HAMILTON \u2014 General manager Ted Goveia of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats has died. <\/p>\n
The Ticats announced his death Friday, saying they were deeply saddened and would honour Goveia\u2019s impact on Canadian football during that evening\u2019s \u201cTeam Ted\u201d game against the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers.<\/p>\n
\u201cTed was a highly respected leader, colleague, and friend whose passion and commitment for Canadian football left a lasting impact on everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. His dedication to the game and to the Tiger-Cats family will never be forgotten,\u201d the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The native of Burlington, Ont., who was in his first season as Hamilton\u2019s GM, disclosed in June that he\u2019d been diagnosed with \u201ca serious form of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Although there was no specific mention as to the form of the disease, two league sources said Goveia was battling esophageal cancer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to keep my health condition in-house until we had a chance to build our team and pick our final roster,\u201d he said. \u201cI am grateful that we were able to focus on fielding the best team possible for 2025 and not have my health become a distraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI let the players know that I\u2019m not going to be here (at team facilities) every minute of the day, and I\u2019m going to be in treatment and need to focus on my health. I\u2019m still the general manager, but I\u2019ll not always be in the building. But in today\u2019s day and age, everything\u2019s downloaded to my laptop and there\u2019s always the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Goveia was named Hamilton\u2019s GM on Dec. 5, 2024, following 11 years with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The appointment was a homecoming for Goveia, who played high school football at Assumption Secondary School and later coached there as well as at other local organizations.<\/p>\n
Goveia\u2019s early days as Ticats\u2019 GM were long and busy as he put together a staff while looking to improve a roster that last year missed the CFL playoffs, all the while getting to know the people in his new workplace.<\/p>\n
But in March, Goveia told The Canadian Press he never had to look far to gain a sense of perspective or appreciation that he\u2019d landed his dream job.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe other morning I went into the office at 6:30 a.m.,\u201d Goveia said. \u201cGot up, grabbed my coffee and drove over the (Burlington Skyway) bridge, and I\u2019m looking out, and the sun was coming up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just sat there smiling as I drove, thinking, `Man, I\u2019m 17 minutes from home.\u2019 I do love southern Ontario and appreciate the opportunity to work back at home, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamilton (7-11) missed the 2024 CFL playoffs and last won the Grey Cup in 1999. The team currently sits in first place in the East Division at 7-5.<\/p>\n
Goveia began his CFL career with the Toronto Argonauts in 2010.<\/p>\n
He began his tenure in Winnipeg as the club\u2019s assistant GM\/player-personnel director before being promoted to senior assistant GM in 2019 following the franchise\u2019s 33-12 Grey Cup win over Hamilton.<\/p>\n
Goveia said being away from the team while undergoing treatment would only serve to motivate him in his fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI enjoy being around our players and I will miss the daily interaction \u2014 it motivates me to kick this and get back with the team,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like we\u2019re in good shape, but I did have to meet with everybody in the building because I thought they had the right to know.<\/p>\n
When Goveia joined the Argos, he served as running backs coach and director of Canadian scouting before being promoted to player-personnel director. Over his four seasons with the club (2010-13), it reached the playoffs three times and captured the 100th Grey Cup in 2012 under then-head coach Scott Milanovich, who\u2019s entering his second season as Hamilton\u2019s head coach\/offensive co-ordinator.<\/p>\n
Goveia would later be on two Grey Cup-winning squads in Winnipeg (2019, 2021).<\/p>\n
Before making the move to the CFL, Goveia spent 15 years coaching Canadian university football, including stops at his alma mater, Mount Allison, McMaster, and the University of British Columbia.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n
The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HAMILTON \u2014 General manager Ted Goveia of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats has died. The Ticats announced his death Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,74988,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-138851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-hamilton-tiger-cats-sports-football-team-team-genius-sports-83579","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}