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By Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — The local talent on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers roster made decisions to come home during their football careers.
CFL rushing leader Andrew Harris, receiver Nic Demski, linebacker Thomas Miles and offensive lineman Geoff Gray will play in a Grey Cup for their hometown team for the first time in their careers Sunday in Calgary.
Winnipeg’s biggest sports fan is heading to the big game this weekend in Calgary.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are flying Dancing Gabe to the Grey Cup to watch his beloved hometown team take on the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
By Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — Winnipeg Blue Bombers general manager Kyle Walters says he and Mike O’Shea have a verbal agreement to extend his head-coaching contract, but not a signed one.
O’Shea has navigated the Blue Bombers to Sunday’s Grey Cup game in Calgary against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
By Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — A long Grey Cup drought is about to end.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers last hoisted the CFL’s championship trophy almost 30 years ago. For the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, it’s been two decades.
By The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — A Calgary man who admitted to police he used methamphetamine the same day he struck and killed a teenager in a hit-and-run collision just north of Winnipeg has pleaded guilty to charges that include impaired driving causing death.
Justin Joseph Little entered the pleas Wednesday in a Winnipeg courtroom packed with the young victim’s relatives.
By Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — Zach Collaros is going back to where he started his CFL season, but wearing enemy colours.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers employed a one-two quarterback punch of Collaros and Chris Streveler to beat the Calgary Stampeders 35-14 in Sunday’s West Division semifinal.
By Donna Spencer, The Canadian Press
CALGARY — Mother Nature might have a say in how well Winnipeg runs the ball and Calgary throws it in the CFL’s West Division semifinal.
Snow and a windchill of -16 are in Sunday’s forecast for the afternoon kickoff at McMahon Stadium.
By The Canadian Press
CALGARY — A culinary crisis has been avoided at the Calgary Zoo which was facing a bamboo shortage for its four giant pandas.
The pandas, which staff admit are picky eaters, munch on about 1,200 kilograms of bamboo a week.
By The Canadian Press
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A former Winnipeg television sports anchor and college instructor who pleaded guilty to robbing banks in Saskatchewan and Alberta has been sentenced to more prison time.
Steve Vogelsang was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months for two robberies he committed in Medicine Hat, Alta., on Oct. 19 and 20, 2017.
By The Canadian Press
CALGARY — A giraffe that was born at the Calgary Zoo less than a week ago died on Friday night, the organization announced on Facebook.
In a post on Saturday, the zoo said a male calf born last Sunday to Emara, an eight-year-old Masai giraffe, passed away overnight.
