From the University of Oregon's Daily Emerald:

The homophobic jock might be more than just a stereotype, says a new study that links sports zealots with attitudes about gender and sexuality.

The recent study presented to the American Educational Research Association suggests that college students who are avid fans of their schools' football and men's basketball teams are more likely to have homophobic and sexist views than their non-sports fan peers.

The study's authors surveyed 459 students at an unnamed college whose sports teams play in the Division 1 subdivision of the NCAA.

The three surveys students took measured their degrees of support for their teams and their degrees of sexist and homophobic beliefs.