I just realized it was something I couldn't control, so when you look in the mirror, you know the truth, and rumors that I was gay in 1992, that was shocking and not very socially acceptable.' 'To be honest with you, it hurt and I didn't like it,' says Laettner, 45, married with three children, 'but the media makes a big deal about a lot of stuff that shouldn't be made a big deal of. The segment on the gay slurs takes up five minutes of Rory Karpf's film, but from my angle is the most gripping part of the story for showing how vile and abusive fans can be and how things have changed for the better. Thanks to 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' the wonderful '30-for-30' documentary that aired on ESPN Sunday, we get to see the crowd and hear the chants directed at the college basketball player everybody outside of Durham, N.C., hated. Slurs directed at gay player Derrick Gordon: 0
