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Columnist HUNT dead at 79
Canadian Press, Page S6
Toronto -- Veteran sports columnist Jim
HUNT has died after suffering
a heart attack. He was 79.
The
Toronto
Sun confirmed yesterday that
HUNT had passed away
after suffering a heart attack Wednesday.
HUNT spent some 50 years on the sports beat, covering Stanley
Cups, the Masters, U.S. Opens, Canadian Opens, British Opens,
Super Bowls, Olympics and the 1972 Canada-Russia series. The
tall, gangly columnist attended every Grey Cup game between 1949
and 1999.
HUNT was known as Shaky thanks to his intramural goaltending
career at the University of Western Ontario, where he was part
of the school's first journalism graduating class.
Upon graduating in 1948, the native of Sarnia, Ontario, was hired
as a news reporter by the Toronto Star. He worked in the Star's
Queen's Park Bureau before moving to sports in 1952.
In 1961, he switched to the Star Weekly Magazine to write sports.
He moved to
CKEY in 1967 as sports director of the a.m. radio
station, eventually becoming news director.
In 1983, he moved to become a sports columnist at the Toronto
Sun.
"I have been lucky,"
HUNT once said. "I guess you could say I
have had trouble keeping jobs. But I have only applied for one
job and that was the first one I had at the Star. I blundered
into the other jobs.
"The CKEY job gave me the opportunity to cover the 1972 and 1974
Canada-Russia hockey series. The best job was at the Star weekly
because it afforded me the opportunity to travel around the world.
But the job I enjoyed the most was writing a column for the Sun."
In 1991, HUNT began a nine-year stint at the all-sports Toronto
radio station Fan 590.
He continued to write a weekly column for the Toronto Sun.
Each Tuesday, it started with the same introduction: "Some Tuesday
morning musings on some of the things that amuse, confuse and
even amaze a fellow in the wonderful world of fun and games."
Jim is survived by his wife, Caroline, four children, and six
grandchildren.
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CKEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-10 published
Columnist spent 50 years covering sports
Canadian Press, Page S9
Toronto -- The veteran Toronto Sun sports columnist Jim
HUNT
died Wednesday after suffering a heart attack. He was 79.
Mr. HUNT spent some 50 years on the sports beat, covering Stanley
Cup games, the golf Masters, U.S. Opens, Canadian Opens, British
Opens, football Super Bowls, Olympics, the 1972 Canada-Russia
hockey series as well as every Grey Cup game between 1949 and
Born in Sarnia, Ontario, he attended the University of Western
Ontario. In 1948, he was hired as a news reporter by the Toronto
Star and moved to sports in 1952. Later, he switched to the Star
Weekly Magazine and then moved to radio
CKEY in 1967 as sports
director. In 1983, he moved to the Sun as sports columnist. In
1991, he began a nine-year stint at the all-sports Toronto radio
station Fan 590 but continued to write a weekly column for the
Toronto Sun. He also co-authored All Work and All Play: A Life
in the Outrageous World of Sports, with Steve Simmons.
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CKEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-05-29 published
McLEAN,
Ross, 1987 -- Died This Day
Journalist and television producer born in Guelph, Ontario, in
After an initial job as a freelance sports writer for the Brantford
Expositor, he joined
CKEY radio, at $15 a week, and then went
to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio where he perfected
his craft. When television came to Canada in 1952, he quickly
embraced the new medium and worked on such well-known shows as
Tabloid, Closeup, Quest, The Way It Is and This Hour Has Seven
Days. With a style that oscillated from brilliance to petulance,
he earned the nickname of "the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
Rasputin." He was credited with helping launch the careers of
Pierre BERTON,
Charles
TEMPLETON and Patrick
WATSON.
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