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P eace has returned to the land of Canadian football...Last Friday, when he made his annual state-of-the-game address, CFL commissioner Mark Cohon wasn't asked a single question about the NFL coming to Toronto. On Monday, the television ratings for the...
Tags: NFL, Bills-in-Toronto, CFL, Ralph Wilson, Buffalo Bills, Los Angeles
Canadian Football League governors are taking a cautious first step with plans to relocate the Toronto Argonauts to a soccer-specific stadium, dispatching staff to study how the team could squeeze into BMO Field, amid grumbling from some of the facility's...
Tags: Toronto FC, BMO Field, CFL, Toronto Argonauts, Peter Montopoli, playing surface, Canada, Toronto, BC Lions, Bank of Montreal, Sport in Toronto, allnews, Soccer in Canada, National stadiums
Last updated on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009 10:33PM EST S o I’m rattling around last Friday trying to get stuff done before heading to Germany for some pre-Olympic stuff overseas and – ting! – into the e-mail box arrives the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot announcement.
Tags: Toronto Raptors, CFL, Toronto Blue Jays, Toronto FC, BMO Field, Roberto Alomar, Chris Bosh, Germany, Berlin, Bank of Montreal, Anthony Calvillo, Damon Allen, Toronto Argonauts, allnews, Toronto
It's a showdown in Cowtown, between East and West, surrounded by a sea of green. Canadian football fans from coast to coast to coast will turn their attention to Calgary on Sunday to watch the CFL's annual Grey Cup classic. The Saskatchewan Roughriders...
Tags: Montreal Alouettes, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Lance Frazier, CFL, heading coach, Ken Miller, Canada, Calgary, Grey Cup, allnews, CFL season, Anthony Calvillo, Avon Cobourne, Ben Cahoon, Darian Durant, Canadian football, The Sports Network, Andy Fantuz, Calgary Stampeders, Sport in Montreal, 93rd Grey Cup, Calgary Stampeders seasons
Last updated on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009 11:29PM EST I t certainly hasn’t always been the case. But it’s clear we have now entered a time when the “C” in CFL represents the core value of the brand. A month back, news leaked out that the league, in its collective...
Tags: CFL, Canada, Toronto, Ron Lancaster, George Reed, Russ Jackson, allnews, Ben Cahoon
Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 10:42PM EST T he enough-is-enough moment came, as these things sometimes do, on a trip to Winnipeg five weeks ago. On that Saturday in late October, the Montreal Alouettes suffered a sloppy defeat at the hands...
Tags: CFL, Tim Burke, Canada, Winnipeg, Sport in Montreal, Montreal Alouettes, Marc Trestman, allnews
Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 1:14AM EST T heir looks said it all. Marc Trestman sat with perfect posture at the head table, looking youthful and studious with bookish glasses and “future NFL head coach” written all over him.
Tags: Ken Miller, Trestman’s Montreal Alouettes, head coach, grey cup, NFL, CFL, Canada, Toronto, Gary Etcheverry, Montreal Alouettes, Marc Trestman, Toronto Argonauts, allnews, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Year of birth missing
Canadian Football League commissioner Mark Cohon is in the midst of a busy Grey Cup week schedule this week in Calgary. Here’s what he won’t be doing: taking part in the ceremonial kickoff before the game. “Yes, and that is in capital letters,” says a...
Tags: grey cup, Saskatchewan Roughriders, northeast Saskatchewan, Regina, Calgary, Jeff Armstead, web developer, CFL, regina web, Canada, allnews, Canadian Football League, Saskatchewan, Canadian football, Saskatoon, Mark Cohon, Politics, Technology Internet, Kohon, Eric Tillman, 97th Grey Cup, 77th Grey Cup, Law Crime, Armstead, Calgary Stampeders, Geroy Simon, SaskTel, Dave Ridgway, Henry Burris, Calgary Stampeders seasons, Darian Durant
Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 10:16AM EST T hat noise you heard late Sunday was TSN executives popping a cork for the Montreal-Saskatchewan Grey Cup matchup. And not just because of the intriguing Darian Durant- Anthony Calvillo showdown.
Tags: Calgary/ Saskatchewan, TSN, Toronto Argonauts, CFL, Howard Sokolowski, Royal Canadian Mint, NHL, ESPN, Bill Simmons, real estate, Belgium, Brussels, National Hockey League, The Sports Network, CFL season, allnews
The single best thing to happen to football reporters since God invented the buffet and happy hour. That’s just a sampling of the responses to one of the questions in the seventh annual Calgary Herald-Winnipeg Free Press CFL media poll. The question...
Tags: Adriano Belli, Anthony Calvillo, Calgary Stampeders, CFL, head coach, Ham, Edm, cfl players, Mike Kelly, Mtl, Canada, Calgary, Grey Cup, John Hufnagel, allnews, Winnipeg Blue Bombers