Good for him.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/...m-gay?lite

Apparently, he also came out as black.

Well done on his part.

I look forward to the day when stuff like this is neither news nor surprising though.

The article mentions that his college friends include Chelsea Clinton and Joe Kennedy, who was his roommate. Talk about connections!

I was thinking the same thing, George -- article says that Kennedy was his roommate. Stanford. Crazy.
But we had George P at roughly the same time.

(04-29-2013 01:19 PM)JOwl Wrote:  I was thinking the same thing, George -- article says that Kennedy was his roommate. Stanford. Crazy.
But we had George P at roughly the same time.

And to think: in 2003 I proudly proclaimed the following as one of the reasons why Rice is "better" than Stanford:

Quote:4. No celebrity students (like Tiger Woods or Chelsea Clinton) at Rice means no paparazzi on campus.

It's a little disappointing that there was no mention of Robbie Rogers in the article. That is significant because Rogers came out and announced he was retiring at a fairly young age for an athlete.

There have been at least two 3 game suspensions handed out by MLS for using gay slurs (Alan Gordon and Marc Burch). I thought that was good, but a bit harsh until Luis Suarez g/ 10 games for his Walking Dead audition.

(04-29-2013 12:07 PM)JOwl Wrote:  Good for him.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/...m-gay?lite

Apparently, he also came out as black.

HOLY SH*T!!! JASON COLLINS IS BLACK???

(04-29-2013 03:42 PM)smackdaddy Wrote:  

(04-29-2013 12:07 PM)JOwl Wrote:  Good for him.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/...m-gay?lite
Apparently, he also came out as black.

HOLY SH*T!!! JASON COLLINS IS BLACK???

HOLY SH*T!!! JASON COLLINS PLAYS IN THE NBA???

(04-29-2013 03:42 PM)smackdaddy Wrote:  

(04-29-2013 12:07 PM)JOwl Wrote:  Good for him.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/...m-gay?lite

Apparently, he also came out as black.

HOLY SH*T!!! JASON COLLINS IS BLACK???

And so too is his brother! Who knew?

(04-29-2013 02:27 PM)I45owl Wrote:  There have been at least two 3 game suspensions handed out by MLS for using gay slurs (Alan Gordon and Marc Burch). I thought that was good, but a bit harsh until Luis Suarez got 10 games for his Walking Dead audition.

Looks like I'm not the only one making that odd comparison...

Amaechi: British soccer players wary of coming out

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/amaechi-b...ming-out-0 Wrote:The advice John Amaechi gave to Jason Collins before the NBA veteran came out is very different to what he tells the gay soccer players he knows in the English Premier League.
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Amaechi became the first openly gay former NBA player in 2007, three years after retiring. In the month before his public announcement on Monday, Collins spoke to him about his decision.

"I told him there isn't anything negative about it," Amaechi said. "Being out is better than being in — unreservedly."

In American sports maybe. But not in soccer — particularly in England, according to Amaechi. Being an Englishman and one of the country's leading equality campaigners, he is qualified to offer his opinion.

"If it wanted to be a better, more progressive organization that supported diversity, not because it looks pretty when you put it on the back of your annual report ... it could be," Amaechi said. "It has the resources. It doesn't want to get rid of the dinosaur, so the dinosaurs continue to roar through the hallways of football, making sure that everyone knows how you have to behave.

"Let's face it. You are better off being the kind of football player who bites like a 5-year-old than a gay player in football. One would get you less ridicule from the powers that be. It's shocking to me."