Karleigh Webb

2 weeks ago | outsports.com | Karleigh Webb |Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Jon Holmes

Sue Bird amassed a lot of numbers. As an All-American at UConn, a stellar 20-year career with the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, and the starting point guard through four Olympic gold medal runs for Team USA, her career is one of a legend. Yet one of her most interesting, if unofficial, stats is at this center of the latest episode in the Outsports “More Than a Number” video series.

2 weeks ago | outsports.com | Jon Holmes |Karleigh Webb |Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski

Focus and determination have been essential qualities in Charlie Siragusa’s journey as an athlete. When he wrote his coming out story for Outsports, he said his primary target was to break onto the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. But he had another ambition too. “Hopefully, I can do my LGBTQ family proud and be an example for the next generation of queer athletes, like so many of you all have been for me.”Three years later, Siragusa isn’t just a full-time pro, he’s also part of Team USA.

2 weeks ago | queerty.com | Ken Schultz |Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb

There are many under-the-radar skills that go into being a modern NFL star which fly under the radar of most casual fans. For instance, players must possess the mental capacity to memorize an entire playbook and execute any page from it at a moment’s notice. Then they must have the physical fortitude to absorb a hit from a 300- pound monstrosity of a human being and still hang onto the football while their every cell cries out in agony.

2 weeks ago | outsports.com | Karleigh Webb

Outsports readers were first introduced to basketball dynamo Navi Huskey in 2021. At the time, they were balancing PhD studies, activism, growing into a transfemme-centered nonbinary identity and tearing up the courts at Long Beach (Calif.) Community College. In 2020, they put up 22 points and 19 rebounds per game in a season were they were a conference co-MVP. “I always saw the female athlete as the most beautiful form of femininity, so that is what I aspired to,” Huskey said in 2021.

3 weeks ago | outsports.com | Jim Buzinski |Cyd Zeigler |Karleigh Webb |Jon Holmes

Former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant is a bit slow on the uptake. Today, he expressed his anger at an NFL video for LGBTQ Pride Month. The video was released in 2021. In an X post, Bryant criticized the NFL Pride message from 2021, which was reposted by a site yesterday. Quoting from the video, which said, “Football is gay, Football is queer, Football is transgender,” Bryant wrote:“These are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness.