It’s only a five game sample but there is reason to believe the Kamloops Blazers turned a big corner with wins against Kelowna and Vancouver after losing to Spokane, Seattle and Portland to start the new WHL season. Winning at any time is crucial for teams on the rebound but winning against teams in your […]
I don’t have many pictures of myself mainly because I’m a pre-selfie kind of guy. I don’t get any irresistible urges to take pictures of myself, but others have snapped a few of me in action and they eventually surface, sometimes decades after the fact. I ran across this picture in my files the other […]
And we’re off like a turd of hurdles….hehehe It was a shock to open Facebook this morning to see a post by my daughter Jen announcing my website www.rickthebear.com was up and running. Technically it was about 10 days ago as I’ve been learning the system, lol. I wanted to wait until I was more […]
As the curtain rises on a new season, hope springs eternal in all 22 WHL cities but even more so in Kamloops. The team had an exciting finish to last season, winning six of its last seven games to force a tiebreaker for a playoff spot before losing a six game first round series to […]
You can never, ever confuse “great” with “good” in the Wile World of Sports. The Antonio Brown – NFL circus is ample proof, with the star receiver facing mounds of legal problems as a result of sexual assault allegations. Brown is one of the great receivers in the new generation of football players after six […]
Welcome to the Bear’s Den at rickthebear.com where my passion for sports moves forward after almost five decades in private radio, the last 40 at my home base of Kamloops. Catching up with friends and acquaintances, recounting some of the terrific historical moments and enjoying the sports community have occupied a lot of my time. […]