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Tag Archives: Saskatchewan Roughriders
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: 100 days until Riders kick off special season
In 100 days, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are to kick off their 2020 CFL regular season. It's a season in which they need everything to go right to win it all at home. This team was built a bit differ...
Mar 11, 2020
Grey Cup committee reveals some plans for one-stop festival
For the first time in its history, the Grey Cup Festival will be in the same location as the game in 2020. Everything will be within walking distance on the grounds of Evraz Place. Saskatchewan Roughr...
Feb 28, 2020 Some details about the 2020 Grey Cup Festival were announced Feb. 28, 2020. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
Roosevelt excited to get to work with Alouettes
The Montreal Alouettes have reunited a quarterback-receiver pairing that once worked for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Literally once. On Aug. 25, 2017, quarterback Vernon Adams Jr., completed an eigh...
Feb 27, 2020 (Naaman Roosevelt/Facebook)
Roughriders sign a pair of former NFLers
The Saskatchewan Roughriders have added two players with NFL experience. The CFL team announced Wednesday it had signed 25-year-old wide receiver Demarcus Ayers and 27-year-old defensive lineman Pete ...
Feb 19, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
Elimimian has high expectations for 2020 Roughriders
A game in the middle of the 2019 CFL season helped convince Solomon Elimimian to sign a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the 2020 campaign. "The Labour Day Classic was one of t...
Feb 13, 2020 Solomon Elimimian (10) has signed a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
St. John returns to Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Roughriders brought back a familiar face on Day 2 of CFL free agency. Offensive lineman Josiah St. John, who spent three seasons with the Roughriders before signing with the Toronto A...
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)
Roughriders relatively quiet on Day 1 of free agency
As general manager Jeremy O'Day predicted Monday, the Saskatchewan Roughriders weren't too busy on the first day of CFL free agency. The team signed only one player who spent the 2019 season on a diff...
Feb 11, 2020 (980 CJME file photo)
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Sarah Mills: Accountability is a word some elected officials seem to be forgetting
From four people walking away from the RM of Sherwood council with little to no explanation to the reaction of some coun...
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