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

• Purcell steps up
  Teddy Purcell had lunch with his Boston-based agent, Kent Hughes, in Beantown this week when the Tampa Bay Lightning dropped into town for a ...
• Danny B’y: hockey mogul?
  Marc Crawford, the former St. John’s Maple Leafs coach, used to joke — he was kidding, right? — that us media scoundrels loved to throw crap at a ...
• Going cross country for cross-country
  Two thousand, eight hundred and eighty kilometres. For 16 minutes and 14 seconds’ work.There’s the Saturday morning drive to the rink or gym. And ...
• Some suggestions for prospective owners of a QMJHL team
  Time to pause the Heart 8-track and weigh in on the latest instalment of the will-hockey-return-to-Mile-One-again chronicle.Seems at least some ...
• Canada wins gold at Mile One
  A sellout Mile One Centre crowd of close to 6,300 burst into wild applause Saturday night when Rebecca Johnston’s goal in overtime gave Canada a ...
• Canada wins 4 Nations Cup in OT
  Another Canada-U.S. women’s hockey game, another classic. The two female hockey superpowers duelled into overtime Saturday night at a sold-out ...
• Canada will play U.S. for title
  It was another Harlem Globetrotters/Washington Generals–like performance in international women’s hockey Friday night, as Canada waltzed past ...
• Women’s hockey needs help
  Canada’s done its part. The U.S., too.But how much farther women’s hockey can advance as a viable female athletic option rests not with North ...
• A need to focus on the Finns, not the finish
  Although Canada’s facing a must-win situation tonight, coach Ryan Walter’s biggest challenge might be keeping his team’s focused on Finland ...
• U.S. goes coast to coast for revenge
  The stakes weren’t quite as high, of course, but Jessie Vetter exacted a bit of revenge on her Canadian goaltending counterpart with a 32-save ...
• Rivalry renewed
  One of hockey’s best rivalries will be on display tonight at Mile One Centre when Canada takes on the United States to open the 4 Nations Cup ...
• Team Canada finds its way back onto the ice
  Donning the familiar red and white maple leaf for the first time since last February, Canada’s national senior women’s hockey team had a bit of ...
• Mario wears the crown
  For a half-dozen or more winters, through the marvelously-entertaining mid-to-late-1980s, they drew regular comparisons to each other.Wayne ...
• Drop the puck
  Northeast senior hockey coach Steve Power chuckled at the suggestion this week that his team might be the New York Islanders of provincial senior ...
• New challenge for Walter
  Ryan Walter is a glass-is-half-full kind of guy.Which probably explains why, after a lifetime in hockey, he’s making a living preaching the value ...
• Hindsight lacking in senior hockey
  It had become a bit of a standing joke to those of us within the sports department, or Toy Department as the uppity news crowd sometimes ...
• Leafs still struggling to make their way out of a...
  It is hockey’s most valuable team, flush with cash like no other, in hockey’s largest market where hockey matters most.Yet the Toronto Maple ...
• After eight years, Greening makes another AHL...
  Eight years after standing on the Mile One Centre blueline as a wide-eyed youngster among a host of American Hockey League all-stars, Colin ...
• Under the G, Greening; Bingo has some local flavour
  Playing for the first time in his hometown since his midget-aged days, Colin Greening of St. John’s will be in the Binghamton Senators’ lineup ...
• Will choosing Price cost the Habs?
  The Montreal Canadiens confirmed over the summer they’re ready for Carey Price to seize the toughest job in hockey, that of the franchise’s ...
• Fresh start for Sea-Hawks after a year to forget
  It might as well be considered ancient history now, but that still doesn’t keep Walt Mavin from looking back on the 2009 Atlantic Intercollegiate ...
• Still a force at 40
  The aches and pains last a little while longer than they used to. There’s a slight limp now and then. The knees are starting to creak a bit. ...
• Minor hockey championship will cost organizers big...
  It may be a minor hockey championship, but the Telus Cup will come with a major price tag for local organizers next spring.Such is the cost of ...
• He stood on Guards, by golly
  For all Howie Meeker has done in hockey — his four Stanley Cup rings with the Toronto Maple Leafs, an NHL rookie of the year award, a one-year ...
• Holy Cross Kirby Group gets another shot at national...
  “We pretty much say that every year,” said star forward Nichole Adams, “and the feeling this year is we have to do that.“The transition to real ...
• Good skaters come in all sizes
  Somewhere, Bobby Lalonde, that 5-5 gadfly who buzzed his way through nearly 650 NHL games against all odds in the brawling ’70s, must be ...
• Former Leafs' assistant coach relishes challenge
  And then one day the phone rang. It was fellow Islander Al MacAdam, coach of the St. John’s Maple Leafs offering a vacant assistant coach’s ...
• Nobody asked, but ...
  The number of female Regatta crews outnumber the male teams 54-17 down at Quidi Vidi Lake. At last weekend’s Tely 10, female runners outnumbered ...
• The B.C. bugaboo
  Simon Blanks hopes to change that Saturday.The Rock and Vancouver Wave hit the Swilers Rugby Club turf Saturday at 2 p.m., with the ...
• Huffin, puffin and sweatin' like a ...
  A guy running the 10 miles in a puffin suit, complete with puffin head. To help promote the Sept. 26 provincial marathon — the Huffin ...