Gemini Award winner and author Scott Russell is the Host of CBC Sports Weekend seen Saturday afternoons. A 20-year CBC Sports veteran, he has covered a variety of professional and amateur sports including nine Olympic Games and numerous world championships.

Sporting values under siege

May 27, 2011

This week’s symposium by the University of Toronto’s faculty of physical education and health called Game Misconduct: Violence, Abuse and Young Athletes raises a lot of questions about sport and where it’s heading these days.

Reigning queen of players

May 20, 2011

At the training camp for Germany’s national women’s football team in Bitburg, not far from the Luxembourg border, there’s a photographer trying to get a shot of the queen of European soccer.

Germany is perfect place for Cup

May 13, 2011

It’s enlightening to be in Germany and to understand that the Canadian women’s soccer team will be playing in the World Cup against a diverse and challenging backdrop in less than six weeks.

Living in a Russian dream

April 29, 2011

Before he went out and nailed his short program, Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan made an observation about his presence in Moscow.

Politicians heed the power of the puck

April 15, 2011

Power and politics…it pales to the popular Canadian consensus of the hockey puck.

Equality takes a leap with female ski jumpers

April 08, 2011

Make no mistake, the inclusion of women’s ski jumping beginning in the 2014 Sochi Olympics is a major victory for all females who love sport.

After a long winter, we long for more ice time

March 25, 2011

In parts of the east and west, Canadians have been hammered by snow. Old man winter is refusing to loosen his grip.

Now is not the time for Tokyo to host a tournament

March 18, 2011

The time has come for the International Skating Union to make a courageous decision and do it for all the right reasons.

Sports pushing the boundaries of safety

February 18, 2011

The casualties are mounting and sport is facing its greatest crisis. How much risk is too much and at what price is “faster, higher, stronger” too dear?

Vancouver 2010's legacy: Unfinished business

February 11, 2011

The Canadian home Olympics are a year gone. But a change in attitude lingers.

The mark of a true champion

February 04, 2011

The impressive thing about champions is they don’t know the meaning of the word quit.

Moir and virtues’ golden dance revival

February 04, 2011

The impressive thing about champions is they don’t know the meaning of the word quit. Self-satisfied accomplishment runs counter to the nature of a champion.

Gretzky and the fleeting nature of superstardom.

January 28, 2011

Disbelief. It wells up when considering Wayne Gretzky’s arrival at the unthinkable age of 50.

To be champion of a nation means a lot

January 20, 2011

In a country that communes with winter like few others, a national championship involving ice really means something.

There's more to Canadian athletics than hockey

January 14, 2011

A recent meeting with the graduate sports history class at one of Canada's largest community colleges revealed that much of our athletic folklore is a mystery.

Canadian skier shines in World Cup

January 07, 2011

Cross-country skier Devon Kershaw of Sudbury is used to racing in the shadows.

Resolutions for Canadian sport

December 31, 2010

What to resolve for 2011? How about that the Canadian hockey juniors reclaim the world championship? That’s a given.

Crosby a true gift for hockey fans

December 29, 2010

Few greater treasures exist for a hockey-loving nation than a player who has come to symbolize the sport most of us obsess over.

It wasn't just the pros who amazed in 2010

December 17, 2010

A recent trip to the Olympic Green in Beijing was unsettling. The magnificent Bird’s Nest had its track covered with man-made snow and had become a kid’s winter wonderland.

A Different Kind of Champion

December 03, 2010

Rick Gill wouldn’t approve of me writing this.  He may never know.

Plenty of strong candidates for Lou Marsh Award

November 26, 2010

The debate over Canada’s athlete of the year is about to heat up.

Patrick Chan’s Big Chance

November 19, 2010

Canada’s boy wonder of figure skating will soon get the opportunity to prove he’s ready to be the main man.

Great Northern Talent

November 12, 2010

It may be intangible, but to be in a room of 1,000 people to witness the gods and goddesses of sport get their due and enter Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame is awe-inspiring.

The Hockey Hall's boys club welcomes a true pioneer

November 05, 2010

Each year the Hockey Hall of Fame inducts two kinds of people — players and builders.

The spotlight misses a true winter superstar

October 29, 2010

He bears his sport’s greatest treasure in a silver case the size of a hatbox. 

What is up with Wayne Rooney?

October 22, 2010

The bizarre odyssey to India and the Commonwealth Games of New Delhi are over by a week — everyone is safely home or onto the next gig.

Why the Commonwealth Games came to India

October 15, 2010

The XIX Commonwealth Games in New Delhi were in a hot, crowded place and they got off to an extremely slow start.

Wrestling's women give much-needed lustre to Games

October 08, 2010

It’s a rare jewel to discover something completely out of the ordinary in sport. Few are the spectacles that cause one to sit up and take notice. 

Inspirational setting in India

October 01, 2010

New Delhi is not your average sports community. It’s not even close.

Competitors shrug off Commonwealth commotion

September 24, 2010

Once again in the arena of international sport, the athletes are the men and women caught in the middle.