hello, Lovelies! 2020 is nearly over, but the shows only get hotter as we enter winter, starting this week when Brian Bell welcomes "The Psycho Dyke" Rebel Kinney to the show. Kinney is brash about representing the lesbian community in pro wrestling and beyond. You'd have to be to tattoo it on your body. The two discuss what inspired her to enter the ring, how she nearly missed out in participating in Kris Wolf's final match & her time with Pro Wrestling Eve. Follow Rebel Kinney on Twitter: @rebelgrrlpk Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wrestling, including

This week, Dawn and Karleigh welcome Scott Turner Schofield — the Emmy-nominated actor from the soap operas Sin City and Bold and the Beautiful. His one man show special, Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps is becoming a film! In addition to discussing drama, we talk about his activism, his achievement in trans history and his love of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Plus, Dawn's dog Dahlia — who Scott helped us adopt through GLAAD and the reality show, Ready Set Pet — makes a surprise guest appearance! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

D.Gil is joined by Ozzy Luna and Erick Anderson of the LGBTQ inclusive Los Angeles Rugby Football Club to discuss LA Rebellion rugby, the impact of Covid-19 on the club, LGBTQ inclusion in rugby, and their thoughts on World Rugby's stance on trans players. Follow D.Gil on Twitter: dgiltm Follow The GAMEDAY TEA on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: TheGAMEDAYTEA To learn more about the LA Rebellion Rugby Football club: larebellion.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Olympic medalist Ji Wallace joins us to talk about his incredible run at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, winning a silver medal the first time trampoline was part of the Olympic Games. We also talk about him coming out as gay a few years later, then sharing that he's HIV-positive. Plus, suffering an injury that left him unable to walk... and now training the next generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Happy Thanksgiving! On this week's show, Alex talks about what he's thankful for in LGBTQ sports, and Barack Obama admitting he used gay slurs on the basketball court as a teenager. Obama's admittance shows growth is possible, and why we shouldn't ostracize people for what they said as kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Here is an encore presentation of the Outsports podcast, 3 Strikes You're Out As this special episode's title indicates, I'm joined by Bob Kendrick, the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. It's one of the very best museums in the country and an essential visit for every baseball fan! The NLBM is about amplifying the careers of Negro Leagues greats as well as the story of the leagues themselves. Bob brings amazing stories about all-time legends like Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell, and Buck O'Neil but he also enlightens us on stars who also deserve a place in the pantheon like Martín Dihigo, Leon Day, and Bullet Rogan. We also reflect on an important roundtable discussion on race and baseball in the era of Black Lives Matter with six MLB players that Bob recently led. You can watch it here. It's essential viewing. Become a member of the NLBM! Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @nlbmprez Insta: @kenthinguy @nlbmprez Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This Thanksgiving (or, as Brian refers to it, mac & cheese mountain day) we're taking a detour into the fun and chaotic realms of pro wrestling. Brian and his partner, KC, watched a battle royal between a number of Japanese regional mascots known as Yuru-Chara, including the baseball bat-wielding legend Chiitan. And New Japan Pro Wrestling legend Masahiro Chono was there cheering them on. It's such a gratifying 15 minutes of chaos that we had to chat about it. Consider this your pro wrestling topping for your post-meal pie! Check out the match here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXSzqEofaY&t=61s Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandca

Happy Thanksgiving from Karleigh and Dawn. It's become an annual holiday tradition: We've dug through the Starfleet archive and found seven guests who have beamed up to share their stories: Lindsay Hecox of Boise State in Idaho, Mitch Harrison of the Titan Games, Alice Soper of New Zealand, Katie Barnes of espnW, Coach Curt Miller of the Connecticut Sun, Caitlyn Jenner and Kamora Herrington helps us remember the late, great Monica Roberts. Plus we share what we're thankful for, including our most favorite Star Trek shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode D.Gil hosted a virtual thanksgiving with the Outsports podcast family as we discussed what 2020 LGBTQ sports things we're thankful for. Guest at our Virtual Thanksgiving included The Trans Sporter Room, 3 Strikes, You're Out, The Sports Kiki, 5 Rings To Rule Them All, and LGBT In The Ring podcast. We can all agree that talking about something positive in 2020 may be difficult. However, on this episode we "cook up" something special for our Outsports podcast listeners. Happy Thanksgiving from the Outsports Podcast Family! You can follow The GAMEDAY TEA on all your favorite social media platforms @thegamedaytea Twitter & Instagram: dgiltm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

No one in the world knows more about LGBTQ Olympians than Tony Scupham-Bilton. The history-lover has spent much of the last eight years researching them and compiling a list of all the LGBTQ Olympians and Paralympians he has been able to find over time. That list now stands at over 400 athletes, and he's finding more all the time. Scupham-Bilton shares with us his passion for his inspiring part of our community's history, as well as some of the athletes' stories you may not have heard before, but which are wonderfully fun and exciting. You can find his list of LGBTQ Olympians, as well as other fascinating stories from history, on his blog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex comes trans sports trailblazer Kirsti Miller, who talks about life as a transgender athlete -- and her incredible life. Kirsti has been a rugby standout, soccer player, prison warden, taxi driver, and now, proud trans woman. The powerful conversation is a perfect way to commemorate Trans Awareness Week. Follow Kirsti on Twitter, @KirstiMiller30. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Theo Epstein resigned as Cubs president this week. And I am up in my feelings about it! Staying up until 3 AM watching 2016 Game 7 eating Ben & Jerry's Americone Dream listening to "Pictures of You" on repeat FEELINGS... This one is a crossover with Kevin McCaffrey and Adam Mamawala of Cubs Brawl: The Away Games Podcast because sometimes you need your besties to talk you through it when something beautiful ends. And it's a measure of Theo's impact that we spent the entire podcast discussing what we admired about him but we didn't get around to any of the moves he actually made until there was less than a minute left in our Zoom. In short, this has been the best time ever to be a Cub fan. By exponential orders of magnitude. And it's largely due to Theo Epstein and the culture he instilled in this organization. It's the end of an era. But until Theo got to Chicago, we never expected that anything like this could happen to our team. And we're forever grateful. Weep not for the memories. Twitter: @KenSchultz_

Hello, Lovelies! We're celebrating Trans Week of Awareness this week with Hoodslam's own The Great Bambina. She and Brian unpack her journey to and evolution within the ring, the personal philosophy she brings to pro wrestling, her history of trans advocacy and how Brechtian theory and pro wrestling intersect. It's a thoughtful conversation with plenty of inspiration within it. We're here, we're queer and we're fucking immortal. Follow Great Bambina on Twitter: @baseballkick Check out Batter Up at twitch.tv/batterupbambina Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitter, @STSWBand, and check out their music on Spotify and Bandcamp. Check out IndependentWrestling.tv for the best in current and classic independent pro wres

Our friend Caroline Layt of Perth, Australia joins Karleigh and Dawn to talk about her transition, playing rugby, the trans ban and her love of science fiction, especially Star Trek. She also shares news of her new documentary film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Martin Stark joins D.Gil on this episode to discuss the World Gay Boxing Championships that are being held in Sydney Australia in 2023. Martin explains why he founded the WGBC, inclusivity within gay boxing, and some of the challenges that he's facing along the way while seeing his dream of a gay boxing championship come to life. D.Gil also gets Martins perspective on the upcoming Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. boxing match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ken Schultz came out around the same time as Olympic diver Tom Daley, and he too originally identified as bi. Each of their journeys has brought them to call themselves "gay," and those similar journeys have been part of why Schultz is such a Daley superfan. We talk about that, as well as Michelangelo's role in creating Daley, as well as just how gosh-darn nice the Olympic medalist seems to be in everything he does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex speaks with Professor Rory Magrath, who helped author a study looking at 60 coming-out stories of male athletes published on Outsports. The results show male athletes are overwhelmingly accepted of gay teammates. Alex and Rory push back against the narrative that male team sports aren't accepting. It's just not true. Follow Rory on Twitter, @RoryMagrath. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is an episode about the White Sox. Which means we should be spending all of it talking about AL MVP Jose Abreu. But we're not. In fact, Abreu doesn't come up until the end. Why? Tony La Russa, that's why. Comedian and Sox fan Jim Flannigan (All Over the Place podcast) stops by. In a sane world, he should be thrilled right now. His team is young, fun, and super talented. They just broke their playoff drought and look to take control of the AL Central for a while. But instead, he's confused and upset. Why? Tony La Russa, that's why. We spend most of our time trying to unpack this ghastly and embarrassing hire by Jerry Reinsdorf, who overrode his GM, players, and fans because he did Tony wrong once in 1986 and apparently that has to be corrected in order for the universe to balance itself. Or some other dumb as hell reason...it's not clear! But what is clear is this: Reinsdorf is an old white man with all the money. And guys like that never get told they just did something massively reckless, stupid, and da

Hello, Lovelies! We've got two awesome guests this week talking two totally different pro wrestling projects. First, Brian sits down with Out In The Ring director/producer Ryan Bruce Levey to discuss the upcoming documentary's goal of connect LGBTQ pro wrestling's present, past and future. Then, Colette Arrand (Fanbyte/Fanfyte) returns to help Brian break down AEW's latest pay-per-view event, Full Gear, headlined by a supreme clash between Eddie Kingston and AEW World Champion Jon Moxley. It's long, but it's strong! Follow Out In The Ring on Twitter: @outinthering Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand Check out the Out In The Ring trailer and crowdfunding campaign Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow LGBT In The Ring on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod  The Progress Pride Flag design by Daniel Quasar is a product of Progress Initiative. Find out more at quasar.digital! Huge thanks to Sarah & The Safe Word for the show’s theme, Formula 666 from the album Red, Hot and Holy. Find them on Twitte