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Orlando gay kicker wants to put boot to NFL stereotypes
It will happen one day, hopefully soon. The announcement will be accompanied by a frenzied media circus, complete with carnival barkers and clowns shouting out homophobic slurs. There will also be rational minds who will simply laugh at the absurdity of...Tags: Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Sun Belt Conference, Homophobia
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Gay NBA player Jason Collins feels the love; will goodwill continue?
Jason Collins, the first active male athlete in a major U.S. professional team to come out as gay, is receiving widespread support for his announcement. The reaction to his news Monday was swift. President Obama, who just last year announced his...Tags: Gay Rights, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Basketball, Minority Groups
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NBA veteran Jason Collins is first active player to say he is gay
Jason Collins had long been keeping a secret. As a standout high school player at Harvard-Westlake School, as a star at Stanford and through a 12-year NBA career, he had hidden something fundamental about himself from his family, friends and teammates....
Tags: Chris Kluwe, Justice and Rights, Twitter, Inc., San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Flyers
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Jason Collins perfect person to take this first step
NEW YORK — Over lunch in Las Vegas last summer, Bulls general manager Gar Forman and free-agent NBA center Jason Collins met to discuss what Collins might offer Chicago. The word pioneer never came up. "A very, very impressive guy,'' Forman...Tags: Tom Thibodeau, Barclays Center, San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bulls, Basketball
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Gay kicker wants to put boot to NFL stereotypes
It will happen one day, hopefully soon. The announcement will be accompanied by a frenzied media circus, complete with carnival barkers and clowns shouting homophobic slurs. There will also be rational minds who will simply laugh at the absurdity of it...
Tags: Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Sun Belt Conference, Minority Groups
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Now is the time for a sports hero to speak
"Now is the time…" -- Martin Luther King, Aug. 28, 1963 Brendon Ayanbadejo is wrong. It is painful to say that. Ayanbadejo's heart is in a good place and the advice he gave last week on MSNBC's "The Ed Show" was practical and well intentioned....
Tags: Gay Rights, Justice and Rights, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens, Civil Rights
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Column: Time for a sports hero to speak up
"Now is the time . . . " — Martin Luther King, August 28, 1963 Brendon Ayanbadejo is wrong. It is painful to say that. Ayanbadejo’s heart is in a good place and the advice he gave last week on MSNBC’s "The Ed Show" was practical...Tags: Gay Rights, Entertainment Events, Justice and Rights, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens
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It's John over Jim in HarBowl
NEW ORLEANS — What happened Sunday on the world's stage has been going on between John and Jim Harbaugh for many moons. Jim, 50, is a little more than a year younger than John. So much of his childhood was devoted to trying to measure up to his...Tags: LaMichael James, Justin Tucker, Baltimore Ravens, Sam Koch, San Francisco 49ers
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Gay quarterback coming out on 'Necessary Roughness' matters, analysts say
The Baltimore SunGay characters coming out in prime time is nothing new. In fact, “Coming-out narratives are cliches,” according to Ron Becker, author of “Gay TV and Straight America” (Rutgers University Press, 2006). “They were big in...Tags: Necessary Roughness (tv program), Arts and Culture, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Television
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Ravens' Brendon Ayanbadejo hopes anti-gay comments spark positive discussion
Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo said he plans to reach out to San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver in hopes of starting a positive discussion, following Culliver's anti-gay comments earlier this week. Ayanbadejo has been vocal in his...
Tags: Brendon Ayanbadejo, Baltimore Ravens, National Football League, Jim Harbaugh, San Francisco 49ers
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Boxer Omar Henry dies at 25
Boxer Omar Henry, who was pulled from a televised fight card in November after discovering he had gallbladder cancer, died Friday in Chicago. He was 25. Henry, a light-middleweight, was supposed to fight on Showtime on Nov. 16. A couple of days before...
Tags: Gallbladder Cancer
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East L.A.'s Frankie Gomez ready to start campaign toward title shot
Oscar De La Hoya said he has ordered his matchmaker to start intensifying the opposition for East Los Angeles boxing prospect Frankie Gomez. “Without blowing smoke, he is the real deal and I want to start moving him faster than we have,”...
Tags: Joseph Diaz, Jr., Boxing, Bantamweight, Robert Rodriguez, Manny Pacquiao
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Apr 28, 2013
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Mar 6, 2013
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Mar 5, 2013
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Feb 3, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
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Jan 31, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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