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If anyone can relate to Jason Collins, it’s Golden State Warriors President Rick Welts, a former National Basketball Association chief marketing officer who says the first openly gay male athlete in a major U.S. team sport can cash in by coming out.
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It was only a matter of time, and that time has arrived: In the latest issue of Sports Illustrated, NBA center Jason Collins has come out as gay.
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By the time former Phoenix Suns executive Rick Welts’s I-am-gay announcement appeared on the front page of the May 15, 2011, New York Times, he already had revealed his secret to friends, co-workers and business associates.
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Martina Navratilova looks at Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and she sees a little bit of herself. That’s not bad when the observer has won the grass- court Grand Slam tournament in London a record nine times.
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Martina Navratilova , the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion who last month announced she had cancer, said today she has no trace of the disease after surgery.
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Martina Navratilova , the 18-time Grand Slam tennis singles champion, is recovering in a Nairobi hospital after she was forced to give up climbing Mount Kilimanjaro , organizers of the fundraising event said.
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Petra Kvitova kept her cool to beat Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon for her first major tennis title. It wasn’t until she met Martina Navratilova afterward that the Czech got emotional.
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Rafael Nadal beat Juan Martin Del Potro to win his record 22nd ATP World Tour Masters tennis title at the BNP Paribas Open, successfully coming through his first hard-court test following a seven-month injury layoff.
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Martina Navratilova questioned Caroline Wozniacki’s status as the No. 1 women’s tennis player, criticizing the system that put her there for placing too much emphasis on the quantity of wins rather than the quality.
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Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt was named sportsman of the year at the 2013 Laureus World Sports Awards ceremony in Rio de Janeiro. Gold-medal winning heptathlete Jessica Ennis of Britain took the women’s award.
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