Author Archives: Fred Wallace

Today isn’t about sports as much as it is about grassroots radio. I read with interest a scenario in which College & University Radio Stations could lose a chunk of their core funding as a r...

There was a story out of Nepean around Christmas where a neighbour cited an Ottawa bylaw and as a result a family backyard rink was altered. The ice & rink weren’t the issue, the problem was...

I was bothered, and am still bothered by an incident that took place last Fall in Meaford. The episode occurred at the Ontario Cross Country Championships at the Georgian Bay Community School Athletic...

I do it enough in these parts, so I recognize it when I see it & recognize when I hear it, but it still strikes me as somewhat out of phase when I hear top-of-the-heap broadcast professionals doin...

I know you get tired of me telling stories…like the time the Midland Dorion Sand & Gravel Tykes got beat 11-2 at Penetanguishene in the season opener in 1968, and how that Tyke team grew thr...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ I live my life, professionally & otherwise, by mottos and adages. Let me give you a working example; ” I’m a Professional, &...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. This is the 35th anniversary of my greatest individual accomplishment in athletics. For years at Easter, the good folks at Molson’s ra...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire “. A remarkable Minor Hockey season for the Owen Sound Leeder & Associates Attack came to a conclusion on Sunday, essentially just one win ...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ On a weekend with big sports stories in any number of sports; NBA Playoffs, The Leafs, the NHL Playoffs, Minor Hockey, the Women’s Hoc...

Hi, this is Fred Wallace with ” Off the Wire. “ It’s funny, maybe scary, how things connect and the strange coincidence of timing unfolds Last Tuesday in the newsroom, April the 9th,...