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NHL player Tyler Seguin, just traded from the Boston Bruins to the Dallas Stars, is involved in another homophobic Twitter incident, this time claiming his account was hacked. This is a tweet from Seguin's account this weekend: “Only steers and queers in Texas, and I’m not a cow.” He then followed that up with this: […]

The Giants, 49ers, Raiders, Warriors, Athletics, Sharks and Earthquakes come together with Comcast SportsNet to produce an LGBT-inclusive PSA

Commissioner Gary Bettman talks about "inclusion on ice," as the league and the players union join with a project to make gay players welcome in the sport.

Baseless rumors only put straight athletes, in this case an NHL player engaged to his girlfriend, in a terrible position

Montreal's mascot comes out of the closet. Sort of.

Steven Stamkos (James Guillory-USA TODAY Sports) In a survey by the Tampa Bay Times, 22 of the 23 players on the NHL Tampa Bay Lightning said they would accept an openly gay teammate. The question was asked in the wake of comments Super Bowl week by San Francisco 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver saying he would […]

Oskam took the ice with his favorite player, Cory Schneider

Brian Burke President and general manager Brian Burke was let go by the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday after four years with the team. He's being retained in an advisory role, which tells us the team still respects the work he's done. He was previously the general manager of the Hartford Whalers, Vancouver Canucks and […]

Puckbuddys has a great report from the Vancouver Pride Parade where Canucks Manny Malhotra, Jason Garrison, and the team mascot Fin marched with Patrick Burke and You Can Play. Writer GayCanuck was side-by-side with them: But watching Manny and Jason waving to the cheering crowds and getting photos taken with fans as we paraded through […]

Tim Thomas (Photo: Bob DeChiara-US PRESSWIRE) Former Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas has waded into the same-sex marriage debate, standing behind Chick-fil-A's opposition to gay nuptials. Thomas was reacting to public comments by Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A's president, where he said: “I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist […]

For the next two weeks we’re running a daily series of our conversations on the red carpet at the ESPYs. This is the seventh in the series. On the day Mike Modano was named to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, he stopped for a brief interview with Outsports at the ESPYs. The NHL's former […]

Bettman offers his verbal support for the group aiming to end homophobia in the NHL, though he avoids using the word "gay"

The San Jose Sharks have rejected a request by a lesbian Sharks fan that the team join the growing list of pro-sports teams to create an ‘It Gets Better’ video. Gloria Nieto made the request over the summer. From the San Jose Mercury-News: In turning her down, the team said it received requests to get […]

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. New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery was […]

Brendan Burke’s family has a long history in hockey and the NHL. He added to it.

There are few moments in sports with the excitement of a game 7 in hockey. With hard hits and goals at such a premium, every pass, every check takes on such importance that tension in the arena is hard to match anywhere else. When you add in suspensions, illegal season-ending hits, biting, and six games […]

We won’t be seeing this scene again this year After the Blackhawks-Canucks game, I started wondering what's a worse way to get knocked out of the playoffs: 1) Lose four straight games or…2) lose three, then come back from the dead to win three, then lose Game 7…in overtime? You gotta feel badly for the […]

Two gay Vancouver Canucks fans are causing an Internet stir by dressing as the “Hockey Luvin Homos.” They go by the monikers Henrietta and Daniella, spoofing the Canucks’ Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel. The Homos got on TV during last night's Los Angeles Kings vs. Canucks game, when they were shown behind the Vancouver bench […]

As Kyle Beach was being harassed with anti-gay slurs for reporting sexual assault to the Blackhawks, players got caught on camera doing this.

Jonathan Toews Patrick Kane scored on a bizarre goal four minutes into overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers and the team's first Stanley Cup title since 1961. The Blackhawks won the thrilling series, 4-2, in which there were two overtime games. Kane's goal was strange because he seemed […]