“One of the extraordinary measures of progress that we’ve seen in this country has been the recognition that the LGBT community deserves full equality,” the president said at a press conference today. “I’m very proud of him,” Obama said of the first openly gay NBA player.
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Are Gay Guys Checking You Out in the Locker Room?
NBA player Jason Collins’s decision to come out has homophobes in a panic. Here’s why straight dudes need to chill out.
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Coming Out of the Locker Room
There are hints we might soon see the first openly gay major league sports player. But are the fans ready?
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Happy Jackie Robinson Day
Sixty-six years ago today-when Martin Luther King Jr. was only 18 and the Greensboro sit-ins were over a decade off-number 42 took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the Major League color line.
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Fox News Fears America’s “Wussification”
After the release of a video showing him verbally and physically abusing his players, Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice was fired two days ago-much to some conservative commentators’ chagrin. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook
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Football, Body and Mind
A sportswriter looks back on his history with America’s favorite pastime.
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Homophobia in Sports and Changing Hearts
It doesn’t matter if their apologies are sincere; what matters is what other athletes and the fans see.
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Superbowlistan, Louisiana
A dispatch from New Orleans, home to the Super Bowl for the first time since Hurricane Katrina
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The Interview: Armstrong Admits to Doping
The disgraced cyclist comes clean-sort of-telling Oprah it would have been “impossible” to win the Tour de France without the use of performance enhancing drugs.
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Austin Loses Its Hometown Hero
For Lance Armstrong’s Texas hometown, his downfall has been about a whole lot more than cycling.
