Tag: Football
In January 2023, BC Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke signed for the NFL team the Jacksonville Jaguars. It is a Road that has been traveled before, a quarterback in the CFL impresses in Canada and garners enough attention down south to make a career in the NFL. It doesn’t always end in success, but the blueprint … Continue reading Nathan Rourke and Five Notable Quarterbacks To Move From the CFL To NFL
After the success in recent years that has come from the CFL’s annual Touchdown Atlantic game, rumblings and rumors have began circling that the league indeed wants to explore a similar format to bring the CFL to other Canadian cities. The idea would be that one team moves one home game to another relatively nearby … Continue reading Where Each CFL Team Could Host Their Own Local ‘Touchdown Atlantic’
It wasn’t a vintage season for the division as a whole, but for the first time since 2017, an East division team won the Grey Cup. The Toronto Argonauts shocked the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the final and yet going forward, they’ll have questions that need to be answered. Alongside them, their rivals the Montreal … Continue reading One Question For Each CFL East Division Team to Answer Going into 2023
On December 2nd 2022, British Columbia’s college football rivalry returns after a twelve years hiatus, as the University of British Columbia will face Simon Fraser University at Terry Fox Field in Burnaby. As well as being a contest for British Columbia supremacy, this rivalry is also a rivalry that transcends governing sports bodies and even … Continue reading Canadian Sports Rivalries – UBC Thunderbirds vs Simon Fraser Red Leafs
With all four conferences back in action, the top ten ranking has returned for week eight! There were some surprising results, previous top ten entries Alberta and Sherbrooke lost to the previously winless Calgary and McGill respectively, and elite teams like Western and Queen’s played in closer games than was expected. We’re well into the … Continue reading Top Ten U Sports Football Teams – Week 8
It’s January 2022, and the provincial government of Quebec will be meeting with the National Hockey League to discuss the possibility of bringing a professional hockey team back to the city of Quebec for the first time since 1995. In a time whern just seven percent of NHL players are from Quebec, part of the … Continue reading Canadian Sports Rivalries – Montreal Vs Quebec City
In sports, the story of the comeback often goes hand in hand with the collapse. To choke away a lead, or failing to show up when it really matters is always a dramatic/shocking experience for fans to go through, and Canada isn’t short of big collapses in the last twenty years. From hockey and soccer, … Continue reading Biggest Canadian Sports Collapses Since 2002
With the West on bye this week, we’re taking a break from Top Ten rankings this week to instead take a look at the state of play in the four conferences. It’s been a great U Sports football season up to this point, and before we gear up for the final weeks of the regular … Continue reading How The 2022 U Sports Football Season Is Shaping Up – Post Thanksgiving
As the CFL Thanksgiving weekend comes to an end in Montreal, Alouette fans have a lot to be grateful for. While it may be too soon for the Als to plan to take flight to Regina the weekend before U.S. Thanksgiving, the birds are a real contender for the 109th Grey Cup. FACT: Since beginning the … Continue reading Alouette Fans Thankful For Contender As Team Faces Ottawa
Then there was one. One undefeated team remains in the NFL following Week 4 and it is your Philadelphia Eagles. Thankfully for the Eagles, Jacksonville has presented themselves as a quality team this year, (thanks Urban,) so they got a signature win over a good team. This got me thinking of how well the last … Continue reading NFL Tier Ranking Following Week 4
