Former NHL player and NBC Sports commentator Jeremy Roenick, a heterosexual man, failed to convince a New York federal judge that he was terminated because of his gender and sexual orientation — in part, because the “similar” unpunished conduct that Roenick pointed to as evidence was a scripted skit between two Olympic figure skaters that didn’t involve jokes about sleeping with a co-worker.

NBC Sports in December 2019 suspended Roenick following a guest appearance on a Barstool Sports podcast during which he made sexually charged comments about one of his colleagues. Roenick, an 18-year-nhl veteran, was under an employment agreement with ...