In the wake of the suspension of basketball star Brandon Davies for having premarital sex with his girlfriend, BYU’s honor code has been in the news. Which led to questions of how it is to be a gay athlete at BYU. I interviewed a former BYU athlete, briefly on the football team and a star [...]
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God has spoken! BYU is gone! Thank you Florida! (Plus Arizona’s win over Duke…)
I haven’t paid much attention to the NCAA tournament this year; The decline in talent, poor officiating and lack of compelling storylines just left me disinterested. But I got a lot more interested this morning when I saw BYU lost last night! For the last two weeks we’ve had endure columns praising BYU for “standing [...]
Are there gay athletes at BYU?
When BYU suspended basketball star Brandon Davies for having premarital sex with his girlfriend, we heard about the Mormon school’s “honor code.” Among its no-no’s are sex, drinking swearing. And, of course, “homosexual behavior.” Homosexual behavior is inappropriate and violates the Honor Code. Homosexual behavior includes not only sexual relations between members of the same [...]
BYU suspends basketball star Brandon Davies for having sex with his girlfriend
How ready is BYU to persecute people who don’t follow the Mormon doctrine? Scarily so. The school this week suspended one of its star players, Brandon Davies, for having premarital sex with his girlfriend. The team was ranked No. 3 in the country, having lost only two games this season; But in their first game [...]
Hideous ref call screws Washington
In watching the end of BYU’s 28-27 college football win over Washington, I saw the worst officating call in memory (and that’s saying a lot). Share on Facebook