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FROM THE SkyBox

by Eric Carlyle, Co-Founder

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arlier this month the Compete team was invited to attend an HRC event in Phoenix. Our ally editor, Matt Fish, was asked to say a few words at the event. Well, Matt is not a man of few words, but I am proud of the words he used.

Matt, a former NBA player is constantly asked to speak about sports-related topics. However, a few years ago you would definitely not find Matt speaking at an HRC event. Not because Matt was not against equality, but because Matt never really took the time to understand inequality.

That all changed three years ago when he discovered Compete Magazine. Even though I have known Matt for many years I had not introduced him to Compete. Once he read his very first issue though, he was hooked.

Since then, Matt has had the opportunity to speak about equality many times. He tells others of his closeted high school best friend who he has just reconnected with. He also shares the loss of his gay cousin by suicide.

I bring up this story about Matt now because he was one of those “March Madness” stars playing for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington who did not realize that inequality existed. Now as a player that has come full circle – from high school to college to the pros and now to a career outside of playing basketball—he fully understands that inequality exists. And because of that, he is ready speak up about it.

Sport On,

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March 2013

Volume 7, Issue 3

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LETTERS TO COMPETE MAGAZINE

I love NASCAR and thought the article on the new car was great. Thanks for including it.

Robbie White – San Diego Fabulous cover of the new car. Who says gays don’t like NASCAR? They’re wrong!

Guy Keller – Chicago So glad they’re changing the body style. As a fan, it’s hard to identify your favorite in the pack.

Chris Johnson – Los Angeles

INSPIRIED BY MOLLY LENORE Your article on your Inspiring Athlete of the Year [Feb issue] really touched my heart. I have a friend who is transgender but he’s afraid to come out. I’ve given him this article so he knows he’s not alone, so he knows there are others who have come out successfully.

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A NEW “LIZBIAN” IS BORN I’ve never been a big fan of MMA but I’ve been intrigued by Liz Carmouche [Feb issue]. Even though she lost, she put up a great fight. I’ll definitely be following her career.

Don Carter – Charlotte N.C.

THANKS, DAVE PALLONE I really never heard about Dave Pallone until I read the article on him [Jan issue] and the work he’s done for LGBT job protection. I’m really grateful that there are people like him who have taken a personal tragedy and then done something positive with it. From me to you, Dave – thanks!

by Connie Wardman, Editor-in-Chief

his is the start of Spring, our annual time for new beginnings and fresh starts. It’s also a time of huge change and each of us has a part to play in making sure that the changes are for the better – better in terms of equality for EVERYONE! It is time for the LGBT community to finally be treated as equals. And while our primary concern at Compete is equality or diversity in the world of sports, nevertheless, that automatically includes all areas of our shared lives, like job protection and same-sex marriage.

As in all times of change, it’s easy to dismiss our personal power to change or influence things because we don’t realize how power-full we really are. Our story on “Underneath Their Clothes” tells the story of Colby Melvin’s rise from oil worker to Andrew Christian underwear model and how he met his partner, Brandon Brown, another Andrew Christian model.

Together, they are on a quest to help equality prevail for samesex marriage. Just two ordinary people doing extra-ordinary work to make things better for all of us, both gay and straight.

In this issue we are also highlighting two organizations who aim for positive changes on a regular basis – Athlete Ally and Walton | Isaacson, our 2012 Corporate Community Partner.

We’re also highlighting the men behind them – Hudson Taylor and Aaron Walton. These are the men whose hearts and souls define the positive direction their organizations are taking.

But we’re also taking a look at March Madness, with emphasis on the madness end of things. Sometimes we just need to get passionate about something whether or not we totally understand it. Our involvement in sports provides the perfect opportunity to get our emotional juices jangled. We get to cheer and jeer our favorite teams right up through the final competition without lots of negative emotional consequences involved. It’s a great pressure release valve.

So get out there and play your favorite sport, cheer, laugh and live your life boldly – you are truly a power-filled person!

Keep Smiling,

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FaceOff

THE QUESTION ...

At a time when NFL players Brendan Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe have filed a joint brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate homophobia in professional sports, what is your opinion on potential NFL candidates being asked if they’re gay during tryouts at the 2013 NFL Scouting Combine?

Matthew Fish Ally Editor

Ty Nolan Community Editor

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he days of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” are long over.

Let’s all take a lesson from NHL’s “You Can Play” campaign. Hockey players and management have shown their willingness to demonstrate acceptance by engaging in a campaign that announces that talent is what it takes to play hockey; it has nothing to do the player’s sexual preference. Their tagline is simple – “If you can play, you can play.” Why does the NFL feel that a fair question to ask potential professional football players is about their sexual preference?

Gays simply don’t have the same rights as those who are not gay, the main reason why gay professionals don’t come out until after they’ve retired. So is telling a lie a better attribute then admitting being gay? When the question was asked at this year’s combine, I guarantee that any gay football players there lied and said they are not gay to ensure they got an unbiased draft opportunity.

Imagine, now is the time you have waited for your entire life – to have the opportunity to showcase years of hard work and sacrifice. But now the outcome may come down to answering one simple question. Are you a homosexual?

I believe the correct answer is, “why are you asking?” Seriously, why would a gay football player hurt his chances of being drafted by answering truthfully? In the eyes of those judging, what’s the point? If the player does everything the same but openly admits that he is gay, why has the “worth of the player” been compromised? This glaring question makes little sense in today’s pro-active social climate. Why move backward in time? The answer is always no, truthful or not. DON’T ASK! Wouldn’t it be interesting if a straight player answered that he is gay. What would the outcome be once his stock was then deemed worthless? Could he go back and say “just kidding?” I feel that at this point the damage would be done. Would this player have the right to seek reparation for the damage done to his limited professional career?

Sadly, I think we all realize that for a gay player to answer truthfully, he’s forever stigmatized. It forever separates him from the rest of his professional teammates. Today, a resounding “NO” is the only way to answer this question. If we all can acknowledge that, then the only pertinent question is this – why ask?

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here is supposedly a Chinese curse that begins with “May you live in interesting times.” This week, President Clinton urging the Supreme Court to rule against the Defense of Marriage Act wrote that, “As the president who signed the act into law, I have come to believe that DOMA is contrary to those principles and, in fact, incompatible with our Constitution. … The law is itself discriminatory.”

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn has stated he will sign marriage equality into law if it passes his House of Representatives. Four major sports figures have signed a joint letter in support of the bill: Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks and Bears Hall of Famer Richard Dent, as well as Bears linebacker Hunter Hillenmeyer and former Bears and current Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo. In part, their letter states: “In sports, any time a player is not treated with fairness and respect, the game is diminished. Similarly, treating any group of people as second-class citizens hurts us all, because discrimination is wrong no matter whom the target is ... give same-sex couples the freedom to marry. It’s the right thing for Illinois; it’s the right thing to do, period.”

Just so, NFL’s Brendon Ayanbadejo and Chris Kluwe shared brief to the U.S. Supreme Court advocated President Clinton’s current view of DOMA. They know sports figures have always influenced the public and should use that position to further the public good. Among other things, their brief reads: “In America, there truly is no freedom until we’re equal. When we advance the idea that some people should be treated differently because of who they are, demeaned in public as lesser beings, not worthy of the same rights and benefits as others despite their actions as good citizens and neighbors, then we deny them equal protection under the laws.”

When NFL reps were reported asking pre-draft candidates about their sexual orientation, Chris Kluwe expressed a concern that it was an illegal question, feeling the focus should be on their potential as a player. However, while NFL policies protect gay players, there are still 29 states where it is legal to fire an employee simply for being gay. Mr. Ayanbadejo has suggested these potential recruits should keep silent about their sexual orientation until they are hired. Why? Because while equality is a goal – it has yet to be achieved. You see – we do live in interesting times.

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KICKOFF

LEFT FIELD

FROM THE COMPETE BLOGS

RUTGERS COACH BLIND PITCHER TRYING VIVIAN STRINGER HITS OUT FOR MLB MILESTONE 900 WINS [Compete blog from Feb 22nd, 2013]

To watch the Scarlett Knights’ tribute to Coach Stringer, go to their website: www.scarletknights.com/basketball-women/

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SPORTS QUIZ

Which college basketball player had the most games (132) scoring in double figures in his career?

A: Danny Manning (Kansas) – Now head coach at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, he had an NBA playing career from 1988-2003. AND he was the cover story for the Summer 2012 issue of our sister publication, Rebound Magazine.

Congratulations are in order for C. Vivian Stringer, Rutgers Women’s Basketball Coach, for hitting 900 wins! The “900 Win Club” is pretty exclusive turf.

Stringer is only the fourth women’s basketball coach to make it, joining Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt and Sylvia Hatchell. And only three Division I men’s coaches have hit the 900 victory mark - Mike Kryewski, Bob Knight and Jim Boeheim.

Stringer, a Hall of Famer, is in her 42nd season as a head coach with a record that stands at 900-330.

She said that this is “beyond words; I’m happy that it’s over. I can hardly breathe.” Now in her 18th season at Rutgers, Stringer says basketball is “more than a game, it’s about a preparation for life. It’s about understanding that when things are rough you may get knocked down ... there may be doubters but you’ll still rise.”

At a home game on the 26th, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights handily beat South Florida 68-56 with Erica Wheeler’s 24 points and 20 points, nine rebounds and four assists

by Betnijah Laney. At game’s end, the crowd of over 1,300 chanted “900” and “C.V.S.” Tim Pernetti, Scarlett Knights Athletics Director, presented her with a framed No. 900 jersey and the Rutgers cheerleaders held up a banner that read, “Congratulations Coach Stringer - 900 wins” - all this amid much hugging and crying by her players.

Juan Sandoval may be the subject of the best “feel good” story of the year if the Tampa Bay Rays hire him as a pitcher. The reason? He’s blind in one eye.

Rays pitcher Joel Peralta saw Sandoval pitching in the Dominican Professional Baseball League and wondered why someone who Juan Sandoval can throw a ball at almost 100 mph wasn’t playing in MLB. Sandoval thinks he has a number of things going against him but he still wants a shot at it.

He lost the sight in his right eye seven years ago when a drunk, angry at being thrown out of a restaurant, came back with a gun and started firing. Three buckshot pellets lodged in Sandoval’s right eye and he’s seen nothing but black in it since. But he’s got a great attitude - he says his left eye is working great and that should allow him to stay in the game he loves.

“What happened is not something I’m carrying all the time, wearing on my chest so people can know,” Sandoval said. “I don’t think about it. I’m just a normal player here.

I don’t know how many - 50 players here? I’m one of 50 in the clubhouse. I’m a normal person, a normal player. I don’t like coaches or nobody giving me credit – for limits.”

At age 32 and with three children to support, Sandoval is currently working out with the Rays, hoping that his performance in spring training will show the club what he can do. With his positive attitude and some support from Peralta, he may wind up being our newest sports hero.

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THUMBS UP THUMBS DOWN THUMBS UP TO

MEMBERS OF EMERSON COLLEGE’S PHI ALPHA TAU FRATERNITY … for raising money to help their transgender frat brother pay for his top surgery. They’ve posted this on their fund-raising page, “We care deeply about each and everyone, and rely on the entire active brotherhood to stand behind any one individual when they are in need.” Way to go, guys!

THUMBS DOWN TO THE NFL

… for asking candidates in pre-draft interviews if they’re gay. It has caused straight ally Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Ravens to advise gay players to stay in the closet until they’ve signed a contract and then come out.

Instead of worrying about the sexual orientation of new players, it’s time for the NFL to step up its game.

THUMBS UP TO

RAM’S RUNNING BACK TERRANCE GANAWAY

… for being smart enough to keep himself out of trouble in the off-season by taking a part-time job at Jimmy Johns. “Really, Jimmy John’s is just to keep me out of trouble in all the down time we have in the off-season, according to Ganaway.” Let’s just hope he continues being “freaky fast” when the 2013 NFL season rolls around.

THUMBS UP TO

L.A. LAKER KOBE BRYANT

… for saying on a recent Tweet to a fan, ”Just letting you know that using [you’re] gay as a way to put someone down ain’t ok! Delete that out of ur vocab!”

When someone called him a hypocrite because of his 2011 incident where he called a referee a “faggot,” Bryant replied “Exactly! That wasn’t cool and ignorant on my part. I own it and learn from it and expect the same from others.”

It just proves that pro athletes can change and grow.

THUMBS UP TO ANDERSON COOPER

… for working for equality in the media. For his efforts, GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, will be awarding the openly gay journalist and anchor the Vito Russo award for equality in the media. The ceremony will take place in New York on March 16th at the 24th Annual GLAAD Media Awards and the award will be presented by Cooper’s longtime friend, Madonna.

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by Amy Jones

Colby Melvin didn’t set out to be a gay role model. In fact, it is the last thing he ever expected to happen.

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ut July 2012 started a whirlwind ride that has found this unassuming and humble Southern charmer as both the new “it” boy in the world of high fashion underwear and a new face in the fight for marriage equality throughout this country. One of the most popular models to ever work for megabrand Andrew Christian, Colby Melvin is articulate, passionate but never far from being a self-described “goofball.”

“The one thing you can always count on with me – I’m never very far away from the next moment where I will make an utter and complete fool out of myself.”

Born and raised in the Deep South, Melvin grew up on a farm in rural Louisiana. Raised by his single mother, he learned to be a gentleman but to never back down from a fight for something he believed in.

“My mother is a big believer in respecting the opinions of others. But she also believes that sometimes you have to raise a little hell to get your point across,” Melvin says with a smile. “It took a while for me to understand what she meant, but now that I get it, I intend to be a hell raiser in the fight for equality.”

Melvin never intended to end up in the modeling world or on the front lines of one of the biggest political battles in this country.

“I was a runt in high school. I looked like a mini Harry Potter. I didn’t think I’d ever be athletic. I went to college and focused on my grades.”

Melvin graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL with a degree in psychology and soon found himself running operations for a company working on the cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico following the BP oil spill. And

then IT happened. Melvin had his first experience with another man and at 22 years of age, he finally had discovered who he was. He immediately came out to his family.

“My family was amazingly supportive, but work was a different story. As soon as my boss found out, I was fired.

Sure, they blamed it on something else, but the reason was very clear. I was gay and in the South and in the oil industry, it wasn’t acceptable.”

Unacceptable is putting it lightly.

“The maritime industry is very gruff and what I can only describe as a “straight, white men only” club. It is commonplace for work functions to be held at female strip clubs,” said Melvin. “After I came out, my boss would speak to me less and less. I was shut out of a number of projects, not to mention the raise and promotion I was promised. It abruptly and unexplainably turned into a paycut.

On April 1, 2011 I walked into the office to find my boss, his lawyer, and a police officer. I was being let go and the officer was there to make sure that I didn’t cause ‘a scene.’ My boss let me know he had gotten a copy of my text records and had seen every conversation I had with other

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men. That was the final message before explaining that it would be in my best interest to go quietly and without a fight.”

Melvin packed up and moved to Houston, Texas. Having started a regular workout regime in Alabama, Melvin’s once small frame was now lean and muscular and he got a job working as the personal training director of a gym.

While he was in Houston, a friend with

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a new underwear brand asked him to start modeling for him. The camera loved Melvin. After only a year in Houston, he packed his bags and bought a one-way ticket to Los Angeles.

“When I first started modeling underwear, I said ‘If I’m going to do this, I’m going to DO IT.’ Andrew Christian has been the big name in underwear for a while so I set my goal to shoot with them.

After submitting pictures to become one of their models, they posted my picture on their fan page. I received a huge amount of support so they decided to use me. When I flew to L.A. in June, I went right to work for them.

Melvin’s arrival in L.A. caught the attention of fellow Andrew Christian model, Brandon Robert Brown. The former tennis jock, born and raised in Southern California, wanted to know about the modeling world’s new “wunderkind.”

“I accepted a job just because I knew Colby was going to be there. Sure I was attracted to the way he looked, but I wasn’t prepared for how genuine and how nice he was. Here was this gorgeous man that was so approachable and friendly. That made him more attractive than anything,” said Brown. “The connection was immediate. And while both of us started out saying we didn’t want to be in a relationship, we were spending all of our time together. It was obvious there were deep feelings there and to not say we were dating was foolish.”

A series of Andrew Christian videos chronicled the start of their relationship, but both agreed that they had to do something bigger than just take pictures chronicling their coupledom.

Enter Conor Gaughan, founder of Full Frontal Freedom. Gaughan produced a video parody of One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” Featuring Melvin in the lead role and Brown and three other models as his background singers, “Disclosure” went viral, attracting over 3.5 million YouTube views and launching Melvin and Brown into the forefront of the marriage equality debate. The video was the most watched political parody of the 2012 election cycle and led to Melvin being recognized by the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club in New York.

“When the video took off, we realized that we struck a political chord which previously had felt inaccessible,” according to Gaughan. “One of the main reasons we were able to connect with those viewers was the approachability and authenticity of Colby, Brandon and the rest of the guys in the video. We realized it would take a brash new direction and support from all members of our community to succeed with our 2012 political initiatives.”

Melvin and Brown did more than make a wildly successful video. Together they traveled to Seattle to work with the group pushing for passage of R74. It passed in this past November, making it legal for persons of the same gender to marry in the state of Washington. They also hosted voter registration events in Los Angeles and worked to get out the vote on Election Day. “This whole process has taught me that getting people to care about change is not easy,” said Melvin. “So we used the attention we were getting from modeling underwear to promote equality and more importantly, to make activism trendy.”

They spent countless hours using their broadening Internet audience to get involved, get vocal and get to the polls. With thousands of followers from around the world, they realized that they not only could reach people quickly, they could also have an impact on motivating people to get involved.

“We all want to make the world a better place. But in the daily chaos of our lives, not everyone is great about knowing the issues and the importance, and sometimes just the logistics of where to vote. We simply tried to use our platform and our voice to align the desire to be involved with the knowledge to get it done,” said Brown.

“We were talking to thousands of people a day via social channels. I had come through some tough times in terms of my sexuality and I wanted people to know that their voice mattered,” said Melvin. “The only way we are going to change where we are going is to quit being apathetic. 2012 proved that action versus apathy produces results. We have to build on that momentum and create the opportunity for equality in all 50 states. I don’t want to sound like Polly-

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anna, but I do believe that if we stand up for what we believe in, there will be a day when someone like me won’t be bullied and fired because of who they are.”

Melvin and Brown are now working with Gaughan to launch “Full Frontal News.” The project will be a weekly web-based news program dedicated to covering news from a gay perspective.

“We are calling it ‘Full Frontal News – Our News Our Way,’” says Brown.

“We’ve shot the sizzle reel and are going to start meeting with interested financial backers in the next month.

We think advertisers and consumers will be interested in the product. There is nothing like it out there right now, and in the digital space there is always opportunity to create new resources for men and women to keep up with current events, learning how it applies to the gay community,” added Melvin.

With Gaughan at the helm of the project, expect to see the new project by up and running by summer.

“I was optimistic that ‘Disclosure’ would find its audience,” said Gaughan.

“But I never expected it to resonate on the level it did. It demonstrates that with the right product, viewers are eager to watch. There are stories that need to be told. With Colby and Brandon’s likeability and popularity, they are a natural fit to be the faces and voices of Full Frontal News.”

And then came ColBra. Melvin and Brown launched ColBra Entertainment in January of 2013. Taking on the name given to them by their fans, ColBra will be focused on a variety of entertainment projects.

“We keep getting respected entertainment industry executives asking about when our new show will be out.

We thought about it. And taking this crazy ride we are on to film seems like the next step. No day is ever the same.

From photo shoots to appearances, doing interviews, working on building our brand, working out to stay in shape, starting new projects – it’s a fun life,” said Melvin.

“And that doesn’t include the interesting people we meet on a daily basis,” adds Brown. “We were in CVS a few weeks ago and ended up talking to one of the cast members of ‘Glee.’ Colby just finished shooting a video with Neil Patrick

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Harris and last week we were at a party with Harris and his partner and several members of the cast of the upcoming season of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’”

“I don’t think any of that is as entertaining as Brandon and I trying to pick out paint colors,” Melvin added.

The two have recently moved in together and discovered that co-habiting is not nearly as difficult as co-decorating.

“Let’s just say we are both very opinionated,” says Melvin with a laugh.

But it isn’t just life in Los Angeles that Brown and Melvin want to show. Both are booked for appearances throughout the country and they want to show life on the road – what the country looks like in communities that aren’t as accepting as West Hollywood.

“Every day we get emails from people across the country asking us for help in coming out. They reach out because they don’t know where to turn,” said Melvin. “They thank us for being so open about our lives, for not being afraid to be who we are and to stand up for what we believe. I want to go and meet these people. We hear all the time that it gets better. Well, I am living proof that it gets better fast – just own who you are.”

ColBra Entertainment is also working on a vehicle featuring Brown’s culinary work, expanding Brown and Melvin’s work in the fashion industry and starting a division to book models for personal appearances throughout the country. And these two won’t be slowing down their own travel schedules or their activism.

“Marriage equality is going to be on the ballot in more states in the next few years,” said Melvin. “And wherever ground zero of the fight is, Brandon and I intend to be there.”

“Colby and I want to be on the ground with the men and women who are willing to risk it all to simply be able to marry the person they love,” said Brown. “For some, this a risk that could mean losing their jobs or their families. I love that passion in people and I want to be there with the man I love, adding our voices to impact change.”

Colby Melvin and Brandon Brown are proof that everyday heroes come in good looking, smart packages that are intent to make their world a better and safer place for everyone.

For more on Colby Melvin and Brandon Brown, visit— colbraentertainment.com or follow them on Facebook and Twitter @officialcolbra.

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FOR THE LAST 75 YEARS, IF IT’S MARCH, IT’S MARCH MADNESS – it’s college hoops gone wild. From March 19th through April 8th we’ll be celebrating the 75th anniversary of March Madness, the NCAA classic college basketball tournament. While it’s too soon to know the outcome of the Big Dance, you can bet all the teams involved are playing their hearts out to be one of the two finalists this year in Atlanta.

There are so many remarkable stories from the past 74 years that deserve being told, but one of them involves a player who was recently honored by Rebound Magazine, our sister-publication. Given the fact that Compete is all about sports diversity, it seems the perfect March Madness story to share here.

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The Game That Changed Everything

By Brian Patrick

Rebound Magazine’s 2013 Diversity Award went to David “Big Daddy D” Lattin. He had a six-year career in both the NBA and ABA, playing with the San Francisco Warriors, Phoenix Suns, Pittsburgh Condors and the Memphis Tams, before ending his career with three years with the world famous Harlem Globetrotters. But he is best known for his college basketball play.

Considered to be one of the most important figures in college basketball history, Lattin was one of seven African-American players on the 1966 Texas Western championship team.

But his impact on diversity in basketball began in high school where he was Houston’s first Texas high school basketball All-American in the early 1960s when he played at segregated Evan E. Worthing Senior High School.

Following his high school graduation in 1963 he went to Tennessee State but left there in 1964 due to lack of basketball competition. Returning to Houston, in 1965 he received a full scholarship to Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) where he played center for the Miners, an NCAA Division 1 team under legendary coach Don Haskins.

With a starting lineup of five AfricanAmerican players, they were slated to play the No. 1-ranked University of Kentucky team coached by Adolph Rupp, for the 1966 NCAA basketball championship.

The reason for this game’s historical significance is that an all-Black team had never played an all-white team in an NCAA title game. At the start of the game, Haskins let the team know that Rupp had vowed that this all-AfricanAmerican team would never beat his team. Lattin and his teammates now had something to prove. And prove it, they did with a stunning 72-65 upset.

A dominant part of the game, Lattin was named All-American during both his 1966-67 seasons at Texas Western, and he still holds a number of school NCAA tournament records.

Pat Riley, himself a legendary coach and NBA All-Star, was a Kentucky starter that season and recalled that “It was a violent game. I don’t mean there were any fights but they were desperate and they were committed and they were more motivated than we were.”

Known in sports annals as the game that “changed everything,” it advanced the civil rights movement. It

has been called the sports equivalent of the Selma bridge or Greensboro lunch counter incidents, even referred to as the “Brown vs. Board of Education of college basketball.” Basically, it allowed for greater racial equality in college sports to become the norm rather than the exception.

While this game has been the subject of numerous documentaries, books, newspaper and magazine articles over the years, Lattin has written and self-published his account of this inspiring experience from the perspective of the players. Entitled “Slam Dunk to Glory – the story of the 1966 NCAA Championship Game that changed America forever,” it was made into a feature-length motion picture entitled “Glory Road.” Released in January 2006 by Disney motion pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions, it won an ESPY award as the best sports movie of 2006. And in 2007 Lattin was inducted into the Texas Black Sports Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Since his retirement from basketball, Lattin has gone on to become a successful businessman as both a corporate executive and an entrepreneur.

If It’s March, I’m an Underdogmatist

By Renee Chase

The spectacle of sports can trump business, government and relationships. But March Madness causes a fever for which there is absolutely no cure. For three weeks every spring, we find ourselves fascinated with a sport very few of us follow at any other time of year. It is a three-week span that finds us looking for televisions during the day at work, considering a stop at happy hour from bars posting on our Facebook feeds and trying to get

weekend errands done to be home – yes, home – on a Saturday night.

It’s March Madness and while the popularity of regular season basketball falls far from the radar of Must See TV for most, when the NCAA tournament tips off, we pick our favorites and cheer like we’ve been following them since last fall. But why? What is it about March Madness that hooks so many of us? Perhaps it’s the competitive nature inherent in almost all of us; maybe it’s the fact that real underdogs have

a chance at glory; or it could be that it marks the rite of sports season passage.

And let’s not forget about the gambling.

March Madness, in all of its alliterative glory, feeds the competitiveness most of us have. The brackets come out and we rush to fill them out, picking winners for the silliest of reasons but still believing these will lead to our own tournament success. For example, green uniforms are a must, Gonzaga is a favorite because who doesn’t love a team with the letter “z” in its name, and

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Coach K just knows how to win. We build brackets based on the reactions of our cats, we build brackets based on what we ate for breakfast. We may build brackets based on nonsense but we put faith in these choices, turning them in to the office pool coordinator with our $5. We start each tournament with what we believe will end with our own personal “One Shining Moment.”

Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D., asserts that “March Madness reads like some kind of fable. It’s loaded with archetypes – the Favorite, the Cinderella, the Villain, the Doomed, and the Underdog – with each person choosing which teams fits each archetype. … I know people that aren’t even big basketball fans, yet they tune in to March Madness – almost obsessively. Even if you don’t know the players, teams, or even the fundamentals of basketball, you can get into March Madness. And that’s because it is one of those events that plays out the human condition – hard work, competition, joy, sorrow – before our eyes.”

So there’s the competition factor, a compelling argument, no doubt, for why some of us are so quick to fall under the spell of elite eights and final fours. However, the thrill of competition is not enough of a reason on its own to draw so many of us in. There is a reason that we have pulled for David to beat Goliath – we want underdogs to win. It’s a simple truth backed up by the irrational number of brackets that pick 16 seeds to upset the dominant #1’s in the first round. We want the little guy to find a path to victory.

Michael Prell, in his 2011 book “Underdogma,” writes that people irrationally favor underdogs while demonizing favorites. We do. In 2010, who wasn’t rooting for Butler to beat Duke outside of Chapel Hill. And when the Bulldogs came up two points short against the Blue Devils, who wasn’t just a little heartbroken. Sure they had

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played a good game, but we want more than moral victories in March Madness. As underdogmatists, we want shocking upsets that aren’t expected and shouldn’t happen. It is Greek tragedy in its Nike-uniformed (or this year, Adidas uniformed) best.

Yet no matter our desire to see the little guy get his day on the hardwood, the numbers don’t lie. The seedings tell the story of who has the best chances to advance. A No. 1 seed has never lost to a No. 16 or No. 12 seed, no team seeded below No. 8 has ever won the tournament, and No. 1 seeds make the Sweet 16 over 92 percent of the time.

However, conventional wisdom and statistics will not deter us from picking and praying for the upset. We watch the tournament for the Cinderella story. The difference between March Madness and every other sporting event out there is that our personal underdogmatist behavior is displayed in full effect hour-after-hour, game-after-game – for three straight weeks. Until a champion is crowned, we get the chance to feed our need to see the “little guy” win on one of the world’s biggest stages.

While competition and underdogs provide intrigue, some watch because it’s the yearly rite of passage that bridges the gap between the Super Bowl and the start of Major League Baseball. For true sports aficionados, the year-round sports calendar is marked by major events through the year. Allegiance to a particular team and the outcomes aren’t necessarily that important but watching the games every year are part of the tradition.

And then there’s the money. March Madness is one of the most heavily betted events in the world. Even though the Super Bowl remains the world’s top event for bettors, the NCAA tournament increases in popularity every year. March Madness meant a

$100 million uptick in betting in Las Vegas sports books in 2012. The year before, $256.6 million was bet on college and pro basketball throughout the month of March, following a modest $114.3 in February. As soon as the NCAA concluded, the take fell to $78.2 million. And the numbers from illegal betting make the Vegas money seem paltry in comparison. The FBI guesstimates the amount of money bet illegally on March Madness is somewhere around $2.5 billion. Long shot upsets are big money and every year, the popularity and the enticement of Cinderella possibly staying at the ball for one more dance only increases.

Whatever your reason for watching, there is one thing that is fairly certain—no matter how you choose your winning teams, the chances of you having a perfect bracket are slim-tonone. I mean the odds are bad—really bad. The chances of landing a date with Zack Efron are better than finishing with a perfect bracket. There are a total of 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 possible bracket outcomes, making the odds of a perfect bracket over 9.2-quintillion-to-1.

But March Madness isn’t about perfection, it’s about the quest for a dream. As Eric Prister, founder of the online blog Down to the Basement writes, “March Madness is great because everyone experiences it together. More than anything, enjoying sports is about enjoying how it brings people together. Fans of a particular team become greater than just the sum of their parts when they cheer as part of a 100,000 person crowd. In the same way, basketball fans, both casual and the most stringent, join together while watching March Madness.”

March Madness – where the underdog is the hero and we all stand and cheer when he wins. No wonder we love it so.

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Has March Madness Hit Adidas Uniform Designers?

By Harry Andrew

What on earth have the uniform designers at Adidas been thinking?

Has the Madness part of March Madness taken over? Talk about old school, these uniforms go waaaay beyond retro or vintage … try ancient. The Golden State Warriors can now take comfort in the fact that their new sleeved jerseys from Adidas have moved from being the most ridiculous and outrageous uniforms to a secondary position behind the new uniforms for six March Madness teams.

Chris Chase, writing for USA TODAY Sports, called the “animalstriped shorts” as the “lowlight” of the new uniforms six Adidas schools will be wearing. Asking if we remember Fruit Stripe gum, he says that the person who designed these uniforms certainly did; he continues to say that “Nothing has been mocked on the Internet this badly and this quickly since that Friday video.”

He’s not the only one who thinks they’re a real miss. Cork Gaines, writing for the Business Insider, says that “The initial reaction by most appears to be that these uniforms are ugly or even hideous, especially for schools like Kansas and UCLA, which have always had a traditional uniform.” He continued to say “After Adidas introduced the new sleeved jerseys for the Golden State Warriors, we heard that they would be doing the same for some college basketball teams. But we had no idea they would also be so brightly colored or have so much camouflage pattern.”

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Photo by Adidas Here are some more of Chase’s snarky comments about the uniforms. Regarding UCLA, he says that “Unless Adidas executives were going for a ‘Life of Pi’ tiger going swimming in an ocean full of KoolAid look, I can’t imagine what they were trying for with those shorts. Is Zubaz getting royalties for this?”

Commenting on Baylor, Cincinnati and Louisville wearing what he calls “gimmicky uniforms,” Chase wonders how “athletic directors from basketball blue bloods like Kansas and UCLA let this travesty take place? Last I checked, the rules of basketball, written by former Kansas coach James Naismith, say nothing about wearing shorts that look like the ugliest pair of bathing trunks you saw on your last trip to the beach.”

Chase credits a report from Sports Business Daily that “Michigan and N.C. State had good enough sense to say no to Adidas. … In other news, we are all becoming Michigan and N.C. State fans this March.” He also writes that “Notre Dame finally got a jersey to match Digger Phelps’ highlighter.”

His final shot? “We haven’t even mentioned the sleeves! Look at those things. Not only do they have the stripes, they’re as short as the sleeves on baby doll T-shirts. Did they rip-off both Zubaz and Touch

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Hudson Taylor The Man Behind Athlete Ally

by Brian Patrick

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F YOU HAVE SEEN AND HEARD THE RECENT developments of a number of professional athletes joining Athlete Ally, it would be easy to assume that this is another organization geared toward professional athletes.

But Athlete Ally had its genesis in college athletics where it continues to have a strong impact on college studentathletes and their athletic departments across the U.S. RESPECT – it’s a word that represents who and what Hudson Taylor and Athlete Ally, the national organization he founded, are all about. The concept of respect took root in Hudson thanks to his father who raised him to respect his athletic opponents. Starting in sports as a young child, Hudson has talked of his early memories, those of wrestling mats, arenas and early-morning drives with his father traveling to find competitions and open tournaments. Their conversations in the car focused mainly on wrestling, on technique and tournament brackets. But more often than not he says that his dad managed to

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include lessons about decency and morality as a necessary and integral part of athletic achievement.

The following quote from a book he is writing reveals Hudson’s true character and, consequently, the character of his organization – Athlete Ally. “My father emphasized integrity because he knew what I was up against. As a young wrestler, I was learning to inflict pain to force submission. In such a grueling contact sport, he wanted me to become a ‘respectful competitor.’ Win, lose or draw, each match was an opportunity to learn, enjoy the camaraderie of competition, and show respect for another human being.”

As a high school champion wrestler, Hudson received a scholarship to wrestle at the University of Maryland in Division I competition. His career highlights include: two-time ACC Wrestler of the Year; two-time ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year; three-time Top Five finisher at NCAA Championships (197 pound class); tied for fifth in NCAA career pins with 87 opponents.

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What is most interesting is Hudson’s revelation that “For a long time I didn’t consider myself an ally or an advocate; it was never an issue that was near and dear to me.” Although he was a jock, Hudson’s college major was theatre and he knew lots of gay theatre classmates who were in various stages of coming out. He was astonished to see the contrast between his two college environments – the diverseness and acceptance of the theatre and the locker room where homophobic language was used as the worst of all putdowns.

As he began to see, hear and feel the pain inflicted on his gay classmates, it began what he called a slow process of raising his consciousness. The result was that he became a private ally, making it his mission to get his fellow athletes to be more respectful in both tone of voice and attitude. But when he was made captain of the wrestling team, he finally saw that he was in a position to help change things. Now, instead of encouraging his teammates to curb their homophobic comments, he insisted on it. Not all of his teammates shared his belief in total equality but they all got the idea of respect from one athlete to another. He revealed that the team was “100 percent on board.”

In his senior year, following a recruitment visit by representatives of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Hudson decided to wear an HRC sticker on his headgear to emphasize his personal commitment to respecting others. While most people didn’t know what it was, some who did were vocal about the fact that such a symbol didn’t belong on a wrestling mat. But following an interview where the sticker was mentioned, Hudson received over 2,000 emails by closeted individuals thanking him for his support, telling him that he had saved lives and was changing people’s attitudes by his example.

Now understanding how much more powerful a campaign for LGBT sports equality could be when straight allies also became involved, Hudson made the internal leap from private ally to public ally – it became his personal and professional mission in life. We chose to use the cover shot of Hudson wearing the headgear with the HRC logo because the power of that small symbol not only changed Hudson’s life, it also changed the lives of many others who saw him wearing it.

In January 2011 Hudson founded Athlete Ally as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to provide social advocacy campaigns, on-campus trainings and practical tools, including resources to locate and learn about allied athletes, coaches, teams, athletic clubs and sports-based advocacy projects around the country. In addition to serving as Athlete Ally’s Executive Director, Hudson is also the assistant wrestling coach at Columbia University in New

York City. It’s clear that the university is supportive of his many trips to college and university campuses across the U.S. to speak to athletic teams and their coaches as well as all others involved in campus life about LGBT equality for student-athletes.

The university’s support for Hudson’s work also speaks volumes about its own LGBT-friendly atmosphere. In 2012 Campus Pride, another national organization devoted to creating a safer college environment for LGBT students, did their first Top 10 Survey of LGBT-Friendly Campuses and Columbia University was on the list. The survey results referred to Hudson’s leadership, calling it transformative. It went on to say that his efforts not only have impacted Columbia’s wrestling team, “they have also impacted college sport teams across the country.” The Columbia student-athlete who nominated the university stated that “Being raised in Alabama, I had not seen many athletes with the courage to stand up for the LGBT community. … After having Hudson as my coach for a year, I can fortunately say I have stopped using any language that could be seen as discriminatory; I am a member of Athlete Ally and I support all LGBT rights.”

When asked about the welcome he receives when he steps on a campus, Hudson says that it really depends on who has invited him to speak, whether it’s the school’s LGBT center or the athletic department. But even if the reception is a little formal at first, once he sits down in a room of athletes, his reception is always positive. The Athlete Ally motto is “Victory Through Unity,” and Hudson tells the athletes that the biggest victories come when they are the most united. According to him, the athletes always understand that. He has never been poorly received.

And it appears that more and more professional athletes are also understanding that message. According to a recent Athlete Ally blog, “MLS Stars A.J. DeLaGarza and Chris Seitz are the first soccer players to Join Athlete Ally.” They now join “NBA star Kenneth Faried (Denver Nuggets), Brendon Ayanbadejo (Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens,) Chris Kluwe (Minnesota Vikings),

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Scott Fujita (Cleveland Browns), Connor Barwin (Houston Texans), basketball player Dan Grunfeld, and four Australians in rugby star David Pocock, Australian Rules Football player Brock McLean, World-Champion cricketer Alex Blackwell, and rugby standout James Hilterbrand along with scores of college athletes who have already signed on. DeLaGarza and Seitz will act as liaisons between the organization and their teams, help promote Athlete Ally’s mission to end homophobia in sports by speaking out to their teams, league and fan bases, and encouraging their colleagues to join in the effort.”

When asked how the influx of professional athletes will impact Athlete Ally, Hudson says that it is such a recent development that the organization will need to define exactly what changes, if any, will take place. But certainly it is a very positive sign that professional sports are becoming more inclusive. The one thing he stressed, however, is that while some of the professionals who have taken the Athlete Ally Pledge and joined the organization are also in favor of same-sex marriage, that is not part of the Athlete Ally agenda. Anyone, straight or gay, athlete or not, is welcome to join the organization if they support respect and equality for athletes regardless of their perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

In the blog mentioned above, new member Seitz wrote that “As an athlete, I’ve learned firsthand what leadership means and seen

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how small actions can make a huge difference. By joining Athlete Ally, I hope my voice will reach gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth and remind them that they are welcomed and respected in sports.” It is just this kind of message that Athlete Ally wants LGBT student-athletes to hear.

In order to raise awareness about homophobia and transphobia in sports, Hudson also recognized that there needed to be some type of resource guide for college athletes, coaches and administrators on policies that deal with LGBTQ (Q-for questioning) community.

To that end, he and Dr. Pat Griffin, Professor Emeritus in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, co-authored the first-ever comprehensive resource guide to meet that need. An 82-page book entitled “Champions of Respect,” it was recently mailed to various NCAA constituents. It is also available online at ncaapublications.com.

At Compete Magazine, as supporters of Athlete Ally, we are committed to making sure that the message of respect for all athletes gets out as well. We are pleased and honored to announce that Hudson will soon be writing a regular column for us – details to follow (or as they say in TV land, “stay tuned— film at eleven”).

ALLY PLEDGE I pledge to lead my athletic community to respect and welcome all persons, regardless of their perceived or actual sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. Beginning right now, I will do my part to promote the best of athletics by making all players feel respected on and off the field.

You can go to the Athlete Ally website to take the pledge and sign up as a supporter at athleteally.com

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Aaron Walton of Walton|Isaacson The Face of Business Diversity and Inclusion

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t our 2012 Compete Sports Diversity Awards held in Atlanta in November, we presented Compete’s 2012 Corporate Community Partner award to the Walton | Isaacson Agency. Accepting the award was co-founder Aaron Walton, universally acknowledged as a marketing genius, who has spearheaded the company’s diversity approach. With the tag line, The Planet’s Most Interesting Agency , Walton | Isaacson is an innovative marketing/brand-building company that is always on the cutting edge of industry trends.

With a wide variety of clients, like Lexus, Whirlpool, Dove Brands, Caesars Entertainment, Courvoisier, Skinnygirl Cocktails, Magic Johnson Entertainment, and most recently, the Dodgers, to name just a few, the company has long been known for its expertise in entertainment and pop culture as well as its ability to build authentic relationships with consumers.

Walton, business partner Cory Isaacson, and silent partner Earvin “Magic” Johnson and their team of over 80 brand professionals show their corporate clients how to build relationships with underserved market segments through diversity and inclusion. A company or corporation

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and its culture always reflect the values of its leadership. It is also due to Walton’s character and leadership that his company’s business has been built on ensuring that those authentic consumer relationships included African-American and LGBT consumers.

The company’s philosophy of inclusion is, according to Walton, “part of the agency DNA.” It is also part of the critical education they provide for executives on segment opportunity – to look at the entire marketplace, to be more inclusive and to make a difference, as well.

The company is also part of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce’s (NGLCC) mentoring program. We could hardly think of a more appropriate Corporate Community Partner for Compete to honor.

Michelle Garcia, a contributing writer for Advocate.com, has written that “Whether intentional or not, there’s a lot of gay appeal in the firm’s work.” As an example, she cites their Dove Hair Care campaign featuring Glee’s Lea Michele singing “My Favorite Things” from “The Sound of Music” while promoting Dove. And that is also thanks to Walton who, during the beginning of his career as a Pepsi marketing executive, made a name for himself by pairing well-known entertainment figures

with major brands. Some of his highprofile pairings have included Pepsi & Michael Jackson, AT&T & Whitney Houston, Cadillac & Led Zeppelin, Mountain Dew & Busta Rhymes and Doritos & Enrique Iglesias. He also developed the “True Music” platform that boasted more than 30 acts across all music genres performing on both radio and television in support of the Budweiser brand.

When you read about the many accomplishments of someone like Walton who is such a great success in his field, you wonder what kind of life he had growing up. You wonder what part hard work and/or luck played in shaping such an impressive career.

For Walton, a gay African-American born in 1961 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, it was both his parents and the time in which he grew up that molded him, setting the stage for his future successes.

Walton recounts that he grew up in a loving family with a limited income. As a result, they lived in the ghetto. But his parents always stressed getting a good education.

And when their town decided to improve the education of its innercity children, he was one of the seven original kids from Roxbury that were bused to school in the nearby town of Lincoln, the wealthiest community in the area. In order to help their social adjustment, each child was assigned

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a host family. Now joined by his sister, the Walton siblings were assigned to the family of Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and social activist of the 1960s who favored a modern approach to school.

After third grade his family moved to Bellingham, a small Massachusettes town, for three years.. They had hired a man to build a house for them in a nearby town, but as the first black family in the town, they ran into the racial strife that permeated many cities and towns throughout the U.S. at that time – the contractor stole the family’s money without building the house and the town took up a petition to get rid of the family entirely. It was at that point that the Waltons dug deep and sent Aaron to Mount Saint Charles Academy, a private Catholic school for 7th through 12th grade to ensure that he got the best possible education.

And what a life-changing decision that was for Walton because it was here that learning really came alive for him. He describes it as an “amazing time” in his life where he became actively engaged in theatre and music. Already a budding entrepreneur, this self-described “nerdy guy” collected 45 records and began following the money and the music industry through Billboard Magazine. And as a confessed (and happy about it) “TV junkie,” he was also following pop culture, even wanting to audition for “Zoom” when he was in seventh grade.

Upon graduating from Mount Saint Charles Academy, Walton entered Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, graduating with a dual major in Management/ Organizational Behavior and Communications. Although he may not have fully recognized it until after he graduated, Babson was a wonderful choice for Walton. A renowned business school at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,

Babson has long been recognized for its ability to turn out successful entrepreneurs, one of whom would eventually play an important role in Walton’s career path.

When the college’s job fair rolled around, he really wanted to interview with Pepsi. But instead of the normal process of interviewing candidates from gathered resumes, this particular year Pepsi instituted a lottery system and Walton’s number didn’t come up – he didn’t get picked for an interview. Undeterred, he asked a number of college administrators if Babson had a graduate who had a connection to Pepsi. Imagine his surprise when they told him he already knew someone who fit the bill. As one of only two African-American students in his class, Walton was elected president of the student body in 1982 and was comfortable giving regular reports to the college’s board of directors. It turns out that one of school’s directors was Babson alum Roger Enrico, CEO and Chairman of the Board for PepsiCo. Needless to say, Walton got his interview with Pepsi and, as the saying goes, the rest is literally marketing history.

Hired originally as a marketing analyst for Pepsi, it wasn’t long before he was promoted to reposition Mountain Dew from its original rural image to fit urban culture. And his career really skyrocketed when he started pairing pop culture icons with various PepsiCo brands. At one point Walton was in charge of three tours at the same time – Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and the Miami Sound Machine. Pretty impressive company to be keeping!

Although he had asked to be moved into an advertising position within the company under the legendary Alan Pottasch (known as the “father of the Pepsi Generation” campaign), Walton was scheduled to leave on a 14-month international tour with Michael Jackson with

Compete Editor Connie Wardman presents the 2012 Community Partner Award to Aaron Walton. the international portion coming first. Unfortunately, the advertising position couldn’t be held open that long. Being in charge of these tours, especially Michael Jackson’s international tour, was another turning point in Walton’s amazing career. Due to the company paperwork requirements to cover him, he wound up starting his own company, Aaron Walton Entertainment (AWE) and continued working for Pepsi as a consultant. The entrepreneur had now come into his own and in addition to Pepsi, he picked up additional large consumer brands like AT&T, The Gap, Banana Republic, Frito-Lay, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, General Motors, Chrysler, Polaroid and Levi Strauss.

He eventually sold the business to Omnicom and in 2006 he and Isaacson launched Walton | Isaacson.

Walton’s incredible journey hasn’t been traveled alone, however. In addition to the love and support of his family along the way, Walton has also had the love and support of his partner of 26 years, Andrew Logan, an equally talented songwriter, performer and director. In 2005 they were married by Walton’s mother, the Rev. Patricia Walton, a United Church of Christ minister. And just to prove Babson’s business savvy, they’ve honored their former student with the Black Alumni Achievement Award. Who knows, he may become a mentor to some new potential entrepreneurs, showing them how diversity and inclusion are successfully practiced in today’s business world.

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A MARATHON FINISHER

By Kristen Hellwig

“Morning sunrise on my last day in Honolulu! Over the course of a full year, I’ve gone from practically zero [exercise] to a full-on marathon finisher! In the process, I’ve lost about 30 pounds and improved my running pace by about [two] minutes since I started last October. It was an amazing journey and from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all of my family and friends who have supported me through this. Through my fundraising efforts for both the LA & Honolulu Marathons, I was able to bring in almost $5,000 for the clients of AIDS Project Los Angeles! Training and running with TEAM TO END AIDS has been one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done in my life EVER! Special thanks to Coach Biff for your awesome guidance. Also to Naomi, Bart and Ashley for taking good care of the team.”

“I’M A MARATHON FINISHER!” Michael Almacen typed these words and posted them on his Facebook page the morning after completing his first marathon in December 2012. Michael was one of almost 50 TEAM TO END AIDS (T2) participants who completed the Honolulu Marathon and collectively raised $115,000 for the programs and services of AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA).

Michael’s path to the finish line was not an easy one, which made the accomplishment even more meaningful for him. His original plan when he joined T2 was to complete the 2012 Honda LA Marathon. He wasn’t an athlete before he decided to join the program.

“I was just this fat kid,” Michael laughs. But he wanted to do something to honor all of the people in his life who have died from AIDS-related causes, and he wanted to help the 60,000 people currently living with HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles County.

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So Michael completed months of T2’s comprehensive training program.

He participated in weekly coached group runs, did the suggested “maintenance runs” a couple of times a week, and benefited from coaching tips and nutritional support from T2’s Michael Almacen experienced staff.

For the fundraising component of the program, he raised critical funds for the lifesaving care, prevention and advocacy programs of APLA. Unfortunately, an accident at work caused him to seriously injure his knee and forced him to drop out of the program a month before the race. But Michael continued to lend his support to his teammates, volunteering at water stops during training runs and even cheering the group on the day of the marathon.

When the next training season came around, after months of physical therapy, Michael decided to give it another shot. He started training for the Honolulu Marathon with T2 but suffered a bout of depression that almost caused him to drop out. Luckily, the support of his teammates and the camaraderie he felt from being part of this amazing group helped him find the strength to keep going.

And on December 9, 2012, at the age of 44, Michael Almacen was able to finally say that he was a marathon finisher and an athlete.

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SPORTS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YCP As of March 4th, the You Can Play (YCP) project areas by focusing celebrated its first birthday. And what an amazing year only on an athlete’s it has been for the organization that has set out to end skills, work ethic and homophobia in sports. Last year, Greg Wyshynski | Puck competitive spirit.

Daddy, who writes for the Yahoo sports blogs, introduced Although Patrick is his readers to the organization with this announcement: one of the leaders “Patrick Burke calls it ‘casual homophobia’ in hockey. of YCP, he isn’t one It’s the jocular language used in the locker room and on to take over the the ice that’s intended to be humorous among teammates microphone at the or insulting to opponents, but are essentially gay slurs for many events where comedic effect. It’s the kind of language that’s helped keep YPC is asked to gay players in the NHL and other levels of professional speak. According hockey from being candid about their sexuality, feeling to him, his way of supporting LGBT athletes is to provide the environment isn’t a friendly or safe one. … ‘We’re all them with “an opportunity to share their stories” whenabout makin’ fun of each other. I understand how guys ever possible. bond. But we need to cut out that language so those Patrick writes about the “cool things” that have athletes that are hiding can feel safe.’” happened this year – the NHL videos, the AHL Pledge And with that spot-on explanation of what happens Campaign, Macklemore speaking out against anti-gay lanin locker rooms and fan areas, YPC began its first year guage as well as partnerships with the Canadian Women’s odyssey that has moved beyond the hockey world to Hockey League and the America East Conference. But include athletes in all sports. Its founders are Patrick YCP has moved into other major professional sports, for Burke (a Philadelphia Flyers scout and son of Brian Burke, example, working to ensure that gay former NFL players, former GM of the Toronto Wade Davis and Esera Maple Leafs), Brian Kitts Tuaolo, were heard.

My brother Brendan taught me what and Glenn Witman (both And in Compete’s of GForce Sports).

December 2012 issue, the locker room can be like for young While there are many we published a story LGBT athletes, then showed me the organizations working to on YCP that included difference one person can make by end homophobia in sports, a picture of Patrick the start of YCP is really a standing with MLB standing up for what is right. story about the Burke famYunel Escobar, gay ily. Brendan Burke, son of runner Jose Estevez Brian and brother of Patrick, was gay and when he came and out soccer player David Testo. Escobar, who caused a out, he did it with the full support of his family. But not furor last September sporting a homophobic slur etched long after his announcement, he was killed in a car crash. into his eye black, now says that he’s a ”different man,” Brendan was also the student manager of the RedHawks presumably due to YCP. ice hockey team at Miami University, and Patrick has But what really makes Patrick proud are two facets said that “My brother Brendan taught me what the locker of YCP’s work: “the principles that are guiding us, and room can be like for young LGBT athletes, then showed our work in amplifying the voices of LGBT athletes.” me the difference one person can make by standing up for Patrick says “To everyone who has made changes to their what is right.” language, behaviors, or attitudes because of our work, YCP is the on-going effort to continue Brendan’s work thank you. To everyone who is excited to see what’s next of challenging the culture of locker rooms and spectator … we are too.”

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EVENTS GAY SPORTS EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY Find more events online at competenetwork.com

MARCH 2013 AQUATICS

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TNYA Swim & Dive Camp Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mar 31-Apr 6

Lone Star Classic Houston, Tex. Mar. 16 Southern Shootout Birmingham, Ala. Mar. 29 Saguaro Cup Phoenix, Ariz.

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BOWLING Ladies Invitational Tournament Dallas, Tex. Mar 1-3 Phoenix Regional Invitational Tournament Phoenix, Ariz.

Mar. 14-17 St. Patrick’s Invitational Tournament Memphis, Tenn.

Mar. 15-17 Vancouvers English Bay Cup Vancouver, B.C. Mar. 15-17 Paul Bunyan Invitational Minneapolis, Minn.

Mar. 22-24 Dixie Invitation Bowling Tournament Atlanta, Ga. Mar. 28-31 Western Cup XXXI Calgary, Alb. Mar. 29-30

RODEO A Texas Tradition Rodeo Houston, Tex. Mar. 15-17

RUNNING DC Rock & Roll Marathon Washington, DC Mar 16

TENNIS Austin Heart of Texas – HOT 11 Austin, Tex. Mar. 1-3 Palm Springs Doubles 2013 Palm Springs, Calif.

Mar 9-10 LA Open 2013 Los Angeles, Calif Mar 29-31 Orange Blossom Tennis Championships 2013 Orlando, Fla. Mar 29-31

VOLLEYBALL Cincinnati Drama Queen Classic Cincinnati, Ohio Mar. 16 New York Big Apple XXX New York Mar. 23 Houston Lone Star Volleyball Classic XXIV Houston, Tex. Mar. 29

SKIING/SNOWBOARDING Telluride Gay Ski Week Telluride, Colo.

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GAY SPRING BREAK

DESTINATIONS Mardi Gras is over and so is Groundhog Day. What and where is the next “Gaycation Location?” It’s Spring Break – where the gay college crowd finds a spot to cut loose from their studies and parents’ oversight to work on their wild sides as well as their tans.

Grab your sandals and suntan lotion, and get ready to get some sand in your crevices – the beach beckons.

If you’re in college or simply trying to relive your old Spring Break memories, here are the current top ten spots to find (paraphrasing an old Connie Francis song) “where the gays are.”

Beach communities definitely dominate—eight out of ten spots on the list. Fort Lauderdale has been the number one spot for lots of years but other beach communities, like Key West, South Padre Island, Cancun, San Diego, Panama City, Miami and Puerto Vallarta, follow close behind. The other two party spots, Palm Springs and Las Vegas, round out the gaycation meccas.

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Source: HuffPost Travel and TripAdvisor.com

On DECK NEXT MONTH IN COMPETE MAGAZINE APRIL’S ISSUE? WE HAVE JUST ONE WORD FOR IT — SWIMSUIT. It seems hard to imagine that it’s our seventh annual “droolicious” swimsuit issue.

How cool is that!

In addition to thinking about getting in shape for the swimsuit season, it’s time for you baseball fans who love stats to see what, if any, records might be broken in the upcoming season. And as we continue introducing you to our Sports Diversity Award winners, we’ll be profiling Team DC,

winner of the 2012 Amateur Sports Team, League or Organization.

We’ll also be taking a look at the Gay Games being held in Cleveland in 2014.

There are always lots of new and interesting pieces of information to share with you. This international event is held every four years and one of the things that changes from one event to the next are the new sports that get added to the competition schedule based partially on the city that won the bid to host the event.

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THIS MONTH IN SPORTS HISTORY: MARCH

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New expansion NHL team owned

by Disney named the Mighty Ducks - 1993

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13 Alaskan Dallas Seavey, age 25, is youngest winner of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - 2012

18 Philadelphia ‘76ers retires Wilt Chamberlain’s #13 jersey - 1991

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John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes in Toledo, Ohio - 1976

Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA) - 1981

Frank Bartell, Czechoslovakia, cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles - 1935

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Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays - 1995

NHL’s Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators - 1920

Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in NBA game - 1962

7 Magic Johnson 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists - 1996

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Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic - 1992

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Pgh. Penguins’ Joe Mullen 1st American to score 500 NHL goals - 1997

World’s Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Prague won

by Oksana Baiul -1993

19 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record - 1966

NFL adopts instant replay rule - 1986

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22 Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title - 1967

Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL game - 1971

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Tiger Woods wins 1st PGA victory since 2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational - 2012

NHL New York Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years - 1992

7th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 - 1945

Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time scoring 60 points in a game - 1990

29 NFL Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis - 1984

LA Raiders announce their return to Oakland - 1990

16 Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round - 1996

17 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; LoyolaMarymount 119, Wyoming 115 - 1988

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Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 802 goals scored - 1994

Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) - 1990

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31 John Wooden’s final game: UCLA wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs - 1975

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