History.. First openly gay athlete playing today in a major sport tells story..
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/mag...#ixzz2Rrh8O559
Title is a bit off because its supposd to say, "playing in a major sport" but still a huge story none the less.
Last edited by Axeman33; April 29, 2013 at 11:42 AM.
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25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
"Cleavage is like the sun. You can look, but dont stare.. Unless you're wearing sunglasses."
Originally Posted by Axeman33
If there was a good candidate for leading the way here... Jason Collins is a good one.
He has a long, respected tenure in the NBA - and a twin brother.
It's basically:
I'm the same as you guys... just with a little bit of different genetic wiring.
Don't fault me for it.
Good story.
Hope the sports world is ready for this... I think it is.
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That. Takes. Balls.
/S
~ I'm not a sociopath, it's just that my magnetic personality keeps throwing off my moral compass.~
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D(6): Carlson, Heiskanen, Bogosian, Edler, Hakanpaa, Fleury
G(1): Talbot, Sorokin, Varlamov
Bench: Parise (LW), Motte (C), Richardson (C), Hagg (D)
IR: Wood, Henrique, Johnson, Dvorak
Prospects: (F) Barre-Boulet, Khovanov, Beckman, Greig, N. Robertson, Fagemo, Tuomalaa, (D) Ceulemans, Hughes, Schneider, Zboril
Awesome.. Great read.
Can't wait for more pro athletes to follow suit.
http://twitter.com/robsintheshed
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C: Tavares, Benn,
LW: Galchenyuk, Landeskog, .
RW: Pominville, Little, Oshie, Yakupov
D: Subban, Vatanen, Fowler
G: Price, Bishop
Finally. I'm actually happy about something real today.
Lets hope Jason can help mitigate - and perhaps put an end to - the senseless bigotry and homophobia in this county ... world?
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G, A, +/-, PPP, SHP, SOG, FW, HIT, BLK // W, Sv, GAA, Sv%, SHO
C: Bergeron, Barkov, Aho, Point, Kadri
LW: Marchand, Landeskog, Hertl, Marchessault
RW: Stamkos, Tarasenko, Laine, Palmieri
D: Carlson, Letang, Dumba, Weber, Pietrangelo, Ristolainen, Byfuglien*
G: Bobrovsky, Holtby, Lehner, Greiss-Varlamov
Farm: Turcotte, Cozens, Denisenko, Newhook // Sandin, Jokiharju, Dobson, K'Andre // Shesterkin
Great read, I can only imagine the guts it would take to do that, good on him.
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LW: T Vanek, B Ryan, P Marleau, T Hall
RW: C Perry, K Okposo, A Ovechkin, Kucherov
D: D Byfuglien, Z Chara, E Karlsson, R Josi, D Keith, Trouba
G: R Luongo, B Holtby, K Lehtonen
Farm: Lack, Wennberg, Hellbucyk, Ho-Sang, Milano, Burakovsky, Sanheim
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It's about time!! Glad pro athletes have a trailblazer to lead the way for others to come out! Takes a lot of balls to do what Jason did and hopefully as a free agent this year lands somewhere for his story to continue to grow.
About time.
This was led to from EJ (Magic Johnson's son) officially coming out. This is a positive trend. Good on everyone involved.
" You said you don't give a f*ck about hockey. I've never heard anyone say that before."
A good article about reactions
http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/post...s-announcement
" You said you don't give a f*ck about hockey. I've never heard anyone say that before."
This was long overdue. The path has been cleared.
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C: J.Spezza, A.Galchenyuk, E.Kuznetsov, M.Hanzal, V.Rask, S.Couturier
LW: Z.Parise, M.Gaborik, T.Vanek, J.Skinner
RW: C.Perry, J.Pavelski, P.Hornqvist, V.Nichushkin
D: E.Karlsson, P.K Subban, J.Muzzin, R.Ristolainen
G: R.Miller, S.Varlamov, D.Dubnyk
Prospects: Matthews, Kapanen, Vrana, Scherbak, Zadorov, Grubauer, Pickard, Aittokallio, Makarov, Reway, Guryanov, McCarron, Samsonov, Aho, Montour, Bowey
I wonder if him coming out will affect his FA status and teams willing to sign him. There is still a lot of fear and ignorance out there. It will be interesting to see how his future plays out now in the NBA.
10 Team, Points Only, Cash League
25 Man Roster (no position), top 20 point getters count at end of month
Keep 20/25 at seasons end, Cut 5 to FA for redrafting
Goalie points W=2pt L=-1pt SHO=2pt
Stamkos, Tavares, Eichel, Mercer, JRobertson, RThomas, Kucherov, Nugent-Hopkins, Tuch, KConnor, Necas, Point, Konecny, SJarvis, Cozenz, Morrissey, Bouchard, Josi, Novak, Tolvanen, Peterka, Brink
G- Vasilevskiy, Sorokin, Oettinger
"Cleavage is like the sun. You can look, but dont stare.. Unless you're wearing sunglasses."
Golden State shouldn't have a problem with it. Nor should anyone else because of his sexual orientation. His basketball skill on the other hand...
" You said you don't give a f*ck about hockey. I've never heard anyone say that before."
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