The Sports Lunatics Show
Shawn Lavigne, a longtime Toronto radio producer, and Howie Mooney, Ottawa television sports personality and author, discuss sports and sports history and delve into why what happened in the past is relevant today. Fun sports talk, lively interviews and always a good time.
Podcasting since 2023 • 166 episodes
The Sports Lunatics Show
Latest Episodes
Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - A Look Back - Guertin Arena, George Foreman, August 12, 1994 and Ken Dryden
In this episode, Howie put together a compilation show of pieces from four different episodes. There are highlights from an interview Howie did with Ken Warren about the demolition of the Bob Guertin Arena in Hull, a show that Shawn and Howie d...
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Season 6
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Episode 56
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52:11
Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Randy Jones, Joe Theismann's Leg, Baseball's New TV Deal, The Grey Cup and More
This episode is a bit of a random mish-mash of topics all over the sports history map. Shawn and Howie start off by discussing the passing of the first great pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Randy Jones won the Cy Young Award in 1976, winning ...
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Season 6
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Episode 55
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38:16
Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Lenny Wilkens, Paul Tagliabue, Mel Bridgman and Leon Stickle + A Bit More
The sports world lost a few luminaries and Shawn and Howie do their best to remember them all. NBA All-Star player and one of the greatest coaches who ever walked the sidelines, Lenny Wilkens, passed away on November 9, 2025. He was 88. Former ...
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Season 6
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Episode 54
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50:43
Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - The Greatest World Series of All Time?
On this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Shawn and Howie do a post-mortem on the 2025 World Series. They examine it from a number of points of view and eventually pose the question of whether or not it was the greatest World Series ever pla...
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Season 6
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Episode 53
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43:01
Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Shawn Interviews Howie About His New Book, An Unlikely Story
In this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Shawn turns interviewer and Howie is the subject as they discuss Howie's latest book, An Unlikely Story, about the season for the 1981 Ottawa Rough Riders which culminated in an appearance in the Gre...
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Season 6
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Episode 52
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52:15