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Rogers, Maple Leafs Deal Could Change Television Landscape

By Alan AdamsDec 2nd 2010 – 12:30PM

Imagine a wintry Saturday night without Don Cherry and Ron MacLean, entertaining or enraging you on the television. Add to that no Hot Stove, and Glenn Healey not offering his insightful commentary on the NHL. This bleak forecast could well be the future of televised hockey in Canada if media giant Rogers Communications...

NHL Awards Show Gets Smoked Out

By Jes GolbezJun 15th 2007 – 2:53PM

While the NHL tried its very best to put on a glitzy, Hollywood-style awards show last night, there were more than a few things that went wrong for the little hockey league that could.Viewers in the USA may have turned to VERSUS and found themselves watching programming that was anything but an awards show. It turns out...

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Ron Maclean's Secret Life as a Mentor to the Homeless

By Avrum Rosensweig Apr 15th 2012 - 12:24AM

Ron Maclean of Hockey Night in Canada , stood in a classroom at George Brown College (GBC) and told the story of Frank O'Dea, the co-founder of Second Cup, who was at one time a homeless panhandler living on the streets of Toronto.

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  • 05/17/12 Newsmakers: May 11-17, 2012 Source: Macleans In the first major political casualty of Quebec's three-month standoff between students and the provincial government, education minister Line Beauchamp has resigned.
  • 05/16/12 Don Cherry thinks the Kings are winning the cup. Source: LetsGoKings.com L.A. He has talked this team up longer than anyone in the media, IMO, so love him or hate him, I don't want to hear anything about bandwagon etc. They discuss the fact that Cherry picked them when no one else did.
  • 05/12/12 MacLean clarifies 9/11 comments Source: Owen Sound Sun Times - ON - Canada Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean released a statement Thursday clarifying his reference to the U.S. terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 before an NHL playoff game on Wednesday.
  • 05/12/12 Sports heroes vs real heroes Source: The Aurora It's funny how some insignificant little details of your life stick with you years later.
  • 05/12/12 Yukon: Shut up about your religion Source: Edmonton Sun - Edmonton - AB - Canada Yukon Jack supports a Nova Scotia teen's right to wear this T-shirt — as long as he doesn't preach about religion.

Background on Ron MacLean

Ronald Harold "Ron" MacLean (born April 12, 1960) is a Canadian sportscaster for the CBC who is best known as the host of Hockey Night in Canada and is also a hockey referee.

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