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The Best of Biggie | Main takeaways from his media session - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Even today — just two days into retirement following a hall of fame career which includes a football resumé that positively glows — Adam Bighill still traces everything back to one cornerstone: A gino...

Adam Bighill met with the media today after officially retiring as a member of the Blue Bombers. The story:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/21/t...

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Positional Preview #6 | The Receivers - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Something Winnipeg Blue Bombers faithful can all attest to after living through it and then revisiting the whole situation in hindsight this winter: there was a certain patchwork feel to the receiving...

Next up in our Positional Preview series, the receivers:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/21/p...

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Positional Preview #4 | The Defensive Line - Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive line corps underwent some surgery this offseason. And not just a nip and tuck, either, but a significant facelift. Yes, it’s true that popular veteran and leader Wi...

Next up in our Positional Preview series -- the defensive line:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/19/p...

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Positional Preview #3 | The Linebackers - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Two long-standing mantras in pro football which still hold true to this very day: You can never have too much of a good thing at any one position and; Father time is undefeated. We trot out this remin...

The latest in our Positional Preview series looks at the linebackers. You can read those you may have missed so far on our site, FYI, plus lots of stuff about the arrival of Taylor Elgersma:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/18/p...

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Elgersma media session | 5 Takeaways - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Taylor Elgersma’s road to Winnipeg and the Blue Bombers has been long and winding and taken him all over professional football’s map. And on Friday the latest pit stop for the Canadian quarterback in ...

Taylor Elgersma met with the media today via Zoom for 30 minutes. Here are the highlights from that session:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/17/e...

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Elgersma on board with Blue Bombers - Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers long, long wait for quarterback Taylor Elgersma is now over. Elgersma and the Blue Bombers officially agreed to terms on a standard rookie contract (two years plus an option)...

The Blue Bombers QB room just added another great prospect in Canadian QB Taylor Elgersma:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/16/e...

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Positional Preview 2026 | #1 The Specialists - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Settle in, Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans, for a quick review story about luck and opportunity, resilience and dedication. It was almost a year ago, back with the first instalment of our annual Positional...

Here we go with the start of our 10th annual Positional Preview series with a look at the Specialists:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/16/p...

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WFC posts another record operating profit - Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Football Club’s operating profit for 2025 soared to a record $12.1 million, with that robust bottom line boosted by a packed Princess Auto Stadium throughout the entire season and then ca...

Record breaking financial report for the Winnipeg Football Club. Details here:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/15/w...

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Hull: "I'm so excited for this." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers It was almost 36 years ago when Lee Hull latched onto a pass from Tom Burgess for a touchdown in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 1990 Grey Cup win in what was a highlight for him and the franchise. And now ...

Had the chance to catch up with Blue Bombers new receivers coach Lee Hull today. The story:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/14/h...

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1st & 10 | The Power of 4 - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Just a few doors down the hallway from our little content creation bunker here at Princess Auto Stadium is the office of Winnipeg Blue Bombers GM Kyle Walters and earlier this week the long-serving boss of the club could be heard in a deep draft-related conversation. One more door over is where Director of Football […]

Latest 1st & 10 column:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/09/1...

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1st & 10 | Oliveira: "I'm excited. I'm jacked up." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Brady Oliveira has long been a hardhat and lunchpail guy with his mantra being about keeping his head down and grinding while not being afraid to get his hands dirty. It’s been the cornerstone rock-so...

Brady Oliveira re-signed with his hometown Blue Bombers weeks before they added some key pieces in free agency. Now he's even more jacked up for 2026. The story:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/04/02/1...

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Streveler: "I hope that's my legacy, that people say, 'That guy was a great teammate.'" - Winnipeg Blue Bombers EDMONTON — It’s all there right in front of Chris Streveler now — the chance to reminisce and relive the moments, both good and bad — as he takes the first steps down memory lane of a professional foo...

Had the chance to speak to Chris Streveler this weekend about his retirement decision. The story:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/29/s...

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CFL Combine Week | Vaccaro's stock climbing - Winnipeg Blue Bombers EDMONTON — Gio Vaccaro is about to become a very, very popular man. And the evidence of that was already visible to anyone who put eyeballs on him as soon as he arrived here for the Canadian Football ...

And ICYMI a piece on Winnipegger Gio Vaccaro, who figures to be a top pick -- maybe THE top pick -- in next month's CFL Draft:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/26/c...

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1st & 10 | Jake the Coach - Winnipeg Blue Bombers EDMONTON — He was as consistent as a metronome and a fixture on the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defensive line for eons, pulling on his helmet and shoulder pads for 223 regular season games and 16 more time...

Had the chance to speak to Jake Thomas today at the CFL Combine about his move to coaching. That story plus more...
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/27/1...

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CFL Combine Week | Ball Looks Back - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Imagine a four-day job interview in which your every move is studied, analyzed and over-analyzed by dozens of eyeballs. Your height matters. So does your weight. You need to run fast. Lift heavy reps....

Heading out to the CFL Combine in Edmonton today to feed some stories to our site. In the meantime, ICYMI, I spoke this week with Ethan Ball -- drafted last year by the Bombers -- about his experience at the Combine:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/24/c...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Receiving Yardage Leaders - Winnipeg Blue Bombers It’s been a fun exercise putting together this ’10 Lists in 10 Days’ series — and a bit of an eye-opener, too. And so, as we come to a close here with the last instalment, what this process has done i...

The last chapter in our 10 Lists in 10 Days series. Thanks for reading:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/22/1...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | QB Wins - Winnipeg Blue Bombers We don’t use the terms ‘icon’ and ‘legend’ in this space too often because they are the rare descriptions used for those who have earned a spot in the sporting stratosphere. They are the athletes who ...

Second last instalment of our 10 Lists in 10 Days series...
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/21/1...

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Thanks, Tyler. Fixed it.

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Coaching wins - Winnipeg Blue Bombers There have been so many historic moments over the course of 10 decades of existence for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, from the franchise’s inception to a dozen Grey Cup championships, from critical wins ...

The next chunk of our 10 Lists in 10 Days series....
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/20/1...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Top Tacklers - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Greg Battle could demolish a running back darting through the line of scrimmage with a violence that could loosen molars and rack up subsequent chiropractic bills. And on the very next play he could d...

Loved watching Greg Battle get after it as a Blue Bomber. He tops our latest 10 Lists in 10 Days series:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/19/1...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Games in Blue - Winnipeg Blue Bombers We open our latest instalment of ’10 Lists in 10 Days’ with some math about Bob Cameron, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers all-time leader in games played… Consider this: -Cameron, who handled the punting cho...

The latest in our 10 Lists in 10 Days Series...
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/18/1...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | TD Machines - Winnipeg Blue Bombers There’s something endearing about Winnipeg, the Blue Bombers and the Canadian Football League that the all-time touchdown leader in the three-down game hails from Cincinnati, played his college footba...

The latest in our 10 Lists in 10 Days series:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/17/1...

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10 Lists in 10 Days | Rushing Leaders - Winnipeg Blue Bombers He was nicknamed ‘Blink’ — as in blink and you might miss him — and yet Charles Roberts career with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was precariously close to being over before the end of rookie training cam...

Check out our 10 lists in 10 Days series. Here's the latest:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/15/1...

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Castillo: ""All I can say is, 'Wow' and I'm very appreciative." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers It would make for a heckuva social experiment — or a riveting reality television series — to have Sergio Castillo saunter into a room full of strangers and then time how long it would take before he w...

Saluting Sergio Castillo, who has been honoured with both of the Blue Bombers community service awards -- the Ed Kotowich Good Guy Award and the Cal Murphy Heart of a Legend Award:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/03/11/c...

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Chatted with Redha Kramdi of the Blue Bombers about his experience in the CFL/CFLPA mentorship program.
The story: x.com/wpg_bluebomb...

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Wolitarsky: "I really wanted to retire as a Bomber." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers It’s simply an impossible task to capture heart, the spirit and the whole aura of Drew Wolitarsky in just a few hundred words. It’s a whole experience — he’d probably call it a vibe — and its’ baselin...

Drew Wolitarsky signed a one-day contract to retire as a Blue Bomber. A story on one of the most-popular players in recent memory:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/02/19/w...

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Collaros Media Session: Main Takeaways - Winnipeg Blue Bombers It’s been a common theme-slash-buzzword around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers over the last few weeks as the club’s haul in free agency kept featuring one solid addition after another. And landing the like...

ICYMI:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/02/17/c...

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Nield: "I'm really pumped." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers Just five years into his Canadian Football League career and two things jump out instantly about Tommy Nield, one of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers new free agent additions: He’s a winner, having already e...

Good chat recently with new Blue Bombers receiver Tommy Nield. The story:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/02/16/n...

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Key Takeaways from Kyle Walters media - Winnipeg Blue Bombers The Winnipeg Blue Bombers don’t get to where they are today in Canadian Football League free agency — scoring A’s across the board from fans and pundits alike for their substantiative haul and their a...

Blue Bombers GM Kyle Walters hit on a ton of topics today. Here are some that jumped out the most:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/02/12/k...

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Broxton: "It feels amazing." - Winnipeg Blue Bombers New Winnipeg Blue Bombers offensive tackle Jarell Broxton is a large man — his height listed at six-foot-three, his weight at 315 — and as one of the club’s big free agent additions settled in to meet...

Big man, big addition for the Blue Bombers. Welcome to Jarell Broxton:
www.bluebombers.com/2026/02/12/b...

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