The huge acquisitions of Vernon Adams Jr. and Folarin Orimolade. Big free agent signings like Damon Webb and Derrick Moncrief. A new direction after missing the playoffs in 2024. There are already plenty of reasons to be excited for the upcoming season in Calgary. And you can add one more: the first overall pick at…
Sidney Crosby (Michael Miller, Wikimedia Commons) Canadian Olympic gold medalist Sidney Crosby recorded his 17th National Hockey League hat trick on Saturday. Crosby, who won the gold medal at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, scored thrice in a 5-3 Pittsburgh Penguins win over the Dallas…
Darcy Kuemper (Instagram) Darcy Kuemper of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan recorded his 36th National Hockey League shutout on Saturday. He accomplished the feat in a 3-0 Los Angeles Kings win over the Edmonton Oilers at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. Kuemper made 27 saves. He had nine saves in the first period, eight saves in the…
Cape Breton Eagles (Wikimedia Commons) The Cape Breton Eagles are alive in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs. On Friday, they were victorious in a marathon contest. The Eagles defeated the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 3-2 in the fifth overtime on a game-winning goal by Angelo Fullerton of Quispasmis, New Brunswick. With the win, the Eagles…
Brad Jacobs (Katarzyna Wicik, Wikimedia Commons) Team Canada is in the semifinals of the 2025 World Men’s Curling Championships in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. On Friday, Canada trounced Austria 8-2. It was one of two dominant wins for Team Canada on Friday. In the evening draw, Canada defeated the United States 8-3. The playoffs are now…
I say this every year, but this really is one of my absolute favourite articles of the year to write. Why? Because comparing players is an incredibly inexact science, in fact I’m not even sure if it’s truly math or science or something in between, but it is a fantastic thought experiment to investigate annually…
TORONTO — The BC Lions, Toronto Argonauts, Saskatchewan Roughriders and Ottawa REDBLACKS exceeded the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) Salary Expenditure Cap of $5.525 million in 2024. In addition to being fined, the BC Lions will forfeit the highest of their first- and second-round selections (Nos. 3 and 9) in the 2025 CFL Draft due to…
VANCOUVER — The BC Lions have signed American wide receivers Victor Bolden Jr. and Lynn Bowden Jr. to the training camp roster, the team announced on Friday. Bolden Jr. (five-foot-eight, 175 pounds) began his pro career with the San Francisco 49ers in 2017 and appeared in 13 games over two seasons while racking up 396…
Everybody has a favourite. Through whispers and side conversations at the CFL Combine, coaches, scouts and general managers will identify a player they’ve really come to like. Those conversations are almost always exclusive to fellow team staffers wearing only the same colours though, as any tipping of the hand would be sacrilegious in the CFL…
As a new season draws more and more near, we’re going to be doing some fun countdown content over the next number of weeks at the Monday Morning Quarterback. And part of that content includes one reason to be excited for all nine CFL teams. To get us going, we’ve randomly selected the Ottawa REDBLACKS….