Scott Radley

4 days ago | thespec.com | Scott Radley

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats hadn’t even begun their first stretching exercise on Day One of training camp and things were already looking vastly better than a year ago. The team’s star quarterback wasn’t wearing a walking cast on a damaged leg, its star defensive acquisition hadn’t decided to retire at the last moment leaving a hole at linebacker, and a promising receiver wasn’t hours from blowing out his knee and being lost for the year.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Scott Radley

More than 20 years after getting his first glimpse of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he remembers everything about it. Everything. The fighters, the fights, the excitement. Sitting transfixed in front of the TV at his buddy’s place that night back in high school, it was like nothing he’d ever seen before. For a reason. “We weren’t allowed to watch that stuff,” Mike Malott says. Mom and dad had rules for their Waterdown home. The UFC was a no-go.

1 week ago | hamiltonnews.com | Scott Radley

More than 20 years after getting his first glimpse of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he remembers everything about it. Everything. The fighters, the fights, the excitement. Sitting transfixed in front of the TV at his buddy’s place that night back in high school, it was like nothing he’d ever seen before. For a reason. “We weren’t allowed to watch that stuff,” Mike Malott says. Mom and dad had rules for their Waterdown home. The UFC was a no-go.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Scott Radley

Tailgating in Hamilton isn’t dead after all. After a charged discussion about whether the city should adopt an updated alcohol policy that would’ve banned such parties at parking lots outside Tiger-Cats games and other public places, council voted 13-1 on Wednesday to keep things as they are. “The tailgate parties are such a special experience for so many fans,” said Coun. Tom Jackson.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Scott Radley

Booze is bad for us, right? That’s clearly the foundational principle behind a proposed change to the city’s municipal alcohol policy that’s going to be debated Wednesday at council. Just go ahead and read the report that accompanies the proposal:“Recent research shows that even small amounts of alcohol can harm health,” it says.