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About Jim Hunt (columnist)
- Jim "Shaky" Hunt (9 November 1926 – 9 March 2006) was a Canadian sports columnist who spent over 50 years as a journalist and covered the biggest events in sports including the Stanley Cup, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, all of golf's majors and the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series.
- Hunt was known as "Shaky" thanks to his intramural goaltending career at the University of Western Ontario, where he was part of the school's first journalism graduating class, in 1948.
- Jim Hunt was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2004.Hunt died aged 79 after suffering a heart attack.
- and is remembered as a "character who had a loud and distinctive voice and loved telling good stories".
- Hunt left Caroline, his wife of 54 years, daughters Kathryn, and Cally, and sons Rod and Andrew.
- He also left two brothers, Don and Jack, and six grandchildren, Ben, Billy, Cally, Katie, Aiden and Ella.
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