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Tim Tebow Returns To The NFL

The wingnuts are doing cartwheels.

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Aaron Hernandez Found Guilty

Details.

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Oakland A’s Pitcher Offers To Buy Tickets From Fans Who Object To LGBT Night

Oakland A’s star pitcher Sean Doolittle and his girlfriend have offered buy the tickets from fans that object to attending the team’s upcoming first-ever LGBT Pride Night at the Oakland Coliseum. Doolittle’s girlfriend has two moms and she writes: If attending a baseball game on LGBT Pride Night makes you at all uncomfortable, it is probably a good idea to …

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Jason Collins Signs With Yahoo Sports

Outsports has the announcement from Yahoo: At Yahoo Sports, we’re always look to guide our readers to the best, most relevant, original content we can. And today I’m happy to welcome the latest addition to our lineup, former NBA player Jason Collins. Jason will provide original video programming for the Yahoo Sports studio including basketball analysis for both the upcoming …

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Tony Perkins Has The Pro Sports Sadz

“A month after winning their fourth Super Bowl title, the New England Patriots are stepping onto another turf: the marriage debate. This week, the NFL powerhouse — along with Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays and World Series-winning San Francisco Giants — went on the offensive in the heavy-weight battle for marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court. In a brief …

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Coca-Cola Takes On Internet Haters With Super Bowl Ad Starring Michael Sam

Via AdWeek: If you’ve spent more than three seconds on the Internet, you know it can be a pretty horrible place, swarming with cyberbullies and trolls who’ve turned comment sections into rotting hate-fests and people’s own personal social pages into sources of despair. Coca-Cola hopes to change all that—or at least, steer things in a different direction—with its 2015 Super …

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POLL: 73% Back Gay Athletes

Via the Public Religion Research Institute: Roughly three-quarters (73%) of Americans say they would support a professional sports team signing a gay or lesbian athlete, while about 1-in-5 (19%) say they would oppose this action. There is broad support for a professional sports team signing a gay or lesbian athlete across demographic and political groups, including 66% of Republicans, 75% …

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Michael Sam Proposed….At The Vatican

TMZ is calling it “an act of defiance.”

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REPORT: Michael Sam Is Engaged

Unconfirmed by Sam, but here’s what TMZ is saying: Finally, some good news for Michael Sam — HE’S ENGAGED!!! It all went down in Europe where the 25-year-old football player has been vacationing with his college sweetheart Vito Cammisano … the man Sam famously kissed when he was drafted into the NFL last year. Unclear who asked who … but …

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Chess Boxing: It’s A Thing

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Pro Sports First: MLB Umpire Comes Out

Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott, seen above left with his husband of 28 years, has formally come out. Jim Buzinski writes at OutSports: Major League Baseball umpire Dale Scott bleeds the green and yellow of his beloved Oregon Ducks football team, having gone to games since the Johnson Administration. He has two black Labs, Roman and Rollie, who rule …

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Nashville To Host 2016 Bingham Cup

Via Facebook: “We are proud to announce that Nashville will host the 2016 Bingham Cup! Thanks to all of the players and supporters who participated in the vote and to Chicago and Boston for a spirited bid process. With you, brothers!” The 2014 event was held in Sydney.

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Jason Collins Retires From NBA

“It has been 18 exhilarating months since I came out in Sports Illustrated as the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional team sports. And it has been nine months since I signed with the Nets and became the first openly gay male athlete to appear in a game in one of those leagues. It feels …

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Michael Sam Is A GQ Man Of The Year

Via the Washington Post: This fall, GQ magazine found room for an athlete on its annual list of celebrities who have left a mark on pop culture. This isn’t any athlete, though. It’s Michael Sam, the first openly gay player taken in the NFL draft last spring. Sam joins “Guardians of the Galaxy” star Chris Pratt, comedian Dave Chappelle, actors …

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Strongman Champion Comes Out

From the Facebook page of strongman competition champion Rob Kearney: “My ‪#‎mcm‬ goes to this guy, my boyfriend, Joey Aleixo! The past few months have been crazy, but throughout all of this you’ve given me a reason to smile. So I guess this is me coming out and saying… I’m gay!!” (That hashtag stands for “man crush Monday.”) From the …

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Satan’s Favorite City Wins World Series

UPDATE: JMG reader Kned sends us a photo from the celebration in the Castro. UPDATE II: Another Kned photo, this time from the Mission.

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World Series Bet: Chorus Vs Chorus

From the clip description: The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus has no doubt that our SF Giants will handily win their 3rd World Series in 5 years. Should the KC Royals sneak their way to victory, the proud men of SFGMC will offer the following: 1. SFGMC Artistic Director Dr. Tim Seelig will conduct a rehearsal in a Kansas City …

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TRAILER: To Russia With Love

From the press materials: To Russia With Love, an EPIX Original Documentary about two generations of Olympic LGBT athletes, will make its world premiere on Wednesday, October 29 at 8PM ET. To Russia With Love examines human rights through the lens of LGBT athletes, with iconoclastic athlete and commentator Johnny Weir serving as the viewers’ guide into this world. The …

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POLAND: Pro Boxer Backs LGBT Rights

Poland’s struggling LGBT rights movement got a boost this week when a “wildly popular” boxer publicly expressed his support. Via New York Times: Dariusz Michalczewski, a world-famous pugilist who goes by the nickname Tiger, recently made headlines by announcing his support for one of the country’s most prominent gay rights groups, Shoulder to Shoulder on Equality — L.G.B.T. and Friends, …

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IOC: All Future Olympics Host Cities Must Agree To LGBT Discrimination Protections

The International Olympic Committee today announced that future Olympics host cities must sign a contract with an added clause vowing to protect LGBT participants and attendees from discrimination. Via press release from All Out: “This is a significant step in ensuring the protection of both citizens and athletes around the world and sends a clear message to future host cities …

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