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

• 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 ...
• Bishop makes it three for three
  Clark Bishop of St. John’s became the third Newfoundlander to go third overall in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League midget draft when the ...
• IceCaps planning a strong follow-up shift
  They sold out every game at Mile One Centre last fall, winter and spring, jockeyed for first place overall for much of the season and played for ...
• Newfoundland and Labrador Soccer Association on the...
  Applause to Newfoundland soccer (see story on this page), which has figured out coaching, competition and facilities are the keys to greater ...
• Yzerman praises Teddy Purcell
  Steve Yzerman on Thursday gave every indication the Tampa Bay Lightning would not be going after Roberto Luongo, who is all but finished in ...
• Cup final dream ends too early
  Well, so much for that idea. Imagine, we could all muse just last week, if St. John’s and Toronto could hook up in the Calder Cup championship ...
• IceCaps’ scoring drying up
  The St. John’s IceCaps turned in their best effort of the American Hockey League’s Eastern Conference final, but their best wasn’t quite good ...
• IceCaps heading home down two games
  By Robin Short Telegram Sports Editor—Norfolk, Va. It was a much better effort put forth by the St. John’s IceCaps Saturday, but the result was ...
• Meet the IceCaps’ unsung heroes
  Ian Cox insists he’s a sucker for punishment. Working long, tough hours, he does so without as much as a hint of recognition, except from within ...
• They may not have changes, but will need to change
  Other than reveal Eddie Pasquale will indeed be back in the IceCaps’ net, St. John’s coach Keith McCambridge was typically tight-lipped about ...
• Admirals leave IceCaps with a sinking feeling
  Norfolk, Va. — The Norfolk Admirals came out with guns a blazin’ Thursday night, launching an attack of power and might against a defenceless ...
• IceCaps could miss big gun against Admirals
  Norfolk, Va. — The St. John’s IceCaps will have their work cut out for them when they take to the ice tonight for Game 1 of their American Hockey ...
• IceCaps will need blockbuster effort against Admirals
  Norfolk, Va. — In the second period of Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinal between the St. John’s IceCaps and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton ...
• Albert’s been a fast learner
  The now-familiar applause rained down from the seats at Mile One Centre last Saturday night, and rightly so. “Eddie! Eddie! Eddie!” Eddie ...
• Remembering Don Johnson
  Penning a tribute to Don Johnson, the well-known and equally well-respected sports administrator from St. John’s, can prove to be a challenge for ...
• Sports heroes vs real heroes
  It’s funny how some insignificant little details of your life stick with you years later.I recall a long, long time ago watching a spring ...
• Down to the wire
  Despite the St. John’s IceCaps holding a 3-1 lead at one point in the series, the best-of-seven American Hockey League Eastern Conference ...
• McCambridge's stay in St. John's could be brief
  It's still a bit early to be talking about this, but what odds: don't be surprised if Keith McCambridge doesn't get a sniff or three from NHL ...
• Opportunity wasted
  To begin our story, one which we’ll dub ‘A Tale of Two Games’, we must first set the scene. A snowy Wednesday evening. Inside Mile One Centre, ...
• Brock solid: Trotter scores twice, IceCaps down...
  So this is why we’ve waited all this while. Brock Trotter, the absentee star with the St. John’s IceCaps since landing in town just under a ...
• Icecaps’ D gets an A-1 rating
  The St. John’s IceCaps were a team with a scoring-by-committee means all season long — the team’s top scorer, Spencer Machacek, was 53rd overall ...
• Eddie Pasquale's on his way
  Early in the New Year, on a Tuesday night, high up in the blue seats at Madison Square Garden, Eddie Pasquale and his St. John's IceCaps ...
• It’s now a best-of-three at Mile One
  Keith McCambridge won’t go so far as to say he is satisfied with his team’s split in its first two games of the first round in the American ...
• AHL playoff series returns to St. John's tied 1-1
  Brandon McMillan first goal of the playoffs stood as the winner as the Syracuse Crunch skated away with a 4-3 win over the St. John’s IceCaps ...
• Stealing the spotlight
  In the little town of King's Point, 20 minutes up the road from Springdale, is the Music and Friends Dinner Theatre, down on Bayside Drive next ...