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BOSTON (AP) — NBA veteran center Jason Collins, the first active athlete in one of the four U.S. major professional sports leagues to come out as being gay, marched Saturday for nearly three miles in Boston’s gay pride parade with U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III, his onetime roommate at Stanford University. Collins wore a T-shirt […]

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It didn’t take Jason Collins to say he’s gay to compel Jallen Messersmith to make the same announcement. Messersmith is a 6-foot-7 shot-blocking specialist from tiny Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. He also is believed to be the first openly gay active player in U.S. men’s college basketball. Messersmith told The Associated Press on Wednesday […]

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Fred Phelps Jr., the son of Westboro Baptist Church minister Fred Phelps, is stirring up controversy after he sent a series of tweets blaming the devastating Oklahoma tornado on NBA player Jason Collins‘ coming out and Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant‘s support of his announcement. Phelps tweeted the controversial and insensitive messages below: Phelps […]

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This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. Great news for Charles Ramsey.  The Cleveland kidnap hero just got a shout out from the folks at McDonald’s.  Charles told reporters that he was sitting down eating his McDonald’s before he came to the […]

NBA veteran Jason Collins made national headlines when he came out of the closet in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated. As the first…

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This is Chris Paul from the TJMS running through the top stories in roughly sixty seconds with The Morning Minute. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has made a surprising confession.  He confessed that back in February he secretly underwent lap band surgery to lose weight.  So last week Jason Collins came out of the closet […]

Newly out NBA baller Jason Collins sat down for a 90-minute interview on Sunday night’s episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter.” Collins said he’s proud to…

The Democratic National Committee has said that NBA veteran Jason Collins will headline its annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender gala on May 29. Jason…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Jason Collins, the NBA veteran who last week announced he was gay, is disputing reports from publishing insiders who say he is shopping a book deal. Officials at three publishing houses told The Associated Press on Monday that they had been contacted about a planned memoir by Collins, the first active […]

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You had to know J. Anthony Brown wasn’t going to let Jason Collins just come out the closet and not get murdered in a song!

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D.L. Hughley hates the comparison between the legendary and iconic Jackie Robinson and the-not-so legendary Jason Collins. Plus, he gives his opinion on the latest news from the Boston Marathon bombings, asking “Why are their names so hard to pronounce?!”

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Sorry Carolyn Moos, but Huggy doesn’t believe that you didn’t know Jason Collins was gay. Plus, he lists the rest of the week’s “Bama of the Week” contenders.