Profile of Robin Short

Biography

Robin Short is The Telegram's Sports Editor. One of the newspaper's senior citizens (despite his youthful appearance), he has worked at The Telegram for 24 years. He is a two-time winner of the Atlantic Journalism Award for sports reporting and is author of Rock Stars: Team Gushue's Road to Gold. You can reach Robin at rshort@thetelegram.com

All articles of Robin Short

• IceCaps try to eke out a win
  The St. John’s IceCaps will try to salvage a win from a three-game exhibition series with the Syracuse Crunch — the Mary Brown’s Cup — when the ...
• Blue collar blueliner
  St. John’s IceCaps general manager and avid salmon angler Craig Heisinger dipped his line in the summertime free agent hockey pool and landed a ...
• Rehabbed and ready
  If going through the worry and torment of spinal fusion surgery wasn’t hard enough, and the subsequent pain and discomfort resulting from rehab, ...
• O’Dell has more to offer
  In the limited ice time he received as a rookie last season, St. John’s IceCaps centre Eric O’Dell showed plenty of promise, rising a peg or two ...
• Different players, same goal
  One is a bigger player who likes to play an aggressive, physical game. The other is on the smallish side, but a finisher, a player who wants the ...
• ‘Ready for a new start’
  After missing all but five games last season, Mark Dekanich is anxious to get back in the blue paint and push incumbent goaltender Eddie Pasquale ...
• Blades may not skate this season
  The Mount Pearl H.J. Bartlett Electric Blades are expected to ask the Newfoundland and Labrador senior hockey circuit today for a one-year leave ...
• Rock takes it on the chin in CRC Final
  The Atlantic Rock closed out its 2012 Canadian Rugby Championship season with a 40-16 spanking at the hands of the Ontario Blues Saturday, ...
• Union man
  There are those with the big, fat wallets, names like Crosby, and Weber and Parise, standing to lose a whole lot more dough, but 800 grand is 800 ...
• IceCaps keep adding experience
  The St. John’s IceCaps will have another forward with National Hockey League experience trying out for the team when it opens training camp Oct. ...
• Hurts so good
  It’s not often an athlete can consider going under the knife a good thing, but the timing of Daniel Cleary’s off-season knee surgery has worked ...
• Star in the making
  You’re still only 18, throwing fastballs in the mid-80s, you’ve got a biting curveball and now you’re on Baseball Canada’s radar.Can it be any ...
• Major midget circuit making a play for parity
  The 2012 provincial major midget hockey season kicks off this weekend in Corner Brook with a pre-season tournament that will provide an early ...
• Machacek re-signs with Winnipeg, will return to St....
  One of the final pieces in the Winnipeg Jets/St. John’s IceCaps puzzle was put in place Tuesday with the signing of restricted free agent Spencer ...
• Local products on the rise in the QMJHL
  Veteran James Melindy figures to be a top defenceman on what’s expected to be one of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s top teams this ...
• Sea-Hawks can’t solve Capers
  Their season is only two games old, but already Memorial University men’s soccer coach Scott Betts is delighted the Sea-Hawks have a break in the ...
• Minors start no major issue for Adam
  Two years after he was the American Hockey League’s best rookie, 12 months after bolting from the starting gate with a dozen points in 11 NHL ...
• Softball’s nationals emergency
  To date, Newfoundland’s teams at the Canadian senior men’s softball championships have been akin to Danica Patrick on the NASCAR circuit: some ...
• Canadian Tour considering a stop St. John’s
  More than a decade after the Canadian Tour made St. John’s a stop on its circuit, professional golf may be poised for a return to the capital ...
• More than money lost if NHL season is wiped out
  If you’re Teddy Purcell and rummaging to uncover even a hint of something good in what’s otherwise a gloomy NHL labour climate, you might be ...
• A big gap to bridge: Owners, players ‘have...
  Daniel Cleary remembers the lost season of 2004-05, when a lockout shut down the entire NHL season. And he remembers the fear amongst players, ...
• The Barons are back
  Darren Colbourne is either one lucky son of a gun, or he's smart enough to know when to latch on to a good thing. After years of mediocrity, or ...
• Victory on Quidi Vidi
  There were no surprises Wednesday as the two favoured crews — sponsored by a pair of St. John’s law firms — emerged as victors as the 194th Royal ...
• IceCaps’ extension contention
  Great to see the Winnipeg Jets and St. John’s IceCaps extend their current three-year deal to a fourth season, but inquiring minds want to know: ...
• Mainland competitive runners could be racing to St....
  Local runners take notice: If The Telegram 10-Mile Road Race — the Tely 10 — continues to grow by leaps and bounds in popularity, expect to ...
• Loiselle makes his first visit a quick one
  Matt Loiselle drove the Tely 10 race course Saturday night to get an idea of the route, and then on Sunday morning blew the doors off 3,581 ...
• This story could have a great finish
  It's been long on pre-race hoopla for a number of years now, but the annual Tely 10 has been coming up short on the drama metre. Like a scene ...
• Getting back on course
  A year that started out with so much promise has dwindled into a season of frustration for the province’s pre-eminent female distance runner.But ...
• It was different in Gladney’s day
  For Bob Gladney, that summer’s day in early June 35 years ago was not unlike any other he’d spent in his native Clarenville.It’s too long ago, of ...
• You can’t fool everyone
  Despite scads of media attention the Mount Pearl Mark’s Work Wearhouse Junior Blades and their coach, Brian Cranford, have generated, why do more ...