The Commisioner — Hardy '70

By Stephen Hardy, Class of 1970

Commissioner Ben Towne grieves the suicide of his brother, the end of his marriage, and the gnawing recognition that his world of high-level college hockey is as crooked as the war he saw in Kuwait. But on this February weekend, on the eve of another war, he chases a chance for redemption—a chance to take down Ryerson College and its head coach Ted Farnum, the man he believes destroyed his brother. Across a backdrop of vanishing evidence, personal danger, and thrilling hockey, Towne discovers bonds of grief, betrayal, and enlightenment with an unlikely ally in his fight against corruption in college sports.