Yesterday, former NBA athlete, Amer’e Stoudemire, got into hot water over a homophobic comment he said to Israeli media. Well, Stoudemire wants to assure us that he was just playing. After receiving backlash for claiming he would “shower across the street” if he had a gay roommate, the athlete said, “I want to apologize for my offensive […]
Jason Collins has turned to Sports Illustrated to make another huge announcement: He’s hanging up his jersey. After 13 years in the NBA (and becoming…
The NBA’s first openly gay player, Jason Collins, made his season debut for the Brooklyn Nets on this past Sunday. Since then, the fans have helped make Collins #1. On Tuesday, a league spokesman confirmed that the Collins’ jersey was the bestselling jersey in terms of both physical and online sales. Collins wore No. 98 […]
Jason Collins, the 35-year-old basketball star who announced last year that he was gay, has joined the roster of the Brooklyn Nets. According to reports,…
Without a doubt, one of the most memorable moments from this years’s MTV Video Music Awards was the awkward introduction of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’…
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…
Last week when Jason Collins, “came out of the closet” like R Kelly, it got my mind to working. He can’t be the “ONLY” homosexual athlete in the sports world. So our 97.9 think tank came up with 5 athletes who may soon follow the path of “FREEDOM & LIBERATION”. I would like to say […]
 We tell little kids that bullies go away eventually. We say that when you’re all grown up, that the words of others don’t hurt.…
A$AP Rocky swung by WKYS before his DC concert with Rihanna on Monday and chopped it up about the circulated photo of him grabbing Rihanna’s booty and how it felt, the fallout from controversial comments he made concerning dark-skinned girls and he even gives his thoughts on the news that broke about Jason Collins, the first active NBA player to publicly came out gay. Related […]
 So TMZ caught up with Antawn Jamison out in LA, and asked him about the recent coming out statement made by Jason Collins. Without…
Miami Dolphins wide receiver Mike Wallace might have just set a world record for fastest ignorant response after he allegedly made a homophobic tweet following NBA player Jason Collins’ coming out announcement. According to TMZ, the tweet, which has since been removed, read: “All these beautiful women in the world and guys wanna mess with […]
Washington Wizards center Jason Collins is coming out as a gay man, prompted by support from friends and the ongoing debate about marriage equality, he tells Sports Illustrated. After years of struggling with his sexuality, he says he was spurred by friend and Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy’s bravery in marching in Boston’s 2012 Gay Pride Parade. […]