Sports Media Canada

Sports Day in Canada, September 18, is to be a national celebration of sport, from grassroots to elite levels, in communities across Canada.  Sports Day in Canada will cap off a week of thousands of local sporting events and activities, open houses and try-it days showcasing sport at all levels, and will include a special [...]

By Emily Ridlington, Sports Media Canada Special Correspondent and International Olympic Committee Young Reporter. Singapore – After the press conference ended, all I hear are the sounds of fingers tapping on keyboards and the clicking of (computer) mice in the main press centre. The smell of coffee lingers in the area. I’m the laughing stock of the newsroom as [...]

By Emily Ridlington, Sports Media Canada Special Correspondent and International Olympic Committee Young Reporter Singapore – Maybe it’s the sudden and drastic temperature change going from the Canadian Arctic to 45°C — don’t get me wrong I am enjoying it, but this journalist has a stuffy nose. I all I want is a bowl of hot soup. No [...]

By Alec Bollini, member of the Sports Media Canada Board of Directors and a frequent participant in World Journalists’ Tennis Championships. Wednesday was a day off for the media types competing in the 33rd World Tennis Championships for Journalists. A bus tour was arranged to visit Vozdovac, a borough of Belgrade, Serbia’s capital. It is [...]

Canadian journalist Emily Ridlington is in Singapore at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games as part of the International Olympic Committee’s Young Reporters Program. From August 14 to 26, she and 28 other young reporters between the ages of 18 and 24 from around the world are participating in training workshops led by seasoned sports reporters and work in the [...]

By Alec Bollini, member of the Sports Media Canada Board of Directors, frequent competitor in the World Journalists’ Tennis Championships. The 33rd World Journalists’ Tennis Championship is underway in Belgrade, capital city of Serbia. Two Canadians are involved this year – Charles Todd and Alec Bollini. If coming from Canada to the former Yugoslavia is [...]

by Don Goodwin at the Rogers Cup. The ‘guy on the sidelines’ in many sports is something of a peripheral player to the stars of the TV coverage team — the play by play guy and the ‘expert’ guy. And maybe Robert Bettauer saw his role being described that way when he picked up the [...]

By Don Goodwin at the Rogers Cup. Tom Tebbutt (his tennis byline appears regularly in the Toronto Globe and Mail) was here at the Rexall Centre all week — and one of the busiest guys here. I know because I’ve been tracking him all week to sit down with him to talk about his background [...]