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

• Thrashers win Manitoba's second national major...
  Three years after falling short by two goals in the national final, the Winnipeg Thrashers got the job done Sunday evening in St. John’s, ...
• Like father, like sons
  The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. What’s in the cat is in the kitten. What comes by nature costs no money.Whatever the analogy, it’s ...
• National crown for Caribous
  Twenty-five years after the Corner Brook Royals set a new standard for Newfoundland senior hockey, the Clarenville Caribous penned their own ...
• ECHL boss likes what he sees in St. John’s
  The commissioner of the ECHL likes the St. John’s hockey market, its healthy season-ticket base and potential for local sponsorship coin. He’s ...
• Man up, boys (and parents)
  Strange as it may seem, there’s a small, teensy part of me that understands the actions of a few Gonzaga Vikings high school hockey players the ...
• No diamond in the rough
  Consider the great Edmonton Oilers teams of the 1980s and a host of players come to mind, not the least of which is Gretzky and Messier. And ...
• Hey C.B.S., after Hockeyville get cracking on a new...
  So it’s that time of year again when CBC’s plugging its Kraft Hockeyville, the gimicky money-maker and ratings booster designed to pit town vs. ...
• Not meant to be a blood sport
  By now, everyone from the Zamboni driver to the prime minister, to the writers and TV talking heads, to the rec hockey players from Torbay to ...
• And then there was one
  Four years ago, when Brad Gushue was being unfairly pilloried from all corners after gassing Jamie Korab from his team, the skip, only 12 months ...
• ‘Golden goal’ remains a special memory
  For two weeks in February, a year ago, we were the best.Oh, we cried with Joannie Rochette. We shared the pain with Melissa Hollingsworth, a ...
• For the love of the Games
  When the flame is doused and the book is closed on the Canada Winter Games next Saturday, you couldn’t blame Chris Morrissey if he hopped on a ...
• A change in Games plan
  HALIFAX — It’s about this time every two years, during Canada Games, when we trot out the litany of excuses and reasons why Newfoundland and ...
• This Glovertown teen is flipping good
  Halifax—Anybody who’s watched the movie will remember the scene. Gene Hackman takes his small group of wide-eyed, backwoods kids from tiny ...
• A far-reaching concept
  Halifax — Given this is at least the fourth straight Canada Games that Newfoundland and Labrador curling has opted for an ‘all-star’ team concept ...
• These shooters were of medal calibre
  Sackville, N.S. — The 1977 Newfoundland and Labrador shooting team, taking aim at home in the St. John’s Canada Summer Games, finished just out ...
• A rookie to watch
  Old Orchard Beach, Maine — Luke Adam’s latest stop in a whirlwind couple of years is Old Orchard Beach, Me. It’s a summertime playground, but ...
• Ryder riding out the storm
  He is the highest scoring born-and-bred Newfoundlander to play in the National Hockey League. He is, by all accounts, a genuine sniper who will ...
• Games times
  These eyes have seen a lot of Canada Games — 10 to be exact — and a lot of changes since we first starting spinning yarns way back in 1991 in ...
• Clowe has gained respect as a leader
  Boston — He’s a Top 6 forward on one of the NHL’s best teams. He scores goals, he sets up goals, he’s a physical player. He even fights when the ...
• Clowe's Sharks take bite out of Ryder's Bruins
  Boston — It was Ryane Clowe and the San Jose Sharks getting one up on Michael Ryder and the Boston Bruins in a Saturday NHL matinee ...
• Delay of game
  The ECHL’s board of governors is “very interested” with the prospects of expanding to Canada’s East Coast, but if St. John’s is to be home to the ...
• Devereaux's back in the spotlight
  Stacie Devereaux is technically considered a rookie heading into the 2011 Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women’s curling championship, ...
• Come on, Province. Pony-up.
  The group that hopes to bring the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League back to St. John’s took a big hit recently when a request to the provincial ...
• Two-horse race to play Mile One?
  They’re not through the first turn yet, but it appears a two-horse race is developing over which outfit will be playing hockey at Mile One Centre ...
• Hockey ahead?
  The Mile One Centre online calendar is looking pretty bare these days, but that could change next fall if the 10-year-old rink secures an anchor ...
• Don’t get your socks in a knot over loss by...
  It’s been three days since the great disintegration, a caving-in that not only dashed hopes for gold, but wounded the hockey psyche of an entire ...
• Crosby's the best now, but can we compare him to...
  Now that Sidney Crosby’s broken away from the pack and firmly established himself as the world’s preeminent hockey player, the inevitable ...
• Bigger than the Beatles … At least, that’s the...
  Apparently, not only is Georges St-Pierre a rough, tough street brawler, he’s bigger than the Beatles, too.That’s according to the man who built ...
• Saturday night's all right for scoring
  It was a banner night for Ryane Clowe and a pair of other Newfoundland and Labrador NHLers Saturday night.The Fermeuse-born Clowe scored both ...
• Gushue determined to grab Olympic rings once more
  It’s going on five years since Brad Gushue and the boys from Newfoundland and Labrador — plus a New Brunswick ringer — shocked the curling world ...