...THAT'S why he wrestles."In fact, though more gay and lesbian athletes are coming out in college, gay male professional athletes in major sports have waited to do so until they have left their sport, one of the more recent being Robbie Rogers...

...support to Oscar, who I have known and worked with for the last seven years and consider a friend and a great professional athlete."Secondly, I wanted to briefly discuss racing matters, given that his key focus is defending himself against...

...The campaign bears the slogan "Georgia's not buying it" and includes a public service announcement featuring professional athletes from Atlanta sports teams speaking out against sex trafficking.The campaign also is being promoted through billboards...

...false claim. He faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a maximum fine of $250,000.Prosecutors say Mitchell and two others concocted a scheme that involved filing a false tax return on behalf of another professional athlete.

...upbringing is out of line."He's a solid young man and his family has supported him in racing as many families of professional athletes do in every sport," Penske said. "Anyone who looks at that as a criticism, to focus on that is just petty...

...cannot do."It's a sense of pride, more of an internal sense of pressure rather than anything external. As professional athletes we all want to go out there and perform well and get this monkey off our backs, so to speak."Center Todd McClure...

...the business of the sport permanently, and he truly emancipated the baseball player ? and in the process all professional athletes."MLB's revenue has grown from $50 million in 1967 to $7.5 billion this year. At his last public...

...doesn't define Avant. After everything he's endured, the 29-year-old wide receiver is not your ordinary professional athlete.Avant was 12 when he started selling drugs. He went to elementary school drunk and high. As a teenager, he...

...has a hockey mom yelling for her son to "check 'em." These are accepted as normal.Watch the actions of the professional athletes and see how violent the "games" have become. Attend an Augusta RiverHawks hockey game and listen to the fans...

...clinic distributed the substances, the paper said. The employees said that Bosch bragged of supplying drugs to professional athletes but that they never saw the sports stars in the office.The paper said the records list that Rodriguez paid for...