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souri came out as gay in media interviews this year. He told all his teammates and coaches before the season.
• Sam would become the NFL's first openly gay player. The question is: What team will give him that shot, and will he be selected in the draft?
• He was thought to be a middle-to-late round draft pick after the season and his stock dropped after a poor combine workout. The 6-foot-2, 255-pound Texan is considered a tweener -- too small to play defensive line in the pros and not fast enough to be an every down outside linebacker.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, May 10, the 130th day of 2014. There are 235 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 10, 1994, Nelson Mandela took the oath of office in Pretoria to become South Africa's first black president.
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• On this date:
• In 1611, Sir Thomas Dale arrived in the Virginia Colony, where, as deputy governor, he instituted harsh measures to restore order.
• In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
• In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died of pneumonia, a complication resulting from being hit by friendly fire eight days earlier during the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia.
• In 1869, a golden spike was driven in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.
• In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI).
• In 1933, the Nazis staged massive public book burnings in Germany.
• In 1939, the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church merged to form the Methodist Church.
• In 1941, Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, parachuted into Scotland on what he claimed was a peace mission. (Hess ended up serving a life sentence at Spandau (Continued on page 52)
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