Another Sports Figure Comes Out

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Following Phoenix Suns CEO Rick Welts, former Villanova basketball player Will Sheridan, and bowler Scott Norton, the fourth sports figure to come out this week is ESPN sports reporter Jared Max.

"Are we ready to have our sports information delivered by someone who is gay?" Max asked his listeners on Wednesday. "We're going to find out. Because for the last 16 years I've been living a free life among all my close friends and family. But I've been living behind what is a gargantuan size secret in the sports world."

Max was previously the sports anchor for WCBS in New York.

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