Author Archives: Darrell Davis

Peter Chiarelli has had some influence on the NHL's wacky Western Conference standings. As the Edmonton Oilers' general manager, Chiarelli has dealt away the secondary scoring his team sorely lacks be...

While in Moose Jaw on the weekend, I sadly drove by the Times-Herald building, where the 125-year-old newspaper is days away from publishing its last edition. Thirty-five years ago I was hired there a...

There are 220 potential free agents in the CFL. That's ludicrous! For the good of the CFL, it's time for the players to backtrack and eliminate their one-year contracts. League rules used to insist th...

Swearing has become far too entrenched in our everyday language. Almost every second word is an obscenity. It's not happening just in sports, but it's most obvious during televised sporting events bec...

New commissioner Randy Ambrosie said it best: In the CFL there are two seasons, the football season and the business season. The football season ended Sunday with a thrilling Grey Cup game. The busine...

There's a hockey rink in front of the Peace Tower! Isn't that where the Saskatchewan Roughriders traditionally practice, on Parliament Hill, when they visit Ottawa? Now it's flooded and boarded, compl...

Wet, heavy snow fell on everyone as we trooped into Ottawa's TD Place for Sunday's Grey Cup game between the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders. "Instant classic!" Snow games provide the most wa...

Of the 12 commissioners I have heard give their annual State of the CFL speeches during Grey Cup Week, Tom Wright was my favourite. Alas, he was too nice. So the CFL governors fired him before he coul...

Dave Dickenson is two-for-two but he wants more. In his two CFL seasons as the Calgary Stampeders' head coach, Dickenson has twice led his team to the Grey Cup game. The Stampeders were favoured last ...

There aren't many similarities between this year's Grey Cup teams. Calgary Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson wears his heart on his sleeve when answering questions. Toronto Argonauts head coach Mar...