Rosie DiManno is a Canadian journalist whose career has moved between sports reporting and opinion writing on local, national, and international affairs. She began as a sportswriter in 1975 and has been a columnist at the Toronto Star since 1989, a long-running role that has made her a notable voice in Toronto newspaper journalism. The Ontario Sports Hall of Fame identifies her work with both the paper’s sports coverage and its broader current-affairs commentary.
Her reporting has included the Toronto Blue Jays and Toronto Maple Leafs, alongside Olympic coverage and columns beyond sport. DiManno has also written books about Toronto teams and hockey. The supplied catalog title, Coach, is her account of NHL coach Pat Burns; its publisher describes it as a biography built from interviews with people from across Burns’s life and career. Penguin Random House Canada lists the book as published by Anchor Canada.
In 2012, the Canadian Olympic Committee recognized DiManno for covering more than 10 Olympic Games. She received the Brian Williams Media Award from the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2024, in the journalism category. Her work remains associated with the Toronto Star’s sports and current-affairs commentary, linking sustained coverage of Toronto sport with daily newspaper column writing.
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