How can a person be expected to have hope for civilization when Olympic curlers are effing and blinding at each other on the CBC?

They would rather children and the young be under-supported than to appear to rural voters to be capitulating to teaching unions.

Oh that's what Colin Coates is up to these days. We overlapped in Scotland.

Fancy a bit of CFL history? Fancy Rugby? Follow these lineages to see how the CFL was shaped today via its rugby roots. When did you start following your team? Ps. 🍪& a 🥃 If you were can recall a match from IRFU/WIFU days and share it with us below. #cfl #history #Rugby

I want to know who the guy was - he looked a little like Frank Zappa - who for years would trot out from the stands at the Dome in the Nineties and do an A-R-G-O-S thing to the crowd.

As Ali could have told you, being on the right side of history can be costly. But in years to come, it will provide more comfort and self-assurance than any medal purchased by suppressing the conscience.

From a 1973 article – applicable to Canadian football in 2026? "consumption of sports may have the latent function of bringing continuity into the personal lives of [fans] ... [which] may help account for the frequency of strong opposition among older fans to changes in their favourite sports"

The analogy is apt: Canada's first international sporting victory was this New Brunswick rowing team's win at the Paris Regatta on July 8, 1867 - a week after Confederation. #cdnhist #sporthistory (Image: @library-archives.canada.ca, a051560)

A really interesting update from Terry Metcalf -- a great get for @mikehoganargos.bsky.social www.argonauts.ca/2026/02/09/h...

If, a hundred years or so ago, you were to tell a Canadian a day was coming when Canada would not be a dominant force in world rowing, and that the sport itself would lose most of its great popularity, they would have scoffed. It’s hard not to feel that way about (ice) hockey these days.

My latest Substack offering - after a long hiatus - looks at the career of "Old Reliable" Billy Bass, the Toronto Argonauts' first black captain. open.substack.com/pub/jamesefr...

I've had a couple of e-mail queries about Bev Carter, the first black Argonauts player, mentioned in my Argonauts.ca piece for Black History Month. I discussed Carter in a Substack piece in 2024, here: open.substack.com/pub/jamesefr... That was an experiment: maybe I'll give Substack another go?

What is especially ridiculous about Goldfinger's delirious insistence that Canada trading with China threatens the existence of the NHL is his belief that a league headquartered in New York, with 25 US teams and 7 Canadian ones, is in any way Canadian.

Ahh, circus clean-up day: the best day in the gridiron football calendar.

If only someone could have foreseen this. She's lucky she wasn't killed. People are. Everyone involved in allowing her down that course should be suspended, at a minimum.

With so many Europeans now on a PGA trajectory via the NCAA, and having transferred its 30 best players to the PGA since 2023, the DP World Tour has some thinking to do when the remaining reservoir of talent can't beat a player of Patrick Reed's limited calibre.

You don't become that rich by placing much store by compassion, decency or morality. That's where the camel, the rich man and the eye of a needle came from.

Good for her. As Tesco says, every little helps.

Black History Month - #Roughriders #CFL Note: Calgary Stampeders protest of Gabe Patterson (and Stan Stasica) was about whether or not they were signed by the CRU deadline of August 26, 1947. The CRU confirmed they were & issued them player cards. www.riderville.com/2026/02/06/b...

Which academic Muppet are you? Beaker. Stressed, bewildered and gripped by a terrifying sense of impending doom. But still here, trying to learn some things, try some things out and get a few laughs.

I'd rather eat broken glass, thanks. Fortunately, I can watch Six Nations rugby replays instead, and catch up on some reading.

Johnny Copp, a star UofT football player, was shot and killed in a home invasion in Toronto on December 3, 1933. The crime was never solved. The Blues began awarding a trophy in his honour in 1935. The first winner, quarterback Bobby Coulter, played 3 seasons with the Argos. Congrats Chris Joseph!

There's been a lot of bile spewed at some pointless Canadian singer for appearing in an NBC and about the Olympics. Meanwhile, the person 18th -- or possibly 8th -- in line to be Canada's head of state marches with the British team.

The truth that dares not speak its name, not that anyone who /should/ be listening /is/ listening. Yet its importance can be overstated. Those who dismiss the CFL and say it's because of the players' talent-level are simply looking for a convenient excuse to mask the real reasons.

I commend my grocery store on setting up a large Super Bowl display next to the Buy Canadian sign. Quite remarkable lack of self-consciousness.

Every person mentioned in this story would be a household name, not just in Toronto, but in Canada, if it was about the Leafs rather than the Argos. It was more than 40 YEARS after the Argos fielded their first black player - who was a local athlete - that the Leafs iced theirs.

Ever wonder how and when the Toronto Argonauts desegregated? Of course you have! Fortunately for you, I have contributed something on that very subject to argonauts.ca, helping the club to mark Black History Month. www.argonauts.ca/2026/02/05/b...

Recruitment. Dollars to doughnuts.

Matthew Klugman ( @raw-toast.bsky.social ) & Roshani Jayawardana ( @uvic.ca ) examine the history of visual depictions of Australian sport + how historians can use this iconography in @journsporthist.bsky.social 52.3 cc: @projectmuse.bsky.social @nassh1972.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

Yes! share.google/S81aDdycLLyR...

I'll always love Wyn, but he battled injuries most of last year. I'd say "good luck to him" but not in Hamilton.

Ever feel like every CFL season since 2024 has been a loyalty test to Argos fans? 1. Take away their favourite players. Still loyal? 2. Make their big star unmarketable. Still loyal? 3. Make the stadium unusable. Loyal? 4. Give the coach to a division rival. Loyal? 5. Wreck the rules. Loyal?

Wow! Someone has signed *with* the Argos! My daughter and I were always fans, and it was hard cheering against him. Also - he dropped the fans a lovely note when he left - unlike certain coaches of the RoughBLACKS.

Groundhog Moon Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian 2005

You had a feeling from the start that he wasn't coming back. For some reason, the Argos can't keep a Canadian receiver more than three seasons.

Good luck to him. For whatever reason, it just wasn't working in Toronto. Hardly any touches and hardly did anything with the limited opportunities Dinwiddie gave him.

"One other" - just Brian Harelimana, one of the team's most important special teams players! Great to have Hansen back - another tremendous ST contributor.

"I understand the history. I understand the expectations that come with the traditions of the Argonauts and the banners that hang at BMO Field. I have a great respect for that" Coach Quick, you and I are going to get on just fine! www.argonauts.ca/2026/01/28/h...

Hearing the Wise'Uns at the University of Calgary are closing Medieval and Classical studies - because Canada needs fewer people in 2026 who know about demagoguery, Christian authoritarianism, and Europeans' first attempts to colonize these shores. Petition: www.change.org/p/save-class...

It's a little known fact that the NFL managed to survive from 1920 until Bradshaw without any clutch players. Graham? Starr? Layne? Unitas? Staubach? Sure, they won all those titles, but good under pressure? Ha! Namath? Sure, he guaranteed a win and won, but clutch? C'mon.

Take your "trade deal", which is just as worthless as the last one, back to Magastan and don't come back until you've learned to behave like a civil person instead of a Mafia thug. We won't hold our breath.

For decades in Canada, we built thousands of affordable co-op homes every year. In 1995, the federal and provincial governments stopped financially supporting co-op construction. Thirty years of underinvestment in affordable homes has contributed to the housing crisis we face today.

Any relation to John?

Perhaps you should agitate for the coach to be fired, or for the GM to be fired, or for the president to be fired, or for a couple of their best players to be run out of town. That worked the last time(s).

Behold, the liberator of Alberta.

If you think there's any way on this or any other earth that the US Constitution gives presidents the power to fix elections, you should be disbarred and forced to return your law degree(s) to the Crackerjack Co.

In case you were worried that Canada is alone in gutting a world-class higher education sector because governments prefer to pander to idiots than to lead.

Wow

The Toronto sports media in all its glory. This guy is awful. He is terrible. He doesn't deserve to play here. So let's trade him for someone super-amazing. Surely other teams will give up a superstar for an incompetent loser. (I'm roleplaying: I think Rielly should be a career Leaf.)