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For 30 years, a group of Shriners have been getting together for coffee. Approximately 30 people have been part of the club over the years. Some members aren’t attending as regularly as they once were, and about one-third of the members have passed away. Members of the founding group are Wayne Kobie and Des Gore-Hickman....

Tyler Hermann’s one campaign as the Saskatoon Hilltops starting quarterback turned into a dream season. After being a reserve quarterback for four years, Hermann took over the controls of the Hilltops offence for his fifth and final campaign with the club. While there were growing pains in the first four weeks of the season, Hermann...

Let’s start off with one from my old buddy Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “A pair of Michael Jordan’s game-worn ‘Air Jordan 1’ sneakers sold at auction for a record $560,000. They were the GOAT’s, all right: The shoes were his preferred sizes — one a 13, the other a 13½ — and the...

I was rummaging through a number of stacks of books one day last week. I figured I had watched too much television and hadn’t done enough reading during my time in isolation. There were sports books spread over two stacks. Many of them are oldies like a biography of Foster Hewitt, a pioneer in hockey...

A few friends and I planned a trip to New York City for late September 2001. Then, 9/11 occurred. Although people at home were aghast, we still journeyed to NYC after the attack. We figured NYC would be the safest place to go, as it would be on high alert from the federal, state and...

I hadn’t been having much luck finding my retirement dream car. As I have mentioned in a previous column or perhaps more, I have been looking for an MGB. I had two when I was a young fellow. When I started looking about nine months ago, there was only one in Saskatchewan listed on Kijiji....

I missed seeing my mom face-to-face every Sunday. For two months, our in-person conversations were limited to her opening the door a crack and us talking for a minute or two. I went into her house a couple of weeks ago, although we stayed so far apart that we needed binoculars to see each other....

COVID-19 didn’t allow the class of 2020 to graduate in traditional style. There was no walking across the stage, no shaking hands with officials and no standing for a couple of seconds for photos and snippets of video Even without the pomp and pageantry, Robert and Christine Zens have reason to celebrate milestones in their...

My new normal, whatever that means, includes the Canadian Football League. I was prepared for the league to skip a season, but not to be shut down. I like to think a shut down wouldn’t be forever, because that is one heck of a long time. The CFL has asked the federal government for up...

After writing this column for almost a decade, I’ve tackled many subjects I didn’t ever expect to even contemplate. An economically devastated Saskatchewan, hunkered under lockdown as an unrelenting, vicious virus circles our homes, our families and communities is definitely one of them. Expectations. That is the word that has been running through my mind...