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For the past 19 years I have been the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs, broadcasting over 1,600 Leaf games. Throughout my career in Toronto I have acted as the master of ceremonies (M.C.) or guest speaker at hundreds of banquets and golf tournaments. I have been the M.C. at all of the Meet the Leafs luncheons, Have a Heart dinners, Maple Leaf Casino nights and Maple Leaf alumni and team golf tournaments.
I have also acted as the M.C. for the popular bell mobility golf tournament as well as the Brian Savage golf tournament in his hometown of Sudbury each year.
A big supporter of leukemia research since my son Sean beat the dreaded disease, I have acted as guest speaker and M.C. for the annual UFCW Leukemia Celebrity Golf Classic.
I have been very active in minor hockey and baseball as a coach over the past 13 years. I guided the Markham Thunder to an all Ontario minor novice title in 1990 and was a co- coach of the Thunder on the All-Ontario novice team in 1993.
I was inducted into the Sudbury Kinsmen Sports Hall of Fame in June of 1999, and received the Fred Sgambati award from the Canadian Children's foundation in 1988."
Sudbury Ontario
Birthdate:April 5, 1951
First media job:1973 - CKSO Radio & TV Sudbury, Ontario
Career highlight:Over 1600 Leaf games, blow-by-blow of Muhammad Ali's last fight, three Toronto Rock World Championship Games, Trevor Berbick vs Larry Holmes World Title Fight.
Bio:
I am a father of four boys, who was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. I attended Sudbury High School, playing hockey and football and was a member of the Copper Cliff Redmen Northern Ontario championship hockey club in 1967. After graduating from the University of Windsor, I returned home to do play-by-play for the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League for eight seasons before going to Halifax to broadcast the Nova Scotia Voyageurs of the American Hockey League.
For the past 19 years I have been the voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs, broadcasting over 1,600 Leaf games. Throughout my career in Toronto I have acted as the master of ceremonies (M.C.) or guest speaker at hundreds of banquets and golf tournaments. I have been the M.C. at all of the Meet the Leafs luncheons, Have a Heart dinners, Maple Leaf Casino nights and Maple Leaf alumni and team golf tournaments.
I have also acted as the M.C. for the popular bell mobility golf tournament as well as the Brian Savage golf tournament in his hometown of Sudbury each year.
A big supporter of leukemia research since my son Sean beat the dreaded disease, I have acted as guest speaker and M.C. for the annual UFCW Leukemia Celebrity Golf Classic.
I have been very active in minor hockey and baseball as a coach over the past 13 years. I guided the Markham Thunder to an all Ontario minor novice title in 1990 and was a co- coach of the Thunder on the All-Ontario novice team in 1993.
I was inducted into the Sudbury Kinsmen Sports Hall of Fame in June of 1999, and received the Fred Sgambati award from the Canadian Children's foundation in 1988."
