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A Life In Sport
A blog by Ian Hyde-Lay
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Ian Hyde-Lay is a teacher who lives and works in Victoria, BC. He has been heavily involved in sport his entire life, as a player, coach, referee and administrator.
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Vindication
For those who enjoy travel and love hoops, there are worse ways to spend a summer. It is late August 2013. I journey to Puerto Rico and...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Feb 9, 20216 min read
Lockdown
Springtime. The war is finally over. 21 years old, he demobs from the Royal Navy. Not sure what the future may hold, he departs England,...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Feb 1, 20214 min read
The Epic Comeback
I fall. Hard. Along with many others, I fall hard for a gutsy and resolute group of Indian cricketers. A month ago, they leave Adelaide...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Jan 20, 20214 min read
Tradition
The rain hammers down, and the wind howls. The damp seeps into my bones. It is early January, dreary, dark and exhausting, in the Pacific...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Jan 18, 20214 min read
Albert Park
Middle of February 2000. I arrive in Fiji, set to officiate at a long awaited Rugby Sevens tournament, the sixth of ten events that year...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Jan 7, 20214 min read
The Foreboding
Tuesday June 10, 1986. I am in my living room when the phone rings. The digital clock on a side table indicates the time is 10.14pm. For...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Dec 31, 20204 min read
The Epic Collapse
I love the holidays. After a busy school term, they are a precious time to relax and decompress. To watch sport on TV, to fiddle with a...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Dec 23, 20204 min read
One Word
The clock ticks on a high school coaching career closing in on fourty years. I am blessed, been given a box seat to countless memorable...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Dec 18, 20204 min read
Croatian Joe
It was just before Christmas, years and years ago, at a cozy pub in northern Vancouver Island. When gatherings, minus Covid masks, social...
Ian Hyde-Lay
Dec 13, 20203 min read
A Horse's Ass
Late May 1993. The final practice of the term comes to an end, a slick 45 minute session without a single dropped pass or mental error....
Ian Hyde-Lay
Dec 6, 20204 min read
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