(AP) Young gay athletes set tone for NBA coming out By MARTHA IRVINE AP National Writer CHICAGO You’ve probably never heard of Holly Peterson or Jonathan Jean-Pierre. One came out as a lesbian at age 15, when she was playing
Just how dependent on Game 7s is the NBA for playoff revenue? A review by Breitbart Sports of advertising figures presented by Ad Week makes it clear how dependent the NBA, as well as the NHL and Major League Baseball playoffs,
In the first week of March Madness, 36 games are played and every game is an elimination game for both teams. Saturday night, the Nets and Bulls will play in the 45th NBA playoff game this season, and it will be the first
It was a series of ups and downs for the Oklahoma City Thunder, but they managed to pull away and defeat the Houston Rockets to advance in the NBA playoffs by defeating Houston 103-94 in a hard-fought game six in
(AP) AP Source: LeBron wins 4th MVP awardBy TIM REYNOLDSAP Basketball Writer LeBron James is getting his fourth Most Valuable Player award–and the only mystery left is whether the vote was unanimous. The Miami Heat star will be introduced Sunday
As soon as NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out this week in an article in Sports Illustrated, he was lauded for his bravery and heroism for being the first active out male gay athlete in major professional team sports.
Earlier this week, NBA player Jason Collins came out of the closet. On Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported on reaction at Collins’ old elite high school, Harvard Westlake. Suffice it to say that the level of tolerance for Collins’
Carolyn Moos, the ex-fiancee of Jason Collins whom he led on for eight years, is planning to freeze her eggs later this month in case she will need to undergo IVF to have kids in the future. Moos, 34, revealed
Former NBA great and current TNT announcer Charles Barkley said American society is more homophobic than locker rooms in the NBA. He made those comments on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” after Jason Collins came out on Monday in a Sports
Oprah Winfrey will interview Jason Collins and his friends and family, and it will air on her OWN network this Sunday. Collins, who made headlines by coming out in a Sports Illustrated article on Monday, has been lauded by celebrities,
More fallout for Howard Kurtz, the embattled media reporter unceremoniously dumped by the Daily Beast Thursday after publishing a column that falsely accused the NBA’s Jason Collins of not disclosing the fact that he — a gay man — had
On Thursday night, Breitbart News editor-at-large Ben Shapiro took on Piers Morgan regarding Shapiro’s tweets about Jason Collins, the first active NBA player to come out as gay. Shapiro tweeted last week, “So Jason Collins is a hero because he’s
(AP) Nets beat Bulls 95-92, force Game 7By ANDREW SELIGMANAP Sports WriterCHICAGODeron Williams, Brook Lopez and Joe Johnson each scored 17 points, and the Brooklyn Nets again avoided elimination, beating the short-handed Chicago Bulls 95-92 Thursday to tie their first-round
Unemployed NBA center Jason Collins, who recently announced he was homosexual to the acclaim of Sports Illustrated, “Good Morning America,” and the President of the United States – and was widely hailed as the successor to Jackie Robinson – stands
On the day NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out and became the first active male openly gay player in major professional sports, CNN gave his story over nine times more airtime than it gave the Kermit Gosnell trial in
Of everything I’ve read surrounding Jason Collins, the NBA center who came out publicly as gay Monday, this column by The Chicago Tribune’s Steve Rosenbloom is by far the most disgraceful piece of yellow journalism I’ve come across yet. Nothing
Washington Wizards center Jason Collins announced he was gay earlier this week, news that rocked the NBA and sparked a fiery debate in talk show circles beyond the realm of sports. Could the news impact a fledgling movie project involving
After NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out on Monday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley asked CBS Sports anchor James Brown this question: “Is this a Jackie Robinson moment?” Brown, in response to the question, said Pelley’s comparison was a “fair
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi said that NBA player Jason Collins “is” simply Jackie Robinson in a Tuesday tweet from his verified account. Collins came out on Monday, and he became the first male openly gay athlete in major professional
Sex has gone from being private to public. Put simply, one’s sexuality can confer social validation. Entire industries now spin on an axis of homosexual activism (think gay marriage movement). Being gay is an identity, and, like blackness or feminism,
After he was done answering questions from the press during a Tuesday press conference about important topics like Benghazi, Syria, the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, and immigration, President Barack Obama came back to the podium to specifically answer–and reflect on–a
Late Monday evening, ESPN’s NBA reporter Chris Broussard issued a statement on Twitter in response to his remarks on Monday on “Outside the Lines” about how he felt his Christian beliefs led him to personally believe that openly homosexual people–like NBA player
In an interesting column on FoxSports.com, Jason Whitlock looks at the NFL Draft and how the event was able to triple the viewership of the NBA Playoffs. His main argument is that the NFL Draft better showcases the “right to
On Monday’s “Outside the Lines” on ESPN, NBA reporter Chris Broussard (pictured) questioned Jason Collins’s assessment that he is a Christian in addition to being the first openly male gay athlete in any of the major American sports. Openly gay
While the left lectures Americans about the historic breakthrough made by NBA free agent Jason Collins in announcing his sexuality and calls for well-deserved tolerance, they are on full-out attack against ESPN commentator Chris Broussard for expressing his Christian views.
