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Reflection: LZ Granderson

| Wednesday, April 01, 2009




"I've been an out sportswriter for years now. I've been on TV, had my face in one of the largest newspapers in the country and my mug is sitting right next to this column. I've been called names in work meetings, received death threats and told I was going to hell more times than the devil. But you know what, I don't give a rip. Because at the end of the day I know walking within what I know is true for me is a lot easier than trying to run from it. Just ask Jim McGreevy. Or Mark Foley. Or Ted Haggard, who appears to still be running."


-Openly gay ESPN sportswriter LZ Granderson in a column written after John Amaechi's high profile coming out and why he wasn't impressed.

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