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Framed photos signed by Wayne and Walter Gretzky and Rick Hansen hung beside those of his son Chris’ soccer teams, some of which Jim coached. There was also fan mail that would have insulted most other writers.
Jan 8, 2019 · “Man in Motion” was co-written with sportswriter Jim Taylor whose own daughter Teresa had become a quadriplegic in 1976 at age 14, as the result of a skiing accident. Hansen and Taylor verbally agreed to do the book together on the night before Hansen’s world tour began.
Jan 18, 2019 · Jim Taylor produced some 7,500 sports columns, three times as many radio shows and fifteen books. During his retirement he mainly lived at Shawnigan Lake, BC. He is the only sportswriter to be included in Alan Twigg’s overview of B.C. literature, The Essentials.
In an era when daily sports writing was becoming increasingly factual and statistically oriented, Jim Taylor successfully fused wit, sarcasm, and creativity while frequently posing the most overlooked question in sports journalism: “What if?”.
Jim Taylor was a sportswriter more entertaining than the teams he covered. He was certainly more popular. Generations of Vancouver sports fans knew that however disappointing the performance of hockey’s Canucks, soccer’s Whitecaps, or football’s B.C. Lions, they would be treated the following day to a funny, acerbic and satisfying sports ...
Jan 8, 2019 · Celebrated B.C. sports writer Jim Taylor died earlier this week at the age of 82. A celebrated sports columnist throughout the province and across Canada for more than 60 years, Taylor got his start with the Victoria Times Colonist while still in high school in the mid 1950s and went on to do his best-known […]
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Jan 8, 2019 · Arguably one of Canada's funniest sports columnists, Taylor died at his Shawnigan Lake, B.C., home on Monday.
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