Jeff Blair
Canadian writer

Jeff Blair

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Canadian writer
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Jeff Blair (born in Kingston, Ontario) is a Canadian sports columnist for Sportsnet, & sports talk radio host on Sportsnet 590 The FAN in Toronto. Since June 2019, Blair has also served as host of the nationally syndicated sports radio show Prime Time Sports (also simulcast on television via Sportsnet 360), with co-hosts Stephen Brunt or Richard Deitsch.

Blair has previously served as a sports columnist for The Globe and Mail. In 2012, he also wrote a book, Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball.

In 2018, Blair was awarded the Jack Graney Award by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame as "a member of the media who has made significant contributions to baseball in Canada through their life’s work."

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Blair was born in Kingston, Ontario, but raised in Morden, Manitoba. He went to school at the University of Manitoba. As of 2012, Blair resides in Hamilton, Ontario with his wife and daughter.