Career
His primary subject is the National Hockey League and Minnesota Wild. He is a vice president of the Professional Hockey Writers" Association, is Chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the PHWA, publishes a blog on the Minneapolis Star Tribune web site called, "Russo"s Rants", was an National Hockey League columnist for Versus.com and has been named Minnesota Sportswriter of the Year three times (2011, 2012 and 2015) by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. He has routinely been a guest on radio stations KSTP (Department of Administration and Management) (aka 1500 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) and KFAN (Department of Administration and Management).
He co-hosted the show, "Russo Radio," on 1500 Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and is now exclusively on KFAN. He also is an exclusive contributor to Fox Sports North.
Russo has a Twitter account where he tweets Wild and National Hockey League information, Russostrib. He was a selected journalist by National Hockey League.com for the 2010 Olympics and occasionally writes for The Hockey News.
He previously worked for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reporting on the Florida Panthers. In 2000, Russo co-authored the Sports Illustrated for Kids book, "Rising Stars: The 10 Best Young Players in the National Hockey League.".
