{"id":283571,"date":"2025-11-14T23:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283571\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T23:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T23:51:19","slug":"blue-bombers-head-coach-mike-oshea-to-return-to-the-sidelines-in-winnipeg-for-another-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283571\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bombers head coach Mike O&#8217;Shea to return to the sidelines in Winnipeg for another season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Mike O&#8217;Shea will return as head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the CFL team announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea, 55, a two-time CFL coach of the year and six-time Grey Cup champion, will enter his 12th season as Bombers head coach in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg has made the playoffs in nine straight seasons and played in five straight Grey Cups between 2019 and 2024, winning the first two.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s contract was set to expire, and the announcement of his return comes with the Toronto Argonauts looking for a head coach after Ryan Dinwiddie left to become the coach and general manager of the Ottawa Redblacks.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Shea, from North Bay, Ont., was a linebacker with the Argonauts from 1996-99 and 2001-08, and was Toronto&#8217;s special teams co-ordinator from 2010-13 before becoming head coach of the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>The Bombers also announced that general manager Kyle Walters, who was also on an expiring contract, will return to Winnipeg next season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283571","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=283571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}