First flight
On Oct. 9 it had been 15 years, five months and 11 days since a team called the Winnipeg Jets played a significant game of…
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Gotta love October!
Canadian poet Bliss Carman once wrote, “There is something in October sets the [ . . . ] blood astir.” There seems to be plenty…
Movin’ on up
If passing by the stadium construction site on University Crescent and seeing a new section of the stadium going up makes you a tad giddy,…
Bison athlete profile
The Bison women’s soccer team came home from their Sept. 24-25 road trip in Regina with their first wins of the season. Both wins were…
Getting warmed up
It was only an exhibition game in the pre-season — and a split-squad game at that — but the MTS Centre seemed abuzz with an…
Stadium on schedule
For those who have been patiently waiting for more details to be released about the new Blue Bomber stadium being built on campus, your wish…
Statistical advantage
Last Friday, the movie Moneyball debuted in theatres. It is based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 best-selling book of the same name and focuses on the…
Gazing into the (silicon) crystal ball
With NHL training camps and the pre-season wrapping up over the next week, hockey analysts from across the land are speculating how the season will…
Home sweet homecoming
The University of Manitoba Bisons football team added to their first win of the season last week, coming back from a first half deficit to…
It’s Canada vs. the world
Much like soccer, rugby is a sport beloved by most of the world but widely under appreciated in North America, which is bizarre considering the…