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Parasiliti: Life stranger than all of NFL's fiction
It seems like we can run, but we can’t hide. I don’t know about you, but I was spending this week getting ready for the Super Bowl. You know, the Big Game (since we aren’t authorized to call it the other title). This one has a tinge of...Tags: Sports, American Football Conference, Politics, Art Modell, Ray Rice
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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: Sports, Sun Belt Conference, National Football League, Homophobia, Super Bowl
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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: Justice and Rights, Sports, Russell Simmons, Basketball, National Football League
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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: Justice and Rights, Chris Kluwe, Basketball, National Football League, Minnesota Vikings
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NBA: Collins blazes trail for gay athletes
Associated PressWASHINGTON — With the simplest of sentences, NBA veteran Jason Collins set aside years of worry and silence to become the first active player in one of four major U.S. professional sports leagues to come out as gay. In a first-person article posted...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Chris Kluwe, Basketball, National Football League, Super Bowl
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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: Chicago Bulls, Sports, Nazr Mohammed, Mike Wallace (football), 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: Sports, Sun Belt Conference, National Football League, Homophobia, Super Bowl
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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: Sports, Justice and Rights, Jackie Robinson, ESPN Radio (tv network), National Football League
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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: Sports, Justice and Rights, Jackie Robinson, ESPN Radio (tv network), National Football League
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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: Sports, Randy Moss, LaMichael James, John Harbaugh, Super Bowl XLVII
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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: Sports, Health and Medical Professionals, National Football League, Satellite and Cable Service, Homophobia
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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: Same-Sex Marriage, Sports, San Francisco 49ers, Artie Lange, Football
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Apr 28, 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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