It’s a moment many hockey fans have been waiting for: the return of in-person Winnipeg Jets games.
True North Sports and Entertainment, the company that owns the Jets, says concerts and sporting events at its two venues in Winnipeg — the Canada Life Centre and Burton Cummings Theatre — will go ahead this fall, but only those fully vaccinated will be allowed to attend.
The company says all employees, event staff, and guests will have to provide proof they’ve had two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in order to work at or attend events.
In a news release Wednesday, the company said the majority of its season ticket holders have told them the vaccination requirement is important to them.
The first pre-season home game for the Winnipeg Jets is set for Sept. 26, followed by regular season games on Oct. 21.
Manitoba’s current public health orders, which came into effect on Aug. 7, allow sporting events to be held at full capacity but attendees have to show proof of vaccination.
Concert halls are also allowed to operate at full capacity with the same rule about vaccination.
Some fully vaccinated health-care workers were able to attend a Winnipeg Jets home game this spring. Aside from that, the 16,000-seat Canada Life Centre — until recently called Bell MTS Place — has been mostly empty for the last year and a half due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
OTTAWA – American receiver Justin Hardy will miss the Ottawa Redblacks’ regular-season finale Friday.
Hardy, who leads the CFL in receptions (97) and is second in receiving yards (1,343), was listed off Ottawa’s depth chart Thursday. Hardy was named Wednesday as the Redblacks’ nominee for the league’s outstanding player award.
American Andrew Miller will start in Hardy’s place.
Ottawa (8-7-1) concludes its regular season hosting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (7-10). The Redblacks have already clinched third in the East and will visit the Toronto Argonauts (10-7) in the division semifinal Nov. 2.
Hamilton has been eliminated from playoff contention.
Incumbent Dru Brown is listed as Ottawa’s starting quarterback.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2024.
BOLOGNA, Italy (AP) — AC Milan’s weekend match at Bologna in Italy’s top soccer league has been postponed, Bologna officials announced Thursday following extensive flooding in the central Italian city.
The Serie A match had been scheduled for Saturday.
Bologna is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, large parts of which have been hard hit by torrential rains and bad weather for days.
The game was not immediately rescheduled.
“Following the flood that affected Bologna, intense work is underway to clean up the situation,” the city of Bologna said while announcing the game postponement on X.
BASEL, Switzerland – Canada’s Denis Shapovalov advanced to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Roberto Bautista Agut on Thursday.
Shapovalov used a strong service game to overcome the Spanish veteran for the win at the ATP 500 event in just under one hour 40 minutes.
The 25-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., fired 18 aces, including one to set up match point in the second-set tiebreaker, and won 79 per cent of first-serves and 63 per cent of second-serve points.
Shapovalov, a former top-10 player on the ATP Tour, entered this year’s Swiss Indoors ranked 95th and will appear in just his second quarterfinal of the season.
He improved to 3-0 against Bautista Agut, who he beat in July en route to a quarterfinal appearance in Washington.
Shapovalov will next face the winner of a match scheduled for later Thursday between defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal and France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 24, 2024.
