Blue Bombers
Jun
Season Preview:Winnipeg Blue Bombers
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have nowhere to go but up but I don’t expect them to achieve much more than last season’s 4-14 record. No one will question Buck Pierces toughness but with injury after injury plaguing his career it may be time for Winnipeg to go looking for a dependable starting QB. Prediction Bombers [...]
Sep
Johnson corners the return market
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: JOVON JOHNSON is the busiest football player to wear a Winnipeg Blue Bombers jersey these days and he’d like even more work.”I never like to come off the field. In high school I played quarterback, returned kicks and played defence,” said Johnson, who is having a solid season at cornerback and [...]
Sep
Bishop delivers in win over Argos
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: GOOD on ya, Michael Bishop. Because if anybody deserved a night in the limelight, it was the embattled Bombers quarterback, who’s been paid regular visits from the Unwelcome Wagon since the emergency call went out to his Texas home a couple months ago. Yeah, it was a heart-stopper, with the Bombers [...]
Sep
Winnipeg Free Press: QB of future could be among us
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: It was a photograph, a moment in time, that stuck out.Three young quarterbacks standing shoulder-to-shoulder, clad in yellow practice jerseys glowing in the fall sun. Newbies, all. Casey Bramlet, 13. Adam DiMichele, 4. Ricky Santos, 7. The caption could have been titled: The Future? Yes, a question mark. We barely know [...]
Sep
Bishop and Kelly in jawing match?
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Michael Bishop in screaming match with Coach Kelly! Threatens to quit Bombers! Extra! Extra! But is it true? “Did what? I haven’t heard about that,” Bishop responded, when asked about a TSN report Tuesday night that quoted “sources” saying Bishop was contemplating leaving the Bombers [...]
Sep
Bombers tell Simpson to stay away from team
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: Barrin Simpson is now persona non grata in the Winnipeg Blue Bomber clubhouse and his days with the team are all but officially over. The Bombers have asked the veteran linebacker — who requested a trade a couple of weeks ago when told his playing time would be reduced — to [...]
Sep
Bombers keep wheeling and dealing
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: Bust out those Winnipeg Blue Bomber depth charts again, football fans, and have a pencil and eraser handy because an outfit which has already experienced an extreme makeover is getting another facelift. And this isn’t another little nip here and tuck there. Fresh from their blockbuster deal with the Calgary Stampeders [...]
Sep
Santos dealt to Bombers
Courtesy Montreal Gazette: Ricky Santos was superb in college, but his professional career had reached a dead end with the Alouettes; a fourth-string quarterback not about to play behind Anthony Calvillo, Adrian McPherson and Chris Leak. But now, following his trade to Winnipeg, Santos gets a new lease on life. In exchange for Santos, as [...]
Sep
Bryant, Franklin dealt to Stamps
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: It was a surreal scene, watching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers — already in a daze following Sunday’s thrashing by the Montreal Alouettes — scrambling to find Romby Bryant and tell him he’d been traded to the defending Grey Cup champion Calgary Stampeders. The Stamps, desperate to replenish their receiving corps after [...]
Sep
Despair begins to take its toll in Winnipeg
Courtesy Winnipeg Free Press: They are offensively challenged, horribly mistake-prone and excruciatingly painful to watch. And if it wasn’t official before, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ season is precariously close to being flushed down the toilet. Not surprisingly, as part of the byproduct of their eighth defeat in 11 games, the Bombers are reacting by making [...]
