Longtime Winnipeg sports reporter Ted Wyman dies at age 58

Winnipeg Sun sports editor Ted Wyman has died at the age of 58.

The Canadian Football League’s Winnipeg Blue Bombers, who Wyman covered extensively for years, said he died Saturday morning, after a months-long battle with cancer.

Born in Brandon, Man., but raised in Winnipeg, Wyman attended Kelvin High School and graduated from Red River College’s Creative Communications program.

He began his career at the Brandon Sun in 1992 before joining the Moose Jaw Times-Herald from 1993-96, where he covered the Western Hockey League’s Warriors and the CFL’s Saskatchewan Roughriders.

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Wyman returned to Brandon in 1996 and spent the next seven years covering curling and baseball.

He also wrote about the WHL’s Wheat Kings and Brandon University’s Bobcats, as well as golf, high school football, swimming, fastball and equestrian events.

He became a sports copy editor at his hometown paper, the Winnipeg Sun, in 2003. Three years later, he was promoted to sports editor.

Wyman was inducted into the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association Media Roll of Honour in 2018.

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