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The Lede: “I got a pep in my step. I’ve got fresh legs and I’m excited to fly around.”

August 1, 2024 | Ed Tait
It’s been five years since Lucky Whitehead last pulled on a Winnipeg Blue Bombers jersey and 285 days since he earned a game-day paycheque. So, to be perfectly blunt, hell yeah, the ...

Game Preview: B.C. at WPG

July 31, 2024 | Ed Tait
Game #9: Lions (5-2) at Blue Bombers (2-6) Kickoff: Thursday, August 1st, 7:30 p.m. CDT; Princess Auto Stadium, Winnipeg, Mb. TV/Streaming: TSN/RDS: CFL+ Radio: 680 CJOB Streaks: B.C.: 1L; Wpg: ...

48 Hour Primer | Week 9

July 30, 2024 | Ed Tait
Nic Demski has been around the game long enough to understand there are pros and cons of media attention. And so when the cameras and reporters formed a semi-circle around the Winnipeg Blue ...

Upon Further Review | TOR 16 WPG 14 (OT)

July 28, 2024 | Ed Tait
Sure sign #651 things have gone sideways for any Canadian Football League squad: The calendar has yet to flip to August and already some folks are looking at remaining games, potential ...

Game Recap | WPG 14 TOR 16

July 27, 2024 | Ed Tait
TORONTO – They continued to blast holes in both feet, occasionally handled the football like it has been dipped in a vat of 10w30 motor oil and repeatedly got in their own way, over and over and ...

The Lede: “We still have faith in here.”

July 27, 2024 | Ed Tait
TORONTO — At its core and in its simplest form the Winnipeg Blue Bombers stumble out of the starting gate and 2-5 start is about football’s basics — too many mistakes and too ...

Game Preview | WPG at TOR

July 26, 2024 | Ed Tait
Game #8: Blue Bombers (2-5) at Argonauts (3-3) Kickoff: Saturday, July 27th, 6 p.m. CDT; BMO Field, Toronto, Ont. TV/Streaming: TSN 1, CBS Sports Network; CFL+ Radio: 680 CJOB Streaks: Wpg: 1L; ...

48-Hour Primer | WPG at TOR

July 25, 2024 | Ed Tait
Tony Jones has lived the nomadic life of a football player for eons now and so he has a full understanding of how this works. A guy puts often down roots in one place, only to have to start over ...

20th Annual Banjo Bowl presented by Casinos of Winnipeg Sold Out

July 25, 2024 | Staff
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the 20th annual Banjo Bowl presented by Casinos of Winnipeg is sold out. Kickoff for the 2024 Banjo Bowl is slated for 2:00 p.m. CT. “This is the earliest ...

“We’ve got to execute better.”

July 24, 2024 | Ed Tait
Let’s open with this because context and frames of reference are important when discussing the current struggles of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers offence: Over the last few years the Blue ...

Winnipeg Blue Bombers announce 2024 Hall of Fame inductee & special honourees

July 23, 2024 | Staff
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are pleased to announce the 2024 inductees to the club’s Hall of Fame: The Blue Bombers 1984 Grey Cup team in the 40th anniversary of that championship, and Bill ...

Need to Know | Week 8

July 23, 2024 | Ed Tait
There will be no unique or innovative answers coming forth here. And there are certainly no magic potions for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to collectively throw back to instantly bring them out of a ...

Blue Bombers add defensive back Aaron Grymes to practice roster

July 23, 2024 | Staff
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce the club has signed veteran American defensive back Aaron Grymes to the practice roster. Grymes (5-11, 186, Idaho; born: March 1, 1991, in Seattle, WA.) ...

Upon Further Review | SASK 19 WPG 9

July 20, 2024 | Ed Tait
We’ve all essentially watched the same movie play out on repeat for most of the last four years for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers: They’d bulldoze through roadblocks and soar over hurdles ...

Game Recap | WPG 9 SSK 19

July 20, 2024 | Ed Tait
REGINA – They dug the hole themselves and tumbled down into the depths of it to start the season. So, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers understood the long climb out would be both slippery and ...

The Lede: “He’s a heckuva talent.”

July 19, 2024 | Ed Tait
REGINA — He is still somewhat of a blank canvas and very much a work in progress. And yet, the bright, broad strokes Pokey Wilson painted a week ago in his ‘Look at me’ Canadian ...

Game Preview | WPG at SASK

July 18, 2024 | Ed Tait
Game #7: Blue Bombers (2-4) at Roughriders (4-1) Kickoff: Friday, July 19th, 8:30 p.m. CDT; Mosaic Stadium, Regina, Sk. TV/Streaming: TSN 3; CFL+ Radio: 680 CJOB Streaks: Wpg: 2W; Sask: 1L Scene ...

48-Hour Primer | WPG at SASK

July 17, 2024 | Ed Tait
It’s become one of the clichés in sports, this notion of treating any opportunity — from the smallest of stages to a championship contest — as ‘just another ...

“The best thing I can do is just stay ready and just play hard and be somebody’s energy.”

July 16, 2024 | Ed Tait
It can be taken away in an instant — TyJuan Garbutt knows that full well. He’s lived it, after all, through the first third of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers season. Considered one of the ...

Need to know | Week 7

July 15, 2024 | Ed Tait
There were moments in the first month of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers season when the world had seemingly spun off its axis and Bomberland appeared destined to be soon facing a swarm of locusts, ...
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