by Joe Jewett
Aiming to fill the void of gay sports press in the marketplace, the magazine "Sports Out Loud" has hit newsstands. But, have the publishers hit a home run or is it a foul ball in the dirt?
When I first got my hands on Issue #1, I'll be honest, I was kind of disappointed. Turns out the first installment of 'SOL' (an unfortunate set of initials), is a swimsuit issue. So my first instinct was to take this magazine as anything but serious....a disappointment for a publication that not-so-modestly bills itself as " the best gay sports magazine in the world." But as the saying goes, you cannot judge a book or, by extension, a magazine by its cover. So on we go.
"Sports Out Loud" shows itself to be a fairly light magazine in terms of story volume. At only fifty pages, with 25% of that taken up by swimsuit photos, I would have hoped for more in terms of content. But what is presented here is fairly good.
When I first got my hands on Issue #1, I'll be honest, I was kind of disappointed. Turns out the first installment of 'SOL' (an unfortunate set of initials), is a swimsuit issue. So my first instinct was to take this magazine as anything but serious....a disappointment for a publication that not-so-modestly bills itself as " the best gay sports magazine in the world." But as the saying goes, you cannot judge a book or, by extension, a magazine by its cover. So on we go.
"Sports Out Loud" shows itself to be a fairly light magazine in terms of story volume. At only fifty pages, with 25% of that taken up by swimsuit photos, I would have hoped for more in terms of content. But what is presented here is fairly good.
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