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COVID-19 pandemic leads to unknowns for Riders in 2020
There's a lot of uncertainty for the Saskatchewan Roughriders about the 2020 CFL season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The league has cancelled scouting combines and training camps have been postponed ...
Mar 31, 2020 Jamie Nye/980 CJME
Jamie Nye: CFL rules committee could be a short meeting
The CFL rules committee is meeting over the next two days, which is time we get to think about how to fix the Canadian Football League. I loved it when former commissioner Mark Cohon used to reach out...
Mar 25, 2020
Jamie Nye: NFL is either out of touch or a welcome distraction
NFL teams are announcing billions of dollars worth of contracts today with the NFL free-agency day kicking off. Are they out of touch or a welcome distraction? Can they be both? In a time the world is...
Mar 18, 2020
Brady leaving Patriots, says ‘football journey’ is elsewhere
Tom Brady, the centerpiece of the New England Patriots' championship dynasty over the past two decades, is poised to leave the only football home he has ever had. The 42-year-old six-time Super Bowl w...
Mar 17, 2020 In this Dec. 15, 2019, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) waves to the crowd after an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Frank Victores, File)
Jamie Nye: I hope I end up being wrong regarding Covid-19 and the CFL
It feels like the NFL and the CFL are currently immune to major delays in their seasons because, after all, these leagues don't start until later. But later will be coming faster than we know. In fact...
Mar 17, 2020
Jamie Nye: CFL pondering a change to rouge? I hope so
The CFL has a new innovation committee. While on the Green Zone on Friday, commissioner Randy Ambrosie brought up a rule change that he thinks could garner some support. And it's a rule change I've lo...
Mar 02, 2020
Jamie Nye: XFL isn't a threat to CFL talent, yet
The XFL is starting to pluck a handful of CFLers. Future Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductee S.J. Green went south. Then Derek Dennis found work. Receiver Armanti Edwards has also made the decisio...
Feb 20, 2020
Jamie Nye: The long road to Saskatchewan for James Franklin
Finally, after three years, he has arrived in Saskatchewan. Quarterback James Franklin has signed with the CFL's Roughriders. Franklin admitted to the Green Zone on Tuesday that, yes, when Chris Jones...
Feb 12, 2020
'I'm coming in as the backup': Franklin joins Roughriders
James Franklin is ready to be the backup quarterback in Saskatchewan. The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced they signed the 28-year-old pivot to a one-year contract on Tuesday -- the first day of CFL...
Feb 12, 2020 James Franklin. (File photo by Johany Jutras/CFL.ca)
O'Day doesn't expect Roughriders to be active to start free agency
Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Jeremy O'Day doesn't expect to be a big player when CFL free agency hits Tuesday. "I would say that we're probably not going to be very active in free agency. ...
Feb 10, 2020 Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson (left) and general manager Jeremy O'Day. (Britton Gray/980 CJME file photo)
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