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The newark times review. Both devious covered many of these authors. You can watch the full programs on our website, booktv. Org. Host and now were joined by cyd zeigler whose book is called fair play how lgbtq athletes are claiming their rightful place in sports. G heres the cover. First of all all, youre the cofounder of sports. Com which is what . Guest out sports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gave people did want to talk about sports and people in sports...

Fairplay how lgbt athletes are claiming the rightful place in sports. Color, mister cyd zeigler, you are the cofounder of outsports. Com which is what . Outsports was started many years ago because being gay sports fans we realize gay people didnt want to talk about sports and people in sports didnt want to talk about gay issues but we did and we knew there was a larger group of people who are like us so we started outsports to talk about these issues, talk about homophobia in sports, athletes c...

I just think that chris is a really special guy. of all the athletes ive talked to, there are few who have perspectives on issues and think the way he does. scott fujita is another one, a former lineback never the nfl who just takes pride in equality and civil rights. i have never heard that hes gay or that he even could possibly be guy. i dont think thats the case. >> sid zeigler. thanks so much for your time. appreciate it. >> go patriots. all right. half the country is about to get slammed ...

0 and guess what, experts concur, that is the popes voice. he jokingly said, quote, what are the nuns doing that they cant answer? then he continued. quote, i am pope francis. i wish to greet you in this end of the year. i will see if i can call you later. may god bless you. that from the pope. the nuns decided they would just wait to call the pope. hopefully hell call back. good luck on that. well have much more on whether he did, indeed, call them back. were going to have much more ahead in ...

They target 19-year-old athletes and not the people of russia. i think focusing on those organizations the power brokers of the olympics, big media companies like, frankly, nbc and big corporate sponsors and washington. thats the important piece. because they are able to make change in a way that 19-year-old athletes and telling them that they have to stay home just will never accomplish. >> sid, you bring up nbc. obviously, we are a part of nbc so we are covering this and we want to be a part o...

Yes, we do neat ed allies in sports. we need people to stand up and say, despite color of skin and sexual orientation and it doesnt matter. you should be judged on your talent and go there and play and it should be a safe place and should be no discrimination at all. its a sad state to be in, but we do need people to speak up and say this is wrong. >> sid, with your efforts and what youre trying to do at the ioc there is a gray area. politicians in russia speaking out saying this is a problem fo...

Marched in vancouver over the weekend and spoke out about cause to boycott the sochi games. >> lesbian -- >> it never solved anything. thats running away. i think mark said it great. the london games where it says that, yeah, boycott just herds of people that dont go. >> we should be looking at concerted actions to other nation to send a message to russian government they find their action unacceptable toot. >> joining us is ben cohen. sid zeigler and hudson taylor joining me now. great to have ...

0 they are really narrowing down the scope of the closings to north africa and the middle east although they also say they dont know where these attacks are being -- are going to take place. i think that is the assessment of the intelligence community that those are the likeliest places. but it should be added that they dont know what the target is. they cant certainly say that its against the u.s. diplomatic post. it could be other western interests. for that reason both france and the uk have ...