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Jason Collins scores for gay rights
Boom. And just like that, history is made. Just that quickly, a barrier becomes rubble. Just that fast, everything changes. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center," writes Jason Collins in the May 6 edition of Sports Illustrated. "I'm black. And I'm gay."...
Tags: FBI, Jackie Robinson, ESPN (tv network), The New York Times, Minority Groups
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Openly gay in NBA: Will Jason Collins get 'Hollywood Treatment'?
NBA center Jason Collins made history on Monday, becoming the first athlete in one of the big four American professional sports leagues — NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL — to declare he is openly gay while still an active player. Collins’ decision...Tags: Jason Collins, Basketball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Sports
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Heat's Mike Miller supports former teammate Jason Collins
Heat guard Mike Miller viewed him as he would any other teammate. He even sold him a German Shepard when they played together in Memphis during the 2007-08 season. So Miller found it easy to respect Jason Collins' decision to become the first active...
Tags: Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Kevin Johnson, Washington Wizards, Erik Spoelstra
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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: Jason Collins, Basketball, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards, Orlando Magic
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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, Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards, Boston
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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, Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Metta World Peace, Mitch Kupchak
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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: Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards, Los Angeles Times Journalists, Justice and Rights
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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: Russell Simmons, Jason Collins, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards, Gay Rights
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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: White House, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards, Twitter, Inc., Boston Celtics
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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: New York Jets, Tim Tebow, Basketball, Jason Collins, David Stern
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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: Jason Collins, CBS Corp., National Basketball Association, Bill Clinton, Washington Wizards
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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: Good Morning America (tv program), Jason Collins, Basketball, National Basketball Association, Washington Wizards
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