A Life In Sport

In a glittering 17-year major league career, Larry Walker does it all. Seven Gold Gloves for defensive excellence, five All-Star...

February 1965. My love affair with sport is just beginning, even though I am barely seven years old. I remember it as the time my father,...

Late spring 1988. A friend rings. He asks if I have seen the teams. I have not, but I know the teams to which he refers. Indeed, a full Canada Senior Men’s rugby trial, Probables vs Possibles, is scheduled for June 4 in Ottawa. From it, a national squad will then be chosen for the annual encounter vs USA, that match to be held in Lake Placid, New York the following Saturday. You are at flyhalf in the Possibles, he notes. I breathe a sigh of relief, my participation in these g

Rummaging around in the storeroom a few weeks ago, quite by accident I come across it. Made of Indian teakwood, “it” is rectangular in...

July 31, 1976. A cool, rainy Saturday evening in Montreal. My father and I sit high up in the main stand at the Olympic Stadium. Down...

Victoria, BC. One year ago, to the very day. July 8, 2020. Lockdown, the response to a rapidly developing global pandemic, enters a...

Friday, July 2, 2021. The Allianz Arena in Munich, Germany. The day a dream finally dies. In a much-anticipated Euro football tournament...

Thursday, June 17, 2021. 610pm on a warm, pleasant Copenhagen evening. 25,000 fans rise to their feet at Parken, Denmark’s national...

Third week of March. 1995. An awkward decision looms. I run the various pros and cons through my mind, take multiple deep breaths, tap...

October 1964. I am six years old. Our family struggles adjusting to a new environment. An exchange year, at a fledgling international...