Sportrait: Sidney Crosby Sleeping with the Stanley Cup

No doubt some of you wouldn't mind being the Stanley Cup, particularly after recalling this juicy spread of the Pittsburgh captain.

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Canadian Sportscaster Roger Millions Had a Bit of a Blooper

Canadian sportscaster Roger Millions didn't realize he was on live this week before the Blackhawks - Flames hockey game, and had "a bit of a blooper" as a fellow host put it.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP (language possibly nsfw)...

'Hockey Mom' Sarah Palin Booed at Philadelphia Puck Drop

America's best-known "regular hockey mom" Sarah Palin was not offered the warmest welcome from the crowd at the Flyers-Rangers game in Philadelphia where she dropped the ceremonial first puck on Saturday, flanked by New York Rangers assistant captain Scott Gomez and Philadelphia Flyers captain Mike Richards.

ABC's Jake Tapper notes that the moment was made less embarrassing by "healthy applause and deafening PA music."

FOX News assured the boos were edited out.

The moment was reminiscent of Bush's first pitch at the Washington Nationals' season opener earlier this year.

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Sean Avery Certainly Admires a Nice Purse

Sean Avery has a new group of gay friends in Dallas, but he doesn't play for their team.

Says Avery, who recently relocated to play with the Dallas Stars: "I think it's the cardinal rule of athletes that if you're not married by the time you're 30, you're all of a sudden, definitely gay. It's just the narrow-mindedness of sports which is probably the one thing that turns me off about it."

Avery also used to steal dolls from his babysitters, so it's really no surprise that "the most hated man in hockey" grew up to be a Vogue intern, according to a new ESPN mini-doc.

Which you can watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Take That, Sarah Palin: Film About Two Gay Hockey Dads to Open

Breakfast with Scot, which opened L.A.'s Outfest this year and is the first gay film in which the NHL allowed its logo and uniforms to be used, opens this weekend.

It has already stirred up controversy. Back in February 2007, San Diego-based Christian activist "ex-gay" James Hartline, called the film, which tells the story of a gay couple (a former Toronto Maple Leaf and the team's lawyer) who become the guardians of an eleven-year-old boy struggling to understand his sexuality, "degrading" and warned that it promoted the "homosexualization of small children."

The L.A. Times puts the kibosh on that. They write:

"Ever since Gov. Sarah Palin burst on to the national scene, I've heard more than I ever wanted to hear about hockey moms. Are they that different from soccer moms? Do they really wear lipstick? Or can they get away with lip balm or Blistex? I've never seen a hockey-mom movie, however. Though last week I did see my first hockey-dad movie. Actually, 'Breakfast With Scot' is about two hockey dads, and the only one wearing lipstick is their flamboyant 11-year-old ward, Scot, who winds up living with this comely, strait-laced gay couple after his mom dies. Welcome to the gay family film, as mild and sweet as anything out of the Disney empire."

It opens on both coasts this weekend, with more releases into October.

Watch the trailer, AFTER THE JUMP...

Breakfast with Scot Opens L.A.'s Outfest

Breakfast with Scot opened L.A.'s Outfest film fest last night at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The Canadian film (based on a 1999 novel by Michael Downing) tells the story of a gay couple (a former Toronto Maple Leaf and the team's lawyer) who become the guardians of an eleven-year-old boy struggling to understand his sexuality. More of the fests offerings and intentions were written up today in The Hollywood Reporter.

According to the industry paper, "This year's Platinum programming pays tribute to underground punk mutineer Bruce LaBruce with screenings of his 'Super 8 1/2' (1993) and new 'Otto; or, Up With Dead People' (Strand Releasing) at Redcat. This year's highest honor, the Outfest Achievement Award, will go to filmmaker Donna Deitch, whose 1985 'Desert Hearts' made waves for its earnest and positive portrayal of lesbian romance. Outfest also has selected a small number of "centerpiece" films for Gala screenings. This year's opening- and closing-night galas at the Orpheum Theatre are 2007's 'Breakfast With Scot' and 2008's 'Tru Loved,' both of which depict families helmed by gay and lesbian parents in tree-lined suburbia. Likely to create buzz this election year are films in the Outing Politics series, including the Oscar-winning 1984 documentary 'The Times of Harvey Milk,' a narrative version of which will be released by Focus Features this year, and Dan Butler's satire 2007's 'Karl Rove, I Love You,' which centers on an unknown actor's obsession with the Dubya handler."

Breakfast with Scot made headlines in 2006 as it was the first gay-themed film to be endorsed by an NHL franchise, the Toronto Maple Leafs. The endorsement, of course, rattled wingnuts like James Hartline, who slammed the endorsement and the film's gay parenting message. The movie's star Tom Cavanagh talked about playing gay last year and his onscreen kiss with actor Ben Shenkman. Said Cavanagh of the kiss: "Let me quote Keats here: 'Beauty is truth, and truth is beauty.' And when you're as good-looking as Ben Shenkman, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman. Although, I'm not sure if Ben's wife wants to hear me say that."

Watch the trailer for Breakfast with Scot, AFTER THE JUMP...