Rogers's new Sportsnet magazine scoops Globe and Mail lead columnist Stephen Brunt

Rogers's incipient Sportsnet magazine, due to be published in two days, has announced that it has poached Stephen Brunt, the longtime lead columnist for the Globe and Mail. He joins three other announced columists who are in one way or another associated with Rogers or Sportsnet: Scott Feschuk of Maclean's, Greg Brady and Jim Lang, the hosts of Sportsnet's morning radio show and Bob McCown, the host of Prime Time on Sportsnet and a commentator on The FAN 590.