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21 unusual facts about The Sports Network


2011 Stony Brook Seawolves football team

Recap: After winning their first outright Big South Championship the prior week the Seawolves headed to their first NCAA Division I playoff game in program history ranked #22 in The Sports Network poll.

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.

Chris Tessaro

He is also a regular guest on sports talk shows such as TSN’s Off The Record and SunTV’s The Grill Room.

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.

Dustin Brown

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

ESPN Canada

The Sports Network, an English cable station partially owned by ESPN in Canada

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Stéphane Robidas

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


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.

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.

Brandon Kaufman

Before the 2011 season began, he was named to the 28-member Athlon College Football Preview preseason All-America team, a pre-season First Team All-American by Phil Steele’s FCS College Football Preview, one of the top 10 wide receivers in FCS by The Sports Network, one of the top 38 receivers by the College Football Performance Awards, All-Big Sky Conference, and first team All-BSC by Phil Steele.

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.

Interbrew

The transaction also included Labatt's assets, which included the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club, the Toronto Argonauts football club, and The Sports Network (the latter being immediately resold to NetStar Communications due to Canadian media ownership regulations).

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.

Keith Stokes

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

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.

Russ Anber

Russ Anber (born March 27, 1961 in Montreal, Quebec) is a boxing analyst on The Sports Network for In This Corner.

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).