A special edition of the Pressrow. Howard Ovens has been in clinical emergency practice since 1982, and served as the Chief of our Department of Emergency Medicine for many years. He has been a leader in administrative and policy issues related to emergency medical services, and served on and led many regional, provincial and national committees. Howard has published and spoken nationally and internationally on many issues including emergency department overcrowding, mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds, the lessons of SARS, and the impact of shift work. In addition to his work at Sinai Health, Howard is the Ontario Expert Lead for Emergency Medicine and holds the rank of Professor at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto.

Howard joins Jonah to talk about the Corona Virus, dealing with it, the differences between this and SARS, what we should be doing and the effect on the sports world too

Born in Toronto, raised near Kingston Adnan Virk career has taken him to some of the most respected sports outlets in the world. From Bollywood reports, failed weather interviews to TSN, MLSE, The Score and ESPN to present day, he has built an impressive brand for himself. A movie fanatic and movie podcaster who is a huge fan of the Philadelphia Flyers talks about growing up in Canada, trying to break in to the business and arriving at ESPN; the experience of being fired and how he is doing better than okay. A great story, told by an amazing storyteller.

In this episode of Bleav in the Pressrow, Alex Reimer joins Jonah Sigel. From the age of 12, alex had a thing for sports media. In fact he had a blog and podcast back in 2004! How popular was it? He was a guest on the Today Show and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Alex is an amazing journalist who covers sports in the new business era. While he was (in)famous for a comment on Tom Brady he know cover sports with a different approach. His takes on the NFL CBA, insiders like Adam Shefter and the new Tony Romo contract are refreshing in this era.

Alex talks about his past, learning from mistakes, coming out as a sports radio host and more

For over 55 years Dave Hodge was played an integral role in sports broadcasting. Dave was the long time host of Hockey Night in Canada, TSN's Inside Sports, That's Hockey and The Reporters. From Gordie Howe all the way to the modern day. Print, radio, TV, live audience and now podcast. Dave has done it all.

Dave shares stories that span his career. From early days as a sports writer, a sports radio broadcaster to hockey play by play announcer, host of Hockey Night in Canada all the way to the Reporters on TSN.

With stints in Montreal, Winnipeg, Toronto, Buffalo, Vancouver and Minnesota Dave has covered every major sports literally.

If you are a sports fan you will LOVE spending time with Dave. From fantasy baseball to Sunday Mornings on CBS. Dave takes us on a journey. Talking about Danny Galivan, Don Cherry, Steve Simmons and Dan Shulman.

For over 45 years John Shannon has been involved in sports media. John has worked for the NHL, Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and was Executive Producer of Hockey Night in Canada. John was a frequent guest on Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown as well as a co-host too. John knows the x's and o's of broadcast sports as well as the business side of things as well.

John and Jonah talk about the Academy Awards, Dave Hodge, Hockey Night in Canada, Don Cherry, the future of NHL broadcasting in Canada and the United States, Masai Ujiri and rumors he could be leaving the Toronto Raptors for New York and Bob McCown.

Long time sports reporter David Shoalts joins Jonah Sigel in the Pressrow. David talks about how he got started in media, covering the Arizona Coyotes trial, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the effect of the Rogers deal on the media landscape, Bill Houston, Bob McCown, his love of OverDrive, Don Cherry and his involvement in the David Frost saga.

David Shoalts started his career as journalist in 1979 continuing on until 2019. David has written about sports and hockey broadly, The Toronto Maple Leafs, the NHL, Media, the CFL and more. He was the first journalist to spend a significant amount of time covering the legal proceedings involving The Arizona Coyotes, Jim Balsilie. in close to 40 years on the beat David has seen it and reported on it all. If you are into sports media, you will Love this.

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Since 1999 Steve Rapp has been a fixture on the radio talking sports gambling. He is one of the few who has lasted through the old days of making picks on Sunday mornings to where sports betting is now legalized in the United States in general and in over 20 US States.

Jonah and Steve talk about the early days of sports handicapping from Jimmy The Greek, those Friday afternoon radio guests screaming about their 800#s where they callers could get guaranteed triple double lock picks all the way to today. What impact will legalized betting, an NFL team in Las Vegas have on the games and how will sports fans interact with the game differently. Finally, this Superbowl week, Steve talks about the game between the San Fransisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, a brilliant early season pick he made and some of the great prop bets Steve is watching this week up to kickoff.

One of the longest serving, active members of the press covering golf, Bob Weeks joins Jonah in the Pressrow. Bob Weeks reports on both golf and curling for. He was the editorial director of SCOREGolf magazine. He also served as host for SCOREGolf TV. Bob covered Curling for more than 25 years for the Globe and Mail .

Jonah and Bob talk about Kobe Bryant and golf and how it is that professional athletes in other sports also play golf. Bob also talks about the growth of the game from Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer to Tiger Woods and today. They talk about Bob McCown and Jeff O'Neil reputations as golf players and the growth of Top Golf in the world today. Finally they talk about the best tours to see and the best courses to play.

Jamie McLennan played over 250 games in the NHL as a goalie, he has played in Canada, the United States, Japan and Russia.  He has been on TSN providing color commentary and as a co-host on OverDrive the afternoon drive show on TSN’s 1050 drive home show.   Jamie talks about playing in the NHL, … Continued

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In this episode of Bleav In the Pressrow, former NHL player Zach Boychuck joins Jonah Sigel.  Zach talks about playing on two Gold Championship World Junior teams, one of which he was an Alternate Captain, playing for Pat Quinn and Pete DeBoer. Zach talks about playing for Bill Peters, dealing with the media and his … Continued

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