Author Archives: Fred Wallace

These are busy days at The Blue Mountains, aka Thornbury, with Stanley Cup parades and more than 70 National Hockey League on-ice officials staging their training camp. This is the 5th consecutive yea...

I can’t make the Tara Fair this year. For the first time in 3 years, I have to pass on the harness races set for tomorrow. Since Frank Salive departed for the warmer announcing climate in Florid...

I drove by Duncan McLellan Park yesterday and it looked very still. No ball players on the diamond, no crowd in the bleachers, no smell of burgers, fries & poutine in the air, and no trailers prop...

This very well could be the fulcrum weekend of the local sports season. It seems you’re either wrapping up, or you’re just getting started, depending on your sport. Wrapping up this weeken...

Was I too hard on athletes yesterday ? Certainly unfair, if I tarnished every performer with the same brush after the hard-to-explain actions of a select few this summer. Fair enough. Do I still belie...

It’s been a tough summer for the sports world with a startling sequence of curious passings by prominent names, most notably in hockey & in baseball. I’m sure the circumstances in each...

The 2011 Canadian Men’s Fastball Championship wrapped up Sunday afternoon at Duncan McLellan Park in Owen Sound. As you can imagine, based on an 8 day marathon with heightening drama at each ste...