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ss1, I'm glad to hear that your crummy weekend had a relatively happy ending!

The day after the Grey Cup is the first day of the "fiscal" year vis a vis the salary cap. So today, the Lions cut Dave Dickenson. That doesn't mean that they don't expect him to re-sign with them, but it will be at a lower salary. As I recall, he made $400k this year. So the Lions won't pay top dollar anymore for a guy likely to be injured. http://slam.canoe.ca...4234041-cp.html edit 6/1/08 to change thread title edit 11/26/08 to change thread title edit 6/1/09 to change thread title edit 12/14/09 to change thread title edit 6/20/10 to change thread title edit 12/2/10 to change thread title edit 6/2/11 to change thread title edit 11/30/11 to change thread title edit 6/12/12 to change thread title edit 12/8/12 to change thread title edit 6/04/13 to change thread title edit 11/27/13 to change thread title edit 6/02/14 to change thread title edit 12/02/14 to change thread title edit 5/31/15 to change thread title edit 1/01/16 to change thread title edit 6/03/16 to change thread title edit 1/12/17 to change thread title edit 5/28/17 to change thread title edit 12/15/17 to change thread title edit 5/20/18 to change thread title edit 1/09/19 to change thread title edit 5/28/19 to change thread title edit 12/17/19 to change thread title edit 1/13/21 to change thread title edit 8/04/21 to change thread title edit 1/24/22 to change thread title edit 6/08/22 to change thread title edit 2/24/23 to change thread title edit 6/02/23 to change thread title edit 1/09/24 to change thread title edit 6/04/24 to change thread title edit 12/16/24 to change thread title

2007 Grey Cup game: Saskatchewan Roughriders 23....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 19 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../final/W652.htm http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...4684825-cp.html ***** Here's a good article about soldiers in Afghanistan watching the Grey Cup game on TV: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...4685408-cp.html edit for typo

Total points: 42 Congatulations brownie! You nailed it! Please PM me your address and I'll order your Mosaic gift certificate tomorrow. And do tell us what you spend it on! Thanks for playing everybody!

2007 Grey Cup final score: Saskatchewan Roughriders 23....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 19

After three: Sask 16....Winnipeg 14

Halftime score: Saskatchewan Roughriders 10....Winnipeg Blue Bombers 7 Winnipeg scored on a field goal and two safety touches conceded by Sask. Late in the second quarter, Sask scored on an interception return and a field goal. Winnipeg's defense has kept the Bombers in the game. Bomber QB Ryan Dinwiddie hasn't done much, but he hasn't embarrassed himself either.

medjuck, thank you for spelling "catalogue" correctly!

Less than 24 hours till kickoff. Here are the picks of the Globe & Mail staff: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...ory/GlobeSports Globe's Grey Cup predictions Globe and Mail Update November 24, 2007 at 2:30 PM EST TORONTO — The Globe makes its Grey Cup predictions: ALLAN MAKI Here are the Saskatchewan Roughriders' strengths: they have the hottest receiver in the CFL postseason (Andy Fantuz); a defence that forces interceptions and fumbles aplenty; and the league's best player who happens to play the game's most important position, quarterback. Here's what the Winnipeg Blue Bombers offer: an amazing set of receivers; a running back (Charles Roberts) who is harder to stop than hiccups and a quarterback who has never started a pro football game in his life. Sunday's 95th Grey Cup is likely to come down to a battle of the quarterbacks, and that's a mismatch — Saskatchewan's Kerry Joseph will out-perform Winnipeg's Ryan Dinwiddie. Joseph has it all — a live arm, great running ability and the football savvy needed to rally his teammates and make them believe in him. That's more than enough for the 'Riders to emerge victorious and win their third Grey Cup in franchise history. The Bombers only hope is that they get an earlier and Roberts runs wild but don't count on it. In fact, Dinwiddie may not finish the game. 'Rider fans, go hog wild. Final score: Saskatchewan 28, Winnipeg 21 STEPHEN BRUNT Lots of brave talk from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers this week about the talents of their back up quarterback Ryan Dinwiddie, who because of an injury to Kevin Glenn will be the starter in the Grey Cup. One question: if he's that terrific, that ready to play, how come they didn't use him at all when Glenn struggled during the second half of the season and the Bombers dropped out of first place in the East? It would be quite a story if Dinwiddie somehow plays the hero. But minus Glenn and probably minus cornerback Juran Bolden, Winnipeg looks like easy picking for the high flying 'Riders. The third Grey Cup in franchise history sends the green nation home happy. Final score: Saskatchewan 28, Winnipeg 14 DAVID NAYLOR In a league where so much of the game revolves around quarterbacks, it's awfully hard not to like the team with the recently-named CFL Most Outstanding Player (Saskatchewan's Kerry Joseph) over the team pinning its hopes on a guy who's never started a CFL game (Ryan Dinwiddie). The Bombers have a shot in the 95th Grey Cup game but only if Dinwiddie plays error-free football and Winnipeg gets a huge game out of Charles Roberts on the ground. That won't be easy since the Roughriders are a tough team to run against. So too are the Bombers which is why the result of this game rests in the hands of the men who will be putting the ball in the air. On that basis, Saskatchewan is the pick. Final score: Roughriders 24, Blue Bombers 19.

The CFL has named its 2007 All-Star team: OFFENCE QB - Kerry Joseph, SSK R - Derick Armstrong, WPG R - Jason Clermont, BC R - Terrence Edwards, WPG R - Geroy Simon, BC RB -Charles Roberts, WPG RB - Joe Smith, BC T - Dan Goodspeed, WPG T - Rob Murphy, BC G - Kelly Bates, BC G - Scott Flory, MTL C - Jeremy O’Day, SSK DEFENCE DE - Jonathan Brown, TOR DE - Cameron Wake, BC DT - Doug Brown, WPG DT - Tyrone Williams, BC LB - Kevin Eiben, TOR LB - Zeke Moreno, HAM LB - Barrin Simpson, WPG DB - Ryan Phillips, BC DB - Kenny Wheaton, TOR CB - Byron Parker, TOR CB - Jordan Younger, TOR S - Orlando Steinauer, TOR SPECIAL TEAMS PK - Nick Setta, HAM P - Damon Duval, MTL ST - Ian Smart, BC BY TEAM: B.C. Lions (9), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (6), Toronto Argonauts (6), Montreal Alouettes (2), Saskatchewan Roughriders (2), Hamilton Tiger-Cats (2) **** Look at the defensive backfield. Four Argos! I thought that Nick Setta had a great year, but I'm surprised that he was picked over Sandro DeAngelis.

The Globe's Stephen Brunt says that there are plans in Hamilton to build a new ballpark. "There are also a lot of indications right now that Hamilton is going to get a new, downtown stadium as part of a larger urban renewal effort." http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...pageRequested=2

All of the Western nominees won the CFL Awards tonight. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday DTMX!

It may interest you to learn that the Roughriders' home field is called Mosaic Stadium! This changed a couple of years ago when a corporation called Mosaic bought the rights. I don't know what business they are in. Before that it was called Taylor Field, named after "Piffles" Taylor. I read once who Piffles was, but I can't remember. I think he had something to do with the formation of the team years ago. Love those Canadian nicknames! I think Piffles lived in an era when every third Canadian was named Percival. ***** Here's an article reminiscing about John Candy, who was a part-owner of the Toronto Argonauts. It was then that the Argos signed Rocket Ismail ahead of the NFL draft. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Remember when all of us lost some of our post count a couple of years ago? I think I lost 250, and Jim lost more than that. So all of us have reached milestones before we realized. Still,

Finals previews: http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv650.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv651.htm http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/New...4662624-cp.html

Today I heard for the first time Disc 3 of the Herbie Hancock 60s Blue Note box, which included Cantelope Island.

BClug, are you picking the Bombers because of Noel Prefontaine's concussion? I felt like the Argos might even be better than the Lions until I read about that. I can see the Argos losing Sunday because of Prefontaine not making anything.

Semi-Finals previews: http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv649.htm http://scoreboards.canoe.ca/merge/tsnform..../live/pv648.htm

Thanks for your thoughts, guys! It's clear that almost everyone recommends that I try Get Up With It before Panthalassa, so that's what I'll do.

Jim, all my best to Zora! Maybe we should take up a collection to buy her a stuffed animal!

Amen aloc! That's why I prefer listening to the radio over watching a football or baseball game on TV. On the radio they talk about the game. On TV they talk about the replay.

Thelonious Monk - Light Blue

I feel different about this Red Sox team than I have ever before. When I was a boy the Red Sox stunk, but they turned it around on a dime in '67. For the past forty years they have been consistently (remarkably so) good, so it really hasn't been the struggle to be a Red Sox fan that some would have you believe. But each time they took the World Series to seven games, or for that matter when they lost to the Yankees in the playoff game that Bucky Dent hit a home run in, they failed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They weren't really upset by an underdog. But for the first time in my lifetime, the Red Sox were obviously the best team in the majors this year. (Of course in baseball anything can happen in a post-season short series. That is why before 1969 great respect was given to both league champions regardless of who won the World Series.) For almost the entire year they had the best record in the major leagues. So their winning the World Series this time was for the first time in my life something that should have happened. In the past when the Red Sox would disappoint, they were never obviously the best. I never felt that they blew what was deservedly theirs. It looked like they would when they were down 3 games to 1 against Cleveland, but they pulled that out. Because the Red Sox were obviously the best team this year, I find their winning the World Series to be very enjoyable of course, but not as thrilling as it would have been in '75 for example.

Happy Birthday Catesta and Patrick! Today is also Kate Jackson's birthday, I read in this morning's paper. I always thought she was the cutest Charlie's Angel.