Former NBA forward John Amaechi is pushing back against longtime West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins over some of his recent remarks. Earlier this week, Higgins used homophobic slurs in ...
LONDON – The advice John Amaechi gave to Jason Collins before the NBA veteran came out is very different to what he tells the gay soccer players he knows in England's Premier League. Amaechi became ...
Ex-NBA player John Amaechi wants Amar’e Stoudemire to shut his mouth. Amaechi, who is openly gay, is speaking out against Stoudemire after the former Knick told media he’d refuse to shower in the same ...
“This is Your Brain on Sports” is a weekly podcast from Sports Illustrated in which SI executive editor Jon Wertheim and Tufts University psychology professor Sam Sommers explore the intersection of ...
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith has always been unapologetically himself in front of a camera. Even when it perhaps toes the line of inappropriate, which Smith’s recent comments did in the eyes of former NBA ...
Feb. 15, 2007 — -- After spending five seasons as a professional basketball player, John Amaechi finds it "astonishing" that anyone would be surprised by the anti-gay remarks made by his former ...
John Amaechi banged his shoulder against the door on the way into the Henderson Building’s room 117. It was less graceful than one would typically expect from a former professional athlete, but seemed ...
Negotiating the “path to greatness” is never an easy process for athletes. Despite the apparent ease with which our sporting gods reach heights never before reached, there is always a backdrop of ...