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SportsLit

Neil Acharya & Neate Sager

A podcast on sports books where journalists Neil Acharya and Neate Sager discuss the latest titles with authors and athletes.

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01:25:12

SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 5) - Howard Bryant (Sr....

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2022/08/15

Rickey Henderson is as enigmatic as he was dynamic on a ballfield. Major League Baseball's all-time leader in runs scored and stolen bases and greatest leadoff hitter of all time vexed and perplexed teammates, fans and the media as much as he did opposition over a 25-season career. Even up until his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009, questions of who Rickey actually is and what has driven him to be so singular have remained. In June 2022, Howard Bryant (senior writer, ESPN, and a

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SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 4) - Les Stroud - Around...

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2022/07/10

We finally landed Survivorman. Les Stroud is a creator who is best known for his world famous TV show, but he is also a musician and an author. In March 2021, he released Wild Outside: Around the World with Survivorman, his first book aimed at a youth audience. It recently won a Yellow Cedar Award presented by the Ontario Library Association for nonfiction books intended for readers in grades 4 to 8. Using condensed and illustrated versions of his adventures, Stroud intersperses nature facts with

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SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 3) - Tyrone (Muggsy)...

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2022/06/15

Tyrone (Muggsy) Bogues is one of the most recognizable “names” in NBA history. At five-foot-three, he is the shortest player to ever play at basketball’s highest level and he succeeded with four teams across 14 seasons during the rugged 1980s and '90s. A testament to his focus, talent and toughness. In April 2022, he released Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball, written with Jacob Uitti (Triumph Books). Muggsy pays tribute to a loving family who supported him

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SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 2) - André Lachance &...

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2022/05/25

Just Win Baby! Sounds simple enough, but how do you get there? Talent alone isn't always the answer. The inner game is often the hardest aspect to manage. André Lachance (Manager – Women’s National Team - Baseball Canada 2004 – 18) and Jean François Ménard (Author - Train (Your Brain) Like an Olympian) have years of practical and professional experience in mental performance coaching from boardrooms to a baseball diamond and even the circus (Cirque du Soleil). Utilizing what they have learned, the

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01:10:25

SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 1) - Scott Morrison...

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2022/05/10

Fifty years on, the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the then-Soviet Union remains the most famous international hockey series ever played. In "1972: The Series That Changed Forever," Hockey Hall of Fame-honoured writer Scott Morrison draws a complete narrative of that classic confrontation a half-century ago. What started out with good intentions between the sports’ reigning world power and a country that wanted to show that it was the best, when it chose to ice the best, became so much

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01:11:52

SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 7) - Brian McFarlane...

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2021/11/19

Brian McFarlane has written so many books he has lost count, but never one about his life in hockey. Approaching age 90, he finally decided it was time, at the behest of Michael Holmes, executive editor at ECW. McFarlane is familiar to generations of fans from his three-decade tenure at Hockey Night in Canada as well as working in the U.S. with CBS and NBC. His connection to the game is deep. As a standout NCAA player, he scored over 100 goals in his college career. An astute businessman, he

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SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 6) - Perdita Felicien...

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2021/03/28

An Olympic misstep might be how the public defines a career, but it hardly defines a high-performance athlete’s life. When Perdita Felicien crashed into the first hurdle in the 100-metre final at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, all the reigning world champion from Canada could do was watch the race play out on a video screen high above the track. Though her dreams were dashed, she would stand proud and tall again — it was in her DNA. In My Mother’s Daughter: A Memoir of Struggle and Triumph

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SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 5) - Ryan Minkoff (83...

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2021/03/27

Hockey player’s are told to go to the net but Ryan Minkoff took his shot from the perimeter of the sport's universe. Through his path in the game, readers gain an idea of how the sport operates on the far reaches of its icy landscape. Minkoff’s premise in Thin Ice (Lyons Press) is essentially that if you have some talent and take your approach seriously, you can make a go of it. Now a player agent working in Seattle, Minkoff did not allow himself to become discouraged by youth hockey politics while

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SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 4) - Eurico Rosa da...

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2021/03/19

In the sport of Kings, Eurico Rosa da Silva (Seven-Time Outstanding Jockey – The Jockey Club of Canada) reigned at Woodbine Racetrack, but for most of his life, he was living in a mental dungeon. When writing his biography with Bruce McDougall, he held steadfast that this would not just be a book about his success as a jockey. The pages had to paint an unvarnished portrait of struggling with demons that tormented him in the form of gambling and sex addiction. It had to examine how his roots in

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SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 3) - Brantt Myhres -...

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2021/03/17

The analytics wave had yet to sweep over the NHL when Brantt Myhres played in the league from 1994-2003. To be frank, goals, assists and plus/minus didn’t even matter that much in his role as enforcer. It was win lose or draw, no different from a heavyweight fighter. So why do metrics apply to a man that last played a game almost 20 years ago? Because the numbers show his memoir is a top seller and for good reason. In Pain Killer: A Memoir of Big League Addiction, Myhres shoots straight about

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01:05:51

SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 2) - Rich Cohen - Pee...

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2021/03/16

Breathe easy Canada. This isn’t the only country where parents have gone crazy over watching their kids play minor hockey. Esteemed writer Rich Cohen (Contributing Editor - Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair), navigated the Connecticut interstate with his son Micah during the Ridgefield Bears 2018-19 AA Pee-Wee season and emerged on the other end with his latest book, Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent. As the months pass and the season wears on, the immersion of mothers and fathers into the progress

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01:07:11

SportsLit (Season 5, Episode 1) - Spencer Haywood -...

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2021/03/12

The reason that players like James Worthy and Michael Jordan were able to leave college “early” and enter the NBA draft or later, Kobe Bryant and Lebron James could do the same from highschool was because Spencer Haywood challenged the system and won. 50 years ago, the concept of “one-and-done” or “early entry” was born after a landmark Supreme Court ruling and the landscape of pro basketball seismically shifted. Today, Haywood, an Olympic gold medallist (1968), NBA Champion (1980) Hall of Fame

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01:01:42

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 14) - Ken Reid...

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2020/12/18

In hockey, either you are trying to keep the puck out, or put it in the net. Whether you are Wayne Gretzky, who has scored an NHL record 894 times or a member of the NHL's one goal club, they all count the same. Ken Reid (Sportsnet) tracked down 39 players who have lit the lamp just once, and in the process, turned footnotes into features, bringing to life the stories of men who have accomplished a feat that is the envy of anyone who has hit the ice with big league dreams.

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01:16:21

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 13) - Paul Romanuk -...

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2020/12/15

Hockey fans in Canada know Paul Romanuk best from his broadcasting days at TSN and Hockey Night in Canada (Sportsnet), but for well over 30 years, he has also written Hockey Superstars, an annual release that showcases the NHL's best, to kids. The 2020-21 edition was released on Oct. 6, and Romanuk joined us to discuss the challenges of producing the most recent installment during the pandemic, a TV/Radio career which has taken him to the top levels of sports media, and his new podcast The Walrus

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SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 12) - Serge Savard with...

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2020/12/01

Serge Savard grew up in rural Quebec following WWII in an era known as Le Grand Noirceur (The Great Darkness), but he didn't see it that way. Confident and astute, Savard went from playing hockey on outdoor rinks reminiscent of illustrations in Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater, to starring for the Montreal Canadiens from 1966-67 - 80-81. Once he retired from the NHL, he returned to become their general manager. In total, he won the Stanley Cup 10 times. All the while, he represented Canada

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01:12:45

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 11) - Al Strachan -...

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2020/11/29

When journalist Dave Shoalts joined us for Season 2, Episode 5 to discuss Hockey Fight in Canada, his book about the rights battle for Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC), he told us that his print stories about the storied program always moved the dial. It's true, HNIC gets people talking...and writing. Al Strachan had a long history with the show as a panelist on Satellite Hot Stove, the second intermission segment that was created by executive producer John Shannon in 1994 to showcase the insider

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01:01:10

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 10) - Rick Westhead...

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2020/11/26

Joe Murphy lives in the precarious crack that lies between an uplifting ending or a tragic conclusion. Once upon a time he was the first NCAA player selected in the NHL Draft, a Stanley Cup winner and an eccentric teammate, but today he is homeless and in clear need of mental health care. Could a vicious hit sustained in one of the 779 career games he played from 1986-2000 have significantly altered the path of his life to where it is today? Journalist Rick Westhead (TSN) digs deep into the story of

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01:06:07

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 9) - Rick Vaive - Catch...

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2020/11/25

Ron Hawkins sings of "a wounded soldier from the bad old days," in his song Peace and Quiet, which Tim Thompson wove together with archived footage to create his acclaimed ode to the Toronto Maple Leafs. That lyric rings true when examining the tenure of former captain Rick Vaive. A prolific scorer, he was named team captain at the age of 22 and netted three-consecutive 50-goal seasons while enduring a circus-like atmosphere and futility during the Harold Ballard era. At his peak between 1980-87,

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SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 8) - Angie Bullaro /...

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2020/11/18

Manon Rheaume was always in a league of her own. Mention her name to hockey fans and most will remember the media frenzy that accompanied her appearance in net with the Tampa Bay Lightning during NHL exhibition play in 1992. While GM Phil Esposito got the attention he sought for his expansion team, Rheaume’s professionalism under the spotlight illuminated the way forward for women’s hockey. Inspired to tell the story on film, actor/producer Angie Bullaro decided that a children’s book could also

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01:14:39

SportsLit (Season 4, Episode 7) - Doug Smith (Toronto...

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2020/10/27

On Nov. 3, 1995, the Toronto Raptors tipped off against the New Jersey Nets and changed the sports landscape of the city. The Raptors are now a team to be reckoned with but it wasn’t long ago that people would have laughed at the notion they would ever win an NBA title, let alone by the time their 25th anniversary rolled around. Why did they become champions? What were the turning points? How comedic, chaotic, tumultuous, and triumphant has the last quarter-century been? Raptors beat writer Doug

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