We have to start somewhere and congrats to Jason Collins for
being a man of courage. In Sports Illustrated, the free agent NBA center
announced that he was gay. All the pundits will have something to
say, but it comes down to guts and his reference to the Boston
Marathon was so apt. I am proud to say that my son went to the same
high school, albeit a few years later, and that I have been
privileged to meet his parents.
I once joked with his folks about another basketball player who
had bought a house for his mom, and they told me that the family
dynamic was somewhat different in their household. Remember that
when the Collins twins picked Stanford over UCLA, they were asked
why and one of them said it was because they could. These are very
proud people and today their son did them proud. There is law and
there is convention and sometimes they both have to move..
