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NBA Player's Coming Out A Big Step Among Many
Perhaps this is a Jackie Robinson moment, a historic point in time — but it doesn't feel like one. It feels so inevitable that we had to be reminded that it hadn't already happened. We refer of course to National Basketball Association player...Tags: Jackie Robinson, Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, Sports, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Our take: Jason Collins
Team player For 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association, Jason Collins must have known the garden variety fears. Getting cut from the team. Missing a crucial free throw. Letting down his teammates. For even longer, though, Collins lived with...
Tags: Sports, Washington Wizards, Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Basketball
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NBA center Jason Collins says he is gay
NBA center Jason Collins, who played for the Washington Wizards last season, has become the first male athlete still active in a major professional sport to come out as gay. Collins made his announcement to Sports Illustrated, which will feature Collins...
Tags: Joseph P. Kennedy, Washington Wizards, National Basketball Association, Boston, Jason Collins
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Metta World Peace relates Cookie Monster shirt with Jason Collins
Metta World Peace wore a blue Cookie Monster T-shirt for his end-of-season meeting with Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak and Coach Mike D'Antoni on Monday. Then he had a message for everybody when asked about NBA player Jason Collins, who revealed...
Tags: Mike D'Antoni, Sports, Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Basketball
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Jason Collins would be a marketing bonanza for any NBA team
It’s been fun reading the qualifiers and questions about Jason Collins’ place in history this morning, after the NBA player came out of the closet. And boy, what a closet he was in. Even his twin brother didn’t know he was gay....Tags: Abusive Behavior, Periodicals, National Hockey League, Civil Rights, Sports
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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: Same-Sex Marriage, Washington Wizards, Civil Rights, Sports, National Basketball Association
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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: Same-Sex Marriage, National Hockey League, Civil Rights, Sports, San Francisco 49ers
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Hawks outlast Pacers to even series
ReutersHawks outlast Pacers to even series ATLANTA -- Roy Hibbert was lying on the floor of the visitors' locker room as reporters and camera crews tried to avoid stepping on his feet as they jostled for position. Finally, he rose and went to his chair....Tags: Paul George, Jeff Teague, Roy Hibbert, Jason Collins, Frank Vogel
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Jason Collins vs. the voice of locker-room ignorance
Thank goodness for new Dolphins receiver Mike Wallace's quick fingers. "All these beautiful women in the world and guys wanna mess with other guys SMH,'' Wallace tweeted Monday. Thank goodness he explained in 140 quickly-erased characters why it...
Tags: Mike Wallace (football), Periodicals, Sports, David Stern, Tim Tebow
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Martina Navratilova paved way for out athletes long ago
Staff writerThe morning programs provided a fascinating contrast in covering NBA player Jason Collins' revelation that he is gay. ABC's "Good Morning America" interviewed Collins, who received support from President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and...Tags: Bill Clinton, Boston Celtics, Periodicals, Washington Wizards, National Basketball Association
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Jason Collins tells 'GMA' he's 'the happiest that I've ever been'
NBA center Jason Collins had a pretty incredible day on Monday. Sure, there was that little announcement he made that sent shockwaves around the country and lifted a huge weight off his shoulders. Plus, it's not every day the average citizen gets a call...
Tags: Boston Celtics, Washington Wizards, Sports, National Basketball Association, Jason Collins
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Jason Collins comes out as gay, triggers huge response
Jason Collins was a journeyman NBA center, all but unknown to anyone but the sport's dedicated followers. That was before Collins revealed he is gay in a first-person account for Sports Illustrated posted to the magazine's website Monday. In doing so,...Tags: Bill Clinton, Oliver Purnell, Jamal Crawford, Boston Celtics, Periodicals
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