Author Archives: Darrell Davis

Poor Quebec City. No NHL team for you, despite your three-year-old, $400-million arena, hockey-crazed fans and old connections with pro leagues. Gary Bettman and his cronies wanted another U.S. franch...

William Nylander got a no-trade promise from the Toronto Maple Leafs. There's no such thing. This is pro sports, where there's lots of lying. After a lengthy holdout from his NHL team, Nylander signed...

Derek Dennis, a Calgary Stampeders offensive lineman known as "Bonecrusher," had the best reaction to the overwhelming list of CFL free agents. Before anyone gets too uptight about 322 players potenti...

The Regina Pats are suffering from the horrible, painful, ridiculous after-effects of being last year's Memorial Cup hosts. Just like the Saskatoon Blades after serving as hosts of the 2013 Memorial C...

The last time the Buffalo Sabres won 10 straight games was during the 2006-07 season, which they ended by losing the Eastern Conference final series 4-1 to the Ottawa Senators. That was the last year ...

Brendan Taman remains among my favourite CFL executives, but in his new, part-time role as a Postmedia contributor he's still thinking like a general manager who works for the league's richest franchi...

Grey Cup had a distinctive new aroma this year. The smell of marijuana was everywhere. In the concourses of Commonwealth Stadium, while the Calgary Stampeders were beating the Ottawa Redblacks, smoke ...

On an icy field in a drab Grey Cup game interrupted by a new Canadian songbird, the Calgary Stampeders ended their curse. Losers of the last two CFL championships, the Stampeders defeated the Ottawa R...

Chris Jones nearly pulled off the impossible. For that, the Saskatachewan Roughriders' boss deserved to be named the CFL's coach-of-the-year. Without a great quarterback and with one of the CFL's weak...

Nobody asked Dave Dickenson what he calls head coach Rick Campbell and his Ottawa Redblacks staff. That question may have gotten some chuckles and a decent, self-effacing response from Dickenson, head...