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The Blue Bombers are keeping the classic gold helmet and bringing back the old white "W" Continue reading
Bombers tackle Doug Brown calls it quits
Doug Brown is finally ready to call it a career. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers tackle, a fixture in the middle of the defensive line since the 2001 season, officially announced his retirement Continue reading
Bombers prove defence alone can’t win Grey Cup
By Paul Wiecek VANCOUVER — Twenty-one years . . . and counting. Five times the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have played in the Grey Cup since the people of Winnipeg last celebrated a Canadian Football League championship at Portage and Main. And, as of this melancholy Monday morning, five times they have lost. The latest heartbreak ... Continue reading
Baggs ready to feast on Bombers
By Paul Wiecek HAMILTON — Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Buck Pierce was unimpressed — and, he said, unconcerned — with the loud talk coming out of Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive end Stevie Baggs on Thursday. “This is football, man. Everybody hits, everybody tackles, everybody puts a helmet on out there and (plays). I don’t have my ... Continue reading
Bombers ask CFL to review call made in game’s final seconds
By Paul Wiecek WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are asking the Canadian Football League to review the decisive final five seconds of Friday’s 32-26 Montreal Alouettes victory at Canad Inns Stadium. Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice said he spoke to CFL director of officiating Tom Higgins on Saturday and asked him to make some ... Continue reading
Pierce won’t play against Alouettes
WINNIPEG — Buck Pierce will not dress against the Montreal Alouettes Friday evening at Canad Inns Stadium. The Bombers released their game day roster Thursday morning and Pierce has been dropped from the quarterback depth chart. Instead, the Bombers will dress Alex Brink as their starter, followed by backup Justin Goltz and, for the first ... Continue reading
Bombers staying the course in Banjo Bowl rematch
By Paul Wiecek WINNIPEG — They’ll have a new punt returner, a couple of minor roster tweaks and a more detailed idea of what to expect offensively and defensively from the resurgent Saskatchewan Roughriders. But aside from that, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers say they intend to use much of the same recipe against the Riders ... Continue reading
This Bombers-Riders rivalry is all kinds of ridiculous
By Paul Wiecek WINNIPEG — Meet you on the 55-yard line, Reverend. Well, now. It is not every day that a football player and an ordained minister challenge each other to a scrap. But then with the Labour Day Classic between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Saskatchewan Roughriders set for Sunday at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium, ... Continue reading
Packers inspire Blue Bombers’ resurgent defence
By Paul Wiecek WINNIPEG — If there was a single moment when the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defence germinated from a very good defence to a spectacular one it might go back to last April. That’s when incoming Bombers defensive co-ordinator Tim Burke and Bombers linebackers coach Casey Creehan found themselves talking football in the office ... Continue reading
Blue Bombers credit coach with comeback wins
By Paul Wiecek WINNIPEG — Blue Bombers head coach Paul LaPolice took a fair bit of abuse from fans last season for a string of questionable in-game decisions. And so it is only fair to point out, then, that several key Bombers players believe the in-game decisions LaPolice and his coaching staff have been making ... Continue reading
