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OTTAWA, ON – On Wednesday, September 27th at Lansdowne Park’s Horticulture Building, the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame is inducting five new members to its local sports shrine – Carol Anne Chenard (soccer), Murray Costello (hockey), Tim Higgins (hockey), Earle Morris (curling) and Jill Perry (boxing). Each Tuesday and Thursday until the event, the Sport Hall will post an article on an aspect of the event. Today’s article is on 2023 Inductee, Tim Higgins.
2023 SPORT HALL INDUCTEE – TIM HIGGINS:
Tim Higgins was born and raised in Ottawa. He became a junior star with the hometown Ottawa 67’s. Then he went on to play parts of 11 seasons in the NHL. Maybe some of his most productive days in life came in his post-hockey career and the years he spent as an addiction counsellor. He took many of the hard lessons he learned during his battles with addiction and helped many overcome their demons.
Tim grew up in Ottawa’s west end and was a star right from the beginning. He played Peewee hockey for the Ottawa Junior 67’s, one of Ontario’s top Peewee teams ever. The team played more than 100 games and never lost. Four members of that team went on to play in the NHL.
Junior hockey followed. Tim was an important player on some of the best junior teams Ottawa has ever seen. NHL
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Mickey Crowley stands in a room in his house that highlights the accomplishments in his officiating career. He is standing in front of pictures of Crowley with Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan, Bob Knight, John Chaney and Mike Krzyzewski.
Now, the 83-year-old sits in his Carolina room at his home in Crow Creek and watches a squirrel run back and forth in the backyard.
Crowley, a native of Queens, N.Y., is a member of six halls of fame and is widely regarded as one of the best college basketball officials of all time.
He spent his adult years rubbing elbows with some of the game’s finest coaches and players, including Patrick Ewing, John Thompson, Grant Hill, Mike Krzyzewski, Chris Mullin, Lou Carnesecca, P.J. Carlisemo, Rollie Massimino and John Chaney, among others, and that wasn’t even his full-time job.
For many years, his full-time gig was as a Nassau County administrator who assigned officials for hundreds of high school, college and junior college sporting events. He also recently released an autobiography, “Throw the Ball High,” which he wrote with Ralph Wimbish, a former assistant sports editor of the New York Post. Now, Crowley enjoys his beautiful home in Crow Creek and cherishes the time he gets to spend with his wife, Pat.
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