first lady, michelle obama, added, we have your back. openly gay athlete competing in individual sports, martina navratilova and billy bean only came out after they retired. jason collins has changed that. male athletes have been in the closet and are feeling like it is a possibility to come forward. what jason did today is incredible. one brave seven-footer, his career not yet over, the rest of his life just beginning. mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles other reaction from the sports world was mixed with one popular radio host calling the news a nonstory. i really don t care. it means less than nothing to me that there is a gay player now out in the nba. there are plenty of gay people in america. you have to figure some of them are playing sports. while reaction has been mostly positive, even prompting