How passion for hockey generated big bucks We have gone over with Eagleson the breakdown of the take from the series: $750,000 will go to Hockey Canada for the TV rights; $1-million to CTV; about $150,000 to agencies for commissions; and $150,000 for insurance, offices and production. Eagleson’s hope is Read more
So Much For Our Eight Game Streak September 2 Game 1-(Montreal) During one of the commercial breaks tonight in the Canada-Russia game, the organist played I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas. Just about that time, the Canadian team must have wished it was mid-winter. Clearly they were not skating at Read more
Excitement mounted about the opening game in the series on September 2. My advance stories included a look at the two squads. September 1 Rating the squads — (Filing from Montreal) Professional hockey is machismo. The forms that scouts carry with them into the hinterlands have boxes for rating a Read more
The Summit Series Was Years in the Making [From Ottawa to Moscow, and a few stops in between, a legion of bureaucrats and hockey executives set the table for what became one of the great sporting spectacles of the era.] But nowhere was the intrigue more sophisticated, than in the Read more
Despite the hand-me-down look, the Soviets sizzled at their first workout at the Forum August 31 A First Look — (Filing from Montreal) Those Russians certainly can skate. For more than an hour this morning at the Forum, the Russians roared up and down the ice. Without bothering to warm Read more
The visiting Russians watched Team Canada’s every move, but were mute on the Russian squad Each day they sat in seats at Maple Leaf Gardens, flanking their interpreter, filling their notebooks with numbers, names and even diagrams of routine skating drills. When John Munro, minister of sport, sent word during Read more
August 29 Filing from Toronto It is, of course, a classic sports meeting. Two different systems of ice hockey are on trial: the methodical team approach of the Soviet state, with the emphasis on the ‘total athlete’; and the innovative style of the Canadians, orchestrated by the NHL and American Read more
When Canada’s best took on the Russians, it was a Cold War on — and off —the ice. In the summer of 1972 Time magazine assigned me, the Toronto bureau chief, to cover an eight-game hockey series between a select team of NHL stars and the best players of Read more
Journalist and reformer Rosemary Speirs has died, leaving a legacy of leadership in her field as a reporter and columnist. She also effectively promoted the advancement of women in politics and, as the first female Ottawa bureau chief for the Toronto Star, continued the long battle for acceptance of women Read more
In 1965, as the November 8 federal election drew to a close, reporters covering the campaign of Conservative leader John Diefenbaker gathered in Prince Albert to await the results. Dief believed he could repeat the miracle of his landslide victory in 1957 while Liberal Lester Pearson sought the majority government Read more