Posts Tagged ‘Calgary Stampeders’
Monday, May 6th, 2013
The University of Calgary Dinos might not have won the Vanier Cup this past season, but were the big winners on Monday in the first round of the 2013 Canadian Football League draft.
A total of three Dinos were drafted among the top five selections on Monday. Defensive tackle Linden Gaydosh was drafted first overall by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He was followed by the Montreal Alouettes selecting linebacker Mike Edem with the third overall pick and the Alouettes selecting Steven Lumbala with the fifth overall pick.
A poor decision by former Edmonton Eskimos General Manager Eric Tillman is a major reason why Montreal had two first round picks in the 2013 draft today, while the Eskimos had none. On September 12, 2012, the Eskimos traded their first and fourth round pick of this year’s draft with kicker Derek Schiavone for kicker Brody McKnight.
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Tags: brander craighead, brody mcknight, burke dales, Calgary Stampeders, derek schavone, Edmonton Eskimos, eric tillman, grant shaw, hamilton tiger-cats, linden gaydosh, mike edem, montreal alouettes, Saskatchewan Roughriders, steven lumbala, University of Calgary, unversity of texas at el paso
Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, University Sports |
Wednesday, February 27th, 2013
The Calgary Stampeders are turning to a former Edmonton Eskimo to improve their defense.
This week they signed import linebacker Rod Davis from the Montreal Alouettes.
Davis has four years of Canadian Football League experience, three with the Edmonton Eskimos and one with the Alouettes.
During his career he has an impressive 184 tackles, 10 sacks, four forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and eight interceptions.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Eskimos, hamilton tiger-cats, montreal alouettes, ricky foley, rod davis, Saskatchewan Roughriders, toronto argonauts, yannick carter
Posted in CFL |
Tuesday, February 12th, 2013
The Toronto Argonauts have signed Romby Bryant from the Calgary Stampeders on Tuesday.
Bryant, who was released by the Stampeders last week, has signed a two year contract with the Argonauts.
Bryant has 295 catches for 4428 yards and 31 touchdowns in his CFL career with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Calgary Stampeders.
Last season Bryant caught 55 passes for 678 yards and two touchdowns.
Bryant has been brought in by the Argonauts to compliment Chad Owens, who had a breakout season in 2012 where he was named the Canadian Football League’s Most Outstanding Player and set a CFL record for the most all-purpose yards in a single season with 3,863.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, chad owens, ken-yon rambo, romby bryant, toronto argonauts
Posted in CFL |
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
The San Diego Chargers have hired former Calgary Stampeder quarterback Mike McCoy as their next head coach.
McCoy was the Stampeders’ backup quarterback to Dave Dickenson in the 1999 season, and completed 117 passes in 183 attempts for 1669 yards, ten touchdowns and two interceptions. The Stampeders lost to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 32-21 in the Grey Cup.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, denver broncos, mike mccoy, san diego chargers
Posted in CFL |
Monday, November 26th, 2012
For the second year in a row and for only the third time since 1978, has the home team won the Grey Cup.
On Sunday, Chad Kackert ran for 133 yards and had 195 total yards as the Toronto Argonauts defeated the Calgary Stampeders 35-22.
Kackert was clearly the difference maker on Sunday as he had a career game, literally running by the Stampeders’ defense with ease.
It is interesting that the Vanier Cup and Grey Cup was a weekend of running backs as Kackert was joined by Maxime Boutin of Laval as most outstanding players this weekend.
Defensive end Ricky Foley of Courtice, Ontario was named the top Canadian after forcing a key Jon Cornish fumble in the first half.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, chad kackert, dontrelle inman, jarious jackson, pacino horne, rick foley, toronto argonauts
Posted in CFL, Home |
Saturday, November 24th, 2012
Grey Cup (Roland Tanglao, Wikimedia Commons)
In one of the biggest sporting events of the year, the 100th Grey Cup takes place Sunday in Toronto. The 12-6 Calgary Stampeders face the 9-9 Toronto Argonauts.
The game will have the two finalists for the 2012 Canadian Football League’s most outstanding player award. On Thursday we learned that Argonauts’ wide receiver Chad Owens, who set a CFL record for most all-purpose yards in one season, had more votes than Calgary Stampeder running back Jon Cornish.
This is the third time the Stampeders are facing the Argonauts for the Grey Cup, and 2012 is drastically different compared to 1971 and 1991 when the Argonauts entered the game as the heavy favourite and entered the game as a team the rest of the Canadian Football League were adamantly not pulling for. That tendency isn’t here this time around, and if you go by one Calgary player’s undisciplined actions prior to the Western Final, many football fans nationwide are tempted to cheer for Ricky Ray, Jim Barker and the Argonauts.
The Grey Cup will take place Sunday at 4pm on TSN.
Here are the other events I’ll be watching this weekend:
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Tags: aksel lund svindal, Calgary Stampeders, chad owens, chicago bulls, denver broncos, Derrick Rose, didier cuche, erik guay, everett golson, jim barker, jon cornish, kansas city chiefs, klaus kroell, luol deng, max franz, miami dolphins, michigan wolverines, milwaukee bucks, notre dame fighting irish, ohio state buckeyes, Ricky Ray, russell wilson, seattle seahawks, theo riddick, toronto argonauts, university of southern california
Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, NBA, NFL, University Sports |
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
Jon Cornish (Wikimedia Commons)
The CFL handed out its player awards on Thursday night and Chad Owens, wide receiver of the Toronto Argonauts was named the most outstanding player for 2012. Owens beat out Jon Cornish, the running back of the Calgary Stampeders, who ended up winning the CFL Most Outstanding Canadian award.
Cornish was trying to become the first Canadian to win the most outstanding player award since Tony Gabriel won the award with the Hamilton Tiger Cats in 1978.
So why did the panel go with a wide receiver over a running back? Well, it’s quite possible it stems from a mooning incident Cornish had with the Saskatchewan Roughrider crowd earlier this year. The CFL was simply not comfortable handing out an award to an athlete who lacked complete judgment in a particular situation.
In other awards, linebacker J.C. Sherritt of the Edmonton Eskimos was the top defensive player, Jovan Olafioye of the British Columbia Lions was the top lineman and wide receiver Chris Matthews of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was the top rookie.
Tags: british columbia lions, Calgary Stampeders, chad owens, chris matthews, Edmonton Eskimos, hamilton tiger-cats, j.c. sherritt, jon cornish, jovan olafioye, tony gabriel, toronto argonauts, winnipeg blue bombers
Posted in CFL |
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012
Krista Ford (Patrick Seitz, Wikimedia Commons)
According to the Canadian Press, the mayor of Calgary will a have a friendly bet with the mayor of Toronto when the Calgary Stampeders meet the Toronto Argonauts for the 100th Grey Cup in Toronto on Sunday.
On Monday, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi proposed a bet to Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Whoever loses the bet will need to donate his individual weight in food to the winning city’s food bank and the loser must also wear the winning Grey Cup team’s jersey in a city council meeting.
Nenshi proposed the bet on Twitter, and Ford accepted.
Ford played high school football at Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy in Toronto and has coached the Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School since 2001. Ford’s niece Krista was a former captain of the Toronto Triumph of the Lingerie Football League and the club’s marketing manager.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, CFL, grey cup, krista ford, lingerie football league, naheed nenshi, rob ford, toronto argonauts, toronto triumph
Posted in CFL |
Sunday, November 18th, 2012
Grey Cup (Roland Tanglao, Wikimedia Commons)
The Toronto Argonauts and the Calgary Stampeders will meet in the 100th Grey Cup a week from today at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
On Sunday, three Toronto Argonauts had outstanding offensive performances in a 27-20 win over the Montreal Alouettes. Ricky Ray passed for 399 yards, Chad Kackert had 139 rushing yards and wide receiver Chad Owens had 207 receiving yards.
Toronto bounced back after a 17-10 halftime deficit and an inability to score any points on a second quarter drive where they were first and goal at Montreal’s one yard line.
The Stampeders meanwhile beat the B.C. Lions 34-29 in equally an impressive offensve performance. Quarterback Kevin Glenn, who will be starting in his first career Grey Cup game, threw for 303 yards. Running back Jon Cornish ran for 112 yards and wide receiver Maurice Price had 117 yards receiving.
A major reason for Calgary’s success was because Glenn was able to connect with Marquay McDaniel for a 68 yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and Romby Bryant for a 57 yard pass in the third quarter.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, chad kackert, chad owens, grey cup, jon cornish, kevin glenn, marquay mcdaniel, maurice price, Ricky Ray, romby bryant, toronto argonauts
Posted in CFL |
Friday, November 16th, 2012
Once again this weekend I’ll be watching four kinds of football from both side of the border.
Th most interesting matchup will be the Western Final on Sunday afternoon between the Calgary Stampeders (12-6) and the British Columbia Lions (13-5) (2:30pm, TSN). This week there has been more drama in the Stampeders’ dressing room than an entire week of the Young and the Restless, and for that I give the Lions the advantage.
Travis Lulay is expected to be at the top of his game and the Lions are well rested. My only concern however is that it has been a while since they played a very meaningful game, so it will be interesting to see how they come out mentally.
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Tags: anthony calvillo, baltimore ravens, boston celtics, brett blaszko, british columbia lions, Calgary Stampeders, chad kackert, chad owens, cleveland browns, dallas cowboys, deMar deRozan, denver broncos, guillaume bourassa, houston rockets, james harden, kenyon barber, Kobe Bryant, kyle quinlan, los angeles lakers, maxime boutin, mike d'antoni, montreal alouettes, ohio state buckeyes, peyton manning, pittsburgh steelers, san diego chargers, toronto argonauts, Toronto Raptors, travis lulay, university of acadia axemen, university of calgary dinos, university of laval rouge et or, university of mcmaster mauraders, university of oregon ducks, university of stanford cardinal, urban meyer, wisconsin badgers
Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, Home, NBA, NFL, University Sports |
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Drew Tate is out for the season surprisingly and will not participate in Calgary’s game against the British Columbia Lions for Sunday’s Western Final.
Tate showed up to practice Thursday with a cast and the diagnosis is a fractured right forearm. It is not known when the injury exactly took place.
Tate led the Calgary Stampeders to a 36-30 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Sunday. He threw a 68 yard touchdown pass to Romby Bryant with 39 seconds left to give Calgary the impressive come from behind victory. He was also named the CFL’s offensive player of the week for the divisional semi-finals.
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, drew tate, kevin glenn
Posted in CFL |
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
Nik Lewis (Wikimedia Commons)
According to the Canadian Press, Calgary Stampeders’ wide receiver Nik Lewis was fined an undisclosed amount Wednesday for an inappropriate comment he made Monday on twitter.
Lewis made the following comment, “I just bought OJ’s gloves on eBay. Now all I need is a white girl named Nicole.#Maybe a little too far.”
Lewis’s comments have been described as “horrific”, “idiotic”, “sick”, and “sheer stupidity” by Eric Francis of the Calgary Sun.
In an excellent article written by George Johnson of the Calgary Herald suggests “maybe it’s time to take away the toys.”
What is even more amazing is Lewis’s lack of remorse. He told Francis today following practice that “Do I regret it? I regret they’re taking money out of my pocket” and told Vicki Hall of the Calgary Herald , “you can’t just go around apologizing every time.”
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, CFL, nik lewis
Posted in CFL |
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Nik Lewis (Wikimedia Commons)
There is no question that Calgary Stampeders’ wide receiver Nik Lewis is one of the most recognizable players in the Canadian Football League.
He is not afraid to speak his mind and joke around with the cameras. Every weekend it is common to see Lewis do creative celebrations after a big play.
But on Monday, Lewis wrote a tweet, that was just as bad as Dean Molberg’s controversial comment on the FAN 960 a week ago.
Lewis wrote, “I just bought OJ’s gloves on eBay. Now all I need is a white girl named Nicole.#Maybe a little too far.”
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, nicole brown simpson, nik lewis, o.j. simpson
Posted in CFL |
Monday, November 12th, 2012
In one of the most dramatic finishes in Canadian Football League history, the Calgary Stampeders defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders Sunday night in the western division semi-final at McMahon Stadium 36-30.
Trailing 29-23 with a minute and a second left, the Roughriders moved ahead on a 24 yard pass from Darian Durant to former Edmonton Eskimo Greg Carr which put Saskatchewan up 30-29.
But the Stampeders weren’t done. With only 39 seconds left, Drew Tate found Romby Bryant wide open down the sideline for a 68 yard touchdown pass to put Calgary up 35-30. (Tate had an unsuccessful two point conversion).
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Tags: Calgary Stampeders, darian durant, drew tate, greg carr, jon cornish, keon raymond, maurice price, rene paredes, romby bryant, Saskatchewan Roughriders
Posted in CFL |
The University of Calgary Dinos might not have won the Vanier Cup this past season, but were the big winners on Monday in the first round of the 2013 Canadian Football League draft.
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