major league team has come out as gay publicly. david denson, the 20-year-old first baseman reached out to a local newspaper and told his story saying, quote, talking with my teammates gave me the confidence i needed to come out to them. his teammates said, you re still our teammate, our brother, a baseball player at the end of the day. we ve got your back. joining me now to talk about all of this is sid vigler, the co-founder of the website o outsports.com. hello. he said it was his teammates who gave him the confidence. how big is this in the world of professional sports? i think it s a big deal anytime a gay athlete come out of the closet. we re fed the idea that sports is a dick place to come out. and outsports, we ve profiled about 200 athletes at every
bond died saturday night at the age of 75. according to the southern poverty law center where he was the founding president, he died after a brief illness. the life-long civil rights leader was also a former board chairman of the naacp. president obama said in a statement today that bond was both a hero and a friend. here is a look at his extraordinary life. he was one of the youngest civil rights foot soldiers. julian bond s journey as an activist, poet, lawmaker, television commentator, and teacher was impressively significant spanning decades. in the 60s, he was a student at morehouse college, when he became co-founder and communications director of the student organizing committee, serving alongside john lewis. we got others to join us by demonstrating that we were willing to risk our lives to help them. but they would have to take a