Author Archives: Darrell Davis

Zach Collaros is going to be paid like a starting quarterback. No surprise there. He was obtained by the Saskatchewan Roughriders to become their starting quarterback, regardless of any lip service pa...

Don Narcisse told the world he has stage one prostate cancer. Hall of Fame wide receiver with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Caught a pass in every CFL game he played. Short guy. Great hands. Contagiou...

They lined up in a U.S. courtroom to confront Larry Nassar. Ninety-eight women were scheduled to make victim impact statements, to describe what Nassar had done to them when they were children, some a...

I watched Kevin Glenn attend his first CFL practice with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2001. I'm hoping I'll be around long enough to see his last game, but at this pace, that's becoming less certai...

Remember the Purple People Eaters? If you were a sports fan in Saskatchewan during the late 1960s or early '70s, you knew the Purple People Eaters were the Minnesota Vikings' defensive linemen. You li...

Recruited to join Canada's 1968 Olympic hockey team, my father was emotionally crushed when he was cut before the Games. I thought about that passion as Hockey Canada announced the men's hockey team t...

It's time to get rid of the host team in the Memorial Cup. Since 1983 the Memorial Cup tournament has included a host team. It was a reaction to the disastrous 1980, three-team, round-robin tournament...

Zach Collaros wore a green tie. He said all the right, diplomatic things when he met the media in his new role as Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback. He praised the fan base. He lauded the organizat...

So the NHL, which didn't want to shut down during the Winter Olympics, has given half its teams this week off. The other half of the teams get next week off. And later in January the NHL takes a four-...

Only two of Canada's seven NHL teams are having decent years-and it's easy to see why. The Winnipeg Jets and Toronto Maple Leafs each have a handful of very good players, some of whom could be conside...