Gabriel Morency

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Gabriel Morency (born August 10, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian sports broadcaster, who hosts Sports Rage on Hardcore Sports Radio.

Before becoming a broadcaster Morency played minor hockey and was on his way to England to play professionally but chose a career in entertainment, leading to the music business and ultimately radio. Morency was placed fourth in the Montreal Readers Poll as the biggest sports personality in the city only behind Jose Theodore, Saku Koivu and Vladimir Guerrero in 2003. Conspicuously, Gabriel has not placed in the past three polls.

Morency also wrote in the Montreal Mirror, a free press newspaper.

He hosted the show Sports Weekly before joining the Team 990.

Sports Rage is known for Road Rages. In 38 months, there have been 27 Road Rages. Road Rages are shows that are made on the road where Morency and his listeners come to party, also guest stars that come on these Road Rages. Virginia's Rich Salzer is Morency's roving Sports Reporter in the field. Sports Rage also has common callers on his show including the Rickster, Brandon in St. Louis, Miguel in Toronto and Bruder. Also Cage calls are a common event on the show. Most recently, the Rickster challenged the producer of "Drive This", Mike Gentile, to a cage call.

Morency was also the host of The Blue Line, a Montreal Canadiens postgame show and Sports Line Saturday.

Morency was notably suspended once and forced to take a vacation another time.

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On November 17, 2006 Gabriel Morency announced that he would be leaving the Team 990 on December 1, 2006. 11 days later, he was on Hardcore Sports Radio co-hosting Hardcore Football Sunday and later, hosting Sports Rage. As well, he makes picks on To the Point, a television show on The Score. He also makes picks on Game On Hardcore Sports Radio. Morency has several regulars including Dave Zirin, Rich "Moose" Salzer, Greg Sansone, Arash Madani, Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Ike Taylor, Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Kyle Turley, MMA star Frank Trigg, and 'The Coach' Russ Anber. Morency is flanked by producer Aaron Bronsteter, commonly referred to as 'Orville' and sportscaster "The Big E" Eric Cohen.

Morency also co-stars in a show by the name of "Game On" with Cam Stewart that appears on Hardcore Sports Radio Sirius 186. Cam Stewart (aka "The Raging Red Head") is known for his search for value on the gambling board, and is often known to wager on the Kansas City Royals and Jacksonville Jaguars. "Game On" often calls on Las Vegas Sports Insider expert Brian Blessing aka Ricky Rickshaw. "Game On" is broadcast every weekday at 6:30pm EST. Morency also appears alongside Cam Stewart (sportscaster) and Sarah Meehan at the last segment of the show "Drive This!" on Hardcore Sports Radio hosted by Richard Garner.