Scott Taylor
Inducted 2003
Primary Outlet
Winnipeg Free Press, Game On
Scott Taylor is a veteran sports journalist whose career spans more than seven decades, marked by his coverage of 11 Olympic Games, eight World Series, 12 Super Bowls, 21 Grey Cup games and 18 Stanley Cup finals.
Born and raised in Ontario, he began his journalism career at the Sarnia Observer and CKJD radio in 1968 covering junior hockey. While playing basketball and golf at the University of Guelph, he also found time to run the campus radio station and create The Starting Line-Up, Canada’s national basketball newspaper (1974-85).
Taylor moved to Winnipeg in 1976 to become the executive director of Basketball Manitoba. He was hired at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1980, where he started covering university sports and the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League. In 1982, he received the Fred Sgambati Media Award by the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (now U Sports).
He started covering the Winnipeg Jets and Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1981 and became a columnist at the Free Press the following year. He was the first Winnipeg reporter for TSN in the early ‘80s, and then the weekly sports columnist on Midday on CBC-TV from 1986-2000. He later served as TV play-by-play broadcaster of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and is now a columnist and thoroughbred racing reporter at the Winnipeg Sun.
He created the hockey magazine Game On in 2012 and remains its vice-president and editor emeritus. In 2015, Game On won the Signature Award as best-designed magazine in Manitoba.
Taylor has written 16 books, almost all on local sports. They include the national bestseller and finalist for Manitoba Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Winnipeg Jets: A Celebration of Professional Hockey in Winnipeg; the six-part Illustrated History of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers; the best-selling children’s book Not Without My Teammates, co-written with the “keeper” of the Grey Cup, Jeff McWhinney; and all three books in the series A History of Excellence: The Untold Stories of Manitoba’s Indigenous Sport.
In 2021, he and co-host Travis Dunn won the Eric Sevareid Broadcasting Award for their cross-border hockey show, Game On Hockey on KFGO radio in Fargo, N.D.
Scott Taylor was inducted into the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2004.
Born and raised in Ontario, he began his journalism career at the Sarnia Observer and CKJD radio in 1968 covering junior hockey. While playing basketball and golf at the University of Guelph, he also found time to run the campus radio station and create The Starting Line-Up, Canada’s national basketball newspaper (1974-85).
Taylor moved to Winnipeg in 1976 to become the executive director of Basketball Manitoba. He was hired at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1980, where he started covering university sports and the Winnipeg Warriors of the Western Hockey League. In 1982, he received the Fred Sgambati Media Award by the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union (now U Sports).
He started covering the Winnipeg Jets and Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 1981 and became a columnist at the Free Press the following year. He was the first Winnipeg reporter for TSN in the early ‘80s, and then the weekly sports columnist on Midday on CBC-TV from 1986-2000. He later served as TV play-by-play broadcaster of the Winnipeg Goldeyes and is now a columnist and thoroughbred racing reporter at the Winnipeg Sun.
He created the hockey magazine Game On in 2012 and remains its vice-president and editor emeritus. In 2015, Game On won the Signature Award as best-designed magazine in Manitoba.
Taylor has written 16 books, almost all on local sports. They include the national bestseller and finalist for Manitoba Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Winnipeg Jets: A Celebration of Professional Hockey in Winnipeg; the six-part Illustrated History of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers; the best-selling children’s book Not Without My Teammates, co-written with the “keeper” of the Grey Cup, Jeff McWhinney; and all three books in the series A History of Excellence: The Untold Stories of Manitoba’s Indigenous Sport.
In 2021, he and co-host Travis Dunn won the Eric Sevareid Broadcasting Award for their cross-border hockey show, Game On Hockey on KFGO radio in Fargo, N.D.
Scott Taylor was inducted into the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2004.