The other out athlete
A follow-up to
my piece on basketball player Latasha Byears: "Whether WNBA star Latasha Byears was cut from the Los Angeles Sparks last year for being a lesbian (which Byears claimed) or for assaulting another woman at a party (which the team alleged), we may never know," it
sez in my print copy of the Advocate. "A settlement reached Feb. 10 in a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by Byears prohibits either side from talking. But there is one thing we do know: The Washington Mystics don't care either way. The team signed the 32-year-old Byears, who helped the Sparks win WNBA titles in 2001 and 2002, on Feb. 21."