David Naylor is at the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama, and on Wednesday he spoke to linebacker Casey Matthews. If the Manning family is the NFL's first family of quarterbacks, than the Matthews' clan can lay claim to that distinction at linebacker. ...more
Anthony Calvillo had no plan to break the news amid the Grey Cup celebration, to tell the country what had been weighing on his mind since summer. But the emotion had been bottled up since the time the doctors told him about a lesion on his thyroid, followed by a biopsy that had proved inconclusive. ...more
The CFL is expected to announce sometime next week that it has approved the expansion draft formula under which Ottawa will re-enter the league in 2013. It is believed that existing teams will be able to protect one quarterback and 10 import players during the first round of the draft, with Ottawa selecting a maximum of two quarterbacks. ...more
It's been an awfully long time since any CFL commissioner has been able to deliver a buoyant report on the league's affairs the way Mark Cohon was able to do Friday morning in Edmonton. ...more
There aren't many homes in Regina that don't have a single Saskatchewan Roughrider item in them, especially at Grey Cup time. But Phil and Norma Flory's is one of them. ...more
They've sat side-by-side at the head coaches' table to kick off Grey Cup Week for two consecutive years. But Montreal's Marc Trestman and Saskatchewan's Ken Miller could not have taken more different paths to get here. David Naylor explains. ...more
If there's a down side to the 2010 Toronto Argonaut season it is that the team seems no closer to learning who its quarterback of the future will be than it was a year ago. It was hard to miss how abruptly the message in that regard changed from head coach Jim Barker on Monday, one day after his offence sputtered yet again in a 48-17 loss to Montreal in Sunday's Eastern Final. ...more
The biggest question facing the Toronto Argonauts this off-season is what they will do at quarterback for 2011. The Argos ranked last in most passing categories with Lemon making all but one start. And in the post-season the offence failed demonstrated any degree of consistency. ...more
It's a scene that is oh-so-familiar to those who follow Canadian football. The Montreal Alouettes, well rested and high-performing, pounding an opponent before a huge crowd at Olympic Stadium en route to booking a trip to the Grey Cup. ...more
It's not the kind of statement that revs-up a team, but Montreal Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo had some profound, if cautious, words for his team prior to Sunday's Eastern Final with Toronto. "Punting is not the enemy," said the 38-year-old before his eighth Eastern final in the past 10 years. "Field position is a big part of these games." ...more
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