Tony Gallagher is a former Vancouver Province sports columnist who focused primarily on hockey, basketball, tennis and late in his career, UBC sports and its related issues. Having covered 24 Stanley Cup finals including all three Vancouver Canuck trips to the finals beginning in 1982, Gallagher is a former vice-president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association and was also a staple on the TEAM 1040 radio station where he did the Canucks pre-game show with Barry MacDonald and Don Taylor. In 2013 he was inducted into the Vancouver College Hall of honor and he is a member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame (2018) as well as the Hockey Hall of fame (2020). 

Like so many outstanding journalists throughout UBCs history, Gallagher was recruited out of school while working for the Ubyssey and began writing about hockey when assigned the junior beat when the New Westminster Bruins moved from Estevan, Sask., in 1972. He moved on to work on the Vancouver Blazers of the WHA before taking over the Canucks as beat writer in ’77. He was promoted to general columnist and attended Super Bowls, NBA finals and major boxing events as well, before leaving the paper to do his own radio show called ‘Gallagher on sport’ on the Rogers’ Satellite Radio network in ’89. While there he continued to write a weekly column for the paper. He returned full time to the Province and the Province.com  the NHL columnist but that soon evolved into all sports the way it was before the radio show.

Vancouver born and raised, Gallagher graduated from UBC with a political science and economics degree and retired from the newspaper in 2015 and radio in 2018. He and his wife Susan have been married 48 years and have three sons and four grandchildren.