For a guy who loved soccer and didn't play football until age 15, Mohammed Elewonibi made quite a career for himself. A soccer goalie at Vic High, "Moe" joined the Saanich Vampires midget football team in Grade 10 and helped them win a provincial title in his second year. After that, he quickly climbed the football ladder with a stellar junior career in Victoria and Kelowna. He ultimately landed at Brigham Young University. As a senior he contributed to their 10 wins 2 loss season and then won the Outland Trophy as U.S. college football's outstanding offensive lineman. Drafted by Washington of the NFL and the CFL's B.C. Lions in 1990, he endured the low of being injured when the Redskins won the 1991 Super Bowl, and the high of helping the Lions win the West in 1998 and being named a CFL all-star. Playing a position where athletes rarely last 10 years, Moe ended his career with the B.C. Lions at age 40.

Jack Short was a legend from a time when fans flocked to witness the thrill of live horse racing at the tracks in Vancouver and Greater Victoria. As a track announcer, his trademark "And there they go" got people's attention, especially if they hadn't yet placed their bet. A former local stable boy and apprentice jockey who was around tracks from age 11, Jack experienced almost every aspect of the business, from riding, being a jockey's agent and trainer to ownership and breeding. But it was calling the races that earned him his most enduring reputation. He began in 1933 by recreating races on Vancouver radio station CKMO - complete with sound effects - and graduated to the real thing in 1934. He became "The Voice of the Races" calling races live and on radio, on both sides of Georgia Strait, including the Willows, Colwood and Sandown tracks around Victoria. By the time he broadcast his final "Adios Amigos" in 1982, he had called almost 48,000 races and missed just three days of work.