A different former Sandbox blogger wins a different award

Colin Hunter notified me that he won an award of some sort. Given that this is a national award, perhaps it deserves more than a blog post that Ben got after his provincial award. But, that is all Sandbox can give, a mention on the blog.

Record reporter wins national award 10 May 2008

Hunter, 31, took home the award for sports reporting, beating out journalists from the Toronto Star, a sister paper of the Record, and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix. Hunter won for a series of stories on unusual sports.

You can regularly read his entertaining writing on his entertainment blog Within Earshot.

Strangely when I searched "wihtin earshot" (mistyped), Colin's blog comes up first. When I search it spelled correctly "within earshot," he drops in the ranking to third.

• Former writer of Sandbox blog wins newspaper award 3 May 2004