A Life In Sport

May 26, 2017. Victoria, BC. A gorgeous, warm spring morning beckons. I pull into a parking space behind the gym at St. Michaels...

The global pandemic drags on, into its sixteenth month. New surges and setbacks, all around the world, still outweigh promising vaccine...

November 6 at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. The final whistle blows. Mercifully, the 1999 Rugby World Cup reaches a conclusion,...

The time draws nigh. There is anticipation, conjecture, and debate. Just two days remain until the official announcement of the 37...

March 15, 1980. Calgary, Alberta. But this is no regular Saturday. The clock strikes 9pm. Outside The Refinery, a popular nightclub, the thermometer indicates 15F. An icy wind rushes down the street, but the Victoria Vikes don’t feel the cold. Rather, eyes sparkle, grins stretch from ear to ear, laughter is ever present. Giddy with excitement, we prepare to celebrate, hard on the heels of dropping the Brandon Bobcats 73-65 just five hours earlier to claim the Canadian Univers

It may not rival Odysseus’ twenty-year trek to and from the Trojan Wars, though at times it feels like it. June 1985. The Canadian Men’s...

1883 in the Scottish Borders. Two butchers, Ned Haig and David Sanderson, tire of spending their days weighing and wrapping choice cuts...

March 1975. The sports section in British Columbia’s main daily newspaper highlights an upcoming basketball game. Stags, Knights meet in...

February 24, 2007. A momentous evening is about to begin. Croke Park, in Dublin, readies to host a rugby test match between England and...

A bright and relaxing Sunday morning. I sit at home, by the kitchen window. Nursing a coffee, looking out across the bay. In my own...