Michael Sam

The planned documentary by the Oprah Winfrey Network on Michael Sam, the NFL's first openly gay player, has been postponed.

According to Ian Rappaport of the NFL Network, the Giants would have offered openly gay linebacker Michael Sam a free agent contract had he not been drafted by the Rams. The NFL Network analyst says had the Rams not drafted Sam, the SEC Defensive Player of the Year from Missouri, in the seventh round, he could have chosen between the Ravens, Bears and G-Men...

With the 249th selection in the 2014 NFL Draft, The St Louis Rams took Michael Sam. He enters the NFL as the league's first openly gay player. You might recognize him from a Visa commercial, which he made before the draft even started.

The St, Louis Rams drafted Michael Sam in the 7th round of the NFL Draft making him the league's first openly gay player.

The other night my wife and I were watching “42” – the movie about Jackie Robinson’s introduction into major league baseball as its first black athlete. In 1947, the year Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, the world shifted and accepted the eventuality that African American athletes were to be joined side by side by white athletes on the same playing field...