The Phoenix Suns president Rick Welts revealed over the weekend that he's gay, and had been living a "secret life" for years (pretending to be straight) and was interviewed in the New York Times.
And on the CBS Sports.com site, it's not exactly "top of the leaderboard," - the news about the Mavericks advance is, but it's right below that.
Don't misunderstand, I'm all for gay rights. The sad thing is that if a person in a high-profile job is gay, these days you'd think that it would not be newsworthy. But apparently it still is.
In the sports world, it's particularly disasterous for an athlete to come out, as remarks of various other athletes would suggest (as for example the NBA's Tim Hardaway.)
(But having said that...do people deserve to lose their jobs because they express their opinion that gay marriage is wrong, for example? Some Canadian TV reporter tweeted his opposition to gay marriage and was fired for it. That's wrong also. It's not like he'd said terrible things should happen to all gays! But it's like racism... let anyone call you "racist" - and if you criticize a minority for anything - justified or not - you can easily be branded racist - you can quite easily lose your job. People with differing opinions from the current norm should not be fired!)
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