Have to say I wasn’t surprised by the amount of chatter on social media, and even the e-mail from listeners, about the variety of guests on the final SUNDAY MORNING SHOW for May 2013. I knew, just from the variety of guests and the subject matter, that emotions would show and people wouldn’t hold back [...]

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The 64th Mayor of Toronto, Robert Bruce (Rob) Ford has just been fired. Hold on, turfed from his “voluntary” job as head coach of the football team at Don Bosco High in Toronto’s west end – the same school he spent countless hours helping young kids develop their skills in the sport and maintain grades [...]

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Have had some really interesting conversations with several people associated with university sports in Ontario. Topics ranged from media coverage to politics and from NCAA/CIS to politics and from contentious issues to, yes, politics. Some great discussions. Some interesting personalities and, yes, there were some people AWOL or what I’ll just refer to as being [...]

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Tragedy has hit an Ottawa family – and beyond. A teenage girl has died as a result of an accident – an awkward mid-air tackle that ended up taking her life – in a high school rugby game in Ottawa. Rowan Stringer, who played for John McCrae High, died playing the game she adored. Last [...]

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Had a great conversation this morning with an enthusiastic woman who inspired me with her determination. I hope to one day meet Naomi Cermak, make that Dr. Naomi Cermak. You can hear our interview on Mother’s Day, my SUNDAY MORNING show starting at 7:00am. Her interview airs about 7:28am. If you miss it, later in [...]

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Cheers for offensive lineman Hunter Steward from Kingston. Who? Yes, good Kingston boy – as Don Cherry would say. Good football player, too, from Liberty University, a private Christian post-secondary institution located in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was picked by the British Columbia Lions ending what started out as the Calgary and Eastern Michigan pick ‘em [...]

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Confirmation of two things we already knew. But for the record, they are now “official”. “Play Ball” time for the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association with a minimum five Colleges agreeing to form a league in the fall. We had know this for some time, but someone got a bit ticked that it had to be [...]

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It was just one of those days. Two disturbing items came across my desk. Not the kind of things one wants to hear when your job is trying to accentuate the positive of amateur sport. That’s a huge challenge in itself, especially when trying to educate the so-called educators about the values of raising the [...]

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Not much we can share about the Athletes of the Year. So, here is what we know. Both know what to do on the ice. It’s not hockey, but curling. Megan St. Amand and Phil Tribe were the major award winners at a College that only has four varsity sports. Amand, the Thunderhawks curling team [...]

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There was lots of Thunder in Ottawa the other night. Nothing to do with the weather, but the Thunder came in the form of celebration as Algonquin College highlighted its top athletes of the year. Rugby star Danika McDermott, from Orleans, was chosen top female and Ottawa’s Philippe Yeldon earned the award for top male. [...]

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