Yes. (Fat chance. Bullies don't apologize.)

If he hasn't already been rolling continuously for nine plus years, this isn't going to faze him.

How utterly awful and terribly sad. Serious neck injuries once were much more common, and so much effort has gone into making the game safe that they are "freak" occurrences now - but all the more heartbreaking. Condolences to Dee's loved ones and thinking about the Winnipeg football community.

Plus, I believe he played Venus Flytrap in WKRP in Cincinnati.

Gestapo

Canada will remember.

Keep running the ads. This is what leverage looks like. Don't listen to those timidly wailing that this thing can't be "won". That was Olden Days economics (like, until 2015). This is the insane world of 2025, where the president's delicate ego is the X factor. Keep running the ads.

An all-western final this year in the Canadian junior football league, one of the pathways to a professional career in the CFL.

It's worth pointing out, for those unfamiliar with the rules, that the ball can be *kicked* out of the end zone to avoid the rouge. It doesn't have to be carried out.

And never let them call it a point for a missed field goal. There is no rule awarding a point for that.

Bingo. The expansion excuse is special pleading: the changes are supposed to be self-evidently improvements, and many do not see them that way. Hence, the expansion (and its survival-of-the-league subtext) excuse arises.

"On the final play ... [the] Mustang returner ... couldn’t advance a missed field goal attempt out of the end zone, conceding a single - which won the game." The OUA provides a timely reminder of how the CFL is going to vandalize our game by robbing us of this play in its new rules. Heartbreaking.

Standing up to the US president - which is to say, standing up for ourselves - is what (more than anything else) sixty percent of Canadians voted for. Nobody was under any illusions about how he'd react, and they voted for it anyway. The Ontario ad is working splendidly. Keep running it.

History matters. Everyone knows this. And we need to start funding it properly.

I don't know when we started booing the opposing team for no reason other than they're the opposing team. But I hate it.

Do NOT stop the ads, Premier Ford. I agree with you on nothing else. But if these ads are angering the Toilet King, you keep them going. His delicate ego gives Canada leverage it struggles to find elsewhere.

I could not agree more, and strongly suggest that sport, including Canadian football, deserves every consideration as an important element of our cultural life.

Top work here by @mikehoganargos.bsky.social And a lot of pretty good news in terms of players already under contract for 2026. My own priorities among the potential free agents would be Dejon Brissett, Thiadric Hansen, Jack Cassar and Wynton McManis. www.argonauts.ca/2025/10/22/h...

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY OCT 23, 1913 ~ Robert McKay, president of the Argonaut Football Club from 1903-1911, died. Despite calls from senior Argonaut Rowing Club members in these years to ditch football, "Uncle Bob" used his stature at the ARC (and cash from his own pocket) to keep the Argos alive.

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY OCT 23, 1937 ~ Rookie Argonaut linebacker Harry Sonshine suffered a double jaw fracture that sidelined him for 24 months from a hit by Bunny Wadsworth of the Ottawa Rough Riders, a notoriously rough player. The incident sparked a league enquiry and a bitter 5-year rivalry.

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY OCT 23, 1954 ~ Faced with missing the playoffs with a loss, the Argos beat Montreal 30-24 with a last-minute TD scored by Al Pfeifer via Frank Clair's "Sarnia Special" play (a double reverse flea-flicker) copied from the Sarnia Imperials. 📸 Gerry Richardson (1955)

1. Trump is president. 2. God willed it so. 3. God is working through Trump, so who am I to question his/His ways. 4. End of.

I don't go in for taunting the fans of a defeated team. But I imagine that some Mariners fans in BC have reaped tonight what they sowed in 2022 when Seattle knocked off the Blue Jays.

In 1895 the TAC persuaded the city's two football clubs, Toronto FC (est 1878) and Osgoode Hall FC (est 1891), they'd have more success by joining forces as a TAC-branded club. The merger between the rivals was a fiasco, dissolving after a season, and brought the Argos (est 1873) back into football.

This "ceasefire" on the eve of the Nobel announcement seems to have been the geopolitical equivalent of cramming for a final exam and retaining little of the material after a day or two.

That's quite a range. Maybe more time and data collection will narrow it some.

The sequence of revolutionary ideas in Canada that have been normal in the UK for generations continues.

The self-congratulatory element of this piece can be hard to swallow - and cannot obfuscate the fact that Harper himself endorsed PP to the point of smearing MC. However, the essential point here - that conservatism increasingly has nothing to offer but Trump emulation - is sadly bang on.

Evidently, when you send half a Grey Cup winning Argonaut team to Edmonton, and leave the other half in Toronto, you get two early starts to the off-season. On the bright side, the Elks' salary-cap busting means an extra draft pick for Calgary or something.

Beaming with pride tonight as my wife was inducted into the McMaster Sports Hall of Fame - honoured for guiding the Marauders to the 2000 OUA title and 2001 national championship. It was awesome to see her whole team back together again to celebrate!

He's not wrong.

"They make a desert and call it peace."

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

We are delighted to announce that Professor Matthew Taylor has been appointed as Director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture. #sportshistory #WhereAmbitionBegins @dmu.ac.uk @matttayl.bsky.social

Since the (stated) driver behind the proposed @CFL rouge rule change is an (alleged) fear of a walk-off rouge deciding a big game, the obvious solution respectful towards the game is to apply the proposed change AFTER THE 3-MINUTE WARNING. Otherwise, leave the rule alone.

Oh, there's just one more thing, Mr. Hlushchenko. I know you must be hungry and frazzled; but could you just analyze Shakespeare's use of dramatic and stylistic techniques in the conversation between Roderigo, Iago and Brabantio in Act 1, Scene 1 of Othello? There's a good chap. You have two hours.

Rory McIlroy speaking earlier today about golf and growth. As I listened, I thought, "well, this sounds a little familiar". Those glibly seeking "major change" in the name of growth in Canadian football pay lip service to "tradition"; but you never hear them address what the game represents.

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Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now. YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday. Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms. While you still can. @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

I don't know what, if anything, the Tiger-Cats have done to mark their 75th anniversary this year, but it's disappointing they didn't make it a bigger deal. Maybe Ted's illness pushed such things aside.

It's curious to see the Mariners in the ALCS, considering that every Mariners fan I know spent the season calling for everybody to be fired and everything to be sold.

Surely there will be someone among the filthy rich of Toronto civic-minded enough to purchase and donate the painting.

Creating the curious fact that Woodbine Racetrack and the racetrack on Woodbine Ave were not one and the same racetrack.

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY OCT 10, 1922 – Argonaut captain Lionel "Big Train" Conacher, an accomplished amateur boxer, faced world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey in a one-round exhibition bout at Christie Street Veterans Hospital for a crowd of local "war amps".

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY OCT 10, 1931 – Halfback Bill Darling (L) caught a pass from halfback Teddy Morris to complete the team's first-ever legal forward pass in a league game, a 12-7 road loss to the Hamilton Tigers at the HAAA grounds on Charlton Street.

TODAY IN ARGOS HISTORY 100TH ANNIVERSARY ALERT OCT 10, 1925 – Coach Mike Rodden's Argonauts, scoring all their points in the third quarter, beat the Ottawa Senators 13–5 at Varsity Stadium in the first Argo game broadcast live, "play by play", on the radio – by none other than Foster Hewitt.

My maternal great-grandfather emigrated to Canada a year after this photo was taken to work for Sir Henry Pellatt as gardner, which he did until Sir Henry ran out of money and had to give up the property in 1923.

A fun photograph of Casa Loma (or "Casa Lorna"!) under construction, from a 1912 Star Weekly.

"We took freedom of speech away because the courts said you had freedom of speech." How many clauses of the constitution are violated by that single autocratic utterance?