Bruce Dowbiggin grew up in Montreal, lived for a good spell of his working life in Toronto, and moved to Calgary near the beginning of this decade to write a general sports column for the Calgary Herald.
In Toronto he did the CBC Radio morning sportscast before moving to TV, where he worked as the sports anchor for the local CBC-TV outlet and Newsworld before returning briefly to radio. He's won two Gemini Awards as a sportscaster.
Bruce is also a successful author, having published five books including the latest, Meaning of Puck: How Hockey Explains Modern Canada.
Bruce Dowbiggin’s column on sports media appears on Mondays and Fridays and midweek exclusively on globesports.com.
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