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What are my top 10 most memorable moments in Canadian sports? I am glad I asked. This question came to mind last week, when Nick Taylor drained a 72-foot putt to win the Canadian Open golf championship. The criteria for this column is that these are events that stick in my mind. The list doesn’t...

Typically, the only time I listen to AM radio is in my vehicle. If I should ever purchase a new vehicle, which is unlikely, it might not have AM radio. Electric vehicles manufactured by BMW, Porsche, Audi, Volvo, the Ford F-150 Lightning truck, the Volkswagen SUV and Tesla Model S have dropped AM radio. Ford...

I try to find ways to amuse myself when I am driving, or sitting in my car eating a Big Mac or a bacon McGriddle. So, about a year ago, I started playing a game. It is simple. I would listen to John Gormley’s provincial talk show, and change channels when he mentioned Justin Trudeau...

By Cam Hutchinson It has been a lousy start to the New Year. I wrote more obituaries in January than I did newspaper columns. My father-in-law Des Gore-Hickman died on Jan. 19. He was the third of three family-related deaths during the month. I have been part of the Gore-Hickman clan for almost 50 years....

Late in the evening on Dec. 6, 1977, I walked up a flight of stairs and into the StarPhoenix newsroom. It had been quite a day. It was my first day. I skipped the StarPhoenix team in a media curling event. Larry Tucker, then the sports columnist at the paper, said if we didn’t win,...

A McDonald’s cheeseburger had never tasted so tasteless. For almost four weeks, beginning in mid-December, I had the flu like I have never had it before. I left the house only a handful of times. Two were to do Christmas shopping and one of the others was for a cheeseburger. Before going any further, I...

Tim Hortons and the Brier seemed so right for each other. There are few things more Canadian than Tim Hortons. And there are few sports more Canadian than curling. The two will go their separate ways after this year’s Brier. The relationship ends after 18 years with Tim Hortons as the title sponsor of the...

During his long career as a sports broadcaster, Kevin Waugh met a lot of celebrities. The strangest meeting was one with Bo Jackson, who is among the greatest two-sport athletes of all-time. The reason this comes to mind is because Kevin’s story of the meeting Jackson appears in a biography which was released in late...

(By Cam Hutchinson) A new exclusive online sports betting site is hoping to capture a good-sized portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars that citizens of our province are wagering with off-shore companies. You can say it’s about time. Saskatchewan is the last province in the country to offer online sports wagering. It is...

I wasn’t one of the cool guys when I was in high school. I don’t recall ever saying, groovy, far out, peace, dig it, out of sight, the fuzz, bread or that’s a downer.You could add the word Man to almost all of these. I didn’t smoke marijuana. One of my friend’s older brother was...