police there are the ones that found the younger brother, again, an alert american who did that. not this multilayered bureaucracy that was created after 9/11. in fact, it became so big, you have to say, still is it crushing under its own weight? does it need to be streamlined even more and built upon experts in particular fields? these are the questions, these may be the lessons of the boston bombings, so after we dealt with the lessons of 9/11. the documentary, top secret america, that s on frontline. thanks. ahead on starting point, he didn t set out to be the first actively gay player in the nba. jason collins did it. what is next for him, what s next for the league? and we have startling
home sexuality. reporter: it was the botch marathon bombings that pushed collins to action, helping him realize, things can change quickly and there will be no perfect time to divulge sexuality and collins decided to wear rarely number seen 98 as train out to matthew shepherd, tortures and murdered in 1998. he is not the first male to come out, but the first to do for while playing for one of the major u.s. pro leagues. collins is a free agent, right now looking for a job. i had the chance to speak with several people around the nba in the past 24 hours, and collins will be playing in the nba next year. first of all, seven-feet tall, utility center. i m a couple inches shorter than that, so i can tell you that s a little bit rare, but also this say league particularly inclusive. had the first african-american
executives, the first female executives, first african-american owner of an nba franchise. a league that has been forward looking in these issues and the feeling has been that it will embrace jason collins. he said he want to come out on his own terms and didn t want it to show up in a tabloid. felt there was all of this pressure for the first person to be sort of exposed, and he wanted to control that. that was interesting. he kept looking around for someone total raise their hand and finally decided i should be the one to raise my hand this is a kid who went to stanford, he knows what it means to be a leader to make this kind of statement. we ll talk to someone who has known him since before he went to sanford. greg hilliard, basketball coach at harvard west lakes high school in los angeles. he was collins high school coach. you reached out to him yesterday. you heard back. i let him know we were very
as i think all sex outside of marriage between a man and woman is. in talking to people around the league, a lot of christians in the nba and they don t want just because they disagree with that life-style, they don t want to be viewed and called bigoted and intolerant. let s talk about the challenges you think he will face from fans in the looker room. i think any time you are the first, you are expectant of some reaction like this. and i think jason is probably listened to and talked to so many in the sport, he is pretty much aware there will be a few isolated incidents like this he will have to deal with, both one-on-one and through the press and media. again, being as articulate as he, he will express it in a way that will make others around him as comfortable as possible, and
kathryn zeta-jones has checked into a rehab center for treatment of bipolar disorder. two years ago she had a brief stay at another facility. tim tebow has received one offer as a coach. he makes no bones about his strong religious conviction. he has been offered to coach as the flf league, formally known as lingerie football league. who may have influenced boston bombing suspect tamerlan tsavraev what they learned after interviewing the mysterious misha, next. jason collins, being called a trailblazer. will his decision to come out help other players? rick welts, president of the golden state warriors, also gay,