by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Jim Kearney was a legendary sportswriter. His career began straight out of High School, when he began writing for the Victoria Times. In 1943, Kearney moved to the Vancouver Sun as a sports columnist where he would remain for the majority of his career. He wrote five...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
For almost 30 years, Al McCann served as the Sports Director of CFRN Radio and TV in Edmonton. His distinguished career in broadcast sports began in 1959 when he became Sports Director at CJLJ in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 1963, McCann headed to Edmonton where he went...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Bob Hanley’s journalism career spanned 47 years with the Hamilton Spectator. He earned 35 newspaper awards including three national and nine provincial honours. Hanley covered everything from Queen’s Park to Royal visits, but found his niche covering sports, where he...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Twenty-five years of covering the ups and downs of Canadian Football on radio, private and public, definitely qualifies Bob Picken, for induction into the Football Reporters of Canada wing. Bob did Winnipeg Blue Bomber play-by-play for CJOB Winnipeg in the 1960s, and...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Jim Proudfoot was born in Ottawa but his heart belongs to the Toronto Argonauts. Proudfoot began writing for the Toronto Star in 1952 while still a student at the University of Toronto. Over the next forty years, Proudfoot filled just about every chair at the Star...
