Recently by Malcolm Kelly
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CFL
History says Ricky Ray = Grey Cup ring
Those Toronto Argonauts may not be able to develop a quarterback, but they sure can successfully trade for them on a semi-regular basis.
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NHL
Multi-company ownership not new for Leafs
Ownership of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the companies controlling the
team and its building, by competing entities is hardly new.
Nor is having a major player in the broadcast business as part of the group.
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CFL
10 things we learned this CFL season
So, 2011 is in the books, and that leaves one job. Here are 10 things learned as the Canadian Football League heads to the 100th Grey Cup season.
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CFL
Time will tell if Argos' Milanovich was good hire
I've never understood why the Toronto Argonauts dropped the slogan "Pull Together" from their logo about 25 years ago, because it so beautifully encapsulated what this, or any team, has to do to win on a regular basis.
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CFL
Lions unsung hero Khreem Smith's fairy tale journey
Once upon a time there was a man named Khreem Smith who found a great, golden Grey Cup ring at the end of a long, long journey.
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CFL
Catching shut-eye Grey Cup eve tricky for some players
At their hotels in Vancouver on Saturday night, the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers faced the night in a 104 different ways. Some snoozed, some paced, some lay there staring at the ceiling.
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CFL
Tips for righting the good ship Argo
After 43 years of growing up with, cheering for and then watching the Toronto Argonauts as a professional journalist, it was beginning to look here like the only person who could find this almost sunken franchise was Dr. Robert Ballard. There is, however, a plan to salvage what's left of the famous old boat.
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CFL
Sidelined Bomber stays upbeat for Cup 'home game'
Brandon Stewart was crutching his way around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' media breakfast on Thursday morning, spreading cheer, chatting away and looking nothing like a guy with a slightly broken heart.
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CFL
History will bite the Lions
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-8, 1-0 in playoffs) will defeat the B.C. Lions (11-7, 1-0 in playoffs) in the 99th Grey Cup Game, Sunday night (6:30 p.m. ET) at B.C. Place in Vancouver.
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CFL
West Final prediction: Lions too hot for Eskimos
This was going to be so much more fun to work out before the news came
that running back Jerome Messam will not be available for the rest of
the season.
Rats. No revenge motive. No "Bet you're sorry you got rid of me now."
So...
The host B.C. Lions (11-7) will defeat the Edmonton Eskimos (11-7, 1-0
in playoffs) in the West Division final on Sunday afternoon at B.C.
Place.
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CFL
East Final prediction: Bombers to tame Ticats
The host Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-8) will defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (8-10, 1-0 in playoffs), in the East Division Final on Sunday afternoon (1 p.m. ET) at Canad Inns Stadium.
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CFL
West semifinal: Stamps to prevail in Edmonton
Trying to work out who's going to defeat whom in this, the most competitive Canadian Football League season in history, seems a losing proposition, but since I'm interested in receiving my pay this week, let's give it a try.
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CFL
CFL East semifinal: Ticats will topple Als
Coming off a brilliant 1-4 post season last year we were seriously considering giving up, until the editor pointed out no picks, no pay cheque.
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CFL
Pass interference a big challenge for CFL officials
When Al McColman was first hired as a downfield official in 1978 to decide what was, and what was not, pass interference, the decision was pretty straight forward. Did the defensive player make contact with the receiver? If so, flag.
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CFL Power Rankings
CFL Power Rankings: Week 19
Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.
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CFL
CFL Power Rankings: Week 18
Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.
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NFL
The Bills...and all that jazz
A quick peruse online showed a single seat in the upper deck of the Rogers Centre for Sunday's Bills' Toronto series game between Buffalo and Washington cost around $150 for the privilege.
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CFL Power Rankings
CFL Power Rankings: Week 17
Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.
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CFL
Argonauts' Owens combines for hard yards
Michael Clemons calls Chad Owens "Extrasplendifiscent," a combination of extraordinary, splendid and magnificent. We'll allow that, as the man tagged as "Pinball" has always reminded us of a character from a Disney movie anyway. It was around the nine-minute mark of the second quarter on Friday night that Owens took a punt at his 13-yard line, ran through the first line of Edmonton defenders, juked left and up the sideline before being boxed in.
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CFL Power Rankings
CFL Power Rankings: Week 16
Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.
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CFL
Handicapping the CFL stretch run
If famed Woodbine race announcer Dan Loiselle were calling this year's
race for the Grey Cup as it heads around the final turn, he'd be hanging
out of his little booth screaming "There's a stampede at the head of
the stretch!"
That there is. And heading for the line it's the closest race in many years.
Here's the morning line on the five contenders, one outsider and two pretenders for the 2011 Grade 1 Grey Cup Stakes.
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CFL Power Rankings
CFL Power Rankings: Week 15
Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League.
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CFL
When dominoes fall, good CFL GMs are ready
Anthony Calvillo may be the most outstanding player on the Montreal Alouettes, year by year, but if general manager Jim Popp had to vote for most valuable on his roster, Diamond Ferri might get at least a little consideration.
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CFL
Ticats QB Boltus understands life as 3rd stringer
Jason Boltus is the pride of Hartwick College, a beautiful little liberal arts school nestled in the Catskill Mountains where the native of Baldwinsville, N.Y., (pop. 7,053) became the NCAA Division III all-time leader in total offence.
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CFL
Former Ticat attempting to resurrect U of T
When Greg Gary told friends he was going to take over the University of Toronto football program, a few of them were taken a tad aback.
- CFL For Williams, it's not the weight, it's the wow As the Toronto International Film Festival winds down, it seems appropriate to provide this sneak peak at the debut season of Chris Williams, Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
- CFL CFL teams should never surrender Yogi Berra may not have been thinking of the Canadian Football League when the Yankees legend once mused on how games are never over until they're over. But where else can a team that started the season 1-7 find itself in the playoffs 10 weeks later after a hot finish?
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CFL
Lemon's actions likely led to exit out of Toronto
The Cleo Lemon quarterback experiment is over. Long live Steven Jyles.
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CFL
CFL's mid-season: 10 things we learned
As the Canadian Football League heads through the halfway point, CBCSports.ca's Malcolm Kelly takes his annual look at some lessons learned in the first two months.
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CFL
Firings linger forever: CFL coaches
The late Punch Imlach once found out he was no longer employed as general manager by the Toronto Maple Leafs by showing up for work one day and finding his parking spot had been taken away.
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CFL
The block: Where courage trumps technique
The block. Knocking an onrushing defender down. Getting in their way. Keeping them out of the play or off the quarterback.
It seems so simple, and yet is one of the toughest things for a football player to learn, and especially to learn to do well.
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CFL
A few minutes with Adriano Belli*
Do you ever wonder what a quarterback sounds like when a 290 pound defensive lineman falls on him?
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CFL
CFLers define that 'magic moment'
The perfect football moment.
A ball hangs up there, gleaming under the summer lights, spinning in the tightest of spirals, dropping, seemingly ever so slowly, into the soft hands of a speeding receiver who is no more than half a step - a mere blink of an eye - in front of the defender.
Six points. Lovely.
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CFL
Fear factor influences CFL passing game
Defenders call it Alligator Arms. And you've seen it.
That's when a receiver or slot back has been hit a couple of times on
pass routes, and suddenly their willingness to put those hands
aggressively up in the air to haul in the ball begins to fade.
The defensive backs and linebackers love that moment, one that used to
be called "hearing footsteps," because it's the time you can really
smell fear.
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CFL
New injury treatment hits the CFL
Tiger Woods has had it. Kobe Bryant has had it. Byron Parker has had it. And I've had it. If there's any justice in the world, the more famous in that above list also yelled like a six-year-old having his first booster shot when they received it, so I can feel better.
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CFL
Quarterbacking then and now
Wally Gabler remembers a time in 1968 when his then-Toronto Argonauts were playing Ottawa in a two-game East final, and coach Leo Cahill came to his quarterback for a chat.
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CFL
Undersized Suber packs big punch for Bombers
Winnipeg's Alex Suber is yet another example of how the Canadian Football League has offered homes to those who may not fit the NFL's idea of what size you need to be a good football player.
About the Author
Malcolm Kelly
Malcolm went to his first CFL game in 1968 at the original Exhibition Stadium in Toronto where the Argos featured Wally Gabler as the quarterback and Bill Symons as the running back. Through 30 years as a professional sports journalist he’s never lost his love of the Canadian Football League and counts Michael Eben as his favourite all-time player.
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