Outsports Radio

We're giving our listeners a chance to re-listen to one of our favorite 3 Strikes You're Out podcast episodes this week. It's episode number 9, paying tribute to Number 9: The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived, The Splendid Splinter, The Kid, and Ken's favorite baseball legend of all time...Ted Williams. Ken Schultz is joined by comedy pal and leading citizen of Red Sox Nation Ron Krasnow to sing the praises of ol' Teddy Ballgame. We talk about great moments in Ted's career from his .406 in 1941 magnum opus to his triumphant return from The Korean War for over an hour...and it still feels like we barely scratched the surface. Even almost two decades after his death, Ted Williams remains transcendent. NOTE: This episode quotes Ted Williams frequently and Ron grew up in Boston. Which is to say: the "Explicit" label is on there for a reason, people. Twitter: @kenschultz_ @BrooklynRon Insta: @kenthinguy @ronkrasnow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! I hope we're all self-isolating and practicing good social distancing. We're doing that on the show this week while working through all of the ways the Coronavirus pandemic has impacted pro wrestling as a whole and WrestleMania weekend specifically. Patches Chance (Daily DDT) and Daniel Trainor (Same Team podcast) join Brian Bell to help sift through one of the most strenuous week's in pro wrestling's history. Download, listen and wash your hands and gargle. Follow Patches Chance on Twitter: @patcheschance Follow Daniel Trainor on Twitter: @dantrainor1 Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoi

Lilah Sturges, comic book writer and founder of the TransPizza giveaway campaign on Twitter, joins Dawn and Karleigh this week. While she readily admits she's not a sports fan or an athlete, Lilah is well-known for her work on the popular Lumberjanes series. Surprisingly, she wasn't a fan of comics growing up. Lilah also explains how she started TransPizza, how it works and how it's expanding in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Plus we share our thoughts on Star Trek: Picard and respond to listener mail! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cyd Zeigler, one of our co-founders, wrote an article about my guest in December. It was the first I heard of Jason Ellis. Since then I have taken in as much as possible. Listen to his show on Sirius XM, listened to his former podcast "High and Dry", read his first book "I'm Awesome" and his most recent "Still Awesome". Like we talk about the first few moments I even google imaged him and found photos of George Takei from Star Trek touching his penis. We talk about ALL of it in this one hour interview, including drug use, prostitution, sex with women and men and what it means to be a part of the LGBTQ community. While his evolution from straight guy to bi guy has been a long one, it has been a journey where he has had to learn. We talk about his old non-pc talk about trans men and women along the way. This episode is a fun one, if drug use, molestation discussion is a problem for you I recommend you skip this episode. However, if sex, drugs and rock and roll are your thing then you are going to want to listen

Stephanie Zaza, the President of American College of Preventive Medicine, joins us this week to talk about the impact the coronavirus is having on the sports world and beyond. She previously served 25 years as a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. Zaza gives us thoughtful insight on appropriate measures to combat virus outbreaks, the benefits and risks of social distancing, and she shares her thoughts on when the sports world may resume action and the considerations for continuing with the Summer Olympics in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex speaks with former amateur golfer John Brooks, who talks about the struggles he's endured as an openly gay man in the golf world -- and yet, how those difficulties haven't pushed him away from the game he loves. Stay safe, and just as importantly, remain calm. We will get through these times together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This episode begins with a slow clap for Rob Manfred because he made the correct call and delayed the start of the season in response to the coronavirus. So all it takes for the commissioner to do the right thing is a worldwide pandemic. We continue our tour through the Outsports Podcast Network as Oakland A's fan Randy Boose (Level Playing Field podcast) joins me to talk about his excitement for 2020...whenever it might start. We also dig into Randy's fantastic interview with Billy Bean, the joy of rooting for Matts Chapman and Olson, and great Negro Leagues books. "The A's winning a playoff series isn't that hard! Tell 'em, Wash!" "It's incredibly hard." Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @Randyblpf @LPFPod Insta: @KenThinGuy @LPFPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! It's a special episode this week as Brian Bell and his partner, KC, return from D.C. with a live report from Prime Time Pro Wrestling's historic LGBTQ pro wrestling event, Butch Vs. Gore. The show was filled with unforgettable moments and star-making performances that told LGBTQ stories from LGBTQ perspectives. That and Juvenile's ass anthem being used as a weapon. Like we said: memorable. Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

YouTube personality, amateur softball player, singer and photographer Melody Maia Monet joins Dawn Ennis and Karleigh Webb to talk about her transition, the acceptance she found on the softball field, and her music. Plus, Maia reveals what led her to recently come out as asexual, and dishes on her favorite Sci-fi: Star Trek: Picard, Discovery, and meeting Apollo himself, Richard Hatch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When I first started this podcast there were people I made as a goal to get on my show. I have been fortunate to have a couple on already. Collin on this week's episode adds to goals that have been reached. Collin came out to the world June 2018 while playing at Minnesota United FC. What I found out with my previous guest, Rory Molleda as well as Collin this week, I learned that some people at DC United knew as well. He tells the story of people knowing at DC United, what it meant to have Rory working at the club and helping him with his boyfriend on game days. He also talks about why he is excited to be playing as San Diego Loyal with new coach Landon Donovan. I hope you enjoy this week's episode, it was awesome to speak with Collin You can follow Collin on twitter at @martcw12 You can follow Collin on Instagram at @cm7md Follow the San Diego Loyal on twitter at @SanDiegoLoyal For schedules, rosters, ticket info and everything else, head on over to https://www.sdloyal.com/ Per usual you can also follow me on

Nick McCarvel went from imaging himself winning Olympic hardwood-skating gold in Montana to interviewing some of the biggest athletes in the world and covering the Olympics. He talks with us about his perseverance that got him to working for NBC, USA Today and the USOPC, as well as being an out gay man interviewing athletes on the court and in the locker room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex talks about the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues insultingly scheduling their "Hockey is for Everyone" night during a road game with USA Today's Hemal Jhaveri, who wrote a searing column about the issue this week. Alex and Hamel also talk about the significance of Pride Nights in general, and how sports teams can use LGBTQ advocacy as a business practice and way to buy social capital. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Ken welcomes comedian and Indians fan Michael Palascak (Late Show). The 2016 World Series gets brought up pretty quickly. Does it get awkward? We're comics...if it wasn't for awkwardness, we'd be as silent as Buster Keaton. Michael lives in LA so he's also the podcast's west coast correspondent, filling us in on the tribulations of the Dodgers & Angels. And we talk about baseball books! Which is the closest either of us has come to using our English majors in the real world. Check out Michael's website at michaelpalascak.com to pre-order his new album! Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @MichaelPalascak Insta: @KenThinGuy @MichaelPalascak Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! We're talking all things All Elite Wrestling this week as Fanbyte's (or Fanfyte's) Colette Arrand stops by to help break down the good, bad and sublime from AEW's Evolution pay-per-view. From questionable neck tattoos and match placement to crowning achievements in tag team wrestling, comedy wrestling and ring entrances, AEW Revolution had it all. There is one thing we can all agree on though: Judas slaps! Follow Colette Arrand on Twitter: @colettearrand Follow the show on Twitter: @LGBTRingPod Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Co-hosts Karleigh Webb and Dawn Ennis talk about the historic run of Megan Youngren, the health challenges facing Laurel Hubbard and a plan by the Connecticut GOP to raise money off three cisgender student athletes who are suing to stop transgender girls from competing against them, Plus, news about Star Trek Discovery and we look back at The Man in the High Castle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thank you for listening to another episode of Level Playing Field on the Outsports podcast network. I am so thankful for each and every guest that comes on that I get a chance to speak with. This week is no different, my guest this week is Rory Molleda who is the Director of Team Administration for DC United of Major League Soccer. During our time together we talk about how supportive DC United is with Rory and all members of the LGBTQ community. We also talk about his role with the club, his relationship with Wayne Rooney as well as gay soccer player Collin Martin. If you ever have wanted to know what it is like to speak with a professional soccer club, check out our conversation. Follow Rory on social media at @rorymolleda You can follow this podcast on twitter and instagram @lpfpod or with my personal account at RandybLPF Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Olympics seem to be, after running Outsports for 20 years, one of the most popular sporting event for gay men. Part of that, we figure, is the eye-candy quotient for the Summer Games: diving, swimming, gymnastics, track & field. Alex Reimer joins us to talk about the sexualization of athletes in the Olympics and other sports, as well as what he's learned so far as the Outsports deputy managing editor. And we also discuss the possible effects of the coronavirus on the Tokyo Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of the "Sports Kiki Podcast," Alex chats with Kacey Edenfield, who was a high school baseball standout before becoming an adult-film star. Alex and Kacey talk about his unique journey, his on-camera persona (Troy Ryan), and all of the adversity he's overcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, Ken Schultz finds out the answer to the question: Whatcha gonna do when the power of Outsports wrestling expert Brian Bell (LGBT in the Ring) runs wild on the baseball podcast?! You talk about how the Braves are almost as racist as Hulk Hogan... Fortunately, there are more enjoyable topics at hand like the historically significant Nationals world championship, Youppi! nostalgia, and the concrete husk that is The Trop. Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @WonderboyOTM @LGBTRingPod Insta: @KenThinGuy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! LGBT In The Ring is back this week with a very special episode. In celebration of 20 episodes, Brian takes questions from all the lovely listeners! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices