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Jallen Messersmith is a 6-foot-7 shot-blocking specialist from tiny Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. He also is believed to be the first openly gay active player in U.S. men’s college basketball.

When Jeremy Affeldt joined the San Francisco Giants five year ago, the pitcher said he was determined to get rid of his negative feelings toward the LGBT community.

Former Baltimore Ravens reserve linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo called on professional athletes Tuesday to stand up for marriage equality because he said it is "the right thing to do."

Executives at the sporting-goods company said they want to work with the first openly gay professional athlete who remains actively playing for a major U.S. team.

Before they were college basketball stars and the future of the WNBA, Brittney Griner, Skylar Diggins and Elena Delle Donne had something else in common: They were all bullied when they were kids.

The NHL has teamed up with an LGBT organization in order to fight homophobia in sports.

The FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike Rice shoving and kicking players and berating them with gay slurs.

Two Rutgers basketball players on Mike Rice’s team say the fired coach wasn’t the abusive tyrant he appears to be on a widely viewed video that ultimately cost him his job.

Hall of Fame coaches around the country agreed that the video of Rutgers’ coach Mike Rice assaulting players was inappropriate behavior.

Mike Rice may have been fired as the Rutgers men’s basketball coach after a video surfaced showing him shoving players and berating them with gay slurs, but critics said the school still has more explaining - and maybe some more firing - to do.