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“Today on OTL, as part of a larger, wide-ranging discussion on today’s news, I offered my personal opinion as it relates to Christianity, a point of view that I have expressed publicly before. I realize that some people disagree with my opinion and I accept and respect that. As has been the case in the past, my beliefs have not …

Think Progress notes that the attack came in front of openly gay fellow ESPN sportscaster LZ Granderson, who fired back: “I really don’t need Chris or anyone else telling me if I’m a Christian because Jesus tells me I am.”

The poll is here. (Tipped by JMG reader Matthew)

“The truth is I was gay my whole life. I had dated girls in high school. I think I knew I wasn’t straight long before I knew I was gay. I knew by the time I got to college that I was gay. My team actually came to me to ask me whether I was gay. They wanted to talk …

On Sunday ESPN aired the Pro Bowling Association finals in the World Series Of Bowling where the sports network may have made some history. Jim Buzinski writes at OutSports: In what might be a first, ESPN this weekend showed an openly gay male pro athlete kissing his husband and they did not shy away from describing the relationship. The event …

Via Truth Wins Out. (Tipped by JMG reader Straight Grandmother)

Thanks to his Obama=Hitler speech, America will never again hear Hank Williams’ opening theme to Monday Night Football. Are you ready for some football? Hank Williams Jr. isn’t anymore. The country singer and ESPN each took credit for the decision Thursday morning to ax his classic intro to “Monday Night Football.” The network had pulled the song from the game …

“No Hank, no Monday Night Football. ESPN, owned by far left leaning Disney struck back at Hank Williams today, taking his trademark, ‘Are you ready for some football?’ song off fo [sic] the opening of Monday night football. Why? Williams dared to insult Disney darling Obama. As much as I love sports, I have just about had it with ESPN. …

ESPN will pull its homophobic ad featuring Shaquille O’Neal and will issue an apology. Via Chris Johnson at HRC Back Story: This past weekend brought us the latest installment of advertisers using homophobia to sell their products. This time, the ad was on ESPN promoting its NBA programming. The ad features NBA star Shaquille O’Neal rejecting the offer of a …

In a new ESPN commercial for their NBA coverage, Shaquille O’Neal reacts to Mike Breen’s request for a “fist kiss” by moving away from him, calling it “weird” and “disgusting”, and then mimicking Breen in an effeminate voice. Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog: One simple question. If the ad called a show of affection between blacks and whites “weird” and …