TheMarkSpectorShow
TheMarkSpectorShow
Mark Spector celebrates a quarter century on the Edmonton sports scene this season. So that means two things:Spec is getting old (soon to be 46), and with that much experience under his belt, it is time for a daily radio show.Yes, 25 short years in the media business leads to the The Mark Spector Show, going from 12-2 p.m. on the Team 1260. Spec brings all of his experience as a media man to the airwaves, but before also a lifetime spent in the stands of Commonwealth Stadium and the Northlands Coliseum, as an Edmonton-born sports nut who lived through the best years in this city’s sporting history.After watching the Eskimos Grey Cup dynasty from section Q at Commonwealth from 1978-82, and celebrating the first two Oilers Stanley Cup victories on Jasper Ave., Spector started at the Edmonton Journal in the spring of 1987. He arrived just in time to watch the Oilers go to a Game 7 against Ron Hextall and the Philadelphia Flyers, and by 1990, Spector was covering the Oilers beat full