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Weekend Sports Preview–November 10 & 11–CFL, CIS, NCAA, NFL & NBA

Saturday, November 10th, 2012

I will be watching four kinds of football this weekend–the professional and collegiate variety from both sides of the border.

Obviously the biggest games are the Canadian Football League’s divisional semi-finals.

In the East, the Toronto Argonauts are hosting the Edmonton Eskimos (Sunday, 11am, TSN) in a game that is featuring former Eskimo Ricky Ray, now at quarterback for Toronto. The Eskimos finished the season at 7-11 and the Argonauts at 9-9. However Edmonton did beat Toronto in both meetings this year, 19-15 on June 30 and 26-17 on August 27.

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Posted in Amateur Sports, CFL, NBA, NFL, University Sports |

Cornish named a finalist for Most Outstanding Player

Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

Jon Cornish (Wikimedia Commons)

According to the Canadian Press, Calgary Stampeders’ running back Jon Cornish has been nominated for the Canadian Football League’s most outstanding player award.

Cornish, who will represent the Western Division, led the Canadian Football League this season with 1457 rushing yards and tied Kory Sheets of the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the CFL lead in rushing touchdowns with 11. Cornish also set a record for most rushing yards in a season by a Canadian and became the first Canadian to lead the CFL in rushing yards since Orville Lee of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1988.

Cornish, a native of New Westminster, British Columbia, is up against Toronto Argonauts wide receiver Chad Owens, who set a CFL single season record for most all-purpose yards in 2012.

The last Calgary Stampeder to win the most outstanding player award was quarterback Henry Burris in 2010.

Cornish has also been nominated for top Canadian, where he is up against Montreal Alouette linebacker Shea Emery of Richmond, British Columbia.

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Tags: british columbia lions, Calgary Stampeders, chad owens, chris matthews, chris williams, Edmonton Eskimos, j.c. sherritt, jabar westerman, jon cornish, josh bourke, jovan olafioye, kory sheets, montreal alouettes, orville lee, ottawa rough riders, Saskatchewan Roughriders, shea emery, tim brown, toronto argonauts, winnipeg blue bombers
Posted in CFL |

Roughriders put beat down on Blue Bombers

Monday, September 3rd, 2012

There are blowouts and then there are blowouts.

On Sunday at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers completely got bombed in losing 52-0 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Winnipeg got completely hammered in the first coaching game for Tim Burke. Saskatchewan snapped a five game losing streak in the process.

As good as Saskatchewan’s offense was, to pitch a shutout in today’s CFL deserves high praise. The Roughriders defense was led by former Kansas City Chief cornerback Tyron Brackenridge, who returned a blocked punt for a touchdown and also had an interception.

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Tags: kory sheets, sandro deangelis, Saskatchewan Roughriders, tyron brackenridge, weston dressler, winnipeg blue bombers
Posted in CFL |

Roughriders move from worst to first

Sunday, July 15th, 2012

It was just a year ago the Saskatchewan Roughriders were at the very bottom of the Western Division of the Canadian Football League.

How times have changed.

Yesterday afternoon at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium, former Edmonton Eskimo Tristan Jackson ran an unsuccessful field goal 129 yards for a touchdown as Saskatchewan defeated the British Columbia Lions 23-20.

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Tags: british columbia lions, kory sheets, Saskatchewan Roughriders, tristan jackson
Posted in CFL |