Legendary Canadian sportscaster Don Wittman dies.

His voice is the voice of curling for me. It will be weird to hear anyone else call a game.

posted by dfleming at 07:14 PM - reply - flag:

I caught HNIC's Wittman retrospective a few weeks back and hadn't looked into it. They were toasting his retirement, I thought they were mourning his loss. But I guess the terminal cancer that caused him to retire has claimed him today. Sad. His voice is one of the voices from my generation of Canadian sportswatching. The Olympics and the Grey Cup won't quite be the same.

posted by gspm at 07:37 PM - reply - flag:

posted by tommytrump at 07:37 PM - reply - flag:

Wittman was one of two Canadian "voices of sports" for me. The other is/was Brian Williams. Hey! That's the curling video I posted!

posted by grum@work at 12:27 AM - reply - flag:

I should clarify: that's the curling video someone ELSE in SpoFi created and then I posted. I believe it was mkn who did it.

posted by grum@work at 09:27 AM - reply - flag:

May he rest in peace. He was the voice of curling. He will be difficlut to replace, but live must go on, and whoever replaces him have big shoes to fill and a standard to follow.

posted by BoriQa at 11:10 AM - reply - flag:

Saturday, January 19, 2008

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