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.
Episodes
166 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
Oct 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Shawn and Howie Examine The New Netflix Documentary on the Montreal Expos
Netflix recently released a highly anticipated documentary on how the Montreal Expos met their ultimate demise and who might be responsible. As Howie says in this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, there was a blame pie with a number of respo...
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Season 6
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Episode 51
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38:19
Oct 2025 - Sports Lunatics - The Blue Jays Head to the World Series!
After an incredible seven game series against the Seattle Mariners, the Toronto Blue Jays are headed to the 2025 World Series to take on the highly favoured Los Angeles Dodgers. Shawn and Howie discuss the wild finish to that seventh game, how ...
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Season 6
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Episode 50
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32:39
Oct 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Montreal Expos Memories
With the anniversaries of so many fall baseball accomplishments and the coming of a new documentary on the team, Shawn and Howie decided to take a look back at the life and memories that were created by the Montreal Expos. The team still holds ...
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Season 6
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Episode 49
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1:09:28
Oct 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Howie's Top Ten Blue Jays' Postseason Memories
Listen in as Shawn and Howie discuss a list of the Toronto Blue Jays postseason memories. Howie made the list and Shawn doesn't let him forget it. From Dave Stieb to Marco Estrada, from Devon White to Josh Donaldson, from Dave Winfield to Jose ...
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Season 6
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Episode 48
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43:18
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Why Is September 28 So Important?
In this episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Howie explains why September 28 is so important. Specifically, the anniversary of that date in 1972 - the date that Paul Henderson scored the goal that allowed Canada to overcome the Soviet Union in ...
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Season 6
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Episode 47
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39:31
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - CFL Rule Changes, Sept 22, 2025
On September 22, 2025, Canadian Football League commissioner Stewart Johnson held a media conference during which he laid out numerous rule changes that would take effect in 2026 and 2027. The reaction from fans was mixed. BC Lions quarterback ...
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Season 6
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Episode 46
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44:43
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Bernie Parent
There was a two-year period in which the Philadelphia Flyers' Bernie Parent might have been the greatest goalie on Earth. His team won two Stanley Cups and Parent won two Conn Smythe Trophies and a couple of Vezina Trophies as well. His career ...
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Season 6
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Episode 45
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39:57
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Ed Giacomin, Bob Goodenow, Robert Redford & The Natural
It's been a time for loss and remembrance. Within a few days, the world lost Rangers' great Ed Giacomin, former NHLPA executive Bob Goodenow and legendary actor and director Robert Redford. The boys recount how the scene in The Natural in which...
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Season 6
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Episode 44
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51:54
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Davey Johnson Remembered
Howie flies solo on this episode as he remembers the late Davey Johnson. A Gold Glover, 4-time all-star and World Series winning manager, Johnson had a colourful career both on the field and as a field boss. You'll hear some insights into why h...
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Season 6
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Episode 43
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28:12
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Howie & SiriusXM's Mick Kern Discuss the Passing of Ken Dryden
On September 5, 2025, Ken Dryden passed away. Dryden was a Hall of Fame goalie, author, Member of Parliament, NHL executive. He was an astute and intelligent man. Yes, he was an athlete, but he was more than that, especially to a generation of ...
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Season 6
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Episode 42
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35:42
Sept 2025 - Sports Lunatics - 1972 Canada-Russia Series - Howie with Terry Mercury from SiriusXM
It's September! Howie and special guest, former SiriusXM reporter Terry Mercury sit down to discuss their memories from around September of 1972. That was when Canada faced the Soviets in their intense eight-game Summit Series. They talk about ...
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Season 6
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Episode 41
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37:08
Aug 2025 - Sports Lunatics - CFL Interviews, A Look Back
In this rebroadcast episode of The Sports Lunatics Show, Howie has compiled excerpts from three interviews with former Canadian Football League personalities, Jo-Anne Polak, the first female general manager of a North American pro sports franch...
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Season 6
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Episode 40
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57:51
Aug 2025 - Sports Lunatics - 1976 Canada Cup and Lionel Taylor
This one is for the hockey fans. Specifically, this one might be for the older hockey fans. Shawn and Howie talk about what might be a forgotten Canadian hockey landmark - the 1996 Canada Cup. Sandwiched between the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Se...
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Season 6
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Episode 39
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56:33
Aug 2025 - Sports Lunatics Short - August 12 in Canadian Baseball History
If you ask come Canadian baseball fans of a certain age what August 12 means to them, they may or may not have a memory of 1994. If they do, that date will bring sadness. On that date, the Montreal Expos were in first place in the National Leag...
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Season 6
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Episode 38
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10:24
Aug 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Sports Tragedies
On August 2, we observed a tragic anniversary. On that date in 1979, Thurman Munson perished in a small plane crash in Ohio. He was practicing takeoffs and landings in his personal Cessna jet when he missed the runway and died at the scene. His...
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Season 6
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Episode 37
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1:06:45
July 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Ryne Sandberg
In this edition of The Sports Lunatics Show, Shawn and Howie look back at the career and the life of Chicago Cubs great, Ryne Sandberg. From how he got to the Cubs, to that magical game in 1984 that propelled the team to the National League Cha...
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Season 6
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Episode 36
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38:44
July 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Hulk Hogan
Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, by the end of his life, was hated by many and loved by many. By 2025, his life and the way he was perceived and portrayed, was complicated. But as media personality and wrestling fan James Cybulski posted...
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Season 6
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Episode 35
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59:55
July 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Jim Clancy and Bobby Jenks & The Career of Jim Abbott
The baseball world lost a couple of pitchers recently. A member of the original Toronto Blue Jays who pitched twelve seasons with the team and one of the last pitchers in the majors to make 40 starts in a season, Jim Clancy passed away on July ...
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Season 6
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Episode 34
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30:54
July 2025 - Sports Lunatics - ChatGPT's Top Ten MLB All-Star Moments - Reggie, Charlie Hustle, The Babe and more
As the calendar edges its way to mid-July, sports fans' minds might travel to a few different things. If you're a golf fan, you'll be paying attention to the British Open. If tennis is your thing, then it's likely that Wimbledon will be your th...
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Season 6
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Episode 33
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56:47
July 2025 - Sports Lunatics - This Date in Sports History - July 13 - The Babe, Teddy Ballgame, Jeff Gillooly and more
It's always interesting every once in a while to look back at what happened on a certain date and kind of analyze what went on and what went down on that date over numerous different years. Of course, mid-July offers us a few different things. ...
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Season 6
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Episode 32
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24:11