It’s heart breaking to read as a father But now the combative G.M. had taken the biggest hit of his life. Lying on the side of the road was his 21-year-old son, who had stunned the hockey world three months earlier when he’d come out as the first openly gay man closely connected to the [...]
Brian Burke
‘We love you, this won’t change a thing’
This is a great story in ESPN about Brendan Burke telling the rest of the Burke family that he is gay. Your dad thinks through everything. Dad is big, confident and continuously radiates a persona that is rough, gruff, unrelenting and unapologetic. He has a cold, expressionless poker face straight out of a Clint Eastwood [...]
