by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Hal Sigurdson, also known as “Siggy”, was born in Churchbridge, Saskatchewan and started his sports writing career with the Winnipeg Free Press in 1951. Sigurdson began covering the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1957, the same season Bud Grant began coaching for Winnipeg....
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Jack Sullivan joined the editorial staff of Canadian Press in 1948, where he covered a wide variety of sporting events including: the Commonwealth Games, Olympics, Stanley Cups, and of course the Grey Cup. Sullivan was known for entertaining and accurate columns,...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Tom Casey began his media career as a copy boy at age 18 after his National Hockey League (NHL) dreams were dashed. Hockey’s loss was the Ottawa Citizen’s gain, and Casey spent the next 37 years at the paper, most of them covering football. Casey began covering the...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Some wouldn’t even cross the street to meet Larry Kuharich, but in 1988 Dale Isaac boarded weekly flights from Regina to do the radio play-by-play for the Kuharich-coached Calgary Stampeders. Dale moved from North Battleford, Saskatchewan to cover sports in 1973 at...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Mal Isaac was 21 when he began working at radio stations in Weyburn, Yorkton, Regina and Sudbury, and then as a sports writer at the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix and Regina Leader-Post before joining CBC Sports in 1974 to multi-task in radio and television. He spent 21...
