Rummaging the world of sports
Look back at sporting events of the past.
In name, the Olympics are an amateur sporting event, meant to celebrate the best amateur athletes in the world across a wide variety of sports. Of course, politics infiltrates everything, from the way the locations…
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…