Good morning/afternoon and welcome to The Huddle for today, October 4, 2020. It’s Sunday.
Your need to read time today is 90-seconds, as usual.
This Morning’s Outsports Headlines:
Celebrating LGBTQ sports history: IOC suspends mandatory gender testing for female athletes
Our 8th most popular Coming Out feature: The story of how Michael Sam came out as gay
In other LGBT Sports news…
WNBA Finals Game 2 Preview from Swish Appeal
Why I Won’t Stick To Sports: Kamal-Craig Golaube is a gay, Black student athlete and director of diversity and inclusion of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council at Colorado State University.
Read how conservative TV host Sharyl Attkisson of the Sinclair Network’’s right-leaning “Full Measure” program covers the transgender student athlete inclusion controversy.: Fight over transgender athletes in high school sports
Right now Outsports is working on this Caster Semenya news:
Also new this morning…
All New England tests taken again this morning, after the negative tests on Saturday, came back negative again for a second straight day, source tells ESPN.
Best-case scenario for the Patriots and the NFL so far.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 4, 2020
MLB Playoffs 2020: Divisional-Round Predictions and Picks for Every Series
Former MLB player sought in ex-girlfriend’s killing found dead in Grand Canyon
OutShouts:
Jon Holmes posted this in the Equality Coaching Alliance Facebook group:
Sports Media LGBT+ is about to hold its third #AuthenticMe Week, building up to Coming Out Day – it all kicks off with a Zoom event about launching LGBT+ networks in sport on Monday 5 October at 6.30pm BST (that’s 1.30pm EDT / 10.30am PT).
There’s also an event on Tues 6 Oct (5.30pm BST) about LGBT+ inclusion and mental health in soccer, and a Social on Thurs 8 Oct (6.30pm BST). All details on our website where you can register to attend. Hope you can join us!
If you’re an LGBTQ person in sports looking to connect with others in the community, head over to GO! SPACE to meet and interact with other LGBTQ athletes, or to Equality Coaching Alliance to find other coaches, administrators and other non-athletes in sports.
Highlights from Social Media:
Justice Horn is making “good trouble” in Kansas City with a little help from his friends:
Tom Bosworth was out running and apparently so are a lot of other people in London:
Out training this morning and saw so many people running their @LondonMarathon, was fab to see!
There were lots of smiling faces and shouts of support. Perhaps for those that don’t get a place in next years marathon, this version could continue into the future.— Tom Bosworth (@TomBosworth) October 4, 2020
Kaitlyn Long shared this snap with friends in Minneapolis on Instagram:
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Podcast Du Jour
Nearly every day of the week, Outsports has a new podcast for your enjoyment. Deputy managing editor Alex Reimer’s new episode of The Sports Kiki features his chat with Jeff Rueter, who’s a staff writer at The Athletic covering professional soccer. Alex and Jeff talk about the Collin Martin story, and Jeff’s coming out as bisexual on Bi Visibility Day. Listen here:
This and all Outsports podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and on every platform where you find Outsports!
Today’s Sports Calendar
NFL: Click here for ESPN’s schedule of games
WNBA FINAL:
Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces at 3 p.m. EDT on ABC-TV
NBA FINAL:
Los Angeles Lakers vs. Miami Heat at 7:30 p.m. EDT on ABC-TV
MLB PLAYOFFS: NO GAMES SCHEDULED
SOCCER: Click here for ESPN’s schedule of soccer action today.
NASCAR: Click here for ESPN’s grid of racing action at Talladega today.
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