Logo will take a break from catty bitches in New York and Dallas this weekend to air a CBC documentary about openly gay former Miami University hockey team student-manager Brendan Burke. ‘The Legacy of Brendan Burke’ will air Saturday, Nov. 5, at 8pm. Burke’s coming out and untimely death made our list of 100 most [...]
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Moment #62: CBC airs “The Last Closet”
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Media, 1993: “The Last Closet,” the CBC Radio’s hourlong special on gays in sports was groundbreaking, exploring a subject that was little talked about in the media. They took the title from something I said in the interview about sports being [...]
The NHL is back
As usual, the National Hockey League has its problems. The Phoenix Coyotes are bankrupt and a judge is trying to sort out a mess in which the league is trying to stop the only bidder willing to buy the team, because he wants to move it to Hamilton, Ontario. All of this led to the [...]
NHL Winter Classic: let’s play two?
The NHL Winter Classic, thanks to successful outdoor games at Buffalo’s Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008 and Chicago’s Wrigley Field this year, is quickly becoming a New Year’s Day tradition. Now the National Hockey League may be expanding it. Multiple sources are reporting that the league plans to turn the next Winter Classic into a [...]
The ‘pansification’ of the NHL
CBC hockey commentator Mike Milbury is in hot water with a gay-rights group over his coining of the term “pansificiation.” He has used it a couple times on air to describe what will happen to the NHL if the league kowtows to calls for a ban on fighting. Egale Canada is picking up the fight, [...]