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Week 11 in the CFL: Bombers a Mess

Well, so much for all those people in Winnipeg who want Blue Bombers GM Joe Mack fired. This week, Winnipeg Football Club chairman Bill Watchorn said nothing would change at the highest levels of Blue Bombers management and that Mack … Continue reading →

The Coach and The Doc Return With Our 2012 NFL Picks

The 2012 National Football League season is almost here. In fact, we’re less than 12 hours away from the opening kickoff. Once again here at The Blog, we want to help you make money. Whether it’s a Sport Select ticket … Continue reading →

Packers Win the Super Bowl and Other NFL Predictions

This is all you need to know about the 2012 NFL season: there are five rookie quarterbacks starting Week 1, Peyton Manning is in Denver, Eli manning is back with the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, the New … Continue reading →

Bombers Ripped By Riders

For the eighth consecutive year, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers lost the Labour Day Classic in Regina. And that was the good news. Sunday afternoon at Mosaic Stadium, new head coach Tim Burke’s Blue Bombers were beaten 52-0 by the Saskatchewan … Continue reading →

Will the “Big Five” Change the Game?

Ryan Tannehill is a Texas quarterback: Big, fast, smart, skilled. He’s 6-foot-4, 221 pounds from Big Spring, Texas. He went to Texas A&M and he was the eighth pick in the 2012 NFL draft. This year, the Big Texas quarterback … Continue reading →

Week 10 in the CFL: New Look Bombers Get Set for Classic

It is almost Week 10 in the Canadian Football League, the end of the first half of the 2012 season. And it’s been one helluva week in The Peg. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers opened up the final week of August … Continue reading →

Joke’s Over: NFL Needs to Get the Real Referees Back

MINNEAPOLIS – It was one of those pre-season games that does little more than rip off the ticket buyers. It was three hours of one’s life that he or she will never get back. The San Diego Chargers had three … Continue reading →

LaPolice Fired: Should Mack Have Gone First?

About a month ago, on Major Misconduct, our internet TV sports report on www.360winnipeg.ca, my colleague Mike Davidson had himself an awesome rant. Between octave changes and spits he declared angrily that as far as he was concerned four people … Continue reading →

Did Elliott Do Enough to Seal the Starting Job?

Back on Tuesday night, Joey Elliott said the following: “We won against Hamilton because we hung around. We didn’t do much in the first half, but we stayed close. If you can hang around with these teams and start playing … Continue reading →

Week 9 in the CFL: Could Joey Elliott Cause Buck Pierce’s Demise?

After seven Canadian Football League games over a period of eight weeks in 2012, only six points separates the best and worst of Canada’s little eight-team house league. Now, as we approach Week 9, the players and coaches have to … Continue reading →