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Rod Phillips (other)
Rod Phillips may refer to: * Rod Phillips (broadcaster) (born 1941), Canadian radio sportscaster * Rod Phillips (American football) (born 1952), former American football player with the Los Angeles Rams and St. Louis Cardinals. * Rod Phillips (politician) (born 1965), Canadian politician See also * Rodney Phillips (1942-1969), New Zealand chess player {{hndis, Phillips, Rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Phillips (broadcaster)
Rod Phillips (born September 9, 1941) is a retired Canadian radio broadcaster for 630 CHED in Edmonton, Alberta. Phillips is best known as the play-by-play man of the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League's Edmonton Oilers from 1973 to 2011, succeeding longtime Edmonton Eskimos broadcaster Bryan Hall despite having no experience in the field. He is most famous for his loud, long scream of "scooooooooooores!" which is considered a classic by Oilers fans. Many fans attending games brought their radios to Northlands Coliseum to listen to his broadcasts, and many people watching games on television turned down the sound to listen to his coverage. In 2003, Phillips received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Rod Phillips was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1941 and grew up in Calmar, Alberta. Prior to being a hockey broadcaster, Phillips hosted Edmonton's first-ever late-night television show in 1967. Rod Phillips is the uncle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Phillips (American Football)
Rodney Augustus Phillips (born December 23, 1952) also known as Rod Phillips is a retired professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Los Angeles Rams The Los Angeles Rams are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The Rams compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Rams play ... and St. Louis Cardinals. References 1952 births American football running backs Los Angeles Rams players St. Louis Cardinals (football) players Cincinnati Bearcats football players Jackson State Tigers football players Living people {{runningback-1950s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Phillips (politician)
Rod Phillips is a Canadian businessman and former politician who sat as the member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Ajax from 2018 to 2022. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Phillips served as Ontario's minister of the environment, conservation and parks from 2018 to 2019, minister of finance from 2019 to 2020, and minister of long-term care from 2021 to 2022. Before politics, Phillips was the former president and CEO of Shepell-fgi, a professional services company, from 2002 to 2010; the president and CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) from 2011 to 2014; the chair of Postmedia from 2014 to 2017; and chair of CivicAction from 2014 to 2017. Phillips ran for MPP in the 2018 provincial election, following which his PC Party would form government. Premier Doug Ford named him environment minister, before promoting him to the finance portfolio, succeeding Vic Fedeli. He resigned from that role in 2020, after he took a vacation to St. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |