football

Another athlete who thinks a supreme being cares about a football game.

Gay former high school football player Harrison Wilkerson opens up about depression despite the illusion that everything is wonderful.

In suspending freshman quarterback Garrett Moore, West Salem High School took an absurd position about boys accidentally touching other boys in football.

Students at an Australian high school rebel over the ban and get an apology.

The teen lives in the rural South with no support and worries that he could not endure the emotional abuse. His faith sustains him.

The former athlete comes out after years of struggling and hiding. "I wish I could go back and tell my younger self that it was going to be like this."

This gay high school football referee in Louisiana has heard and seen homophobia throughout his decade of wearing the stripes. He talks anonymously about his experience in hopes of bringing change.

In his first action in a year, Sam is a non-factor and one writer says his teammates are resentful.

His coach said the defensive end will play "sooner than later" for the Montreal Alouettes.

He has been a game-day inactive since returning. Aug. 1 looks like the most likely day for him to suit up.

Theodore Lisoski never played football in his life. After he was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, he packed up the excuses and joined a semi-pro football team in Oregon.

After coming out to his football team in high school, Dalton Ray went back into the closet when he went to college at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He found it gets better.

The Sayreville High School hazing incident in New Jersey is just the latest sad result of a culture that values perceived masculinity over so many other key values.

Juan Mendoza-Tovar was the captain of his basketball and tennis teams for Cascade High School in rural Washington this year. Telling his traditional Mexican parents that he is bisexual was difficult, but they embraced him.

The partnership between the CFL and You Can Play will help bring a message of gay inclusion to coaches and athletes in the league.

TJ Quinn and Bob Ley revisit the 1999 coming out of Corey Johnson, who was the first high school football captain we know of to come out as gay to his team.

Wide receiver Marcus Juhlin has won four straight national championships with the Carlsbad Crusaders.

Scott Cooper just finished his senior season. He found true acceptance on his Augsburg College football team, which included him being asked by a coach to speak on National Coming Out Day and introducing his partner at Senior Day.

Ed Gallagher died in 2005 at age 48 after having a powerful impact on sports and access for Americans with a disability.

Football player in coma after attack.