Previously unsuccessful at luring Bob McCown (Fan 590's highest rated show) to The Score Television Network, Williams went after his co-host, Stephen Brunt.
Williams and Waters were able to attract quality on-air talent including Paul Romanuk for the morning show, and Jim Van Horne and Stephen Brunt for the afternoon drive slot.
[3] Brunt stepped down as co-host in spring 2002 but was still heard regularly on air until the Team 1050 was cancelled and reverted to an oldies station on August 27, 2002, at 3pm.
[4] Stephen Brunt has authored several successful books including Facing Ali: 15 Fighters / 15 Stories (2003) (which details some of the professional boxing bouts of boxer Muhammad Ali), Gretzky's Tears: Hockey, America and the Day Everything Changed (2009) (which details the August 9, 1988, trade of centreman Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings), and the #1 Canadian best seller Searching for Bobby Orr (2006) (which is a biography of defenseman Bobby Orr).
[5] His other works include The Way it Looks from Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports; Mean Business: The Rise and Fall of Shawn O'Sullivan; Second to None: The Roberto Alomar Story (which he famously wrote in a single month) and Diamond Dreams: 20 Years of Blue Jays Baseball, as well as the script for Joseph Blasioli's 2003 documentary film The Last Round: Chuvalo vs.
[7] Brunt mentioned on Prime Time Sports during the fall of 2013, when talking about fighting's place in hockey, that he was working on a book with NHL player Jordin Tootoo.
When confronted by the question of integrity and ethics of the relay on Primetime Sports, the conversation unfolded as follows: Brunt: "This is a commercial endeavor.
The issue quickly subsided as it became clear that a wide variety of people were to carry the torch, including 25 other journalists from the Olympic Consortium.
His work culminated in a video essay which he wrote and performed the voiceover for, which aired just after Canada won Gold in Men's Hockey.