Last day to vote! Every year we ask our readers to crown the Outsports ‘Person of the Year.’ Last year’s honorees were Brian & Patrick Burke, who garnered over 60% of the vote! This year we have many incredibly deserving people, and we have narrowed it down to these final six. We’ll announce the winner [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sean Avery’
Rangers drop Sean Avery, assign him to minor league club
The NHL career of Sean Avery is in limbo after he was cut by the New York Rangers and assigned to the Connecticut Whale of the American Hockey League. His agent said Avery was considering playing in Europe if he did not join the Whale. We’ve been big fans of Avery for all the stands [...]
Calls increase for NHL to fine Wayne Simmonds for gay slur
While the NHL has said it will not punish Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds for using a gay slur directed at Sean Avery during Monday’s game, that hasn’t stopped a growing chorus of people asking them to do so. A change.org petition asking for the NHL to fine Simmonds had over 35,000 signatures as of Thursday [...]
Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds seems to call Sean Avery a ‘faggot’
Updated Tuesday morning. First Kobe Bryant. Then Joakim Noah. Now with the NHL in preseason form, Philadelphia Flyer Wayne Simmonds seems to clearly call Sean Avery a ‘fucking faggot’ during tonight’s game. Late last season and in the offseason Avery emerged as a fierce advocate for gay rights. Simmonds was, just a couple days ago, [...]
NHL’s Sean Avery arrested for alleged battery against Los Angeles police officer
New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery was arrested in Los Angeles on a misdemeanor charge that he shoved a Los Angeles police officer. From the L.A. Times: Authorities responded about 1 a.m. to a neighbor’s complaint about loud music at Avery’s Hollywood Hills home, police said. Share on Facebook
Moment #72: Sean Avery garners attention for his pro-gay marriage stance
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Sports, 2011: Sean Avery was not the first pro athlete to come out for gay marriage (NFL players Scott Fujita and Brendan Ayanbadejo beat him to it), but his announcement this spring made bigger news. Avery made a video to support [...]
Sean Avery wants NHL to embrace gay equality
Sean Avery is quickly becoming one of the fiercest advocates for gay equality in sports. After successfully lobbying the New York State Senate to vote positively on same-sex marriage, he is now turning his attention to the NHL. In a fantastic interview with the New York Post, Avery says it’s time for the League to [...]
Sean Avery in Albany lobbying senators for gay marriage support
As the marriage battle heats up in New York, hockey badboy Sean Avery visited state senators in Albany to push them for a vote in favor of marriage equality. He was teamed up with actress Cynthia Nixon for the tour of the state capital. Check out the video after the jump. Hat tip to Towleroad. [...]
The gayest sports month ever
The past month has been amazing in terms of the number of stories the mainstream media have devoted to gays in sports. Outsports was profiled in the New York Times on April 8 and it seemed like foreshadowing. We had Kobe Bryant saying “faggot”; Sean Avery defending gay marriage; Peter Vidmar losing his Olympics gig [...]
Bryant Gumbel addresses gays in sports tonight on HBO
Tonight Bryant Gumbel will offer a closing commentary on his HBO Real Sports show about gays in sports. He talks very positively about the issue, but he says he feels like he shouldn’t have to talk about it because it shouldn’t be a big deal. It’s the veil sports reporters have hidden behind for years; [...]
Canadian sportscaster Damian Goddard fired after supporting anti-gay marriage tweets
Damian Goddard, an anchor with Rogers Sportsnet in Toronto, decided to weigh into the gay marriage debate prompted by Sean Avery’s support for same-sex couples and his tweet got him fired. The tweet: “I completely and whole-heartedly support Todd Reynolds and his support for the traditional and TRUE meaning of marriage,” Goddard wrote in a [...]
Uptown sports management tweets against Sean Avery and gay marriage
Uptown Sports is a Canada-based sports management company representing various professional hockey players. Their motto is: “Commitment. Dedication. Integrity. The Way We do Business.” On Twitter today they decided to lash out against New York Ranger Sean Avery and equality for gay people: Share on Facebook
Video: Sean Avery supports gay marriage
New York Ranger enforcer Sean Avery has cut a new video in support of marriage equality for New York’s gay couples. I treat everyone the way I expect to be treated, and that applies to marriage. … Committed couples should be able to marry the person they love. Join me in supporting marriage equality. We’ve [...]
Sean Avery gets naked for Marc Jacobs
New York Ranger Sean Avery stripped for designer Marc Jacobs and a new campaign to fight skin cancer called “Protect the skin you’re in.” The campaign is designed to raise funds for NYU cancer research. Avery’s interest in fashion is well-documented, so Marc Jabos must be right up his alley… Hat tip to the Advocate. [...]
Is Avery suspension warranted?
The National Hockey League has suspended Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery indefinitely. Avery has been blogged about a number of times here for both his on-ice antics (causing a rule change during the playoffs by waving his stick near the face of a goalie) and off-ice interests (interning at Vogue magazine). The reason for the [...]