Byline: Jason Winders

Gameday London • 6th March 2024

‘The Chicken’ celebrates 50 years — Gameday London

You learn a lot about people when you meet millions of them – even when you’re in a chicken suit. “People have a very, very good heart – an instinctively good heart,” says Ted Giannoulas. “Everyone’s first language is laughter, and it was heartening...

Gameday London • 28th January 2024

Jenkins did it all — including balling with Globetrotters

Hall-of-Fame pitcher Fergie Jenkins, who played two seasons with the London Majors post-retirement, did it all during his athletic career. One of his highlights? Playing for the Harlem Globetrotters.

Gameday London • 23rd January 2024

White, the storied vet, just wants to win

Billy White is an apex predator when it comes to hunting down a game somewhere in the world. Now, you can add the Basketball Super League.

Gameday London • 4th January 2024

Pro stint has Mustangs’ Sharma eyeing big things

He’s banged up after a busy year. There are surgeries awaiting him in the offseason. And he’s still feeling the impact of tearing his meniscus in the first game of the preseason. But Aryan Sharma has a new approach to the game that has him seeing a...

Gameday London • 8th October 2023

How did history forget Howson — a basketball trailblazer?

Olympian Barry Howson, who grew up in London, was a Canadian hoops pioneer. The first Black player on the country’s national team, it’s past time he got his due.

Gameday London • 1st February 2024

Shadell a survivor — on and off the court

It’s hard not to notice him. The slick moves. That mischievous smile. His absolute joy for the game. It requires squinting past the flash of the London Lightning guard to uncover some deeper realities. Only then can you start to see a man who has...

Gameday London • 21st June 2023

Twelve minutes in May: Re-living Lightning history

When handed the stat sheet from the just-closed third quarter, London Lightning head coach Doug Plumb saw a number that didn’t seem right. 49.

Gameday London • 8th April 2021

Kravic a lesson in perseverance, perspective

His shot is gone. Has been for some time. It’s not exactly the type of thing you expect to hear from one of the purest shooters to come out of the Forest City. But somewhere over the years, between university and the pros, despite the fixes and...

Gameday London • 18th December 2022

Improbable journey has Jongkuch grateful, others inspired

You would expect Kur Jongkuch’s eyes to be firmly fixed on the future.

Gameday London • 18th April 2022

The Devil and Chris Jones

After every game, win or lose, Chris Jones sent a text message to his Mom that he knew wouldn’t be answered. Nevertheless, he sent it anyway because he wanted her to know that he was OK.

Western News • 7th April 2016

Bringing 'an important story' to the page

Tibor ‘Max’ Eisen still wakes from his sleep with the smells of those cattle cars in his nose – the smells of a hundred people wedged in place for three days and three nights. And somewhere in those cars, among all those bodies, strangers and...

11th August 2023

Against the Dying Light

Death was a relief. Louise knows people have a hard time saying that. But it is the unspoken feeling that hangs in a room when two or more caregivers of Alzheimer's patients gather. We're not wired to admit to others we think that way. But when...

Western News • 17th November 2016

Wings of my father: A son finds peace half a world away

Duncan Hunter has fw memories of his father beyond a pile of old photographs and the stories his late mother left him. A mechanic in Westlock, Alta., a small town north of Edmonton, Ralph Hunter headed to war when his son was 3 years old. He...

Gameday London • 4th October 2021

A special night at Labatt Park

Up and down the roster, this team has been special all year, on the mound, at the plate, in the community. They have played with a spirit and much-needed joy to remind us that it is not only possible, but totally OK, to feel this way again.

Gameday London • 12th November 2022

Maletic where he belongs — getting his shot in Division I hoops

Marko Maletic waited his entire life for that shot.

Gameday London • 29th October 2022

Carleton becoming a force on world stage for Canadian team in transition

The shots would fall. They always had. For Bridget Carleton, however, they couldn’t start falling soon enough.

Gameday London • 27th October 2023

Dunn to run the show for Mustangs

The One. The Point. The Floor General. The point guard position is, as Western Mustangs point Tyson Dunn describes it, “a lot.”

Gameday London • 11th March 2022

The disappearance — and reinvention — of Mo Bolden

He didn’t talk to coaches. Or teammates. Or anyone. Two years ago, Maurice Bolden walked away from a game that saved him, a team that needed him, and a community that loved him.

Gameday London • 19th October 2022

Top skills coach Sewell has a talent for helping talent

He’s known by many names – and he hates being called every one of them. Yoda. Buddha. The Guru. The Guru. Ugh. He especially hates that one.

Gameday London • 2nd June 2022

Lightning shine in perfectly imperfect season

Nobody roots for Goliath. Then again, the Philistine big man never had the kind of year the London Lightning just had.