by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
It’s five o’clock in the morning, and the hardest–working reporter in the Canadian Football League is still pounding away on his old Radio Shack 100. The Saskatchewan Roughriders had just won only their 2nd Grey Cup, and the Regina Leader-Post wants to know everything...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
For over 25 years, Allan (Al) Maki has covered the Canadian Football League in loving detail, with a keen eye for news punctuated with his wonderful turn of phrase. First as a Stampeders beat writer and columnist with the Calgary Herald, then later as a columnist with...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
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...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
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...
by Canadian Football Hall Of Fame | Oct 23, 2017
Dave Naylor studied journalism at Carleton, serving as a sports editor and editor-in-chief of the university’s newspaper while writing about the school’s truly horrible football program. After failing to land a job at the Kemptville Advance, Naylor in 1991 received an...
