Former Bombers player, CEO dead at 65

Lyle Bauer, a former CFL player and executive, has died. He was 65.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the team Bauer played for and later served as CEO, announced Bauer’s death on its Instagram page Wednesday.

Bauer, a Saskatoon native, played his entire 10-year CFL career as an offensive lineman with the Blue Bombers (1982-91). He was named the team’s top offensive lineman in 1988 and won three Grey Cups with the Blue Bombers (1984, 1988, 1990).

During his front-office tenure, the Bombers reached the Grey Cup four times (1992-93, 2001, 2007).

Bauer resigned from the Bombers on Dec. 17, 2009. In January 2010, the Calgary Stampeders announced the hiring of Bauer as their CEO and president. Bauer remained with the Stampeders until 2013.

Kevin Eiben and Will Fields

will share defensive coordinator duties this season with the Toronto Argonauts. Eiben will also continue coaching the team’s linebackers and secondary, though Toronto hired Myron Lewis as its defensive backs coach. Eiben enters his eighth year as a coach with the team. Fields returns for a third season as a coach with the Argos. Lewis will make his pro coaching debut with Toronto.

Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Mike

Conley received the NBA Teammate of the Year award for a second time on Wednesday.

The award, given annually for selfless play, on-court and off-court leadership and commitment and dedication to the team, is named after Maurice Stokes and Jack Twyman, friends who played together on the Cincinnati Royals.

Stokes was paralyzed after an on-court injury in 1958, and Twyman became his legal guardian and supported Stokes until his death in 1970.