Columns on Jason Collins coming out/Chris Broussard's response

[Alma]

The Sports and News thread was locked. I am going to post some of the columns on this issue because there's enough variety -- and dare I say a bit of poetry -- in them that a substantive discussion can be had about the points made within them without devolving into whatever argument got the previous thread locked.

Here are the voices of others. Add as you feel necessary. I'm not guaranteeing all of these are equally good. I'll post as I find them.

Harvey Araton: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/sports/basketball/jason-collins-and-nba-are-at-frontier-after-collins-announced-he-is-gay.html?ref=sports

Chuck Culpepper: http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/46148744/

Denver Post: http://www.denverpost.com/lunchspecial/ci_23139572/will-nbas-jason-collins-push-some-reassess-how

Gregg Doyel: http://www.cbssports.com/nba/story/22167239/jason-collins-no-longer-has-to-live-a-lie-and-thats-worth-celebrating

Spencer Hall: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2013/4/30/4285808/tim-brando-chris-broussard-jason-collins-out

Sally Jenkins: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/wizards/jason-collins-proves-that-bravery-takes-many-forms/2013/04/29/88ddcc22-b110-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html

Tony Jovenitti, SB Nation: http://www.outsports.com/2013/4/30/4284028/jason-collins-gay-nba-inspires-young-sportswriter-to-come-out-of-closet

Jim Litke: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/apr/29/jim-litke-column-jason-collins-did-his-part-what/

Charlie Pierce: http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9226543/jason-collins-comes-out

Mark Purdy: http://www.mercurynews.com/mark-purdy/ci_23134000/purdy-jason-collins-was-right-guy-do-this

Rick Reilly: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9227052/collins-fiancee-reaction

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I saw the Reilly column... I'm guessing he wasn't the only one to use the ex-fiancee angle, but I thought it was a pretty good column.

 

[JackS]

I would like to see a columnist tackle this line from Collins...

"I can't wait to start a family of my own."

Everything else is too easy.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I think they saw the direction it was headed and it was a preemptive strike... Kind of like Minority Report.

 

[dog eat dog world]

Litke and a guy from the FWST suggests that someone needs to hire this guy...and apparently regardless of the fact that he's not worthy of a roster spot on ability.

 

[HanSenSE]

Litke and a guy from the FWST suggests that someone needs to hire this guy...and apparently regardless of the fact that he's not worthy of a roster spot on ability.

I started reading Litke yesterday and was reminded why I rarely use his column. It seemed to be "because he came out, he is owed a job in the NBA." I used the Purdy column.

 

[93Devil]

Litke and a guy from the FWST suggests that someone needs to hire this guy...and apparently regardless of the fact that he's not worthy of a roster spot on ability.

It's very difficult to assess the crappy factor of the last man on the end of each NBA bench.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Bubba Watson apparently Tweeted his support to Broussard for "standing up for the Bible," or some such nonsense.

 

[93Devil]

Bubba Watson apparently Tweeted his support to Broussard for "standing up for the Bible," or some such nonsense.

Everyone in this country can have their own opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

What's wrong is taking away a person's ability to legally marry - bigamists set aside.

 

[JackS]

Bubba Watson apparently Tweeted his support to Broussard for "standing up for the Bible," or some such nonsense.

Everyone in this country can have their own opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

What's wrong is taking away a person's ability to legally marry - bigamists set aside.

Ha ha...why bigamists set aside?

If this is really all about "consenting adults," then that's none of our business either.

 

[Alma]

Bubba Watson apparently Tweeted his support to Broussard for "standing up for the Bible," or some such nonsense.

Everyone in this country can have their own opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

What's wrong is taking away a person's ability to legally marry - bigamists set aside.

Who decides what's right and wrong, how do we know when they decided it, and how do we know they're inerrant?

 

[93Devil]

Bubba Watson apparently Tweeted his support to Broussard for "standing up for the Bible," or some such nonsense.

Everyone in this country can have their own opinion. Nothing wrong with that.

What's wrong is taking away a person's ability to legally marry - bigamists set aside.

Ha ha...why bigamists set aside?

If this is really all about "consenting adults," then that's none of our business either.

Because I have been here long enough to know someone would have pointed out that people already married cannot marry again if I said everyone should be able to marry if they like. Oh, those under 18 can be set aside as well.

 

[BillyT]

Litke and a guy from the FWST suggests that someone needs to hire this guy...and apparently regardless of the fact that he's not worthy of a roster spot on ability.

It's very difficult to assess the crappy factor of the last man on the end of each NBA bench.

Except, no matter what they are averaging, they are in the fricking NBA.

Period.

He would be, arguably, one of the top 400-500 players on the planet.

 

[BillyT]

Shaughnessy was solid:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/04/29/former-celtic-jason-collins-announces-that-gay/VxDOSfOWpHjocbGjMhl6TK/story.html

And while I hate number-crunching, I loved Nate Silver:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/29/jason-collins-breaks-a-barrier-but-will-he-find-another-n-b-a-job/

 

[Boom_70]

If The NBA should give Jason Collins a spot on the bench then The NFL owes Tim Tebow a spot. Their both good for their respective games in their own way.

 

[YGBFKM]

If The NBA should give Jason Collins a spot on the bench then The NFL owes Tim Tebow a spot. Their both good for their respective games in their own way.

One's an outspoken gay man and one's an outspoken Christian. Classic matchup of good vs. evil.

 

[SpockPuppet]

Change is the essential process of all existence.

 

[da man]

Change is the essential process of all existence.

Wow. That's deep.

 

[HanSenSE]

If The NBA should give Jason Collins a spot on the bench then The NFL owes Tim Tebow a spot. Their both good for their respective games in their own way.

One's an outspoken gay man and one's an outspoken Christian. Classic matchup of good vs. evil.

Would calling for a best-of-three-falls cage match be a wrestling threadjack?

 

[dog eat dog world]

Change is the essential process of all existence.

I like the comment made by the rookie on the locked thread I'm sorry I couldn't engage. Animals eat their young on occasion. Well, I guess abortion is humanity's way of doing that. Ah yes, change.