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Dave Shoalts & Paul Waldie By Tim Wharnsby When David Shoalts first began to write on the dire financial situation the Phoenix Coyotes were engrossed in last fall, the NHL club and commissioner Gary Bettman downplayed the stories emanating from north of the border. But the veteran Globe and Mail hockey columnist, along with the [...]

Dave Stubbs Dave Stubbs is sports feature writer and a sports columnist with The Gazette in Montreal whose work is widely syndicated in the Canwest family of daily newspapers coast-to-coast throughout Canada. His reports from this year’s Olympic games in Beijing were featured daily on The Gazette’s front page. He began his journalism career in [...]

MICHAEL FARBER by Red Fisher Montrealer Michael Farber, who is now a senior writer with Sports Illustrated, likes to tell the story about the time he applied to The Montreal Star sports editor for a job in 1979. Six years earlier, he had graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey, Phi Beta Kappa. He joined [...]

George Johnson George Johnson began his sportswriting career three decades ago with the Winnipeg Tribune, where the environment of an afternoon paper, before the days of file-at-the-whistle deadlines, allowed for plenty of instruction and development. He then joined the Winnipeg Sun in its days of infancy, then moved on to Alberta, joining first the Edmonton [...]

PIERRE LEBRUN by Tim Wharnsby Canada enjoyed quite a 31-month sporting roll from February 2003 to September 2004. The men’s hockey team won two world championships, an Olympic gold medal, a World Cup and Mike Weir dazzled golf fans across the country with his ground-breaking playoff victory at the Masters. A common thread to all [...]

CAM COLE Cam Cole has been the principal sports columnist of the National Post since the newspaper’s birth in 1998, when Conrad Black’s longshot gamble was reaching into newsrooms all across the country trying to recruit the ‘liveliest writing staff’ in Canadian journalism. Cole had spent 23 years at the Edmonton Journal, his first daily [...]

TERRY JONES, Edmonton Sun by Tim Whamsby Terry Jones, the respected long-time Edmonton Sun sports columnist, is exceptionally versatile and well traveled. His list of coverage credits includs 13 Olympic Games, more than a dozen major international games, 11 World Figure Skating championships, 30 Grey Cups, 19 Super Bowls, more than 100 World Series games, [...]

STEPHEN BRUNT, Globe and Mail Stephen Brunt, 43, has been the main sports columnist for the Globe and Mail since 1989. Before that, he worked in several other areas of the newspaper including political reporting and feature writing. He actually began his career as a music critic. He is a graduate of the University of [...]