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Monday was a lazy day for Kye Allums, a typically busy junior playing Division I basketball at George Washington University. Without any classes or practice on his schedule, Allums woke up late, stopped in at a team meeting, worked on a class project, then took an afternoon nap.

But Monday was anything but ordinary because it was the day the world would learn about the decision Allums had embarked on one year earlier: to come out as a transgender man playing on a womenR...

Natalie Randolph to coach Coolidge High School football team

By Alan Goldenbach, Washington Post

Thursday, March 11, 2010

In Natalie Randolph's first season as wide receivers coach at H.D. Woodson High School in the District a few years ago, one of the most difficult moments each week came at the end of the game when t...

NEW YORK -- Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy called the dearth of minority head coaches in major college football "disgraceful." Dungy became the first black coach to win a Super Bowl in 2007 with the Indianapolis Colts. Now an analyst with NBC's pregame show, Dungy said on the program Sunday night that minority coaches believe they have more opportunity for advancement in the pros than in college. Of the 120 Football Bowl Subdivision coaches this season, just nine are minorities - and onl...

Thousands of Hispanic fans wearing bright yellow T-shirts and waving Colombian flags crowded Homestead Miami Speedway Nov. 22 to root for Juan Pablo Montoya in Nascar's final race of the season. The Colombian driver finished 38th after a wreck, but helped pull in the largest proportion of first-time fans ever recorded at the racetrack: 55% compared with the usual 20%, according to Curtis Gray, president of the speedway, which keeps a database of attendees. "We've never seen anything like that...