The Winnipeg Football Club will host the 112th edition of the Grey Cup in November of 2025. It marks the fifth time the Canadian Football League championship game will be played in our province. Winnipeg hosted the Grey Cup in 1991, 1998, 2006 and most recently in 2015. The 2023 & 2024 Grey Cup games will be held in Hamilton and Vancouver respectively.


The Steinbach Huskies face the Red River Mudbugs tonight at the T.G. Smith Centre in game one of the Hanover Tache Junior Hockey League’s best-of-seven final. The Huskies, who eliminated the Niverville Clippers four game to one in their second round series, last won the HTJHL championship eight times with last title in 2014. The Mudbugs won back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019.


The last two playoff spots in the Manitoba Junior Hockey League belong to the Dauphin Kings and OCN Blizzard. The Kings and Blizzard got in when Waywayseecappo fell 2-1 to the Virden Oil Capitals. That loss eliminated the Wolverines from playoff contention.


Matthew Savoie scored his 36th and 37th goals of the season and Conor Geekie had three assists as the Winnipeg Ice beat the Raiders 4-3 in Prince Albert.


The Winnipeg Jets wrapped up their three-game road trip with a 5-3 loss to Carolina. Jesperi Kotkaniemi had a three-point night with two goals and a helper for the Hurricanes. Dylan DeMelo, Nikolaj Ehlers and Nino Niederreiter did the goal scoring for the Jets who host the Boston Bruins on Thursday.


The governing body of soccer increased the size of the 2026 World Cup by approving a bigger group stage for the inaugural 48-team event. The new format will have 12 groups of four teams instead of 16 groups of three. It guarantees every World Cup team will play a minimum of three times, adding up to a stacked group stage totaling 72 games before arriving at the knockout rounds. The four semifinalists will play eight matches, one more than last year in Qatar. The 2026 World Cup hosted by Canada, the United States and Mexico, was already set to earn up to $3 billion in ticket and hospitality sales for FIFA.


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The Sabres are Provincial AAAA High School Hockey champions. Steinbach Regional head coach John Laninga will join Clayton Dreger on Sportsbeat which airs Wednesdays at 5:15 p.m. on AM 1250 Radio.