Without a doubt, LondonOntarioSports.com publisher and editor Jeffrey Reed is a local sports treasure. It’s no wonder he was recently nominated for induction into the London Sports Hall of Fame.

After all, for more than 46 years, Reed has worked and excelled in more areas of sports journalism than any other local sports reporter. He has also lent his expertise in communications to numerous athletes, teams, leagues, associations and organizations in search of assistance in media relations. And as an elite athlete who starred on the playing field despite his physical disabilities, Reed continues to mentor not only young sports journalists, but also other athletes who aspire to achieve their goals, no matter what the odds.

LondonOntarioSports.com (est. 2015), London’s Trusted Source for Sports News & Information, is Southwestern Ontario’s No. 1 source for sports news. In fact, the award-winning website has been 46-plus years in the making. That’s because Reed is London’s senior member of the local sports media, having begun his career during his final year of high school in 1980. Reed is also recognized as one of Canada’s top sports journalists, with three books to his credit and nine national and international writing awards in recent years.

Since its launch, LondonOntarioSports.com has published in its entirety the award-winning website, LondonOntarioGolf.com (est. 2004), the Voice of Golf in Southwestern Ontario.

Certainly, LondonOntarioSports.com is a labour of love for Reed, who felt a strong sense of responsibility in developing this project. After all, he has covered every sport in London during his illustrious career.

“Londoners deserve a website like LondonOntarioSports.com – plain and simple,” said Reed. “More than a decade ago, the time came for local sports fans to be able to source sports news and information in a much bigger and better way than they have for decades. LondonOntarioSports.com was long overdue. And as London’s senior sports journalist, I felt responsible for developing such a project, which now allows Londoner to source an alternative voice in local sports reporting.”

Jeffrey Reed with 2017 Courage Award winner Ali Vlasman of the Fanshawe Falcons.

Ontario Golf Magazine said, “Long-time London-based sportswriter Jeffrey Reed is one of Canada’s most versatile journalists.” And The London Sunday Journal quipped, “Quite simply, writer, photographer and broadcaster Jeffrey Reed covers the London sports scene more thoroughly and insightfully than anyone else.”

A life-long athlete with a gift for writing, Reed first saw his byline published in The London Free Press while he attended Montcalm Secondary School, and ran as a member of the Cougars cross country team. A disabled athlete, Reed played competitive baseball for 33 years, and in 2001 retired as a pitcher and third base coach with the London Majors of the semi-pro Intercounty Baseball League (IBL). In fact, Reed established the IBL’s media relations office in 1994.

Today, Reed is a golf teaching professional, and an ambassador for numerous golf industry partners including Titleist Golf Canada and PeakVision Eyewear. Golf. He holds the course record of 60 at The Fox Golf Club in Granton, and shares a course-record 62 at Strathroy’s Caradoc Sands Golf Club. Reed drew this praise from Canadian Golf Hall of Fame inductee Bob Weeks of SCOREGolf and TSN: “No one covers the golf scene in Ontario’s Southwest like Jeffrey Reed.”

Baseball was Reed’s first sports passion. His first book, EBBA 40 Years of Baseball (1994), which enjoyed two printing runs, is available for purchase here at LondonOntarioSports.com. It was London’s first baseball history book.

A much-in-demand speaker, Reed’s story, Diamond Dream: Jeffrey Reed’s Inspirational Story of Hope and Determination, can be read here. It chronicles both his life as a disabled athlete, and as a nationally-published sports journalist.

In 2015, Reed and his wife, Elizabeth, established the Jeffrey Reed Courage Award, presented to a Southern Ontario athlete who has beaten the odds on and off the playing field. Visit the Courage Award biographies page to learn more about the award and past winners.

Contributing to hundreds of print and online publications, Reed is the only Canadian golf writer to have captured back-to-back wins for Best Golf Website Feature Column from the Golf Journalists Association of Canada (GJAC). He received his third GJAC writing award in July 2015 during the RBC Canadian Open.

In 2018, Reed’s third book, The Canadian Senior’s Golf Association, Celebrating 100 Years of Seniors Golf 1918-2018, was published by the CSGA. It’s now housed at the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and Museum.

A seasoned broadcaster, Reed was sports editor at Fanshawe College’s CIXX-FM in the early-1980s, and called play-by-play for the Falcons basketball teams. Over the years, he has called colour and play-by-play of every major London sports team, including London Knights and London Diamonds Jr. B hockey, Western Mustangs football. Reed’s weekly half-hour radio talk show, Sports Rap, was a staple of the local sports scene, and sadly the last show of its kind in London. So was his Rogers TV sports magazine show of the same name. More recently, Reed produced, wrote and hosted the popular Forest City Fairways weekly golf show on Rogers TV.

Since its launch, LondonOntarioSports.com has continued to grow as London’s No. 1 destination for sports news and information. Indeed, the future looks bright.

“LondonOntarioSports.com is London and Southwestern Ontario’s top spot for sports fans,” said Reed. “It allows for a large forum for credible, well-written sports stories and columns, plus a reliable source of scores and community postings – supplied by you. We aren’t successful without the community’s assistance. And judging by our support, LondonOntarioSports.com has earned a reputation as London’s trusted source of sports news and information.”

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