Coaches

Steve Sarkisian may have lost his USC football coaching gig, but figure skater Chad Conley writes that he has the potential for a new lease on life. Conley writes from experience.

Chris Burns came out publicly as a college basketball coach last week, and the reactions have been 100% positive.

Chris Burns and Anthony Nicodemo were two gay coaches trying to navigate the world of basketball coaching while being gay. Now they are both out.

Chris Burns has come out as gay, making the Bryant University basketball coach the first in men's Division I college basketball to do so. It's been quite a journey for the former star player to get to this place.

Chris Burns has held the secret that he's gay from everyone in college basketball. In an Outsports exclusive, the Bryant Univ. basketball coach writes about relationships, fear, community and finding his truth.

Erik Hall will have a regular column rounding up the results of LGBT athletes and coaches in college sports. This week he focuses on Bucknell's scoring machine, Jesse Klug.

Arizona Cardinals thought outside the box to hire Jen Welter.

Out gay coach Kirk Walker is joined by two athletes from the Fearless project on the UCLA Bruins team at the Women's College World Series.

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh says football builds "real men." It's just the latest in a culture that ignores sensitivities based on race, gender, sexual orientation and just about everything else.

Saunders High School boys basketball coach talks about coming out as gay in his Coach of the Year acceptance speech.

Matt Allen and his women's fastpich softball players revitalized the Laurier University team this year.

Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy's new executive order will likely forbid UConn from traveling to away games at Notre Dame, Indiana Univ. or anywhere else in the Hoosier state until the new anti-LGBT law is repealed.

The National Association of Basketball Coaches will host a panel discussion on LGBT issues at the Final Four. The project is the brainchild of gay basketball coach Anthony Nicodemo and is sponsored by the You Can Play project.

Anthony Nicodemo contemplated quitting his coaching career two years ago. After coming out, he found his groove and led Saunders basketball to their best season in over three decades.

Campus Pride says the University of Minnesota-Duluth will not be considered as an inclusive campus until it answers to questions of why lesbian hockey coach Shannon Miller was fired.

Saunders High School basketball was a disaster. Several years after openly gay coach Anthony Nicodemo took over, it is an emerging powerhouse with a huge win over Greeley in the quarterfinals. This matters.

Jim and Donna Nolan have had four sons play basketball at Saunders High School. They wish openly gay coach Anthony Nicodemo had coached all of them. Here's why.

Anthony Nicodemo has been named co-Coach of the Year by his basketball coaches association.

The number of female coaches in college sports is dwindling as programs replace them with men. In the case of the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Shannon Miller will take five national titles with her.

Nora Cothren was an out lesbian ice hockey player at Smith College. Yet after she graduated she went back in the closet to become a coach, even denying her engagement to be married. Now she's finding the strength to be her true self.