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NBA Player Jason Collins Comes Out

Another barrier has been broken: Jason Collins has become the first professional basketball player to come out as gay. In a thoughtful column in Sports Illustrated, Collins muses on the fears that kept him in the closet, his decision to come out, and the support he has received from his family and friends. He doesn’t talk much about his religious beliefs, but does cite his Christian upbringing as a source of his understanding and tolerant approac…

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The Religious Mourning of ‘Saint’ Kobe Bryant Continues

…o create a memorialized space and share in the tragedy. Around the league, NBA games held moments of silence to recognize Kobe’s contribution to the sport, while individual players found ways to honor Bryant’s legacy. Some took symbolic penalties like a 24-second shot clock violation (Kobe wore number 24 for a significant portion of his career) while others broke down on the bench. Tributes emerged online as well as globally, including a court-siz…

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Our Need for Sports During the Pandemic is Far Deeper Than Just Entertainment

…ort cancellations is exceptionally broad, including the Olympic games, the NBA season and playoffs, numerous marathons, etc. But it’s not simply that professional sports have been canceled; local teams and youth leagues are suspended as well. Local workout facilities, yoga studios, and YMCAs remain, for the most part, closed. For audiences and athletes who are committed to sporting fandoms, game watching, and playing of individual and team sports,…

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Manly Prayers at Penn State

…echi played basketball at Penn State in the early 1990s before joining the NBA. After retiring, he became the first NBA player, past or present, to come out; an admission which spurred death threats against him. One wonders whether a man who stands up to such opposition with clarity, courage, and composure will be considered a model of masculinity by young boys watching sports. On Friday, Major League soccer player David Testo revealed that he was…

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Why Jason Collins’ Faith is Ignored… And Tebow’s Isn’t

…ws almost immediately followed that Jason Collins, a veteran center in the NBA, had become the first active male athlete in a major American team sport to come out as gay. Collins and Tebow are a study in contrasts, perhaps especially when it comes to their faith. Tebow is known for game-saving theatrics and an equally performative profession of faith politicized by the culture wars. He’s positioned himself as an all-American poster child for the p…

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Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

…ight next to the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site. And there is now a video game rating system based on “the society, culture, and the special values of Islam.” The Chaplain for the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers is asking fans to forgive star LeBron James for taking his talents to South Beach and the Miami Heat….

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So You’ve Decided to Run for Senate Against a Pro Wrestling Mogul

…(which might or might not include cocaine snorting and fornication with an NBA star). And these are just the presidential hopefuls! There’s no telling what we’ll see once the House and Senate races heat up, though we might soon get a preview: news out of Connecticut is that Linda McMahon, ex-President and CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, is taking another stab at the Republican nomination for the Senate seat vacated by Joe Lieberman. Recall t…

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TV’s 9 Best Christmas (and 1 Festivus) Clips

…en episodes out of hundreds produced. Adding in all day movie marathons of A Christmas Story, Ranking/Bass Christmas specials, and holiday sports like the traditional Christmas Day NBA games, it seems clear to me that couch potatoing is America’s greatest Christmas tradition. It’s just not Christmas without the TV….

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Mental Health is a Spiritual and Religious Issue

…but an incredible stigma surrounds its diagnosis and treatment. (God bless NBA player Ron Artest for doing his best to combat it.) From the time I was a little girl well into my young adulthood, I had serious bouts with depression: even at ten years old, I was so sad, I wanted to die. I did not know how to talk about being so sad—few children do. But my faith gave me a great deal of comfort, and somehow I kept on moving until I came to a place in…

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What Would Jesus Chew?, Bishops Bet on B-Ball, The Incredibly Shrinking Brain

…Catholic bishops from Miami and Dallas are making a friendly wager on the NBA Finals. Is corrupt football coach Jim Tressel an evangelical embarrassment? India’s leading yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, is declaring a hunger strike against governmental corruption. No word on how the guru feels about NCAA recruitment violations. Bernice King left Eddie Long’s church in the wake of Long settling his scandal out of court. Texas is ridding public school grad…

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