CBS Sports has created a segment on the late Brendan Burke. They talked exclusively to members of the Miami (Ohio) hockey team that Brendan managed. This week marks the one-year anniversary of his accidental death. Check out the video after the jump. Thanks to Hudson Taylor for pointing us to it. Share on Facebook
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GForce and Patrick Burke host discussion
Last Thursday GForce hockey held a forum at Denver University about gay athletes. Moderating the panel was Patrick Burke, son of Brian and brother of Brendan, who has become a fierce advocate for gay equality in sports. You can read a report on the discussion; And we chatted with Burke and GForce founder Glenn Witman [...]
Puckbuddys gay hockey blog launches
There’s a new gay hockey site on our blogroll with one of the best names I’ve heard in a long time. “Puckbuddys” is for “boys who like boys who like hockey.” They’ve got a fantastic tone with a great sense of humor (they started it “because America has suffered for much too long without a [...]
Vote: Outsports Sportsperson of the year
While the search for the first openly gay active pro athlete in the big four American sports continues, there was a lot of good that happened for gays in sports in 2010. Many more athletes came out, many more straight allies came on board, and transgender athletes became big stories for the first time in [...]
First NHL goal, first NHL kiss
I found this on the Yahoo! Sports blog Puck Daddy. After scoring his first NHL goal (in a 5-1 Washington win over the New Jersey Devils) tonight, Capitals rookie Andrew Gordon skated over to the bench and planted a kiss on the cheek of teammate Marcus Johansson, whose pass set up the goal. Just more [...]
Out athletes abound at Yale
Think out NCAA athletes are still rare? That’s changing fast. There’s a fantastic article in the Yale Daily News about gay athletes on campus there, and they name names of a half-dozen out athletes at the school, including diver Colton Staab ’12 (right). The best story of the bunch involves a swimmer (the one out [...]
USA Hockey fills Brendan Burke Internship
Cole Burkhalter has been named the inaugural recipient of the Brendan Burke Internship in the hockey operations department of USA Hockey, the sport’s amateur governing body, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Burkhalter grew up playing hockey in Knoxville, Tenn., but was forced to shift his attention from player to hockey operations at the age of [...]
Brian Burke marches in Toronto Pride parade
There’s been so much written, both here and elsewhere, about the life and death of Brendan Burke that it almost seems redundant to add to it, but this is certainly worthy of a few more words. As he promised, today Brian Burke, Brendan’s father and general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, marched in the [...]
U.S. hockey team wore Brendan Burke dogtags
If you want to understand the extent to which Brendan Burke’s coming out, and subsequent death, helped advance gay equality in sports, look no further than the U.S. hockey team. One of the most interesting pieces to come out of my conversations with Patrick Burke is the fact that the U.S. hockey team wore dogtags [...]
Hockey Kid Mikey: Anatomy of a deception
Mikey, the teenage hockey blogger from Minnesota, seems beyond a reasonable doubt a late-fortysomething man from a Minneapolis suburb who likes travel, food, was married and has sex profiles on two gay hookup sites. His deceit was discovered when he fell in love with Jimmy, a contributor to his blog, and his story started to [...]
An 18-year-old reflects on the Mikey hoax
After I wrote yesterday about hockey blogger Mikey likely being a fraud, I received a request from Jackson to run an article he was writing. I verified his identity (including his photos) and agreed to not use his last name. As someone in the same peer group that Mikey was targeting in his blog, Jackson [...]
Joe’s Stanley Cup Playoffs Guide
The National Hockey League once again gears up for the Stanley Cup playoffs. A major factor in the greatness of the NHL postseason is sudden-death overtime. Now that the NFL has done away with it for their playoffs (and perhaps for the regular season as well) by giving a team that gives up a field [...]
BC wins Frozen Four; Miami falls short
The Miami (Ohio) hockey team was hoping to pull off the feel-good story of the year in the Frozen Four by winning the national championship in memory of Brendan Burke. In the end, it was Boston College beating Wisconsin, 5-0, in the finals; Miami lost to BC, 7-1, in the semifinals. Unfortunately, the Maple Leafs [...]
Canada’s hockey fans learn to hold it in
From a blog at Canoe in Canada, comes this chart from the Edmonton water utility that shows water use during the Olympic gold medal hockey game between the U.S. and Canada: Share on Facebook
Live chatting the U.S.-Canada hockey game
We’re trying out a new feature on Outsports today: Live chatting. During the U.S.-Canada gold medal hockey game, you can live chat with other readers and Outsporters about the game. Just head over to our Winter Olympics blog and you can find the chat there. If this goes well, we’ll be introducing this feature for [...]