Stephen Brunt

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Bob Cole mastered the 'feel and flow' of hockey, and we all benefited

Stephen Brunt

With more than 30 years of experience in sports media, author and award-winning journalist Stephen Brunt has seen and covered it all. Currently a columnist for sportsnet.ca and Sportsnet magazine, Brunt covers a wide range of sports on a daily basis, including baseball, boxing and hockey.

Instead of World Cup preparation, Canada Soccer dealing with self-inflicted black eye

At the beginning of what should be a triumphal march to Qatar, the players chose not to play the match against Panama to make their point. The sport has a self-inflicted black eye at a moment of historically high soccer interest in Canada.

Guy Lafleur's electric image forever etched in Canadiens history

Canada's World Cup journey a seminal moment for sports culture in this country

Canada’s qualification for the World Cup in Qatar, sealed with a 4-0 win against Jamaica in Toronto on Sunday, is a sea change moment for sports culture in this country.

No one saw Tom Brady coming — and then the myth-making began

As a young quarterback, Tom Brady didn't wow anyone while he was at the University of Michigan or at the NFL combine. He was slow. He wasn’t elusive. His arm was OK but no cannon. So no one saw what was to come for Brady.

Djokovic's deportation shows we do indeed have a breaking point

How the greatness of Christine Sinclair made Olympic gold possible

Christine Sinclair wasn’t on the field for the penalty shootout that saw the Canadian women’s soccer team win gold. But this was the program and team she inspired to greatness.

Amid the pause of 2020, hockey was given a chance to start again

Sportsnet's Stephen Brunt reflects on the enormous upheavals that transpired in 2020 and how it has forced not only the hockey world, but everyone to reflect and re-evaluate its traditions and values.

The year we lost sports showed us just how much they anchor our lives

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Tyson-Jones Jr. could provide tingles — just don't expect too much

Mike Tyson returns to the ring Saturday to face off against Roy Jones Jr., and viewers may just get a feeling of what it was like to watch both in their primes.