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Ottawa sports talk, loose and lived-in.
The Steve Warne Project works like an Ottawa sports hangout with a radio timing and a friend-at-the-table rhythm. Senators losses, Redblacks struggles, Blue Jays surges, golf, tennis, media moves, and strange personal tangents all share the same floor.
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The Steve Warne Project is Ottawa sports talk in a loose, fast-moving, conversational form. It is built around the habits of local radio more than the polish of a studio panel. The show can start with a sponsor read, a technical aside, a personal complaint, or a joke, then suddenly land on the Senators, the Redblacks, the Blue Jays, or whatever else has grabbed the room that day. It often feels like a sports conversation already in progress. That looseness is the point. Senators talk is a major anchor, especially when the team is chasing points, losing ground, dealing with injuries, or facing questions around radio coverage and media access. The analysis is plainspoken. A bad goal is treated like a bad goal, playoff math gets worked out aloud, and disappointment is allowed to sound like disappointment. Ottawa football gets similar treatment, with Redblacks struggles framed through records, expectations, coaching, and the long memory of local fans. The scope is broader than Ottawa, though. Recent episodes move through Brooke Henderson, Victoria Mboko, Summer McIntosh, the Blue Jays, NHL expansion, golf fame, tennis family dynamics, and major football trades. Some segments bring in named media voices for more focused perspective. Others lean into wandering banter, personal stories, old references, and deliberately rough-edged humor. The show is at its strongest when sports analysis and everyday talk collide without warning. A serious court-case discussion can sit near a joke about an aging reference. A hockey schedule complaint can turn into a larger point about how players and fans actually live the season. The result is not a clean briefing. It is a local sports conversation with memory, irritation, affection, and enough unpredictability to feel human. Listeners who like structured headlines may find it shaggy. Listeners who miss the texture of informal Ottawa radio will understand it immediately.
Made for: For Ottawa sports fans who follow the Senators, Redblacks, and the wider Canadian sports week, and who prefer opinionated conversation over tidy highlight recaps. It especially suits listeners who enjoy old-school radio chemistry and local media texture.
What sets it apart: The show blends Senators-first urgency with a broader Ottawa sports bar rhythm, letting analysis, guest perspective, listener-minded complaints, and personal digressions share the same space. Its strength is the unpolished immediacy of people working through sports news as it lands.
Long-time TSN morning show host Steve Warne, covered in potato chip crumbs, checks in with his unique takes on what matters to Ottawa sports fans. New episodes every Monday.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
Ottawa sports plays like a running argument among familiar voices, with enough detail to make the local stakes clear.
The Steve Warne Project - Ottawa Sports Talk starts with Ottawa and lets the map widen from there. Senators postgame reaction sits beside a REDBLACKS quarterback interview, Blue Jays talk, Canadian athletes, golf, tennis, and whatever else has the room's attention that week.
Ottawa playoff math comes with enough loose banter to make a power-tool mishap feel perfectly on-topic.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Stained shirts, coaching changes, and burnout talk give this loose radio hour a real center.
The episode opens on stained shirts and a Chris Berman joke, then settles into a sharper run through coaching changes and the old reminder that sports is a business.
A loose sports-talk episode that moves from NHL review talk to a Jays joke.
It starts in a bit of a tumble, with a sponsor read, two hosts talking over each other, and a tennis joke before the conversation finds its footing.
A Scheffler discussion that moves from Ottawa to wealth, hoodies, and a listener-age check.
Jim Jerome's return from Ottawa gives the episode an easy start, before the talk settles into Scottie Scheffler's British Open remarks about family, golf, and the strain the game can put on home life.
Ottawa's playoff chase is weighed through Sanderson's injury, defensive strain, and a costly Montreal loss.
Ottawa's 3-2 loss to Montreal gives this single-episode review a useful point of tension: a three-game win streak is gone, the game-winner was ugly, and a 9-2-2 run over the last 13 still leaves the Senators nine points behind the Canadiens.
Drew Brown looks back on the choices and encouragement that kept his football career moving toward the CFL.
Drew Brown's path from Hawaii to Oklahoma State gives this Ottawa REDBLACKS interview a clean throughline. He comes across as someone measuring each step carefully, from wanting to test himself against stronger competition to facing the uncertainty that followed his Oklahoma…
Big Cat and PFT Commenter cover the NFL, March Madness, and NHL for laughs.
Ryen Russillo runs weekly NFL and MLB recaps with beat reporters like Jeff Passan and Mike Sando.
Steve Warne and Greg Kennedy analyze the Ottawa Senators' 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, which ended their three-game win streak.
Steve Warne interviews Ottawa REDBLACKS quarterback Dru Brown in a replay from last year.
This episode analyzes the Ottawa Senators' 3-2 loss to the Montreal Canadiens, discussing Jake Sanderson's injury, playoff implications, and team performance.
Steve Warren and Graham Nichols examine TSN 1200's decision to keep Senators radio broadcasters Dean Brown and Gord Wilson in Ottawa for road games rather than sending them to visiting arenas.
Steve Warne and Jimmy discuss Brooke Henderson winning the Canadian Open for a second time, Aphrodite Dang contending at age 15, and Vicky Mboko winning Canada's national women's tennis tournament at 18.
This episode discusses the Ottawa Redblacks' ongoing struggles in the CFL, including a recent loss to the Edmonton Elks, with analysis from sports reporter Donnie Brennan.
The episode opens with a Ford ad, then transitions into casual banter about a host's cataract diagnosis and eye surgery explanation.
The hosts open on stained shirts and a Chris Berman joke.
Fast start.
Jim Jerome is back after a whirlwind Ottawa stop.
This episode features an interview with Ottawa REDBLACKS quarterback Dru Brown, discussing his background and career in the CFL.
This episode discusses hockey topics including the Senators' performance, Ovechkin vs.
Steve and Jimmy discuss Jimmy's birthday, prompted by Facebook reminders, reflecting on their long friendship and the insincerity of social media birthday wishes.
The hosts discuss sports betting outcomes, including winning on the Grey Cup with the Toronto Argonauts and losing on an NFL game, while touching on NHL suspensions and the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight.
This episode of The Steve Warren Project discusses sports topics including the President's Cup, Caitlin Clark, and what to do with top NHL prospects, while reflecting on the show's history and scheduling challenges.