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A Detroit Free Press reported has been subjected to intense backlash on social media after criticizing new Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell for an anti-gay remark he made more than 20 years ago. On January 15, Marlowe Alter published an article highlighting anti-gay comments Campbell made at a pep rally for Texas A&M in 1998. Campbell told an audience of 40,000 people that he was proud to attend a university where “men like women and women like men.” It provoked outcry at the time, wi...

Font Size An old Swedish proverb says, “Sweep first before your own door, before you sweep the doorsteps of your neighbors.” One NFL reporter with egg on his face today would have done well to heed this simple but sound advice. Marlowe Alter, an NFL writer for the Detroit Free Press, tried to cancel Dan Campbell (seen in photo), a candidate for the Lions head coaching job. Twenty-two years ago while playing football at Texas A&M, Campbell remarked at a pep rally that he like...