Hobe Ferris

I’m not brave. I just wasn’t in the mood to be a disappointment to everybody.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

@SHistorians No, you are 100% correct. As a Food Service professional, the inefficiency of Chipotle makes me itchy and anxious.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Sold so many of these I won a 13” black and white TV. One of the happiest and proudest days of my life.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The official candy bars of reluctant salespeople everywhere.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

This tweet confused me.

[Mark Bowman @mlbbowman]

Acuña breaks the Atlanta record (since 1966) with his 190th stolen base. Herman Long has the franchise record with 434 SBs. Hank Aaron owns the modern era franchise record with 240 SBs. Rabbit Maranville ranks second with 194.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

@bignumber55 Let’s go Bruins.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

@FOS No one that bets $10k bets $10.00 on ANYTHING.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Yeah yeah yeah. But what about LOOGYS?

[Eno Sarris @enosarris]

Henry Davis gets the first TOOTBLAN of the year

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Nice marmot.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The way this marmot turns during a shower

📹 marmot_qh
https://t.co/lV3fN1bbBy

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Album please!!!

[The Decemberists @TheDecemberists]

Burial Ground Out Now! 📻 https://t.co/KfrJZxYTxL

[The Decemberists @TheDecemberists]

Burial Ground Out Now! 📻 https://t.co/KfrJZxYTxL

[ment @mentnelson]

I paint like Sargent but grew up on rap music

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

@IAmJamesStewart Raynham-Taunton Dog Track had the best pizza. Not joking.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Been 40 years, I still miss him.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Name two athletes who are forever connected in history.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

This is amazing tech, but I will be more impressed if it has smash-the-shit-out-of-everything mode.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Esper Hand demonstrated by Nika, the next level robotic prosthetic hand

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Live from the Canadian Tire Centre. #GoBruins

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Steal this tweet.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

With the launch of the PWHL, I am exploring the history of women's hockey in Canada.

Today, I am looking at the story of Abby Hoffman!

Abby Hoffman was born on Feb. 11, 1947 in Toronto. She learned to skate when she was three. When she was nine, she wanted to begin playing organized hockey.

There were few leagues for girls at the time, so her parents registered her as Ab Hoffman in a boys' league.
She cut her hair short to pass as a boy.

She excelled in the league, playing defence, and was chosen for the All-Star team. League policy dictated that all players had to show their birth certificate to play in the All-Star Game.

When it was discovered she was a girl, she was banned from playing on the boys' team.
Her parents took the case to the Ontario Supreme Court, and gained news coverage in Time and Newsweek.

Abby received publicity and the support of several NHL teams. Abby won her case, with the court ruling that if there are boys' teams, there had to be girls' teams. The verdict was a landmark ruling that changed the face of Canadian sports.

Her case helped bring the issue of a lack of options for female athletes to a national audience.

As a student at the University of Toronto, she was not allowed to run on the indoor track at Hart House as it was an all-male facility. She successfully had the track opened to women.

As an adult, Hoffman went on to compete in four Olympic Games from 1964 to 1976, four Pan American Games and two Commonwealth Games.

She won two gold, a silver and two bronze at the Pan American Games, and one gold at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
In 1976, she was the official flag bearer for Canada at the Summer Olympics in Montreal.

From 1981 to 1991, Hoffman served as the first female director general of Sport Canada. She was also the first Canadian woman elected to the Executive Committee of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

In 1982, she and Maureen McTeer put their support behind a national championship in women's hockey. The Abby Hoffman Cup was created, and awarded to the Canadian National Women's Hockey Champion from 1982 to 2009.

She has been awarded the Order of Canada, and been inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the Jewish Canadian Athletes Hall of Fame.

If you enjoy my Canadian history content, you can support my work with a donation at https://t.co/u12Dmz8vKv

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Hey @espn when you gonna add @thepwhlofficial to the list of available sports in your app?

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

You can fire him for just for that hoodie-vest thing he’s wearing.

[Dan Duggan @DDuggan21]

We'll see how things play out with Wink, but you sure as hell can't fire him this week after this defensive performance.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

The greatest local news story of all time.

[U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute]

#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic.

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

What year is this tweet from?

[Dallas Stars @DallasStars]

UPDATE: Radek Faksa is out tonight (Upper body injury).

[Hobe Ferris @HobeFerris]

Are Martin Cizikas Clutterbuck the longest continuous line mates in NHL history?