Ty Dilello

Ty Dilello is a reporter for the Winnipeg Sun whose coverage blends live sports, sports history, and civic and cultural reporting. His curling columns track major competitions while explaining the sport’s evolving landscape and the athletes driving it. His work is shaped by a background as a hockey and curling historian and author, which brings archival depth and research discipline to day‑to‑day stories. Alongside sports, he regularly reports on local events, arts, and public‑sector decisions in a concise, straight‑ahead style.

Curling columns and major-event coverage

Dilello’s sports reporting is defined by sustained attention to curling, especially national and international events and the players rising through them. In columns on Olympic pre‑trials, he highlights “Manitoba’s next generation of curling” and uses game action to show how younger teams are positioning themselves within the national field.

His writing on Olympic Curling Trials follows the full event arc, emphasizing pride, pressure and performance while keeping focus on match results and implications for the broader competitive picture. He also covers Grand Slam events, including the tour’s historic debut in the United States at Lake Tahoe, where he explains format, field strength and what the stop means for the series as a whole.

The tone in these pieces is direct and game‑driven.

Dilello reports on scores, key shots and tactical decisions, then ties them to career trajectories and the health of the sport. He writes as someone embedded in curling culture, with an eye for historical milestones as well as the everyday grind of tour life.

That perspective is reinforced by coverage that mentions his own role as a skip at the national men’s championship, giving him first‑hand experience of elite competition to draw on when interpreting results and pressure moments. For sports stories, the through‑line is clear: he treats curling both as a live beat and as a long-running narrative, and his columns reflect both.

Hockey and curling history writing

Outside game reports, Dilello has a substantial track record as a hockey and curling historian, which shapes the way he approaches sports coverage. He is the author of “Golden Boys: The Top 50 Manitoba Hockey Players Of All Time,” a book-length ranking and profile project that won the Ed Sweeney Award from the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame. Public bios credit him with eight books and describe him as a hockey and curling historian who spends off‑ice time interviewing sources and tracking trade deadline movement for ongoing research projects.

His historical work is backed by institutional affiliations: he is an accredited writer with the International Ice Hockey Federation and a member of the Society for International Hockey Research. He has also built a freelance portfolio with outlets such as NHL.com and The Hockey News, along with long‑form contributions on Substack. This background gives his reporting a curator’s style when he touches on legacy topics, records or generational comparisons. In practice, it means he is comfortable shifting from present-tense game stories to pieces that situate current players within decades of regional hockey and curling history.

For communications tied to heritage themes, anniversaries or historically significant athletes, this part of his work is central.

Local events, arts and book coverage

Dilello’s recent Winnipeg Sun archive shows regular reporting on local events and arts alongside sports.

He covers the Winnipeg indie comics festival, focusing on its return and a record‑breaking exhibitor lineup, and treats the story as both an attendance update and a snapshot of a growing creative community. In a piece on “If Day” getting a comic reimagining at the Winnipeg Fringe, he links a historical wartime exercise to contemporary performance and comics culture, highlighting how local artists reinterpret history. He also writes about author Linden MacIntyre bringing a historical figure described as an “accidental villain” to a Winnipeg audience, using the event to underline how narrative nonfiction and history connect with readers.

Across these stories, Dilello keeps the framing tight: who is involved, what is happening, why it matters now.

The emphasis is on attendance, programming and the core hook of the event rather than lifestyle colour. His background in history comes through in the way he chooses subjects that hinge on storytelling, legacy and reinterpretation, whether in comics, theatre or books.

For arts or cultural announcements that carry a historical angle or community focus, his coverage shows he is a regular byline on that terrain.

Court, policy and workplace change

Dilello also reports on civic and workplace developments, treating them with the same straight reporting voice he uses in sports.

In coverage of a new $120,000 municipal role dedicated to boosting diversity and inclusion in hiring, he lays out the job’s mandate, the public spending debate around it, and how residents are split on the value of the position. A separate article on two new judges appointed to a provincial court focuses on the appointments themselves and their significance for the justice system, keeping attention on institutional facts and roles. These pieces show him working the public‑sector beat, explaining administrative decisions and the reactions they provoke.

His reporting extends to workplace and corporate change, including coverage of Ubisoft closing a local studio as part of a broader global restructuring.

In that story he connects a multinational’s strategic decision with direct consequences for employees and the local tech ecosystem, framing layoffs within the company’s worldwide reorganization rather than in isolation. Taken together, these articles indicate an interest in how policy, law and corporate strategy shape everyday work and opportunity.

When he steps away from sports, he keeps the focus on decisions, structures and impacts, using clear language and avoiding opinion.