Insight and Analysis

FSN fantasy preview

June 2, 2006 | bob-coatsworth
By Bob Coatsworth, CFL.ca Putting a fantasy lineup together to open a new football season can be a daunting task. Players switch teams in the off-season, they take on different roles and shuffle ...

Gone camping

June 1, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Thursday, June 1, 2006 Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca Well, Week 1 of training camp is in the books all across the league, and if it’s any indication of how the season ...

Critiquing the Ricky critics

May 30, 2006 | Arash Madani
By Arash Madani, CFL.ca The outrage makes sense. Ricky Williams has no business playing in the CFL because no other pro football player in our country has ever made a mistake. Has ever sampled a ...

Thanks, but no thanks

May 22, 2006 | duane-forde
By Duane Forde, CFL.ca God Bless Frank D’Angelo if his interest in becoming a Canadian Football League owner is sincere but his actions to date are enough to make Horn Chen suspicious. ...

Duking it out

May 19, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca Finally, the long six-month wait is over, and we can get down to some football! Training camps are opening all over the league, so the buzzword ...

Coming in under radar

May 16, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca With all the attention that’s being paid this week to players who haven’t even signed CFL contracts yet (read Ricky Williams), I ...

Two ends of the Draft spectrum

May 4, 2006 | Arash Madani
By Arash Madani, CFL.ca Two kids, same position, same predicament, same day. Two college graduates, defensive linemen, anxious on the afternoon of the CFL draft, waiting for the phone to ...

Life in the trenches

May 2, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca First off, I have to say thanks for all the feedback I received on the column last week. I figured that ranking the league’s ground ...

Arms race

April 6, 2006 | jack-b--bedell

Top 10 wishlist for 2006

March 22, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca With 10 weeks to go before the season kicks off, nothing passes the time like a little daydreaming, so here goes: 10) A full house cheering ...

CFL: The

March 10, 2006 | duane-forde
By Duane Forde, CFL.ca When it comes to building a Canadian Football League team, conventional wisdom suggests that establishing a solid base of non-import talent is one of the most crucial steps ...

Free Agency Grades—Part II

March 10, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Rouge, White & Blue By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca Before I launch into my scores for the Western Division, my conscience would nag at me if I didn’t enter a change-of-grade form for the ...

Tiger-Cats not exactly rebuilding

February 20, 2006 | duane-forde
By Duane Forde, CFL.ca The Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ most recent attempt to rebuild their club through free agency appears on some levels to be a classic case of déja vu. After all, it ...

More to QB shuffle than meets the eye

February 13, 2006 | duane-forde
By Duane Forde, CFL.ca To the casual observer it would seem that the only team affected by Casey Printers’ off-season signing with the Kansas City Chiefs is the British Columbia Lions, his ...

Praise for Popp

February 8, 2006 | jack-b--bedell
Wednesday, February 8, 2006 An American’s take on the CFL By Jack B. Bedell, CFL.ca I just woke up from my Super Bowl slumber. Did the Stones make it through their set without anybody ...
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