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Fox Sports Live

Fox Sports Live serves as Fox Sports 1's sportscast of record and is headlined by main anchors Jay Onrait and Dan O'Toole, who came to FS1 from the Canada's main English-language cable sports network, TSN, where the pair gained popularity for their irreverent presentation of sports news while serving in late-night anchor roles on that network's SportsCentre.


1966 College Football All-America Team

Clint Jones, Michigan State (AP, NEA, CP, WC, Time, TSN)

1970 College Football All-America Team

Steve Worster, Texas (AP, UPI, NEA, FWAA, WC, AFCA, TSN, Time, FN)

1974 World Football League season

Key: PC = voted on by players and coaches of the WFL; TSN = selection by The Sporting News

1997 College Football All-America Team

Ricky Williams, Texas (AP, AFCA-Coaches, FWAA-Writers, Walter Camp, TSN, FN)

1998 College Football All-America Team

Ricky Williams, Texas (AFCA, AP, FWAA, TSN, Walter Camp, FN)

2008 College Football All-America Team

Taylor Mays, Southern California (AP, FWAA, TSN, WCFF, CBS, CFN, ESPN, PFW, SI)

Louie Sakoda, Utah (AFCA, AP, FWAA, TSN, WCFF, ESPN, PFW, SI)

2008 Continental Cup of Curling

TSN televised every draw of the Continental Cup, with the men's team games and the women's feature skins games on tape-delay (while broadcast live on TSN2) and the remainder of the draws live.

Alex J. Walling

He still contributes to a regular sports column for the TSN web page and is heard daily on Halifax Information Radio (97.9 FM).

Anthems and nationalistic songs of Canada

Beginning in the fall of 2008 the theme could be heard on hockey broadcasts on the CTV-owned TSN and RDS sports channels.

Antoine Vermette

The goal became well-known around the league and was named TSN's Goal of the Season.

Beauceville, Quebec

On July 1, 2010, it was announced that Beauceville, Quebec was nominated to be a stop on the TSN Kraft Celebration Tour.

Byron Ritchie

On Tuesday May 13, 1997 after a game in the Memorial Cup refereed by a Francophone from Quebec he was caught by an RDS (the French version of TSN) camera yelling: "Fuck you, you fucking Frogs! Fuck them all!"" He apologized the next day at practice stating "Whether the camera was on me or not doesn't make it right.

CICI-TV

Brendan Connor rejoined the station in 2011, after spending many years as a sportscaster and anchor for national and international networks including TSN, CBC Newsworld and Al Jazeera English.

Curling on TSN

Other broadcasters TSN have used for curling include Rod Black, John Wells, and Glenn Healy.

TSN originally broadcast Canadian Curling Association events, including the opening rounds of the Tim Hortons Brier, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts from 1984-2003.

Damian The Hypnotist

His work has appeared on major television networks, including HBO, CTV, TVO, TSN and Global.

Darren Anderton

Anderton has worked as the in-studio analyst for Canadian network TSN's coverage of Euro 2012.

Dave Nonis

He has two brothers and a sister and is also a second cousin of sportscaster Darren Dreger of TSN.

Dave Randorf

Since returning to TSN, Randorf has covered numerous sporting events, including U.S. Open golf, the Grey Cup, the Super Bowl, men's and women's Ice Hockey World Championships, Memorial Cup, Pan Am Games, and Canada Games.

Dustin Brown

Many observers, including TSN's Bob McKenzie and SI's Michael Farber, called the hit the decisive moment in the series.

Glenn Healy

Healy created the "Loch Ness Monster" hockey analysis segment for TSN, in which he picked a player (or players) who was supposed to be a key player that night but did not turn out to be (the tagline being that the player is "the monster you hear about but don't see").

Henrik Zetterberg

Named the first recipient of the 'TSN NHL Player of the Year' in 2008 by a panel of 30 people around the NHL.

Ivan Fecan

Fecan built Baton into a cross-Canada broadcasting powerhouse by purchasing or launching CTV affiliates in nearly every major market in the country (thus enabling itself to be renamed CTV Inc.) The new CTV organization in 1999 purchased Netstar Communications, owners of TSN.

Jeff Marek

Jeff has hosted Live Audio Wrestling, Leafs Lunch (cohosted with former Toronto Maple Leaf executive Bill Watters) and the The Jeff Marek Show, as well as making notable television appearances on TSN Off The Record and Leafs TV After the Horn.

Jennifer Hedger

Jennifer Frances Hedger (born September 18, 1975 in London, Ontario) is a Canadian television personality, the co-host of TSN's nightly sports news program SportsCentre.

Jim Van Horne

He moved on to a long career with TSN where he was a sportsanchor from the beginning of that sports network's history in 1984 until 2001.

John Ferguson, Jr.

At the 2007-08 NHL Season's trade deadline, Ferguson provided analysis of the trades as they came in for TSN.

Julie Zwillich

Zwillich was a host on the popular TVOKids live broadcast from 1999–2002 and went on to host BrainBounce! on TV Ontario and Discovery UK, and the sports show SWEAT on OLN and TSN.

Keith Stokes

Stokes made the TSN CFL Play of The Year on his August 13, 2005, touchdown vs. the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Ken Singleton

After retiring as a baseball player, Singleton began his broadcasting career as a sportscaster for WJZ-TV in Baltimore in the middle 1980s and, has worked for TSN (The Sports Network) as a television color commentator and as a radio color commentator on Montreal Expos broadcasts and as a color commentator for Fox Sports.

Marek Malík

Former Rangers commentator John Davidson said, "Now I've seen it all! First Strudwick scores, then Malík wins a shootout with a shot between the legs. Oh Baby!" The goal was ranked as the play of the year by TSN's SportsCentre.

MLS on TSN

Toronto FC regional games are currently split between the TSN and Sportsnet families of networks (their parent companies, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, jointly own a stake in TFC's parent company).

National Football League on Canadian television

In addition to Monday Night Football, TSN broadcasts NBC Sunday Night Football and the NFL Network's package.

Niclas Wallin

Wallin was featured in a Top 10 list on TSN's Sportscentre in 2006 after he scored a famous own goal in a game against the Washington Capitals.

Olli Jokinen

The deal generated controversy after Canadian channel The Sports Network (TSN) had announced that the trade was complete, then claimed that the Flames had balked at completing the deal, believing they would need their players for a scheduled game.

Pat Tabler

Tabler took over as the main color commentator for TSN's main rival, Rogers Sportsnet in 2005 after the death of their regular commentator John Cerutti, and called the majority of games for both networks from 2005 to 2009 alongside Jamie Campbell and Rod Black.

Scoregolf

Bob Weeks also hosts SCOREGolf TV, which is seen on TSN.

Sportsnet Radio

The stations (which maintain their former "The Fan" moniker in their names) were re-branded to increase their synergy with the co-owned Sportsnet television channel, amid indications that TSN would be launching a radio network of their own (which TSN indeed did, converting CHUM in Toronto to TSN Radio 1050).

State radio network

Five weeks later, TSN's debut broadcast originated from the old Casa Manana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.

Stéphane Robidas

Robidas won TSN's "No Guts, No Glory" contest, an unofficial award for the 2008–09 NHL season's toughest player.

Texas State Network

TSN began five weeks after its incorporation date with a broadcast originating from the old Casa Mañana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.

TSN Radio

As part of TSN's television contract extension with the Canadian Football League, TSN Radio also owns the radio broadcast rights to the Grey Cup from 2013 to 2018.

U8TV: The Lofters

A few former Lofters have gone on to successful television gigs, most notably Season One's Jennifer Hedger who is now an anchor on TSN's popular SportsCentre (and in this role made an appearance on the sitcom Corner Gas).


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