All posts tagged "basketball"
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Off to See the Wizards with Team DC
Night OUT at the Wizards gives LGBTQ basketball fans a chance to rally around a sport they love
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NCAA pulls seven sports championships from North Carolina over HB 2
The NCAA has pulled seven collegiate championship events from North Carolina and will relocate them to other states in protest of the Tar Heel State’s...
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Derrick Gordon: I was shut out of the NBA because I’m gay
Former college basketball star expresses regret that no team gave him a chance to try out
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Rajon Rondo “apologizes” for yelling slurs at gay referee UPDATE: Rondo issues formal apology
UPDATE: Sacramento Kings point guard Rajon Rondo has issued a formal apology for lobbing anti-gay slurs at openly gay referee Bill Kennedy following his ejection...
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UMass Guard Gordon Makes History
“I’d seen a gay flag in the stands today, which I highly, highly appreciated…. I have a lot of support behind me, family, friends, teammates,...
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NBA’s Jason Collins comes out in SI interview
“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. … I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a...
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E.J. Johnson is happy to be out sooner than later
“I always had dreams and plans of doing my own thing and creating my own image, so it came a little sooner than I thought...
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“Bullying players made him feel better,” says former colleague of Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice
“Bullying players made him feel better…. I can’t believe that anywhere else in the country it is worse than this — it’s the absolute worst.”...
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Do It! with Justin – Episode 3: Hoops [video]
In the latest installment of our new, bi-weekly series, Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart tries his hand out at dribbling... a basketball, with the D.C. Sentinels....
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Mystic Pizzazz [video]
Metro Weekly's Ebone Bell takes a moment to talk with fans of the Mystics and, following a recent game, some of the teammates
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DC Sentinels
The boys on the team for the DC Sentinels, a local gay basketball team, are nice and easy to talk to off the court. Once...
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Pink Shadow
More than 200 people are expected to attend D.C.'s first gay basketball tournament, the D.C. Capital Classic, a National Gay Basketball Association-sanctioned event, Oct. 25-26,...
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Game Plan
Something different happens when a professional athlete steps out of the closet and into the public eye. Entertainers, lawyers, even politicians -- their stories can...
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Bound for Glory
Quick -- how many major professional baseball, football and basketball stars are out of the closet? Zero. Now, how many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender...
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