On Guard For Three

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We invented the game now let's talk about it.

Dave Tingley hosts "On Guard For Three" and talks all things hoops with some of the smartest and most interesting people in minor, high school, college and pro basketball.

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Joyce Slipp -"If you can't see it, you can't dream it."

Episode 8 of On Guard For Three marks a few firsts for us. Our first female guest is Joyce Slipp, the starting point guard for Canada’s first ever basketball entrant at the Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976. She’s also our first Hall of Famer, an honoree of the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame, Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame. Before we get to Joyce, we discuss the impact of Covid-19 on our world and the basketball world, we rant about Rudy Gobert (5:15),...

Mar 13, 2020•1 hr 12 min

Joe Salerno: "The very first thing I did as a 27-year old kid was throw a guy out of the gym"

Joe Salerno is the reigning National Basketball League of Canada Coach of the Month AND Year for the defending champion and first-place Moncton Magic. Ahead of this Saturday’s match-up with the Windsor Express at the Avenir Centre in Moncton, he’s a guest on Episode 7 of On Guard For Three. We start off with the newly-dubbed “Magic Question”, get Joe’s thoughts on being a multi-sport Dad (2:00), on golf being his favourite getaway, and I’m sure he starts ZERO fights over which of his regular pla...

Mar 11, 2020•1 hr 23 min

Steve Chapman - "Once I'm in the gym, the kids energize me"

Episode 6 of On Guard For Three is allllll Mount Allison Mounties! Mounties men's coach Steve Chapman is our guest as he joins his former pupil in studio. We talk about the end of the team’s regular season and the playoffs this weekend in Halifax (2:00), ask him when he fell in love with the game of basketball (4:45), find out he was better at……hockey….than hoops? (6:00) His decision to pass up the local program in Wolfville for Mount Allison for ALL the wrong reasons (8:45), the return of Mount...

Mar 06, 2020•1 hr 7 min

How Do I Make Up Five Points?

Fred Connors is the fifth guest joining "On Guard For Three". Fred coaches the St. Thomas Tommies, the seventh-ranked team in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association. The national Coach of the Year in 2013 joins us fresh off clinching the 1st seed in the upcoming Atlantic Colleges Athletic Association playoffs. We ask Fred when he fell in love with the game, (3:00) and he discusses his love for Cape Breton Capers basketball (6:00). We hear about his first connection with St. Thomas (9:30), an...

Feb 28, 2020•1 hr 34 min

Teah Bailey-Ampersand

Teah Bailey is the 4th guest on On Guard For Three. (Links to One8tea listed below) Teah is a former women’s coach at Crandall University, former assistant coach with the Moncton Miracles and, as One8Tea, is a current East Coast Music Award nominee for Inspirational Recording of the Year. Teah talks about when he fell in love with the game of basketball (2:00) and answers Serge Langis’ dismissal of Magic Johnson (5:30). We prove you can have a balanced discussion about the legacy of Kobe Bryant ...

Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 6 min

This Budd's For You

Jared Budd joins us for Episode 3 of On Guard For Three. Jared is a former NBIAA All-Star at Riverview High School, 2nd team All-Star at the U-17 National Championship, Defensive Player of the Year at both Acadia and UPEI, & an MVP at St. Thomas as a senior Jared has coached Junior Varsity & Senior boys, as well as Basketball New Brunswick’s U-16 team, and he is currently the Senior Girls coach at Harrison Trimble High School, as well as a coach with Sweat Academy off season development ...

Feb 06, 2020•1 hr 29 min

Mr. Basketball

"I'm the wealthiest guy I know because I've got everything I could have ever dreamed to ask for." David Magley is our guest on episode 2 of "On Guard For Three". He’s the 1978 Indiana Mr. Basketball, member of the 1982 All-Big 8 team at Kansas, Cleveland Cavaliers draft pick, former Commissioner of the NBLC and current TBL commissioner. We talk about his high school days in Indiana and his Hall of Fame La Salle coach (3:30) he shares the stories of why he went to Kansas (he met a pretty special ...

Jan 23, 2020•1 hr 36 min

Serge Langis

Welcome to "On Guard For Three" For our inaugural episode, we welcome in Serge Langis, former coach of the KW Titans and Moncton Miracles of the NBCL and current Co-Owner and President of Sweat Academy. We delve into his history with the game, the ins and outs of Sweat Academy (22:00), basketball in French Language communities in the province of New Brunswick (31:30), and being a basketball parent (35:30) I make Serge feel bad about the Utah Jazz being his favourite team (54:30) but somehow he t...

Jan 14, 2020•1 hr 27 min

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