LOS ANGELES - Jason Collins became the first openly gay active player in the National Basketball Association, breaking ground in major professional U.S. team sports as the country's growing ...

Former Stanford basketball star Jason Collins '01 became the first active male athlete in a major US professional sport to come out, an historic announcement revealed today in a story for Sports ...

BROOKLYN (CBS SF) – Jason Collins, the first openly gay man in one of the four major professional sports, has decided to retire from the National Basketball Association. He made the announcement ...

Jason Collins became the first active professional athlete in a major sport to come out as gay. ... Montclair Prep in Van Nuys, and made Harvard-Westlake a basketball powerhouse during the ’90s.

— -- LOS ANGELES -- Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete to play in North America's four major professional team sports Sunday when he played 11 minutes in the Brooklyn Nets' 108 ...

At least one NBA coach, however, is convinced Collins will have a job next year. Lawrence Frank, who coached Collins in New Jersey from 2001-2004 as an assistant, and from 2004-2008 as a head ...

Jason Collins, the N.B.A.'s First Openly Gay Player, Retires Collins, who became the N.B.A.'s first openly gay player as a Net after coming out in 2013 while a free agent, announced his retirement ...

Jason Collins – the first openly gay current athlete in North American team sports – inspired a road crowd to applaud a benchwarmer. He inspired a college football player and a college basketball ...

LOS ANGELES -- History? Pressure? Jason Collins would have none of it after becoming the NBA's first active openly gay player. After all, there was a game to play. "Right now, I'm focusing on ...

Commentary and archival information about Jason Collins from The New York Times. Skip to content Skip to site index. ... Russell Turner, the U.C. Irvine men’s basketball coach, ...