Outsports Radio

Karleigh and Dawn welcome back community leader Kamora Herrington, the founder and CEO of Kamora's Cultural Corner in Hartford, for part two of our conversation. We begin where we left off. the Covid-19 pandemic impact on the Black and Brown communities. Then we discuss what needs to be done to eliminate racism and structurally rebuild our society to give everyone an equal place within it. This is Episode 33. Be sure to hear the first part of the conversation in Episode 32! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Karleigh and Dawn welcome community leader Kamora Herrington, the founder and CEO of Kamora's Cultural Corner in Hartford. She offers a crucial perspective on racism given all that is happening across America, This is part one of our conversation. We discuss the history of institutional racism, white supremacy and the impact of Covid-19 on the Black and Brown community. This is Episode 32. Be sure to hear the rest of the conversation in Episode 33! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's Video Game Week at SB Nation, and we take a trip down memory lane revisiting the first great sports video game, Summer Games. It was designed for the Commodore 64 and released in 1984, featuring events like the pole vault, diving, swimming and even a relay race. Cyd Zeigler is joined by his cousin, Dan Williams, to reminisce about playing this groundbreaking game during their childhood, as well as remembering other early video games and a story from Dan about his neighbor, Bernie Sanders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex chats with Washington Blade White House reporter Chris Johnson about covering the Trump Administration, the usefulness of daily press briefings and staying objective as a member of the press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! LGBT In The Ring is back to tackle one of pro wrestling's recent tragedies, the death of Stardom and Terrace House star Hana Kimura. Fanbyte's LB Hunktears helps Brian Bell work through the circumstances surrounding her death, the role social media and cultural constructs played and what the Tokyo Cyber Squad founder's lasting image will be to pro wrestling fans and beyond. If you are considering suicide, LGBTQ youth (ages 24 and younger) can reach the Trevor Project Lifeline at 1-866-488-7386. Adults can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 24 hours a day, and it’s available to people of all ages and identities. Trans or gender-nonconforming people can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860. Follow LB Hunktears on Twitter: @hunktears Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show 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

OUTSPORTS EXCLUSIVE: Dawn Ennis, Karleigh Webb and special guest Alex Reimer talk with Lindsay Hecox, the Idaho teen who's suing Gov. Brad Little for signing the law that made Idaho the first state in the U.S. to impose an outright ban on transgender athletes in public schools and colleges. It's also the only statewide law regulating transgender and intersex athletes in the country, and is set to go into effect July 1st, unless it can be stopped. Lindsay talks about the outpouring of support she's received, about her transition and her love for 70s progressive rock by Yes and Pink Floyd. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rachael Rapinoe represented the United States in international soccer competition for years, as well as starring on the successful Univ. of Portland women's soccer team. Now with her soccer career behind her, she is an entrepreneur whose latest company, Mendi, is in part focused on helping athletes recover. We talk with Rapinoe about her latest venture, as well as strolling down memory lane with her successes and failures on the pitch, a memory of watching her sister, Megan Rapinoe, play in the World Cup that brought a tear to her eye, as well as how Megan spilled the beans about Rachel being gay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex chats with LGBT mental health researcher Jack Turban about his research into Grindr, and safe sex practices during a pandemic. They also talk about the psychological impacts of the coronavirus lockdown on LGBT young people, and why physical distancing is particularly difficult for LGBT people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Baseball might be on the path to restarting! But in the shadow of a worldwide pandemic, is this a good thing? I'm joined by comedian and Tiger fan Adam Sokol (NY Times) and we decide...maybe not yet. Owners and players are currently negotiating a payment plan that they'd kinda sorta already agreed on in March and that's never cool. Plus there's...you know...that pandemic that I mentioned two sentences ago. Stay with me here, people... Fortunately, there are still some fun baseball things to talk about like Miguel Cabrera's hitting genius and everlasting puffiness. And the Korea Baseball Organization. I positively bubble over with KBO love at the end of this one. Go Wyverns! Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @SokolAdam Insta: @kenthinguy @sokoladam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! This week, Brian Bell welcomes Hoodslam founder DARK Sheik to the show! Sheik discusses Hoodslam's 10-year history of promoting progressive attitudes within pro wrestling and reflects on her experience coming out publicly as trans last March. The west coast has something to say, and DARK Sheik is here to say it! Follow DARK Sheik on Twitter: @darksheikftf Follow Hoodslam on Twitter: @HOODSLAM Keep up with Hoodslam at birdswillfall.com Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Karleigh and Dawn select the underdogs of sports, society and science fiction, plus we have the latest news on the court battle over trans inclusion in school sports, what we're binging these days, and together we mourn Aimee Stephens. Her fight is our fight, and we will not give up that fight for equality in the workplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome back to LPFPod and thanks for your support. This week we are diving into the sport of lacrosse as I chat with two people from the LGBTQ+Ally lacrosse group, the Rainbow Rexes Lax. I spoke with Edmund Connolly and Tilly Powell. During out conversation we speak about how they both got involved in the sport, the founding of the Rainbow Rexes Lax group and where they want to go. We also talk about the very important campaign by 56 Dean Street and their campaign to reduce the rate of infection of HIV during this global pandemic. Love that the Rainbow Rexes took this campaign on and are talking about HIV. Here are some links to get more info about the following items. Rainbow Rexes - https://www.rainbowrexlax.com/ Find them on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/rainbowrexlax/ Find Edmund on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/edmundconnolly/ Find Tilly on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/tillypowell97 Check out 56 Dean Street and all the services they provide at http://dean.st/56deanstreet/ F

Eric Radford was one of the first publicly out gay men to compete in a Winter Olympics when he took to the ice in South Korea in 2018. There he won two medals, including gold, for Team Canada. He talks about celebrating his success with his husband, fellow skater Luis Fenero, hours after finishing his competition. Now stuck at home in Montreal, he's using his time quarantined to work on his budding music career, both composing for piano and producing EDM tracks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's edition of "The Sports Kiki," Alex chats with gay Kansas City Royals marketing executive Matt Schulte about how to market a professional team in the midst of a pandemic. Alex and Matt also talk about why he was apprehensive to come out as a pro sports executive, and why there still isn't an openly gay active MLB player. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you like baseball meltdowns? Do you enjoy when it looks like ballplayers just escaped from a Nine Inch Nails video? Today is the episode for you! It's another classic games edition of 3 Strikes, You're Out and in honor of George Brett's birthday, Outsports Royals expert Karleigh Webb (The Trans Sporter Room) joins me to reminisce about The Pine Tar Game! There are few things more entertaining than Brett rushing out of the dugout looking like he's about to audition for UFC 249 on an unsuspecting home plate umpire. And it was even more fun to talk about! Twitter: @KenSchultz_ @ChardonnayM @TransSporterRm Insta: @kenthinguy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, Lovelies! We're back this week to tear through Titan Towers and recap WWE Money In The Bank. Daniel Trainor (Pro Wrestling Sheet, Same Team podcast) joins Brian Bell to analyze all the rooftop tossing, mask stomping and trash talking action. Plus whatever that R-Truth segment was. It's more fun than a night in WWE headquaters' casket room! Oh yeah! Follow Daniel Trainor on Twitter: @dantrainor1 Follow Brian Bell on Twitter: @WonderboyOTM Follow the show 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet out transgender pro golfer Jamie O'Neill, whose coming out story appeared in Outsports.com in December 2019. She shares that story for the first time in a podcast, talking with Dawn and Karleigh about trans inclusion in sports. We also discuss the federal lawsuit by a Christian hate group which wants to stop Connecticut from allowing trans student athletes to compete with cisgender teens. Plus what we're binging, from Star Trek: Enterprise to The Last Dance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is so good to be back making new episodes of my podcast. I have only made a few while we have had this pandemic with massive closures in California and around the country so when it was nice to be behind the mic again and talking to my guest this week. I first saw Aiden while I was avoiding twitter and after I found the app TikTok. Aiden posted a sweet video where he recorded him waking up his deaf and blind dog, Plum. Before we speak about Plum and his other dog Lola, we talk about his transition, telling his family and what life is like being an advocate for the entire trans community in real life and on social media. To follow Aiden on instagram, click here: https://www.instagram.com/aiden_m365/?hl=en On Tik Tok, go here: https://www.tiktok.com/@aiden_m365?lang=en You can even find Lola and Plum on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/lola_plum365/?hl=en You can find out me on all the socials at @LPFPod. If you have questions or comments you can email at levelplayingfieldpod@gmail.com Learn more a

When Olympic rower Robbie Manson came out publicly on Outsports in 2014, he had no idea the national and international headlines he would make. He talks about his journey in rowing since then, as well as his experiences at two Olympic Games. It was at the London Summer Games in 2012 that he met up for coffee with an out gay Olympian, just as he was coming out to his friends and family. The New Zealand star rower also shares his thoughts on near-retirement early this year, and his newly found motivation to compete in one more Olympic Games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's show, Alex examines a question that's been on his mind for the last several weeks, ever since U.S. senator and Atlanta Dream co-owner Kelly Loeffler was caught selling seven figures' worth of stock after a Senate coronavirus briefing: how can a devout Trump supporter own a team in the WNBA, the most progressive sports league in the country? With Loeffler back in the news this week after documents showed she received $9 million as a parting gift from her former company prior to her senate appointment, Alex talks about the topic with young sports reporter and WNBA fanatic Lauren Rosenberg. Lauren is also the first out sports reporter in the history of the University of Missouri, which is a big deal. Alex talks with Lauren about her experiences as a queer college sports reporter, and how she's combated homophobia on campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices