Author Archives: Fred Wallace

Does this make me an ” alarmist ” ? The Owen Sound Attack have enjoyed one of the best starts to an Ontario Hockey League season in franchise history. Out of the gate, Owen Sound has gone ...

At the risk of being redundant, let me reiterate, I have little interest in following the NHL Lockout. Sure, I buckled a little bit last week when the NHL made, as Commissioner Gary Bettman called it,...

The World Series begins tonight at A-T & T Park in San Francisco as the Giants host the Detroit Tigers. In baseball, momentum is everything, in fact, many times the eventual champion isn’t a...

In the Fall of 2004, Neil Conway was an underage rookie goaltender for the Owen Sound Attack. Dan LaCosta was the established starter for the Attack, so early in his career, Neil was relegated to back...

It’s Friday. As we mentioned yesterday, there’s an Ontario Hockey League game tonight in Owen Sound, the Attack hosting the Ottawa 67’s. Then tomorrow night, the Attack conclude a 5 ...

One of the forgotten moments in the Owen Sound Attack’s Championship season of 2010-11 was that they lost their opening game that season at Guelph. One of the factors for the defeat that night a...

In 2 weeks it’s Halloween. Are you ready ? And are you ready for the return of Major League Curling in Grey Bruce. It too starts in 2 weeks on October 31st. The Major League’s Fall Meeting...

The Owen Sound Minor Hockey Group staged their first of two tournaments this year, conducting the annual Fall Classic for Bantams & Midgets over the weekend. This was the first year in which the n...

I read a report last summer that indicated Canada was ripe for major league sports expansion over the next two decades. The authors from the Economics Board of Canada looked at population growth in sp...

I was encouraged to see the results of the Owen Sound NorthStars Junior B Lacrosse club’s annual General Meeting. The NorthStars were in need of new blood at the executive level, not because the...