Nov 2025 - Sports Lunatics - Remembering Lenny Wilkens, Paul Tagliabue, Mel Bridgman and Leon Stickle
The Sports Lunatics Show
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 51 minutes
The sports world lost a few luminaries and Shawn and Howie do their best to remember them all. NBA All-Star player and one of the greatest coaches who ever walked the sidelines, Lenny Wilkens, passed away on November 9, 2025. He was 88. Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue suffered heart failure and lost his life on that same Sunday. He was 84. Mel Bridgman, who was the first overall selection in the 1975 NHL Draft and played 977 games in a 14-year career, died on November 8. He was just 70. Leon Stickle, who worked as a linesman in the NHL for 30 seasons from 1969 to 1998, in an era when the officials were almost as recognizable as the players were, passed away at home on November 5. The boys also look back, on the 40th anniversary of his death in a car crash, at Flyers' great Pelle Lindbergh. They also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the cargo ship, the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the Gordon Lightfoot song's persistent resonance with people all these years later. It's a fully packed episode!
