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Breaking a barrier
NBA center Jason Collins says he has gotten "incredible" support since revealing in Sports Illustrated that he is gay and thus becoming the first openly gay male athlete in one of the major team sports in this country. As that support includes...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Football, Barack Obama, Baseball, Baltimore Ravens
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NBA player Jason Collins coming out is a defining moment in sports
Maybe you yawned when you heard the news. Or maybe you just shrugged when you heard about Jason Collins and said: "What's the big deal?" But it's a very big deal. First active male player in a major team sport to declare he's gay? In the macho world...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Periodicals, National Basketball Association, Steve Nash, Basketball
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Cruelest mystery: death before life
Sun StaffThat chilly night in late October, the delivery room was so quiet. The doctor wrapped the 8-pound, 21-inch newborn girl in a pink-and-blue striped cotton blanket, pulled a matching cap over her brown hair and gently passed her to her mother. Margarete...Tags: Children, Maryland, Plastic Surgeons, Research, Nursing
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Triple Crown
Sun StaffEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Los Angeles Lakers didn't want there to be anything left to chance and any guesswork. Shaquille O'Neal wanted to get what his teammate and "little brother" Kobe Bryant got last year, a title in his hometown. The Lakers got...Tags: Kenyon Martin, Triple Crown, Red Auerbach, Shaquille O'Neal, Pat Riley
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Openly gay Rogers joins Los Angeles Galaxy
Reuters(Reuters) - Former soccer international Robbie Rogers has joined Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy, the team said on Saturday, putting him in line to become the first active openly gay male athlete to compete in an American professional team sport....Tags: National Basketball Association, Columbus Crew, Major League Soccer, USA Today, Los Angeles Galaxy
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NFL: Miami, con un estadio anticuado, se queda sin Super Bowl
El sur de Florida, con todo su glamour y eclecticismo, recibió un duro golpe esta semana cuando los dueños de equipos de la NFL hicieron pedazos el sueño de Miami de convertirse nuevamente en sede de un Super Bowl. En una votación que resultó en...
Tags: Kevin Youkilis, Omar Infante, Sage Rosenfels, The New York Times, Baseball
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On The Fly
Local horse racing expert Bob Clancy (a former Courant copy editor) says that Orb, the 3-year-old bay colt who won a sloppy Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, is a lock to win the Preakness Saturday, and many racing enthusiasts agree. "Orb, he's a freak,"...Tags: Orb (racehorse), Kentucky Derby, North Carolina Tar Heels, NASCAR, St. Louis Blues
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Champ & Chump: Jason Collins & Dwight Howard
Jason Collins: The biggest surprise about this week's announcement is that it took so long for a male professional athlete to emerge from the closet. The Washington Wizards center isn't the first gay man to play in the professional sports that Americans...Tags: National Basketball Association, Dwight Howard, Los Angeles Lakers, San Antonio Spurs
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Malone 'proud' of Collins for coming out
ReutersThe Sports Xchange Malone 'proud' of Collins for coming out Former Utah Jazz star Karl Malone told a San Francisco Bay Area radio station that he is proud of Jason Collins for coming out. "Let's just cut through the skinny ... I'm proud of the young...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Karl Malone, Periodicals, National Basketball Association, Utah Jazz
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Brendon Ayanbadejo on 2 Sunday shows; Warren Buffett on 'This Week'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning topics and guests: Gay rights supporter Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens will be a guest on "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation." He will discuss the meaning of NBA player Jason Collins' coming out. NBC's "Meet the...Tags: Sports Illustrated, This Week (tv program), Television Industry, Football, Periodicals
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The Seattle Times Sideline Chatter column
Seattle TimesSounds like Pat McAfee could use a crying towel. The Colts punter says he's going to miss center A.Q. Shipley, who owned the locker next to his before getting traded to the Ravens last week. "It'll never be the same," tweeted McAfee. "Who's gonna...Tags: Football, Miami Marlins, CBS Corp., Manu Ginobili, David Letterman
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Spotlight On Who Will Hire Jason Collins
The Hartford CourantNow that Jason Collins is out as the first active male athlete in major sports to declare that he is gay, we'll have to watch if the other shoe falls out of the professional sports closet. That would be the professional basketball general manager who...Tags: Sports Illustrated, National Basketball Association, Basketball, Phoenix Suns, Women's National Basketball Association
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