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Robbie Rogers, openly gay soccer player, joins the Galaxy
For Robbie Rogers, the comeback trail is laid out in front of him. The Galaxy unveiled its newest acquisition Saturday afternoon, and Rogers will become the first openly gay athlete to play in an American professional sports league for men when he takes...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Major League Soccer, Los Angeles Galaxy, Soccer, Chicago Fire
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Candace Parker primed for MVP year as Sparks open Sunday
Sparks forward Candace Parker feels as though her resume is incomplete. She's won two Olympic gold medals on Team USA, a Euroleague championship with a Russian team, two NCAA titles with Tennessee and nearly every individual accolade that a player can...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Staples Center, Seattle Storm, Phoenix Mercury, Candace Parker
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Grizzlies' Tony Allen fined $5,000 by NBA for flop vs. Spurs
This post has been corrected. See below.Tony Allen’s dramatics helped the Memphis Grizzlies push the San Antonio Spurs to overtime in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals, but it also cost him $5,000. The NBA announced Friday that Allen had been fined for violating the league’s...Tags: Tony Allen, National Basketball Association, Mike Conley, New York Knicks, Manu Ginobili
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WNBA to disappear by next year? A financial website says yes
The WNBA is riding high these days, eagerly awaiting the debut of college megastar Brittney Griner in her first pro game Monday. Then it will fold in a handful of months. At least that's the thought process of financial website 24/7 Wall St, which...
Tags: Adam Silver, National Basketball Association, David Stern, Mitsubishi Motors Corp., Basketball
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Brittney Griner says Baylor asked her not to reveal she is gay
Former Baylor star Brittney Griner said Sunday that her coach at Baylor, Kim Mulkey, asked her to not be publicly open about being gay out of fear it would hurt recruiting. "It was a recruiting thing," Griner told espnW.com. "The coaches thought that...
Tags: Phoenix Mercury, Los Angeles Kings
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Skylar Diggins gets a Mercedes as a graduation gift from Jay-Z
Skylar Diggins got a new car as a gift after graduating from Notre Dame this weekend. Big deal, you say? Probably lots of recent college grads got the same thing? True, but she got a Mercedes. Well, maybe some kids with rich parents had one of those...
Tags: Jay-Z, New York Yankees, Dwayne Johnson
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Kobe Bryant's private family matters again reach a public stage
The 131-character dispatch arrived mournfully within two hours of sunrise May 4, at 7:58 a.m. to be exact. "When u give Give GIVE and they take Take TAKE at wat point do u draw a line in the sand?" Kobe Bryant wrote on his Twitter feed, adding the...
Tags: High School Sports, Staples Center, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, National Basketball Association
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Girls' basketball: Michelle Greco is new coach at St. Bernard
Varsity Times InsiderMichelle Greco, a former girls' basketball standout at Crescenta Valley High, UCLA and in the WNBA, has been named girls' basketball coach at St. Bernard. Greco was a standout three-point shooter for UCLA. She has run camps for 10 years....... -
Brittney Griner acknowledges she's gay, says 'just be who you are'
Ex-Baylor star Brittney Griner likes to remind all the girls and young women who idolize her to just be themselves and not worry what others think. Griner was doing just that this week while discussing her sexual orientation, apparently for the first...
Tags: Sports Illustrated, Tracy McGrady, Phoenix Mercury
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Oregon proposes probation over violations in football program
The University of Oregon has acknowledged major NCAA violations in connection with football recruiting and proposed a self-imposed two-year probation with the loss of one scholarship in each of the next three years, according to documents released by...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, New York Knicks, Detroit Red Wings, Reggie Bullock
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Cynthia Cooper-Dyke wants to return USC to 'national powerhouse'
Time will tell whether Cynthia Cooper-Dyke can restore USC to relevancy in women’s basketball. But on Tuesday, when she was introduced as the Trojans' new coach, it was clear that her hiring already had infused the program with a new energy. A...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, John Madden, USC Trojans, NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament, Troy Trojans
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Brittney Griner, Elena Delle Donne are picked 1-2 in WNBA draft
Baylor's Brittney Griner, Delaware's Elena Delle Donne and Notre Dame's Skylar Diggins were the top three picks in Monday night's WNBA draft. No surprises there, but still plenty of excitement among the players, the teams that selected them and the...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Basketball, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Phoenix Mercury, Dennis Rodman
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