News about John Amaechi

On a Cincinnati radio show on Monday, former NBA player John Amaechi, a fully gay man, responds to West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins' remarks. After the coach used homophobic slurs to refer to supporters of Xavier University's basketball team, Amaechi called Huggins a "dinosaur" and referred to everybody in the discussion as "disgusting." Huggins, who was speaking with radio host Bill Cunningham on Monday, recalled an incident at a rivalry game against Xavier while coaching at the University of Cincinnati. After the host made a remark about transgender people, he referred to Xavier supporters as 'Catholic f**s.'

After receiving an alert, John Amaechi (left), the first openly gay NBA player, was 'randomly chosen' by security officials to perform an investigation. In Terminal 5's first-class security queue, the 52-year-old retired sportsman-turned-psychologist, who was awarded an OBE in 2011 for his contributions to sport, was flagged down once more by a second scanner. Staff attributed the intimate search to the 6ft 9ins former basketball star's height, claiming he was 'too big' for the scanners (pictured right). The excuse, however, made Mr Amaechi enraged and reignited a bigotry controversy.