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In a previous life I worked the night shift at a few hotels. This offered me the opportunity to meet several World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) personalities (back then known as the World Wrestling Federation). One…
Give me a time machine and I’m probably not going back and wagering on future Super Bowl winners or buying Apple and Amazon stock. No, I’m probably going to set the dial to late 1979…
There are 68 teams in the NCAA Tournament, but how do those 68 teams get selected to be part of the field for March Madness? Here is an explainer for the biggest event on the…
After the wave of expansion in the early 1970s things cooled down on that front in the NHL for a while. However, in 1979 the NHL merged with the World Hockey Association, adding four teams…
In the modern era there have been several unsuccessful NHL franchises and expansion attempts, with some of those teams still having die-hard fanbases that dream of the glory days returning. In this first of two…
Starting in 1994 the Olympic Games have been staged every two years, alternating between the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The most recent games – a Winter Olympics – were held in Beijing, China…
What do Steve Larmer, Steve Ludzik, Robert Reichel, Zdeno Ciger, and Gordie Howe have in common? Obviously all five of them played in the National Hockey League at some point, albeit across several eras of…
Observers of National Hockey League milestones took great interest when the Vancouver Canucks brought in veteran forward Phil Kessel for a workout last week. That's because along with his three Stanley Cup victories Kessel is…
On March 14, 1987, the CBC was carrying live coverage of the Labatt Brier semi-final game between Mark Noseworthy of Newfoundland and Bernie Sparkes of B.C. Before the final outcome was determined, the broadcast cut…
In Canada, when February slides into March that can only mean one thing: The (now called) Montana's Brier. The Brier has been held annually, with exceptions for war time, since 1927 and for much of…