Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joined TMZ Live recently to talk about the prospects of a female coach in the NBA. Cuban said the NBA will eventually embrace a female coach, just as they will soon embrace an openly gay player. “I think within the next three to five years, absolutely,” Cuban said. When asked [...]
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Dan Lebatard: TMZ Sports will out athletes
The Miami Herald’s Dan Lebatard is cringing at the thought of TMZ’s sports wing, scheduled to open up shop this year, in part because he thinks a closeted gay athlete will be their No. 1 target. One of the first orders of business at TMZ Sports, rest assured, will be to out a gay male [...]
TMZ soon to follow athletes
TMZ has announced it will launch a new sports-focused gossip blog following the travails of athletes the way it stalks Lindsay Lohan now. It’s not a big surprise, given TMZ was wall-to-wall Tiger Woods for weeks around the holidays. Some are wondering what effect this could have on closeted athletes. Right now, the sports media [...]
TMZ angers Lenny Dykstra
With major league ballplayer-turned-financial wizard Lenny Dykstra’s financial woes making news recently, the sight of a Rolls-Royce owned by Dykstra seemingly being repossessed might seem like another sign of his money problems. So when photos of the car being towed from his work in Camarillo, California reached the folks at TMZ, they naturally contacted Dykstra [...]
Barkley off TNT after DUI for BJ
Turner Sports announced today that Charles Barkley is taking a leave of absence from his TNT duties for at least a few weeks in the wake of Barkley’s New Year’s Eve arrest on suspicion of drunk driving in Scottsdale, Arizona. Barkley had a blood alcohol level of .149, almost twice the legal limit in Arizona. [...]