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Ready to go: CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie sizes up ’21 season
After a season without football and all of the uncertainty that the pandemic has brought to our lives in general over the last year, CFL...
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O’Leary: 5 games to watch on the 2021 CFL schedule
By Chris O’Leary We’re entering into a fun stretch in the CFL off-season. In a normal year and in normal times, that post-draft, pre-training-camps portion...
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Circle your calendars: CFL releases 2021 schedule
TORONTO — The 2021 Canadian Football League schedule kicks off Thursday, August 5th when the reigning Grey Cup Champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats...
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Good to go: Board approves 2021 season, CFL kicks off August 5
TORONTO — The Canadian Football League’s (CFL) comeback season is a “go”. On Monday, the league’s Board of Governors voted unanimously on a 14-game regular...
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Canada’s Catherine Raiche becomes highest ranking female personnel in NFL history
TORONTO — Catherine Raiche has become the highest ranking female in football personnel in NFL history when it was announced on Thursday that she was...
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Asian History Month: A powerful discussion with Brian Chiu, Sukh Chung
By Steven Chang, BCLions.com In honour of Asian History Month in Canada, BCLions.com caught up with two CFL figures that know all about overcoming barriers....
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Calgary Stampeders sign 1st round Global Draft pick Australian Cody Grace
CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders have signed global punter Cody Grace from Australia, the Stamps’ first-round selection – seventh overall – in last month’s CFL...
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Ottawa Redblacks sign three Global Draft picks plus another Global player
The Ottawa REDBLACKS have signed three of their picks from the 2021 CFL Global Draft and inked global linebacker Ryan David Gomes, the club announced...
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign three Global Draft picks including Chris Mulumba
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats announced Wednesday that three of the team’s four selections in the 2021 Global Draft have been signed to a contract, including Australian...
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Morris: Prokick Australia’s impact on the CFL Global Draft
When four Australian punters were selected in the first round of the CFL Global Draft the only people more thrilled than the players themselves were...
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3-D Chess: Greg Quick explains the intricacies of the 2021 CFL Global Draft
During the 2021 CFL Global Draft, Montreal Alouettes defensive and special teams assistant Greg Quick felt right at home. Over the previous year, Quick had...
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O’Leary: Randy Ambrosie on Aug. 5 kickoff, XFL talks and more
By Chris O’Leary Wednesday felt like a bad news/good news day. The bad news, that the 2021 CFL season has had its start date pushed...
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CFL announces plans to return to play
Canadian Football League (CFL) Commissioner Randy Ambrosie issued the following statement announcing the League’s Return-to-Play plans for the 2021 season: “We will play CFL football...
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O’Leary: No. 1 pick Jake Ford has big opportunity in BC
By Chris O’Leary The name may have been unfamiliar and the location may have been something of a surprise to others, but the BC Lions...
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Japan’s Les Maruo: ‘I’m trying to compete against the best of the best’
WINNIPEG — After spending the first few years of his life in Shizuoka, Japan, he experienced a complete culture shock when he moved across the...
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BC Lions take Aussie punter Jake Ford 1st overall in Global Draft
TORONTO — The BC Lions have selected punter Jake Ford with the first overall pick in the 2021 CFL Global Draft. The six-foot-two, 225-pounder from...
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Swedish DB William James ‘A top three Global DB’
By Chris O’Leary As the CFL Global Draft looms April 15, we have been putting a spotlight on our prospects, focusing on some interesting background...
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A pair of potential first-rounders in Thursday’s CFL Global Draft
By Chris O’Leary With the CFL Global Draft a day away, we’ll wrap up our spotlight series with a two-for-one, some bang for your reading...
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British LB David Izinyon draws an impressive comparison ahead of CFL Global Draft
By Chris O’Leary If you followed the CFL’s combine workouts last year, David Izinyon’s name may be familiar to you. The six-foot-one, 240-pound linebacker was...
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Representing Finland in the CFL would be ‘A dream come true” for Mulumba
TORONTO — Chris Mulumba has certainly had a different path to get to the professional football ranks. The native of Helsinki, Finland grew up studying Judo...
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Maruo ready to bring aggressive, violent game to CFL
By Chris O’Leary Les Maruo has had one of the most complete football experiences of any player in this year’s CFL Global Draft. Born in...
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O’LEARY: Danish OL Steven Nielsen leans on US experience in Global Draft
By Chris O’Leary As Steven Nielsen continues to train and prepares himself for the possibility of traveling across the Atlantic to play Canadian football, he’s...
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Cauz: A guide to the biggest moments of the ’94 Grey Cup
If you’re a Canadian sports fan (and if you are reading this I’m going to assume that you are), I imagine you view the Grey...
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Winnipeg Blue Bomers’ Thiadric Hansen discusses most memorable game as a pro
By Ed Tait WINNIPEG — Each week, a Bombers player visits with Ed Tait of BlueBombers.com to reminisce about a particular game, or games, that are...
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O’LEARY: Ambrosie on CFL-XFL talks, the Rock & more
By Chris O’Leary As the news emerged on Wednesday of the CFL’s alignment with the XFL, the reverberation across Canada was immediately evident. Within an...
