The Sports Lunatics Show

In this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Shawn and Howie discuss the life and career of Mets' 1969 World Series Champion Jerry Koosman, the World Series victory for the Milwaukee Brewers and what it could mean to the future of baseball, the new candidates for the Baseball Hall of Fame in the managers and executives category and how the voting could go, and some tortured North American fan bases. It was certainly a lively episode.

In this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Shawn and Howie share stories of the two sides of Ron Duguay - hockey player Ron Duguay and the legend, Ron Duguay. Then they discuss the perhaps forgotten career of Andre Lacroix, the former Flyer who would become the all-time leading scorer in World Hockey Association history. Then Shawn wanted to explore the issue of stars wanting to leave Canadian teams and what it means. Certainly an interesting episode.

Shawn and Howie start off by talking about the agony of October 19, 1981, when Rick Monday hammered the National League Championship Series winning home run off Steve Rogers in the ninth inning of Game Five of that series to break the hearts of Canadian baseball fans everywhere. From that they pivot to Friday, October 16 when the Ottawa RedBlacks collected their first victory in more than a year, 40-39, over the Toronto Argonauts. Howie was there covering the game for local television. A great conversation of memories and moments.

In this episode, Shawn and Howie look back at the life, career and legacy of Mike Ditka. He played for the Bears, the Eagles and the Cowboys. He was an associate head coach of the Cowboys with Tom Landry and, of course, the coach of the Super Bowl Champion Bears in that historic 1985 season. He was also iconic as a football analyst after his playing and coaching careers were done. The boys tell some stories from his life and those who've remembered him as well.

In a free-form discussion, Shawn and Howie start by discussing Alexander Ovechkin's decision to retire at the end of the 2026-27 season, the latest edition of Jeff Pearlman's Press Box Chronicles podcast in which he talks about the life and career of Gary Carter and how teammates mocked his personality while he played but they knew they could depend on him as the great catcher that he was. The boys also talk about Canadian University Sports' greatest spectacle, the Panda Game that is held every year between the University of Ottawa Gee Gees and the Carleton University Ravens at TD Place in Ottawa every year. Shawn also remembers race car driver Gordon Johncock who passed away at the age of 90 this week.

Craig Wallace is a Toronto author. He's written a new book on the 1974 series between the Canadians in the World Hockey Association and the Soviets. He joined Howie to talk about that series and the two go pretty in-depth on the whole subject. The conversation was great. And it helped set the stage for the very first Canada Cup two years later.

After a brief hiatus, Shawn and Howie are back with a brand new episode of The Sports Lunatics Show. In this edition, they discuss the lives and legacies of George Gillett, Barry Melrose and the great George Chuvalo. 

On September 1, Howie was a guest on the Gridiron America podcast with the hosts, Dave Cieslinski, a former sports executive, Mike Tackett, a former pro football player in Europe and Greg Saint James, a sports historian from Chicago originally but residing now in Japan. The guys love the Canadian Football League and a good portion of the show was on what happened the weekend before in the CFL. The show went on for more than ninety minutes, so it's been broken up into three digestible segments. Here's the third part.

On September 1, Howie was a guest on the Gridiron America podcast with the hosts, Dave Cieslinski, a former sports executive, Mike Tackett, a former pro football player in Europe and Greg Saint James, a sports historian from Chicago originally but residing now in Japan. The guys love the Canadian Football League and a good portion of the show was on what happened the weekend before in the CFL. The show went on for more than ninety minutes, so it's been broken up into three digestible segments. Here's the second part.

On September 1, Howie was a guest on the Gridiron America podcast with the hosts, Dave Cieslinski, a former sports executive, Mike Tackett, a former pro football player in Europe and Greg Saint James, a sports historian from Chicago originally but residing now in Japan. The guys love the Canadian Football League and a good portion of the show was on what happened the weekend before in the CFL. The show went on for more than ninety minutes, so it's been broken up into three digestible segments. Here's the first part.