[3] In 1959, Beddoes won the British Columbia men's curling championship playing lead for the Barry Naimark rink.

As the paper's senior sports columnist, he wrote a column which predicted that the Canadian team would win every game of the 1972 Summit Series against the Soviet Union.

After the Soviet team won the first game of that series, Beddoes ate a printed copy of that column after covering it with borscht.

[5][6] He remained on staff with the Globe and Mail until his column on 3 September 1980 was revealed to have contained substantial, unattributed material from the New York Times.

[2] After publishing an apology, Beddoes left print media and was subsequently appointed sports director at CHCH-TV in Hamilton where he remained until his dismissal in 1988.