[2] Matheson covered a variety of sports, including hockey, curling and football with the Tribune, and on the radio, working with CJOB.

[2] The Jack Matheson Award is annually presented by the Manitoba Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association to aspiring students in sports communications.

Matheson's son, James Donald "Jim" is also a distinguished sports writer, working for the Edmonton Journal since 1970.

Jim was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as a media honoree and received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 2000.

[4] Jack Matheson died of kidney disease on January 24, 2011, at Grace Hospital in Winnipeg.