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Not All Ice Sports Are Created EqualLast night, I, along with several other Deadspin idiots, went to watch the Islanders and Golden Knights play a hockey game. It was my first time watching live hockey and I don’t know a whole lot about the sport, although I gathered from the booing that the house lights failing and play being delayed...

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Johnny Weir, Clothes HorseThe hat has a name and it is called Pegasus. ...

Johnny Weir's husband Victor Voronov filed a police report a month before the Sochi Olympics that alleged Weir had bitten Voronov during a domestic dispute. Tuesday morning, Voronov showed up in court (accompanied by Weir) to drop the charges. [Famously]...

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Nobody In Sochi Is Having More Fun Than Johnny Weir

Johnny Weir came to Sochi with the potential to be controversial. The openly gay, openly Russophile former skater was a lightning rod for Russia's LGBT critics, but now that the games are underway, he's been nothing but fabulous....

Today In Ostracizing Johnny Weir's Gayness: Stars On Ice

Stars On Ice, the touring show that lets its skaters be as creative and flamboyant as they want, has turned down Johnny Weir. GLAAD says it's because of his sexual orientation. We say it's because they can't handle the fabulousness....

Today In Euphemizing Johnny Weir's Gayness: The Euphemizing Goes Global

An occasional series in which we document — and evaluate — the sports media's pained efforts to call the sexually undeclared figure skater gay without quite calling him gay....