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COVER PHOTO by Jeff Eason Top Row (left to right): Steve Lutgens, Jack Mackenroth, Michael Tynan, Wade Schaming, Aliza Machefsky, Simon Yu. Middle Row (left to right): Jason Andrew, Ada Rubin, Joshua Judge, Joseph Marra, Ron Nahass. Bottom Row (left to right): John Pettengill, Armistead Johnson.

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riting this column for the last five-plus years has been one of the highlights of my career. Well, maybe “career� isn’t the word I want to use. Writing “From the Sky Box� has been truly a passion of my life. I’m fighting to change LGBT stereotypes and to showcase LGBT athletes and allies—making a difference in the world is deeply important to me! When my good friend Matt Fish joined Compete as our Ally Editor, I was spurred to take on a new challenge—a syndicated column. “Men on Sports,� written by both Matt and me, will make LGBT sports accessible to even those who have never considered reading about them. Our first syndicated “Men on Sports� column recently appeared in Outward Magazine and the story was an interview with Ben Cohen about the Nike LGBT Summit held in Oregon last month. Future “Men on Sports� columns will include interviews with the Gay Softball World Series organizers, celebrities, athletes and more. “Men on Sports� is sort of a sneak-peak into the world of LGBT sports. We are working on getting “Men on Sports� into as many other publications as possible (both traditional publications and LGBT ones) so we can expose a new base of readers to what I love—uniting the gay and straight communities through sports. So the next time you pick up your favorite magazine (other than Compete, of course), check to see if it is carrying our “Men on Sports� column. If it isn’t there yet, just know that we are working on it. Sport On,

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Editor Letters Matthew Fish

Ally Editor matt.fish@mediaoutloud.com

Olympics, Sports and Competition Tie Us Together

Invoking the Spirit of the Olympics

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he four-year wait is finally over! Summer Olympics London 2012 is here and any fan of competition understands what the Olympics offer; highly trained athletes at the peak of their abilities performing on an international stage. The best competing against each other in their sport of choice. It captivates millions globally but to me there is more to Olympic competition than mere scores and medals. Beyond my desire to witness these amazing athletes perform, it is the human connection on a global level that inspires me. Each competition tests this human connection. The necessity to overcome fears, injuries, doubts, fatigue and the pressure to perform as a representative of one’s country is enough to rattle any human being. When these athletes overcome the daunting pressure and perform flawlessly, it is a deeply powerful and beautiful event to witness. Each athlete, no matter what part of the world he or she represents, affects every human. I feel the disappointment when an athlete fails and does not meet expectations; I can feel the overwhelming happiness of success when the athlete succeeds. Above all, I get to feel something. The older I get the more I notice how much more I feel. I know this is a good thing— to feel. And to feel connected is to know that you are alive. The Olympics, competition, and sports tie humans together, enabling all of us to be open to the feeling of interconnectedness. So I enjoy watching the spirit of competition on a global scale. To me, I feel a connection to the athletes that work so hard day in and day out based solely on passion and a belief that they have the ability to achieve greatness through a game or event. Being a natural competitor, that is what I understand, comprehend, and embrace. I get to feel connected as a citizen of the world, something that is very important to me.

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ne of the important Olympic traditions founded by the ancient Greeks came at a time when city-states and kingdoms that participated would put aside whatever conflicts they were facing—the games trumped war, politics or whatever else was going on at the time. I love that idea! As we prepare for the 2012 Olympics, I only wish this tradition would be invoked by all the participating countries. The conflicts over marriage equality, the bipartisan confronttations that bog down congressional action, the deadly aspects of the “Arab Spring” as people strive to overcome so many years of oppression—it would be great to put all those aside and focus on Olympic competitions. In 1982, long before athletes felt safe enough to come out in their sports (oh, wait, 30 years later many still don’t), former Olympic decathlon champion Dr. Tom Waddell created the Gay Olympics to allow LGBT participants a place to gather and compete. Tina Turner performed at the first one, and then the “official” Olympics filed a lawsuit, which is why the event is now called “The Gay Games.” The Olympics inspire greatness. The games also inspired Dr. Waddell to the point he wanted to share his experience with the LGBT community—even the ones from countries where homosexuality continues to be illegal. As a young man he was involved with the African-American civil rights movement, a reminder that LGBT activists have a long history of working together with those who follow Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his dream—that one day, people will not be judged by their color or sexual orientation, “but by the content of their character.” After being diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Waddell participated for the last time in the 1986 Games, winning a gold medal in the javelin event. He died of AIDS at the age of 49 just one year later. Here’s to Dr. Tom Waddell and the other Olympians, gay or straight, who continue to inspire us all.

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rom June 14-17 in Beaverton, Ore., many of the nation’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer sports leaders joined representatives of Nike at the company’s World Headquarters for a first-of-its-kind meeting to combat bullying and anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination in sports. What a wonderful reflection of changing times and attitudes it is that companies like Nike, SB Nation and Microsoft were willing to pitch in to make the recent Nike LGBT Sports Summit a reality! The group of 20-plus individuals and organizations represented developed a unified plan to end LGBTQ harassment and discrimination against athletes and coaches that encompasses kindergarten, high school and college as well as recreational and professional sports. In the coming year this newlyformed LGBTQ sports coalition will concentrate on achieving the following four key goals:

Each of the major American professional sports leagues will be engaged to work with coalition-member organizations toward inclusion within their leagues. A multi-pronged approach will increase the visibility of out collegiate athletes, coaches and allies. National youth and adult recreational leagues will receive an LGBTQ-inclusive model policy, with the goal of having at least five leagues adopt such a policy. Two million young people will hear a new and inclusive definition of “athletic champion,” the result of their physical education teachers and coaches having received inclusive training resources. One of the major concepts the group tackled was to jointly redefine what it means to be a “champion” in athletics, a new definition that is marked by inclusion. One of the fun trick questions? How many NBA Championships has Kobe Bryant won? The answer is none; however, the Los Angeles Lakers have won

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five championships during Bryant’s time with the team. A true champion is one who lifts up his or her teammates and welcomes everyone onto the team. Photo by Bret Grafton Participating organizations included American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; Athlete Ally; Br{ace the Silence; Campus Pride; ESPN; Fearless campaign; Federation of Gay Games; Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD); Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN); I Am Enough; It Gets Better project; National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR); National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA); Nike; Our Group; Outsports; StandUp Foundation; and You Can Play project. The event enabled organizations that have never worked together in the past to build trust with one another, building and strengthening communications throughout the group. Seeing a failure by LGBTQ sports advocates to work together to achieve a common goal, Outsports co-founder Cyd Zeigler Jr. began to develop the idea of a summit and joined forces with NCLR Sports Project director Helen Carroll and GLSEN’s Changing the Game sports director Pat Griffin. Once Nike was contacted, they quickly came on board. Zeigler believes that by working together, “we will dismantle bullying and anti-LGBTQ bias and discrimination in sports in the next four years.” Compete was represented at the summit by two of its advisory board members: Carroll, and Kirk Walker, head coach of the Oregon State University women’s softball program. Following the summit, many of the participants joined the Nike contingency to walk in the Portland Pride Parade.

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The BBC reports that the Saudis have lifted the ban on their female athletes participating in the Olympics. Following intense private discussions between the Saudi king, crown prince, foreign minister and top religious leaders, the Saudi Embassy in London issued a statement that the kingdom “wishes to reaffirm its support for the sublime meanings reflected by Olympic Games and the cherished values of excellence, friendship and respect they represent.” Wording in the statement that women “who qualify for the Games” will be given permission to compete doesn’t totally remove national and religious control over women wanting to participate but it is considered a real step forward. There is one likely woman competitor for the London games—American-born Dalma Rushdi Malhas, an equestrian rider. Even though she hadn’t been nominated by her country, she won a bronze medal at the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympics following an invitation from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). What this does is open the door for other Saudi female athletes to participate. They will,

however, be required to dress modestly “to preserve their dignity,” according to the BBC; that means wearing loose-fitting garments and the traditional head covering. The decision follows hints that the IOC could disqualify the whole Saudi team for gender discrimination if the ban wasn’t removed. And while the decision was made in mid-June, the recent sudden death of Crown Prince Nayef delayed the announcement. A senior Saudi official told the BBC that “King Abdullah is trying to initiate reform in a subtle way, by finding the right balance between going too fast or too slow.” The countries of Qatar and Brunei will also be fielding women athletes at the Olympics for the first time according to a report from Al-Arabiya.

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TYNA: David Denrich, Steve Hooper, Win Chesson, Chris Politan, Jack Mackenroth, Onesimo DeMira, Peter McGrane, Ben Curran, Brad Cole, Brian Carns. Caroline Stein & Pat Rooney belong to the Philadelphia Fins Swim Club.

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This is the first time one team has swept all of these categories, bringing home the point that this is no rag-tag group of athletes! With over 400 registered swimmers, TNYA is the largest U.S. Masterslevel swim team in the country, welcoming members and friends of New York City’s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community. In a recap of the tournament, outgoing coach Christopher Politan praised the entire group of 75 who went to Iceland for their dedication, energy and talent as well as what he called their “outrageous swimming.� He also praised the teamwork that helped TNYA bring home its first swimming championship. Calling the women a “dominating force,� he noted that Leila Vaziri, Allison Wright, Judy Stephens, Elizabeth Marquez, Raquel Karidis and Beth Romano all pulled double-duty, first by swimming and then as part of the diving team or the water polo team. He also mentioned that Hannah Borgenson and Emma Hansen turned in inspiring races, and Hansen was part of the championship polo match that anchored the record-breaking 200 mixed medley team with Vaziri, Scott Jordon and Charles Ludeke. That race established the fastest mixed medley record across all age groups, a fact that drew lots of admiration from both swimmers and water polo players. Many of the men also did double-duty, turning in excellent performances not just in the swimming pool but also on the diving board or as part of the water polo team, including polo players Ewan, Alex Barclay, James Damron, Jesse Matthews and Danny Wiederkehr while divers included Scott Kohanowski, Ethan Fran, Onesimo DeMira, Rob Mendez and Tim Nolen.

MEDLEY RELAY 400 FREE TNYA welcomed the return of two former coaches, Janet Harris and Todd Cooper, whose performances in all their events were deemed “brilliant” by Politan. While there are too many high points to name individually, Politan also praised the following team members.

Veteran swimmers Helen Lemay, Kathleen Romano, Barbara Love and Janet Harris.

400 FREE RELAY Michael Tynan Jack Mackenroth 100 and 100 free anchor of the 400 free relay.

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Brad Cole’s effort taking seconds off his 400 free, earning him a bronze medal in his age group.

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And for a variety of other important contributions too numerous to mention individually, he honored Mary Temple, Kent Lau, Mark D’Ambrosi, CA Hutton, Randy Chamberlain and Amanda Eckler as well as Zach Pappas, Tom Malcolm, Tom Gelinne, Steve Goran, Clara Mangili, Michael Goldring, Mark Schaeffer and Andrew Taines Looking at the team as a whole, there was great depth in the men’s 25-45 age group and their performances, according to Politan, showed it. He mentioned performances by Evan Cobb, John O’Donnell, Stephen Hooper, David Spires, Sean Smith, Andrew Willet, Andrew Begg, Chris Blacker and Dake Gonzales. He also turned the spotlight on Danny Rosemarin, Federico Chiesa, Jim Morrissey, John Palmer, Kozo Suzuki, Lorenzo DiSilvio, Pete Isgrigg and Ryan Walsh. And members of the TNYA leadership were also singled out for praise, both for their exciting athletic performances and their management contributions to the success of such an enormous undertaking: Win Chesson, Josh Judge, Elizabeth Turnbull-Brown,

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Charles Ludeke and new head coach, Scott Jordan. TNYA is a very successful example of gay sports in action. Clearly, the team has top quality gay athletes who are world-class competitors. But in its openness, its inclusiveness, TNYA is also a wonderful example of just how far gay sports have come over the last 20-plus years. A group like TNYA doesn’t just form and blossom into a successful and winning team without people who are truly dedicated to creating and maintaining a healthy organization, one that serves the needs of its members. What a testament to the organization and the swimmers involved that three of them have been with the team for over 20 years—Jack Mackenroth, Bruce Hayes and Charlie Carson. In fact, it was Carson and Blake Swihart (both swimmers) along with diver Jeff Gordon who represented New York City at the first Gay Games in San Francisco in 1982—they were three of 125 aquatics participants. Following the Games, Carson began to gather a New York City area contact list of LGBT swimmers and then hosted occasional meetings to build the network.

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Jack Mackenroth By 1987 the first large LGBT invitational swimming and diving competition was held between the Gay Games, and team leaders decided to form an organization that later became IGLA. TNYA hosted the largest Gay Games/ IGLA aquatics competition in 1994 and by 2010 TNYA had become the world’s largest predominantly LGBT aquatics team with approximately 500 paid members. And thanks to the hard work and dedication of Carson, Hayes, Mackenroth and the many other devoted members of TNYA, the organization is now in the forefront of including straight allies in its membership. IGLA ‘s mission is to promote participation in aquatic sports among lesbians and gay men and friends of the LGBT community. And since our mission at Compete is to unite the gay and straight communities through sports, we are thrilled to feature a group who is doing just that. For that wonderful accomplishment—and for your incredible performance in Reykjavik—we offer you all our heartiest congratulations.

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No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

In the last issue of Compete, we examined and de-bunked five myths about Title IX. Contrary to popular belief, none of these five statements is true ...

Title IX is controversial Title IX forces schools to cut men’s sports Opportunities are now equal Schools must spend equally on men’s and women’s sports Men’s programs make money; women’s programs lose money

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f that’s the case, then what is true about Title IX? If you talk to any women who longed to play sports in school pre-Title IX (1972) but were unable to play, or any of the post-Title IX women athletes who have reaped its benefits, they will tell you that it is important legislation that needs to be protected. Although its purpose was to end the existing gender inequities in education in any school receiving federal funds, its application to the sports portion of the curriculum has made huge changes in the way American children in high school and beyond play sports today. Since Title IX’s inception, female sports participation has made a dramatic increase as has the availability of sports for females. That’s not surprising since before Title IX, the primary sports-related activities for girls were cheerleading and square dancing. The pre-1972 numbers show that only one in 27 girls played high school sports, college scholarships for female athletes didn’t exist and female athletes received only two percent of overall athletic budgets. The 40th Anniversary of this legislation has been celebrated with lots of women telling personal stories of what having equal access to sports has meant to them, how it has changed their lives. One is from softball legend Dorothy “Dot” Richardson, a three-time All-American at UCLA and the NCAA Player of the Decade for the 1980s. She also helped the U.S. bring home four gold medals at the Pan-American Games, a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and another gold at the 2000 Sydney Games among other honors and awards. She recently told Anna Katherine Clemmons from ESPN.com that when she was 10, she was playing catch with her brother prior to his Little League game. Recognizing her ability, the coach asked her if she wanted to play on the team but added that they’d have to cut her hair short and call her Bob. After declining the offer, she went to play catch with a friend at a different field only to have another coach come up to her with the same offer to play ball. But this time it was a female softball coach. And after having Richardson take a few ground balls, the coach asked her to play on their softball team…as a girl. Her parents gave the OK and she wound up playing with others twice her age. Richardson also recounted how she played

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TITle IX every sport she could in junior high school and by ninth grade was named the school’s Most Outstanding Athlete, the first time a girl had ever been considered for such an award. However, she says that the moms all freaked since they felt that only boys should be competitive.

crease over the last 40 years, it is not true that sports opportunities are now equal for males and females. While there have been a number of lawsuits over its 40-year history seeking to dismantle or reduce the effectiveness of Title IX, it remains strong in spite of a major hit in 1984 in the case of Grove City, a small Christian college that purposely accepted no federal funds. The Supreme Court ruling on Grove City v. Bell that year stated that the act applied only to specific programs that received federal funding, such as financial aid offices, but not to athletic departments in general if the institution had a large number Now known as Dr. Dot of students receiving federal aid. Within the Department since she went on to become of Education, it is the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) that holds the major responsibility for enforcing Title IX, the Dorothy “Dot� Richardson, M.D. an orthopedic surgeon, she is currently Medical Director of office being charged with investigating any school where the National Training Center in Clermont, Florida, a state it believes that there are problems. However, it rarely exerof the art facility for athletes of all levels, located on a camcises that power. pus with a fully staffed hospital (South Lake Hospital) at To continue my conversation with Compete Advisory the University of Central Florida. She is also vice chair of Board Member Helen Carroll, director of the National the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. Center for Lesbian Right’s (NCLR) Sports Project, she revealed that when Title IX was enacted in 1972 she was a It’s the women like Dot Richardson who are so passophomore in college. After getting her master’s degree, sionate about Title IX because it turned the all-male she went right into coaching. While at the University of sports establishment on its head and allowed females North Carolina-Asheville, she led them to the NAIA womequal access to play. Many of these women are conen’s national basketball championship in the 1983-84 seacerned that today’s girls and young women take their son and along the way garnered a career record of 64-32 right to play sports for granted and in so doing, are that is still unmatched by any UNC–Asheville coach. jeopardizing the hard fought/hard won campaign Then for 12 years she was a National Collegiate Athletic to bring gender equity to scholastic sports. For while Association (NCAA) athletic director before moving to numbers for female athletes have had a dramatic inher current position. Needless to say, she has been involved with Title According to www.titleix.info, here are IX cases directly or indisome statistics that show why keeping rectly over the years. The Title IX is still critical. fact is that it really does t *O BU UIF IJHI TDIPPM MFWFM UIFSF XFSF UISFF NJMMJPO HJSMT QBSUJDJwork well when people pating in athletics; although they represented more than 49 percent of the understand and abide by student population, they made up only 41 percent of high school athletes. both the letter and the t *O DPMMFHF BUIMFUJD QSPHSBNT UIFSF XFSF GFNBMF QBSUJDJspirit of the law. One of pants; women represented just 42 percent of college athletes even though the ongoing difficulties is UIFZ SFQSFTFOUFE PWFS QFSDFOU PG UIF OBUJPOBM DPMMFHF QPQVMBUJPO what she refers to as the “arms race� in football. But t NJMMJPO NPSF JO DPMMFHF BUIMFUJD TDIPMBSTIJQT HP UP NBMF BUIMFUFT it can also be with men’s than to female athletes annually at National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball and other big (NCAA) schools. athletic programs with a t 8IJMF XPNFO JO %JWJTJPO * DPMMFHFT BSF PWFS QFSDFOU PG UIF TUVEFOU CPEZ lot of people with vested UIFZ POMZ SFDFJWF QFSDFOU PG UIF BUIMFUJD SFDSVJUJOH EPMMBST BOE QFSinterests involved. cent of the total money spent on athletics. And here is where the t *O UIF OVNCFS PG XPNFO DPBDIJOH XPNFO T UFBNT XBT PWFS QFSrubber meets the road, DFOU CVU CZ POMZ QFSDFOU PG XPNFO T UFBNT IBE B GFNBMF DPBDI so to speak—where an abstract law is now put

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into daily application, like it or not. Face it—if something is so out of balance that it needs federal legislation to right it, there will always be a group of diehards, both individuals and organizations, who will spend more time trying to figure out how to avoid it than they would if they simply embraced the change. And to expect otherwise is to be naïve beyond words. We’re talking ego and money, pride and prejudice—things that are not effectively overcome by telling someone to “play nice” and make the playing field level. They (“they” in this case can be any stakeholder) don’t want a level playing field—they want advantage, they want power and influence, they want prestige and bragging rights. Isn’t strategy part of competition? This is simply competitive strategy 101 moved from the playing field into the board room and court room. An article (“College Teams, Relying on Deception, Undermine Gender Equity”) in The New York Times on April 25, 2011 by Katie Thomas reported that many colleges and universities have chosen various deceptive methods to get around Title IX and cited a number of examples. For instance, in 2009 over half of the 71 women on the University of South Florida’s cross-country roster never ran a race. When questioned about it, some of the women laughed and said they had no idea they were even on the team. In another instance, the women’s tennis coach at Marshall University invited three freshmen to join the team knowing they weren’t good enough to practice against his scholarship athletes much less compete against them. Clearly, this is fraud—this is breaking the law. But then we come to a federal loophole that permits schools to report male practice players as female participants. So while not breaking the law technically, the Cornell women’s fencing team has 15 males on their 34 member roster that they report as all being female. The elite women’s basketball teams from Texas A&M and Duke join Cornell in taking advantage of this little “opportunity” to say they’re offering sports opportunities to women who, while they can be counted as women, don’t actually exist physically as females. Unfortunately, these examples are just a few of the many deceptive practices that are undermining gender equity in sports. Women now make up 57 percent of college enrollment and athletic programs are having a hard time keeping up with the proportionality part of Title IX. And rather than fund new women’s sports opportunities (their choice on one hand) or trimming the rosters of the hallowed football teams (their other choice in this situation) to even out the opportunities, educational institutions are taking a lesson from the gridiron and doing an end run around Title IX.

Thomas’ story was later pilloried by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom and Prosperity Task Force). Carried by “Defining Ideas: a Hoover Institution Journal,” Epstein’s article brands Title IX a huge mistake and calls for its repeal (http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/77231). Personally, I don’t like the idea that our collective response to every problem is to legislate a solution. And while there are times when legislation is absolutely the appropriate thing to do, I don’t believe enough time is given to considering both short-term and long-term benefits as well as potential challenges with well thought-through potential solutions before enacting it into law. Having said that, I think it is absolutely clear that Title IX is a necessary part of changing the societal face of scholastic sports. So while Epstein makes some good points, his conclusion that repealing Title IX will allow the scholastic sports heaven to properly realign morally and culturally and all will once again be well with the world just doesn’t hold much water. After all, marriage between the races was once illegal, even punishable by death in some quarters, but just because we’ve grown past those outmoded beliefs-turned-into-laws on that issue, it doesn’t mean that we should revoke the Civil Rights Act. There are other significant problems with Title IX in terms of homophobia and recruiting, important ones that deserve an in-depth examination. They play out in lots of ways, some very subtle and some right out loud. Stay tuned for the third and final part of this look at Title IX’s 40 years of influence. It will be carried on our website, competenetwork.com and timed with the release of the August issue of Compete Magazine.

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other interview when he’s tired and hungry, nevertheless he reminds himself that this is important and there are many others who would love to be in his position. While he recognizes how important this is, on a personal level the really big deal for him is competing as an elite athlete representing the United States of America, whether at the Olympics or at other international sporting competitions. It is, after all, his life-long dream. Even though he didn’t make the Olympic team, Dixon already has his life mapped out over the next two years. He plans to see how far and high gymnastics can take him while he’s still in training and performance mode; he wants to be a seasoned international competitor at the senior level. And barring any further injuries, he certainly has the talent, focus and concentration to achieve his dreams. Coming from an active family that included two older sisters involved in gymnastics, since age seven Dixon has been devoted to the training and nutritional routines that have earned him a four-time spot on the USA Junior National team, placing second all-around at the Visa U.S. Championships in 2006, spots on the Stanford national championship teams that won in 2009 and 2011 and being named a seven-time All-American. Dixon credits the demands of his sport—extreme dedication, persistence, lots of concentration, an emphasis on good nutrition, and a hard and tireless work ethic—for keeping him on target. And it may also be why he’s ready to come out publically about his sexuality now rather than earlier in his athletic career when he said his life consisted of “eat, sleep, train and do homework.” He continued to say that “gymnastics has always been my number one priority and I’ve pushed everything else aside to focus on it alone.” Keep your eye on Dixon in the future. A top notch athlete, he’s also a bright, capable and caring young man, someone we’ll be sure to keep in touch with as his star continues to rise.

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HERE’S HOW YOU CAN GET STARTED PICK SONGS YOU LIKE A LOT. It really doesn’t matter what kind of music you use. What’s important is that you like it. If you like classical, try Mozart’s “Sonata in D Major K448.� This one is iconic.

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USE BPM. The easiest way to begin organizing a playlist is to use the songs’ number of beats per minute (BPM). This is because rhythm and tempo have a direct tie-in to alertness and focus, as well as facilitating muscle coordination and movement. A BPM PG PS HSFBUFS BT opposed to 100 or lower) has been shown, for example, to increase mental acuity and flow. Faster rhythms increase motivation, alertness, and mental flow so you get a double effect: flowing muscles and a flowing mind—all good news for joggers. Relaxation and calm can be brought on by a lower BPM. To give you the idea, a song like Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way� comes in at a moderate 124 BPM, whereas “Turn Me On� by Norah Jones SVOT B MFJTVSFMZ #1. BOE ,OBDL T i.Z 4IBSPOBw UIVNQT JO BU B CSJTL #1. 5IF 4USBZ $BUT “Rock This Town� moves at a BPM of 207. You can find your songs’ BPM with a Google or iTunes search. PLAYLIST BONUS: If you want to really give yourself a lift, play a song with a slow BPM (90 or preferably even less) and then put on your faster rhythms. TRACK SONGS OF 135-160 BPM. Arrange as would enjoy hearing them. Or after doing your run a few

times, you may discover that you begin to naturally prefer certain songs over others at specific points in your jog, e.g. when you get to the “park,� when you hit the two-mile point or a particular hill and so on. Simply revise your playlist to match what you’d like to hear at those points in your run. ANTICIPATE SONGS AS THEY APPROACH. This will work as a reward, boosting important neurochemicals and increasing your feeling of euphoria. ARC YOUR PLAYLIST. You can do this by organizing songs so they gradually increase in BPM, getting you into the flow of things and smoothly getting you up to your desired running speed. Once you hit the keel you’re after, you can keep the playlist’s BPM in a steady range for as long as you like. You can also alternately move it upward (to a higher BPM) with a faster song or songs whenever you feel you want more in terms of oomph or speed. The idea is to figure out when and where you want to pump up your run and program the songs in so they will deliver that effect at those specific points—do the same with slower tunes—as they will help you re-charge when you need it, again keeping your steady keel somewhere JO UIF SBOHF PG PS XIBUFWFS JT DPNGPSUBCMF for your age and skill. You’ll know when a song is too slow or fast because you will literally feel it working against you—you’ll have trouble synchronizing to the tempo or rhythm. Staying in a fast-paced rhythm and tempo for too long will dry up the faucet, so to speak, and the song will become dysfunctional, so you want to avoid that. CONSIDER THE EMOTIONAL CONNECTION. Pick songs that send you the right emotional message to power your run. USE SONGS THAT SPARK FEEL-GOOD MEMORIES. The emotional factor can trump BPM, so don’t be worried about mixing in a song with lower BPM as you arc your playlist. Creating your arc is more about the song’s uplifting or relaxing effect on you than it is about sticking to just tempos. USE SLOW MEDITATIVE MUSIC AT THE END OF YOUR OF YOUR JOG—for a cool-down. Ten to 12 minutes of this as you work through your stretches will leave you feeling like a million bucks. Mixing in a little slow movement, tai chi or yoga at the end will put the frosting on the cake.

HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE JOGGING SONGS: I Can See Clearly Now—Jimmy Cliff Let’s Spend The Night Together—The Rolling Stones Brown Eyed Girl—Van Morrison Margaritaville—Jimmy Buffett Rock Around The Clock—Bill Haley & The Comets I Fought the Law—Green Day Karma Chameleon—Sixpack Mrs. Robinson—The Lemonheads Rise Above—Black Flag The Boys Of Summer—The Ataris So You Want To Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll Star—The Byrds Turn! Turn! Turn!—The Byrds So have fun and start turning your iPod into your ultimate mind-enhancer. Be flexible in setting up your playlists. Remember, to a large extent numbers are just numbers, suggestions and general markers to inspire you. So whatever works for you, go for it. Enjoy. References: [1] Mindlin, Galina; Cardillo, Joseph; and DuRousseau, Donald. â€œYour Playlist Can Change Your Life: 10 Proven Ways Your Favorite Music Can Revolutionize Your Health, Memory, Organization Alertness and More.â€? Sourcebooks. Naperville, Illinois 2012. This article originally appeared in the June 18th edition of Huff Post Healthy Living and is being reprinted by permission of the author and Huffington Post. Joseph Cardillo, Ph.D., is the co-author of â€œYour Playlist Can Change Your Lifeâ€? (Sourcebooks, January 1, 2012). A research psychologist, he specializes in complementary healthcare, holistic psychology, and mind-body medicine and is a top selling author in those fields. Other books by Dr. Cardillo include: â€œCan I Have Your Attention? How to Think Fast, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Concentrationâ€? (Career Books) and â€œBe Like Waterâ€? (Grand Central Books). For more information on Dr. Cardillo, please visit his website, www.josephcardillo.com.

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Glenn Burke

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hat started out as a piece on the mysterious origins of the high five has unexpectedly turned into a piece on homophobia in professional sports. Specifically, it’s meant to honor the memory of former Los Angeles Dodgers Glenn Burke and all the other gay professional athletes who over the years have been forced to live a lie or else face the consequences of a dream career—maybe even a life—going down the drain. But it’s also a retrospective, a look at how far we’ve actually come in addressing homophobia in professional sports. Burke is one of several people credited with “inventing” the high five, if in fact the invention of such a spontaneous celebratory gesture can be credited to just one person, one sport, even one culture. While I like baseball, even know some of the big name players over the years, I must confess that until I started my research, I don’t recall ever hearing about Glenn Burke even though it’s said he was considered the next Willie Mays by many of the era’s baseball scouts. He was a young outfielder for the Dodgers in the late 1970s with a personality as big as his 17-inch biceps which led to his nickname of King Kong. Referred to by one writer as irrepressibly charismatic, Burke was the class clown of the locker room, playing practical jokes, doing Richard Pryor routines and imitating Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. Sports agent and childhood friend Abdul-Jalil al-Hakim called Burke “a joyous, gregarious person.” And Burke’s sister Lutha Davis recalled that her brother had a deep respect for Lasorda, viewing him al-

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most as a father figure. But there was just one problem— Burke was gay. There had been rumors swirling around the clubhouse about Burke’s sexual preference so in the 1977 off-season, team VP Al Campanis offered him $75,000 to get married (which he later said was meant as a “helpful gesture” to pay for Burke’s honeymoon as opposed to a bribe). Burke rejected the offer and according to a friend, his response to Campanis was, “I guess you mean to a woman.” By 1978 Burke believed that everybody knew he was gay and that his teammates didn’t care, something echoed by former Dodgers team captain Davey Lopes who once said “No one cared about his lifestyle.” But someone on the Dodgers staff was homophobic. His name was Tommy Lasorda…Senior. It was about this time that Burke and Tommy Lasorda Jr., better known as Spunky, began a relationship. Spunky, described as a “lithe young socialite,” was part of gay West Hollywood’s party scene where he was known for smoking cigarettes from a long cigarette holder. He was estranged from his homophobic father who was in total denial about his son’s sexuality. Even after Spunky died from pneumonia in 1991 and his death certificate reportedly said cause of death was likely AIDS-related, Lasorda Sr. told GQ Magazine who ran an article on his son that “My son wasn’t gay. No way.” In Burke’s 1995 memoir “Out at Home”, co-authored with Erik Sherman, he was careful not to talk about the specifics of his relationship with Spunky, writing, “that’s my business.” But he did reveal that the elder Lasorda’s homophobia was something he and Spunky discussed.

“Prejudice drove me out of baseball sooner than I should have. But I wasn’t changing.” He also shared that the two of them once turned up at the elder Lasorda’s house in drag, complete with pigtails. Their plan was to stage sort of a gay version of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” but thought better of the idea before ringing the doorbell. Since their relationship wasn’t public knowledge until years later, it’s not known for sure who knew what, when, where, why and how. But what is clear is that the timing of Burke’s meeting Spunky marked the sharp decline of his big league career. Lasorda Sr. no longer found Burke’s locker room and dugout performances entertaining and at one point chewed him out for his juvenile antics, according to Burke. The Dodgers abruptly traded him to the Oakland A’s early in the 1978 season for Billy North, another outfielder considered to be over the hill, suggesting to many (including Burke) that the trade was prompted by his sexuality. Campanis explained the trade in the following terms: North was a proven player; Burke wasn’t yet living up to his potential. But Burke’s move to Oakland went south from the get-go—he was introduced to all his new teammates by manager Billy Martin who called him a “faggot.” He wasn’t given much playing time so after injuring a knee before the season began, he was sent to the minors in Utah by the A’s who released him from his contract in 1979. At the age of 27 Burke’s professional career was over. His overall stats during his four seasons for the L.A. Dodgers and Oakland A’s stand at 225 games with 523 at-bats, batted .237 with two home runs, 38 RBIs and 35 stolen bases. He told a reporter for the New York Times that “Prejudice drove me out of baseball sooner than I should have. But I wasn’t changing.” His defiant response warms the heart but unfortunately, his story didn’t have the “happily ever after” outcome we all hope for in our lives. Once the reality of not playing pro ball sunk in, he later said that “It’s the first thing in my life I ever backed down from.” By 1982 his homosexuality became public knowledge due to an article published that year in Inside Sports magazine. But Burke didn’t give up athletics once he retired from baseball—he competed in the first Gay Games in 1982, winning medals in the 100 and 200 meter sprints, and then participated in the 1986 games in basketball. He became a fixture in San Francisco’s Castro district and led the Gay Softball World Series as the star shortstop for a local gay softball league,

saying that “I was making money playing ball and not having any fun. Now I’m not making money but I’m having fun.” One of his friends from those days, Jack McGowan (who has since passed away), called Burke athletic, clean cut and masculine, saying that “He was everything that we wanted to prove to the world that we could be.” Burke continued to be active in amateur competition but the loss of the professional career he loved along with the team camaraderie and audience for his charismatic personality gone, it eventually led to a cocaine habit. And that habit rose sharply in 1987 due to a car hitting him while crossing the street, breaking his right leg in four places and crushing his foot. That accident and its consequences sounded the death-knell for his athletic participation. With his life spiraling out of control, he could no longer hold a job, was arrested for drugs and did some time in San Quentin for grand theft. For a time, he was homeless in the San Francisco area, hanging out in the same neighborhoods where he’d once been a big star. In 1993 he tested positive for HIV. And when it became known publically the next year, he received support from his old teammates and from the Oakland Athletics Association. In spite of everything he’d gone through, he never seemed to be bitter or hold any grudges when giving interviews. He spent his final months in Oakland, living with his Glenn Burke sister until his death in 1995 of AIDS complications. Burke was only 42. In 1995 Major League Baseball player Billy Bean became the second MLB player to announce that he was gay but he only did that after he retired—the same year Burke died. In November of 1994 in an interview with People Magazine, Burke had said that “My mission as a gay ballplayer was to break a stereotype…I think it worked.” My first reaction to reading Burke’s mission statement was upset…no, I didn’t think it worked. But after I had time to think about it, I realized that he had courageously broken a seemingly insurmountable social barrier, one that was deeply rooted not only in American culture but also in sports, the last bastion of manliness. There always has to be someone with enough courage to take a first step, to take the first brick from a wall so it can be removed. And that is Glenn Burke’s legacy to the LGBT sports community. While it’s all far from perfect, we really have come a long way and we wouldn’t have gotten this far without Glenn Burke.

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Derek Jeeter of UIF /FX :PSL :BOLFFT IJUT a home run against the 5BNQB #BZ 3BZT KPJOT UIF IJU DMVC

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Wimbledon 8PNFO T 'JOBMT Serena Williams beat her sister Venus Williams

-POEPO JT EFclared the host city for the 2012 Summer OlymQJDT

#JMM )BSUBDL CFcomes 8th jockey UP XJO horse races

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Orioles Cal Ripken becomes 1st to manage TPOT BT #JMMZ KPJOT $BM

Michael Jordan TJHOT BO /#" contract for 1 year for $25 milMJPO

UI "MM 4UBS #BTFCBMM (BNF "- XJOT BU $BNEFO :BSET #BMUJNPSF

#JMMZ .BSUJO JT TU "- NBOBHFS ejected by ump from 2 games in EBZ

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Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championTIJQ

Court upholds /#" TBMBSZ DBQ and draft rights

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50th U.S. 8PNFO T Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam

20 1st U.S. intercollegiate track NFFU IFME 4BSBUPHB /FX :PSL Princeton wins

21 Wayne Gretzky signs a 2-year deal with New :PSL 3BOHFST

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Mickey Mantle hits career home SVO

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"UMBOUB #SBWFT use a record 5 pitchers in 9th JOOJOH

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Amy Alcott wins -1(" #PTUPO Five Golf Classic

-BODF "SNTUSPOH retires after XJOOJOH IJT UI straight Tours de 'SBODF

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/FX :PSL :BOLFF Darryl Strawberry hits his 300th home run

Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova in her return to UFOOJT

30 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner PG /FX :PSL :BOLFFT

Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentenced to 5 months for tax FWBTJPO

31 Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted JOUP #BTFCBMM T Hall of Fame

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| COMPETE | July 2012

HOME RUN It’s the crack of the bat, your team cheering behind you, the satisfaction of a well-hit ball, and laughing all the way home. It’s about the love of the game, plus much more. See you here. August 13-18. TwinCities2012Series.org

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