Kent “Cookie” Gilchrist began his reporting career out of high school in 1967 with The Brandon Sun. Later on, Gilchrist decided to go the Regina Leader-Post and then the Winnipeg Free Press, before deciding to go to British Columbia – first to the Vancouver Sun in...
For over 25 years Al “Rocky” Ruckaber was a fixture at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium. Though the Stampeders franchise discarded head coaches at an alarming rate through the lean years of the 1980s, Al was firmly entrenched as the Calgary Sun’s “football boss”. Ruckaber’s...
Gord Currie began his coaching career at Regina’s Belfour Tech in 1950. At one stage, the Belfour Redman won 40 straight games. While coaching at Belfour Tech, his football teams won eight Saskatchewn championships, successes that were mirrored by the baseball and...
Willie Pless brought his talents to the Toronto Argonauts in 1986. During his 14-year career he played 250 regular season games with four different teams and made 11 CFL All-Star teams. Pless became the league’s All-Time leading tackler before retiring following the...
Ray Nettles played football at the University of Tennessee and he was drafted by the NFL’s Miami Dolphins in the sixth round of the 1972 NFL draft. He decided to come north to continue his career as a member of the BC Lions. Nettles started his tenure as an Outside...
