TAPPER: In the "Sports Lead": luck be a lady. In her first time, ever betting on the ponies, a woman from Hawaii hit a $1 superfecta at the Kentucky Derby worth $28,000. A guy who works for a Vegas bookmaker tweeted the winning slip. For those of you who only go to the derby parties for the mint juleps, a superfecta is when you pick the top four finishers of the race in order. The derby winner Orb was the favorite. So, no surprise there. But the second place horse, Golden Soul, started the day at a 34 to 1 long shot. After Jason Collins became the first active NBA player to come out of the closet, Michelle Obama, the first lady, tweeted, "We've got your back." Now, the two will be co-headlining an upcoming Democratic Party fund-raiser together. According to "Politico", Collins will help the first lady raise cash at the LGBT leadership council's gala on May 29th. Collins came out and wrote about the struggles of being gay in the NBA in "Sports Illustrated". He's the first active male athlete in the big four North American sports to reveal that in the modern era. Though, one should note, as TheAtlantic.com that, that baseball's Glen Burke who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Oakland A's in the 1970s was out of the closet. But sports reporters didn't want to report about it. As Burke later told "People" magazine, quote, "I think people pretended not to hear me." It just wasn't the story they were ready to hear. Coming up on THE LEAD, it's not often we hear from the Supreme Court's only African-American member. His reticence rivals some monastic vows of silence. But Clarence Thomas is speaking out about, of all people, President Obama. Find out what he has to say and what our panel has to say about it. That's coming up next.
Collins and First Lady to Team Up