Homophobes

John Amaechi, the former NBA basketballer who recently came out and is promoting his book Man in the Middle, is looking for some love. He's definitely not getting it from the NBA.

Philadelphia 76ers forward Shavlik Randolph said he would be fine with having a gay team-mate as long as a player did not bring his "gayness" on him.

LeBron James - one of the biggest stars in the NBA players and a member of Amaechi's former team, the Cleveland Cavaliers - said when asked if a gay player could survive in the league,

"With team-mates, you have to be trustworthy, and if you're gay and you're not admitting that you are, then you are not trustworthy."

The Human Rights Campaign is using him as their spokeman for coming out, but thePay TV ratings up for Australian Grand Prix

The Australian Grand Prix drew mixed results on television with an increase in subscription TV ratings offset by a fall in free-to-air figures.

According to Fox Sports, Sunday’s race was the most-watched Formula 1 race on the network to date, drawing an average of 304,000 viewers.

The figure represents a 36 percent increase on the corresponding result in 2017.

At Ten, however, five-city metro ratings for the race dropped from an average 701,000 in 2017 to 612,000 this year, according to TV Tonight.

Network Ten’s Australian Grand Prix race ratings dropped by nearly 90,000 in the five major capitals

The results represent a reduction in total audience across FTA and STV (before accounting for regionals, which were not available at time of writing) of just under