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Bisons Dominate Alberta for First Win

September 16, 2016 | Ed Tait
It came at an absolutely perfect time as a big fat band-aid to cover a gaping and potentially festering wound. And so, while there were still some flaws that definitely need fixing, the ...

Bisons Still Looking For First Win

September 15, 2016 | Ed Tait
They are the kind of games that can emotionally scar a man and his team. And University of Manitoba head coach Brian Dobie will admit last week’s 41-38 loss to the Regina Rams – in which the ...

Senior headlines Central Scouting Bureau September Rankings

September 15, 2016 |
The Canadian Football League Scouting Bureau published on Thursday its first edition of the top-20 ranked prospects eligible for the 2017 CFL Draft.

WHSFL – Week 2 Preview

September 14, 2016 | Staff
The second week of Winnipeg High School Football League action kicks of Wednesday with two junior varsity games and a pile of questions still to be answered. Among them: Can the Potter Division ...

WHSFL Season Preview

September 8, 2016 | Ed Tait
The Vincent Massey Trojans cemented themselves as a legitimate Winnipeg High School Football League program last November. Now they want to establish a legacy. The 2016 WHSFL regular season opens ...

Bisons Set To Face Rams

September 7, 2016 | Ed Tait
There might not be a more honest and open coach wearing a headset in Canadian college football than Brian Dobie of the University of Manitoba Bisons. He doesn’t just wear his emotions on his ...

Rifles Silenced By Thunder

September 5, 2016 | Staff
The signs of improvement are all there on the stats sheet for the Winnipeg Rifles, but the results aren’t yet showing up where it matters most: in the win-loss column. The Rifles dropped a 43-29 ...

Bisons Botch Opener

September 2, 2016 | Ed Tait
It was all the things a coach might expect and curse at the same time about a season opener; it was sloppy and mistake-filled. It was pockmarked by penalties. And, in what hurts most for Brian ...

U of M Bisons Season Preview

August 30, 2016 | Ed Tait
It’s early – before the ball has been snapped for real early – and yet University of Manitoba Bisons head coach Brian Dobie is already discovering a ton about his 2016 squad that has ...

Rifles fall 58-6 to Regina Thunder

August 28, 2016 | Staff
The Winnipeg Rifles were silenced Saturday night at Investors Group Field and, in the process, had their win streak abruptly halted at one. The Regina Thunder rolled up 58 points while limiting ...

Ritchott Fires For Rifles

August 21, 2016 | Ed Tait
The Winnipeg Rifles have long known they had something special in Michael Ritchott from the very moment he pulled on their colours some four years ago. The gifted running back added another ...

Winnipeg Rifles Season Preview: A New Outlook

August 13, 2016 | Ed Tait
Geordie Wilson and his coaching staff can handle the Xs and Os and teaching the game of football to the troops. In many ways, that’s the easy part. But what the first-year Winnipeg Rifles coach ...

Canada Cup: A Manitoba Gold Resurgence

July 15, 2016 | Ed Tait
It’s been a lot and it’s been intense for a long time now. That’s how it always is when you take 40-plus players from different schools, hand them the same uniform and try to make them into a ...

2016 Canada Cup: Back on Track

July 12, 2016 | Kevin Hirschfield
Shut out in their opening game of the 2016 U18 Football Canada Cup, Manitoba Gold responded with a shutout of their own Tuesday at East Side Stadium. Held off the scoreboard in an 11-0 loss to ...

Canada Cup preview

July 8, 2016 | Ed Tait
Piecing together any football team is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle. But putting together a squad of players with already-established rivalries – a healthy hate-on for each other, so to speak – ...

WHSFL Senior Bowl

May 28, 2016 | Ed Tait
May 28, 2016 Christian Phillips couldn’t have possibly dreamed of a better finish to his Winnipeg High School Football League career. There was the Garden City Gophers receiver charging down the ...

WHSFL’s Senior Bowl set for Saturday

May 25, 2016 | Ed Tait
May 25, 2016 Rick Henkewich glances at the Gerry James Trophy, awarded annually to the winners of the Winnipeg High School Football League’s Senior Bowl. “This was made for us by the Winnipeg ...
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