{"id":557884,"date":"2026-03-24T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557884\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:05:13","slug":"stampeders-tiger-cats-roughriders-named-finalists-for-inaugural-goveia-football-operations-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557884\/","title":{"rendered":"Stampeders, Tiger-Cats, Roughriders named finalists for inaugural Goveia football operations award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Saskatchewan Roughriders were named finalists for the inaugural Ted Goveia football operations award, the CFL said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winner will be recognized as part of the league\u2019s coach of the year celebration on March 25 in Edmonton. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The award recognizes a team\u2019s football operations department for outstanding achievement in scouting, player identification, roster building and leadership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It is voted on by the football operations departments of the nine CFL clubs, the league said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Goveia died last September at age 55. He had disclosed in June that he\u2019d been diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The longtime football executive was in his first season as GM of the Tiger-Cats. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 19, 2026. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Calgary Stampeders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Saskatchewan Roughriders were named finalists for the inaugural Ted Goveia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,4852,82],"class_list":["post-557884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-human-interest","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557884","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=557884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}