Category Archives: *Sports

Jon Ryan has dreamed of wearing the Green and White in the Labour Day Classic for most of his life. The Regina-born punter will finally get a chance to do that when the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Wi...

I spent over a decade reporting from the sidelines for more than 100 CFL football games when I was in television from 1998 to 2010. I heard the conversations, visited with the players and coaches as t...

Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive lineman Micah Johnson is ready to get back out onto the gridiron. Johnson has been on the shelf for the Roughriders' past two CFL games while dealing with a high ank...

Randy Ambrosie won't be playing in any of the three CFL games this Labour Day weekend, but he's ready for them. The league's commissioner played in his share of Labour Day Classics during a nine-year ...

Bo Levi Mitchell's return definitely makes things interesting in the back half of the CFL season. The Stampeders quarterback is off the six-game injured list early and is gunning for a Monday return i...

The CFL schedule-makers made a mistake with the Labour Day Weekend. Isn't this supposed to be the CFL's biggest weekend? The season really starts at Labour Day ... and all that jazz? Junior hockey tea...

A major test and a familiar face await the Saskatchewan Roughriders' offence in the Labour Day Classic. Defensive end Willie Jefferson will play the Green and White for the first time since signing wi...

Wednesday's news from the sports broadcasting world points to why NHL owners like commissioner Gary Bettman. Lance Hornby of the Toronto Sun referred to the news as "big name summer cuts." That was hi...

Woodsy and I are always willing to argue with somebody on the Wise Guys. So adding Greg Moore -- AKA "Wheels" -- to the Green Zone adds somebody else we can disagree with. Not that Woodsy is always ri...

I have one wish for this Labour Day Sunday. I want a classic. They dub it the Labour Day Classic, but sometimes the games are nowhere close to classics. But we remember Rocky Butler or Kerry Joseph's ...