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Sidney Crosby gets a home run at batting practice ... left-handed
A little while ago on the St. John’s Morning Show, John Hancock of the national sports desk was speaking with Jeff Gilhooly about Sidney Crosby, who hit a home run while at batting practice … and in the left-handed cage, no less.
John mentioned that the video was on YouTube. We thought you might like to see it.
Tags: St. John's Morning Show, sports
Kevin Major on his new novel, and imagined parts of local history
An unusual burial of a child made more than 7,000 years ago provided the inspiration to veteran St. John’s writer Kevin Major, whose 16th book - New Under The Sun, a work of historical fiction for adults - has just been launched.
“That became the starting point,” he said. The novel’s timeline is complex, weaving in stories of the Innu, Inuit, Basques and Norse, and running up to modern times. The novel is tied together through an archeologist named Shannon Carew, whose work with Parks Canada gets the story rolling.
You can listen to Kevin Major’s conversation with Robin Brown, the guest host of the St. John’s Morning Show, by clicking on this link.
Among other things, you’ll hear Major talk about the difficulties he had finding a publisher for the book, before it eventually found a home at Cormorant Books in Toronto.
Meanwhile, you can hear plenty more from the St. John’s Morning Show here, including daily highlights from their podcast menu.
Tags: Kevin Major, St. John's Morning Show, arts
A park cautionary tale, a la Happy Days
Our daily smile comes this morning from our very own building … to be precise, a little bit of banter heard Tuesday morning on the St. John’s Morning Show.
The guy above? That’s Russell Bowers, the Bell Island boy who’s back in town hosting the show while Jeff Gilhooly is getting some R&R. Russell’s ordinary gig is hosting Daybreak in Alberta every weekend. If you’ve heard the show, you know Russell’s got A) a way of telling a story and B) a sense of humour.
So, yesterday, a day in which we had cautionary stories about wildlife and humans interacting, Russell noted while chatting with newscaster Maggie Gillis that there have been problems with deer on Haida Gwai, which used to be known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.
“Tourists get out of their cars and walk up to the Bambis and feed them,” Russell told Maggie. Among the consequences is that “Mama Bambi,” as he put it, will abandon its young if it has come into human contact.
It seems that on the Queen Charlotte Islands, it’s a bit like Happy Days,” Russell said.
Right at this point, he made a strategic pause.
“Don’t touch the fawns,” he concluded.
As The Fonz would say, Ayyyyyyy. Or, groannnnn…
And, as they say at the comedy clubs, he’s here all week.
Tags: Morning funny, Russell Bowers, St. John's Morning Show
Welcome Cecil Haire to Twitter
On Thursday, I showed Cecil Haire how to use Twitter on his phone.
On Friday, Cecil dived right into it, tweeting regularly on traffic problems and what he was seeing around town as he filed live reports in to the St. John’s Morning Show. He even snapped a pic of a cruise ship just after it came through the Narrows.
You can follow Cecil on Twitter right here. He’ll be using it to fill in the blanks for his daily reports, keep you updated on traffic, and to gather information from you about what you’re seeing around the St. John’s area. (The man, after all, can only be in one place at once!)
