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• Pierre Dufault, known for having been a journalist and sports commentator for decades, has died at the age of 90. His family confirmed the news to Radio-Canada, the media outlet where he worked, on Saturday. Born on November 5, 1934 in Ottawa, Mr. Dufault has been known by different generations as the voice of Canadian football and the Olympic Games, more specifically in swimming. The journalist began his career at the daily newspaper Le Droit and then at CKCH radio in Hull. He was employed at Radio-Canada television between 1964 and 1972, before being assigned to the sports department within the French-language network. During his career, Pierre Dufault commentated on the Olympics 12 times on radio or television, specializing in the description of swimming events. He has also covered the Commonwealth Games. From 1972 to 1988, he was the play-by-play for the Canadian Football League (CFL), which includes the Montreal Alouettes. For his excellence in this field, in addition to his involvement as president of Football Reporters of Canada, Mr. Dufault was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2001. Pierre Dufault retired from the media in 1996, after a few years as a late-night sports news anchor, still on Radio-Canada.^[2]

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Danny Alan Stoneking (November 5, 1942 – January 29, 2007) was an American sports journalist…

Danny Alan Stoneking was born on November 5, 1942, at the Moline Lutheran Hospital, in Moline, Illinois, the son of Albert E. Stoneking and Martha L. Stivers. Growing up in nearby Rock Island he graduated from Rock Island High School in 1960.^[a] He began in journalism as a correspondent for the Rock Island Argus during high school,^[11] and worked summers with the newspaper while studying at Northwestern University.^[9] As a senior at the Medill School of Journalism, Stoneking was named to the dean’s list,^[5] and elected to the university’s Sigma Delta Chi chapter of professional journalists.^[12] After earning an undergraduate degree in 1964,^[6][13] he remained at Northwestern completing a master’s degree in journalism in 1965.^[7][8]

After university, Stoneking affiliated with the Jewish fraternity Phi Epsilon Pi, then worked for Lloyd Hollister Publications in Wilmette, prior to accepting a position with the Minneapolis Star in 1965.^[7][8] Initially covering professional hockey, the Minnesota Twins, and sports at the University of Minnesota, Stoneking served in the United States Army from 1966 to 1968.^[3] He was sports editor of the Guidon while training at Fort Leonard Wood, then deployed to the Vietnam War in July 1967 to serve in the adjutant general‘s office as a 1st Air Cavalry Division writer.^[9]

• November 1967. Stoneking was a sergeant in the US Army 1st Air Cavalry Division as a historian and writer. He received a Bronze Star Medal for heroic action near An Khê, when saving the lives of three wounded soldiers from enemy fire. Stoneking had been part of 25 combat missions. In November 1967, Stoneking was named editor of the Stars and Stripes based in Tokyo.^[2]

1971 to 1974

• October 1971. Stoneking was elected secretary treasurer of the Twin Cities chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.^[14]

• January 1971. The National Hockey League Writers’ Association changed its name to the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association. Stoneking was named a director of the PHWA.^[16]

1974 to 1977

• January 1974. Stoneking was elected vice-president of the PHWA.^[17]

• January 1975. Stoneking was elected president of the PHWA, succeeding Bill Brennan.^[18]

• Stoneking was president of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association (PHWA) from 1975 to 1977. Preceded by Bill Brennan, succeed by Bob Verdi. The PHWA is dedicated to preserving the rights and improving the access for members of the North American-based media who cover hockey. members vote on seven end-of-season NHL awards.^[19]

• January 1977. Bob Verdi was elected president of the PHWA, succeeding Stoneking who remained a director as the past-president.^[20]

• While president of the PHWA, Stoneking supported equal access to locker rooms for male and female sportswriters. During the 1976 Stanley Cup Final, coach Scotty Bowman of the Montreal Canadiens expressed reservations about letting females into the locker room until the players were fully dressed. The female reporters contested that the access was required to do their job with the same access as their male counterparts to meet publication deadlines, rather than waiting for players to exit the room. As PHWA president, he presented the case to NHL president Campbell that either both males and females are allowed, or neither. Stoneking wrote that about half of the NHL teams allowed females to post-game access the locker rooms as of the 1977–78 NHL season, and about three quarters of the teams allowed such by the 1980–81 NHL season.^[22]

• August 1977. Stoneking was elected to the Minnesota Associated Press Sports Editors (MAPSE) board of directors. MAPSE began sending scores of high school football and ice hockey championships on the state wire service, in addition to a weekly column on high school football.^[23]

Honors

• At the 1980 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Editors awards, Stoneking received first place for special sections, second place for sports series, and third place for spot news.^[26]

• At the 1981 Minnesota Associated Press Sports Editors awards, Stoneking received first place for his column on Terry Bradshaw, second place for his column on Harmon Killebrew, received thid place for spot news reports on Minnesota North Stars playoffs.^[27]

• 1982. Stoneking received second place honors from the Minnesota Associated Press Sports Editors for spot news.^[28]

The Minneapolis Star suspended Stoneking for plagiarism on a report on the Minnesota Twins in 1984. Never returning, he instead covered the Minnesota North Stars on radio. North Stars’ general manager Lou Nanne stated that Stoneking was trusted with team secrets, and subjected to player pranks as an “honorary teammate”.^[4]

• • Stoneking was sports talk radio personality for KSTP (AM) in the 1980s.^[4]

• Stoneking was a candidate for the Minnesota North Stars radio announcer in the 1990–91 season.^[31]

• As of June 1985, Stoneking was editor of the Post Times, the newspaper of the Canterbury Downs horse racing track.^[32]

• In the 1990s, he taught English and mass media at a college in Mexico.^[4]

• Stoneking and Sarah Parry married on July 10, 1965, in Wilmette, Illinois. After a trip through Wisconsin, Stoneking resided in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. His wife was a fellow Northwestern University graduate, then a school teacher in Minnesota.^[8]

• Stoneking was engaged to Sarah Lee Parry, to marry on July 10, 1965.^[7] Stoneking had two children with his wife Sarah.^[11] Stoneking had a daughter and a son.^[22] Stoneking was twice married, had a son, and coached his daughter in youth soccer as a resident Burnsville, Minnesota, he was also a longtime resident of Saint Paul, Minnesota.^[4]

• 1981. Stoneking participated in celebrity golf tournaments.^[33] Stoneking one had the personalized license plate, “Mr. Puck”. He moved permanently to Chetumal in the last two years of his life. Stoneking had battled cancer for twelve years, and died from pneumonia at age 64, on January 29, 2007, in Chetumal.^[4]