Michael Sam Reacts to Being Drafted by The St Louis Rams (Video)

(Via New York Times)

"One player seemingly no N.F.L. team wanted Michael Sam, a consensus all-American at Missouri and The Associated Press’ defensive player of the year in the S.E.C., college football’s most competitive conference. Sam was also the first publicly gay player waiting to be drafted.

Finally, after nearly seven numbing hours of picks on Saturday, the third and final day of the draft, Mike Kensil, an N.F.L. employee walked to the podium and read Sam’s name. 

Cheers erupted among the several hundred fans still left at Radio City Music Hall.

Sam’s draft status was seen as barometer of whether the N.F.L. was ready to accept an openly gay player, particularly since the N.B.A. had already broken that barrier earlier this year when Jason Collins joined the Brooklyn Nets.

Reaction was swift. 

“Congrats to @MikeSamFootball on becoming a @STLouisRams,” Eric Dickerson, the former Rams running back wrote on Twitter. “Welcome to the #Rams family.”  "

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Catfished! Notre Dame's Manti Te’o’s Dead Girlfriend Story Is A Hoax!

This story feels like an episode of MTV's Catfish, take a look at what Deadspin.com  said: 

"...Did you enjoy the uplifiting story, the tale of a man who responded to adversity by becoming one of the top players of the game? If so, stop reading. 

Manti Te'o did lose his grandmother this past fall. Annette Santiago died on Sept. 11, 2012, at the age of 72, according to Social Security Administration records in Nexis. But there is no SSA record there of the death of Lennay Marie Kekua, that day or any other. Her passing, recounted so many times in the national media, produces no obituary or funeral announcement in Nexis, and no mention in the Stanford student newspaper.

Nor is there any report of a severe auto accident involving a Lennay Kekua. Background checks turn up nothing. The Stanford registrar's office has no record that a Lennay Kekua ever enrolled. There is no record of her birth in the news. Outside of a few Twitter and Instagram accounts, there's no online evidence that Lennay Kekua ever existed."

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Alabama's Trent Richardson Takes Leukemia Survivor Courtney Alvis To The Prom (Video)

Robert Lee Griffin II (RG3) in Cleveland Browns Uniform (Photoshop Picture)

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Cleveland Cavs “What’s Not To Like?!” T-Shirts Goes on Sale

(Via Cavs.com)

The Cavaliers’ official “What’s Not To Like?!” t-shirts are now available online at www.thecavaliersteamshop.com. The t-shirts come complete with the bowtie graphic representing young Nick Gilbert’s spiffy lottery night neckwear! Shirts are available in adult and youth sizes and in two different color schemes for each. 100% of the proceeds will benefit the Children’s Tumor Foundation.

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Blake Griffin hypes Cleveland Browns Jordan Cameron (Video)