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LIVESTREAM PPV: CFL – Saskatchewan Roughriders @Toronto Argonauts, Sat. Sept. 28, 7p EDT (1a Sept. 29 CEDT)
TORONTO — The Saskatchewan Roughriders will get to scratch the two-week itch and return to the field on Saturday evening when they face the Toronto Argonauts...
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Ed Willes: DreamChasers may be key to CFL survival, global expansion
By Ed Willes, [email protected], Twitter.com/willesonsports OPINION: The CFL launched its 2.0 initiative this off-season with its first draft of international players. As for Randy Ambrosie’s global ambitions,...
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Germany’s Thiadric Hansen adjusting well to life with Winnipeg Blue Bombers
German linebacker Thiadric Hansen is one of five European CFL players who is living out his dream, playing professional football for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football...
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CFL partners up with British American Football Association
Great Britain has joined the growing alliance of gridiron football nations pledging to work with the Canadian Football League (CFL) to grow the game. The...
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CFL teams will carry one global player on their rosters for 2019 season
Orlondo Steinauer and the other eight CFL head coaches have an extra roster decision to make this season. Game-day rosters in 2019 will consist of...
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Germany’s Max Zimmermann one of five Europeans who survived the cut; will play in the CFL this year
German wide receiver Max Zimmermann is one of five European CFL players who found out Saturday that the dream will continue. Zimmermann was informed late...
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Video: CFL’s The Grind visits Max Zimmermann in Berlin, Germany
The CFL’s The Grind featuring Brodie Lawson pays visits anywhere Canadian Football League players takes her. This time it’s Berlin, Germany as Saskatchewan Roughriders wide...
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LIVESTREAM: CFL Preseason – Ottawa REDBLACKS @Montreal Alouettes, Thurs. June 6, 7:30p EDT (1:30a CEDT)
MONTREAL — As the pre-season winds down, the Montreal Alouettes and Ottawa REDBLACKS have some difficult decisions ahead of them. The East Division rivals close...
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Italian WR Jordan Bouah in a battle as Ottawa REDBLACK’s wind up preseason
As the Ottawa REDBLACKS head to Montreal Thursday, June 6 to face the Montreal Alouettes in their final preseason game of the 2019 CFL season, there...
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Speed of CFL game matched by learning curve for Global players
CFL 2.0 has brought three players from Mexico and one from France into Eskimos training camp this year. One player will earn a spot on...
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CFL commissioner looks to expand league’s presence to Europe and beyond
By Ted Michaels, News Anchor Global News The Canadian Football League wants to establish a global footprint. CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie told Global News Radio CHML’s...
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“This is all so unreal to me.” | Germany’s Thiadric Hansen soaking in the experience
By ED TAIT, @EDTAITWFC It’s a sunny morning in Winnipeg, 10 days into Blue Bombers training camp, and Thiadric Hansen takes a long deep breath, surveys his...
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Mexican receiver Jose Noreiga hopeful that sacrifice pays off with Hamilton Tiger-Cats
By CHRIS O’LEARY, SENIOR WRITER, @OLEARYCHRIS Four mostly cool days into training camp, Jose Noriega might be thinking about home more than he anticipated. The Tijuana-born, six-foot-two, 227-pound...
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Hoping to be a global hit in CFL: Ottawa Redblacks Italian draft pick Jordan Bouah
By Tim Barnes, Postmedia It’s not like it was Jordan Bouah’s childhood dream to play professional football. He’s only been playing the sport for four...
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CFL teams to carry one global player on roster this season
According to TSN Football Insider Dave Naylor, CFL teams will each carry one global player on their roster this season, and two starting in the...
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German Global player Thiadric Hansen relishing ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunity with Winnipeg Blue Bombers
By Ted Wyman, Sports Columnist for Winnipeg Sun and Postmedia Thiadric Hansen was working as a school bus driver back home in Flensburg, Germany when...
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Once in a lifetime
By GEORGE JOHNSON, Calgary Stampeders The day began early, at 3 a.m., an emotional hasta luego leave-taking of his family before the ride to Aeropuerto...
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Mini-Camp Report | Global players begin CFL dreams
MATT BAKER, @BAKESTAKES84 The CFL’s relationship with Mexico may still be fresh and hard for some to get used to, but it’s been 27 years in...
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Germany’s Max Zimmermann excited about heading to camp with Saskatchewan Roughriders
When Max Zimmermann was selected sixth overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the inaugural CFL European Draft earlier in April, his first instinct was to...
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B.C. Lions see upside in European CFL experiment but global growth may be slow
By Ed Willes, [email protected], twitter.com/willesonsports The ninth player taken in the CFL European Draft was linebacker Roni Salonen, who’s known as the Finnish Lawrence Taylor. That...
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France reaches football milestone in historic CFL European Draft
By CHRIS O’LEARY, SENIOR WRITER, @OLEARYCHRIS They were on different continents on Thursday, but Valentin Gnahoua and Asnnel Robo enjoyed an important moment for tackle football in France....
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Football is the ‘perfect sport’ for France’s Asnnel Robo
TORONTO — For French prospect Asnnel Robo, football is the perfect mix of everything he loves about sports. Robo was playing soccer before he ever...
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Physicality attracted Finnish prospect Okko Outinen to football
TORONTO — The physicality of football is what made Finnish prospect Okko Outinen fall in love with the game. Outinen played hockey before swapping his...
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Denmark’s Frederik Nielsen unphased as CFL draft of European players looms
With the CFL Draft of European players set for April 11, Denmark’s Frederik Myrup Nielsen is taking everything in stride. In fact, if ever there...
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Germany’s Sonny Weishaupt: ‘Football is basically made for everyone to play’
TORONTO — While Sonny Weishaupt loves to play football, what he really admires about the game is the diversity and inclusion it promotes. “What I...
