{"id":540407,"date":"2026-03-16T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:01:08","slug":"the-cfl-honours-ron-foxcroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/540407\/","title":{"rendered":"The CFL honours Ron Foxcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    ]]>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On March 25th, Ron Foxcroft \u2014 the Hamilton sports icon who invented the pealess whistle \u2014 will be honoured by the Canadian Football League with the Hugh Campbell Distinguished Leadership Award. He sat down with Rick to talk about the honour.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chch.com\/morning-live\/best-wishes-for-march-16-2026\/\" class=\"nav-item-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Best_Wishes_CHCH_Page-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Best wishes\" decoding=\"async\"   itemprop=\"image\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPrevious Morning Live\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBest Wishes for March 16, 2026\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"]]&gt;&#13; &#13; On March 25th, Ron Foxcroft \u2014 the Hamilton sports icon who invented the pealess whistle \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-540407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}