It's Always The Off-season Somewhere With Mike Stubbs

980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs previews the first round of the Ontario Hockey League playoffs and talks with Owen Sound Attack G.M. Dale DeGray and Londoner and Team Canada skip in wheelchair curling, Mark Ideson as he returned home after winning bronze in Pyeongchang.

On this edition of It's always the off-season somewhere, 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks with Mustang women's hockey head coach, Kelly Paton about the U Sports championship, outlines how to bring a March Madness format to the NHL and the NBA and discusses a wild story out of the Greek soccer world. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

On this episode, Mike Stubbs talks with 980 CFPL's Craig Needles about tanking in the sports world, examines the London Knights nearly two months removed from four major trades with Knights General Manager Rob Simpson and speaks with Dr. Michael Czarnota about Rowan's Law and the impact it could have on concussions suffered by young people. Photo Credit: (Jason Franson/CP Images)

Now that the Olympics is over, 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks with the chair of Own the Podium, John Furlong. Mike also goes back 15 years with former Knights forward Mike Stathopoulos and previews the GOJHL playoffs with 980 CFPL's Jake Jeffrey.

980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks about a new idea from the NBA could really help the Ontario Hockey League playoffs, what Own the Podium has meant for Canada at the Olympics and talks with Fanshawe Falcons head coach Patrick Johnson. The Falcons are ranked number one in the Canadian College rankings in men's volleyball. Photo Credit (Justin Tang/CP Images)

February 12 in London marked another edition of the London Sports Celebrity Dinner and Auction in support of the Thames Valley Children's Centre. 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs sat down with some of the big names at the event to ctach up on their lives and their successes.

980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks streaks with Soo greyhounds head coach, Drew Bannister, whose team has gone 29 games without losing in regulation. He speaks with Pat Powers, the head coach of the London nationals. They have not lost in regulation in 18 games. He also catches up with London Lightning head coach Keith Vassell as the Lightning aim to stretch their winning streak to 11 games in a row.

Mike Stubbs talks about moves made by the London Knights and other OHL teams at the 2018 trade deadline and talks with Terry Doyle of loosepucks.com about what it all means.  

On this edition, 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks about the Victor Mete situation, talks with former Knight Joel Scerban, recaps Toronto FC's MLS Cup win and gets an interesting NFL scenario from Craig Needles.

On this episode of "It's always the off-season somewhere", 980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs talks about Toronto FC's chances against Seattle in the MLS Cup, takes a look at the selection camp roster for Team Canada's World Junior squad and meets a Londoner who got to do things very few people get to do at a Maple Leafs/Devils game.

London Knights' head coach, Dale Hunter looks back at his coaching career on the cusp of his 700th regular season victory. Western Mustang head coach, Greg Marshall talks about the moment he realized his team was about to win the Vanier Cup and Fabien Haller from the London Abused Women's Centre looks at the Shine the Light game at Budweiser Gardens.

Mike Stubbs of 980 CFPL talks with London Knights' assistant coach, Rick Steadman about the first game of the season between London and Sarnia, former Knights, Leigh Salters and Stephen Sanza talk about what they are doing and Don Landry of CFL.ca helps to preview the Grey Cup in Ottawa. Photo Credit (Peter Power/CP Images)    

Mike Stubbs talks with Dakota Mermis of the Arizona Coyotes, Around the OHL's, Jake Jeffrey and Fanshawe Falcon cross-country coach, Ashley VanderVecht.

980 CFPL's Mike Stubbs on Vegas staying good, the Knights getting better and a need to change U Sports football. How Vegas might not have to be really bad in order to become really good someday. 12:30 - The London Knights' weekend that saw them lose in overtime to Saginaw and beat the Attack in Owen Sound 14:50 - The success of the Western Mustang football team and the need for Universities to invest more thought and possibly money in athletics.  

The end of Connor McDavid's brand new contract extension is more than eight years away. Where will pro sports contracts be at that time? For some perspective, we look back at Wayne Gretzky's first major deal. Also, Nick Suzuki talks about going to Las Vegas for the Golden Knights' first-ever development camp and we talk baseball with Roop Chanderdat.

We used to flinch at million dollar players in sports. Now we don't bat much of an eye at a 50-million dollar a year player. How come? Mike Toth has some ideas and he shares them with AM 980's Mike Stubbs.

From hearing boos as you walk to the stage to having to wait an extra day to hear your name called, we get some behind-the-scenes stories from the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

Hundreds of players were drafted by MLB teams last week. Now what? Former Major Leaguer Adam Stern helps us understand the process. We take you back to a conversation with Misha Donskov, Director of Hockey Operations for the Vegas Golden Knights and look at how it would be possible to fill out an entire Vegas roster using only ex-London Knights.

We remember the life of longtime Knights' trainer, Don Brankley with Rick Doyle and Danny Syvret. We speak with Drew Doughty and his skating coach as his number 8 is retired by the London Junior Knights and talk to Kyle Julius following his resignation as head coach of the London Lightning.

We hear from CFL.ca columnist, Don Landry and talk about Major League Baseball's plans for "Players' Weekend."