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Gabriel Morency is a Canadian sports broadcaster, who currently hosts the radio show Sports Rage on CKGM (The Team 990) in Montreal, Quebec.

Before radio and despite not having a large build, Gabriel 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 3 polls.

Morency also writes occasionally 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 22 Road Rages. Road Rages are shows that are made on the road where Morency and his listeners come to party. There are also guest stars that come on these road rages. His Road Rages often involve attacks on the French Media. Well known for having a stripper, Tangerine Dream, at both his road rages and studio shows, he is considered misogynistic by many of his fans. In the summer of 2002, Gabriel Morency was suspended for defamatory comments concerning a local media personality. Also in the summer of 2002, he began a feud with a devout listener and established scholar in the field of History, D'ondre Labomba, a feud that persists to this day. The feud escalated in December of 2003 when Gabriel challenged D'ondre to call into the show. Ringing in the new year, Frank from Valleyfield, whom Gabriel thought was a loyal caller, was revealed to be the cursed D'ondre. D'ondre Labomba has also fooled Gabriel by assuming the personae of Victor the Morency hater, Vic from St-Michel, and Pat in Downtown. The only listener known to have met D'ondre Labomba and Little Tommy is the infamous and often misunderstood 'Madness from parts unknown'. In recent times both Little Tommy, whose interest in community soccer remains unsurpassed in the proud city of Verdun, and Lord Shaughnessy, owner of the Chemin De Fer Canadien-Pacifique, have been known to call in with sexually obscene comments. Producer Jimmy, as a result, has been replaced by hard-nosed Producer David Simon. Both Little Tommy and Lord Shaughnessy have attempted to make peace with Dave Simon who has, of yet, remained obstinate. One of Morency's most remarkable qualities is his willingness to serve as a replacement host for the real stars of the Team 990. He frequently appears as the host of consecutive shows throughout the day and evening, signing off on one and signing on another immediately afterward, increasingly hoarse-voiced and incoherent. This is not helped by his apparent mild speech impediment, which prevents him from pronouncing the letter 'r' correctly so that the San Diego Padres become, in Morency-speak, the "San Diego Pajays". The cumulative effect on listeners of so much substitute Morency so much of the time is to leave them wondering whether Team 990's professional announcers are on holidays, too hungover to come to work or making first appearances in court. By the end of Morency's multiple shifts, listeners may have the impression that the radio station has been captured in a coup and that Commander Tonsilectomy is barking orders to his field units in free association Creole code. Given that Morency is known for concealing his bald head under a red tuque, this may be more probable than many listeners would like to believe.