Author Archives: Darrell Davis

Simoni Lawrence isn't an angel. He's a football player with a reputation. Although the Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker is considered a first-time offender by the CFL, he's also known for targeting the ...

OK, I'm an idiot. I've been called worse, sometimes by Saskatchewan Roughriders fans who disagree with my opinions. Those fans would be correct this time, because I neglected to check the Roughriders'...

Nobody affected the outcome of the Saskatchewan Roughriders' CFL season-opener more than dirty, despicable Hamilton Tiger-Cats linebacker Simoni Lawrence. Three plays into Hamilton's 23-17 victory, Sa...

Kevin Glenn said he won't be playing in the CFL this year. He's 40, played 18 seasons, was owned by all nine franchises and played for seven of them. From his first of three stints with the Saskatchew...

Why do other countries hate playing sports against the United States? Watch the U.S. women's soccer team celebrate its ninth goal of a 13-0 drubbing of Thailand in the World Cup. On a day when America...

The Boston Bruins were the last NHL team to win the seventh game of a Stanley Cup final series. It happened in 2011, when the Bruins won the last two games of their best-of-seven series against the Va...

Rory McIlroy marked his golf ball with a loonie during the Canadian Open, shot a final round of 61 and won by seven shots. He quaffed a beer in celebration, praised the crowd, vowed to return to defen...

Another winless pre-season is over for the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, who haven't won an exhibition game since 2014. No big deal. The Roughriders looked OK on Thursday, particularly on offence, b...

I didn't attend Craig Dickenson's first at-home, pre-game media conference, but I listened to the recording. It sounded friendly. There was no southern drawl or "I tell ya what," but there were names ...

Slurp! Can you hear that sucking sound? That's the sound of the NFL trying to suck dry the football fans around Winnipeg. It almost happened in Saskatchewan, but fortunately the plans fell apart to ho...