Shaping Saskatchewan: Rob Vanstone | 24CA News

For many years, sports activities followers in Regina have flipped via the pages of the Regina Leader-Post to learn the phrases of probably the most revered and well-known sports activities writers within the province.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Regina Pats, different native sports activities golf equipment and occasions — he’s coated all of it.

Now, he’s taking over a brand new problem. Rob Vanstone, the previous Leader-Post columnist, is a number of weeks into his new position with the Roughriders.

His pleasure and eagerness for the job would have you ever suppose it’s solely his first day.

“It really is an amazing feeling. I’m still kind of processing it in a way,” stated Vanstone earlier than the interview. “I keep waiting for a security person with a walkie-talkie to say, ‘Time’s up’ and escort me out of here. I feel like I’m an interloper because it is so new.”

Sometimes it may be troublesome to change out of a routine. Vanstone wrote for the Leader-Post for 37 years (should you embrace his summer season jobs, he stated) and he held a number of positions on the paper, together with sports activities editor and sports activities columnist.

However, 2023 has already turn out to be a monumental yr for the legendary author after he introduced his departure from the native newspaper to affix the Roughriders — a corporation he has written about on numerous events — and turn out to be the CFL membership’s senior journalist and historian.

“I followed the Roughriders via the Leader-Post so much and I still have scrapbooks at home dating back to the mid-1970s, starting with the Riders’ victory over Edmonton in October of 1975, which was the game that really lit the fuse as far as me being addicted to this,”  Vanstone stated.

And a giant a part of Vanstone’s early recollections as a younger Roughrider fan is the time he spent along with his mom watching the Green and White. He stated it was one thing he considered when he took on the brand new problem.

“So many people have said this to me and it really hits home, ‘What would your mom say? How proud would your mom be?’ Mom was the greatest Roughrider fan, and she and I went to five Grey Cups together in a span of six years dating back to 1976.”

You can view the complete dialog with Rob Vanstone in our newest Shaping Saskatchewan function.

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