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CFL Beat: Your 2023 Season Wrap-Up

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Another season, another end-of-year wrapup. As cliché as it is to write this, the CFL genuinely did leave their best for last, with a barn-burner of a Grey Cup game that provided all of us with a thrilling ending! Before the recap, we'll lead off with the final round of

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Grey Cup

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It's the final weekend of CFL action. I'll miss Canadian football when it's done, of course - but I have so much to do between now and May 2024 that I feel like I'm barely going to have time to catch my breath. Timing this week's column with my report

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Division Finals

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We're down to the final three games of the 2023 CFL season - I certainly hope we have some entertainment left here. I can't think of a better way to celebrate turning 31 this weekend - hope you join me in double-screening your football Sunday! In league news this week: It's

CFL Beat: Playoffs – Division Semifinals

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We made it! The playoffs are here! It's one of my favourite times of year for football; one of the only things that I don't like about the tweaks to the new CFL playoff scheduling is that I can't keep dual-screening NFL RedZone and the Canadian playoff games like in

CFL Beat: Week 21

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The playoff picture is now finally set! We have one "meaningless" week of football - but I do hope all the same that it's mildly entertaining. Not too much on the news this week, but expect to see a few more notes once the regular season officially concludes and we

CFL Beat: Week 20

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We have mostly just the West playoff picture left to settle now that we're down to our final two weeks of the regular season. Thanks to Hamilton's last-minute loss last Friday to BC, Montreal is guaranteed to host the East semifinal, leaving just questions about our West division winner and

CFL Beat: Week 19

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With Canadian Thanksgiving now done and dusted, any vestigial remnants of summer are now completely gone, and with it, the grim reminder of no holidays until late December. It's time like these where we need football more than ever to carry us through the beginning of these long, dark nights.

CFL Beat: Week 18

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With four weeks left in the regular season, there's still a final playoff spot up for grabs. Will it be the Saskatchewan Roughriders? Probably. Will it be the Stampeders or Elks? Almost definitely not. Will it be the Ottawa REDBLACKS making history and earning the CFL's first-ever East to West

CFL Beat: Week 17

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With five weeks to go in the regular season, we have half of our playoff spots still up for grabs right now. While the third seeds may possibly get shuffled around, the biggest remaining question at this point in the year is to see which of two very good teams

CFL Beat: Week 16

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The fall is now officially here. The leaves start to turn, the plaid shirts are out, and the den is fully kitted out for just lying underneath a couple of blankets to watch football all weekend long. I know that your basic fall girls enjoy the season for different reasons

CFL Beat: Week 15

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September may honestly be the perfect month. With the back-to-school routine now established and with football Sundays in session, I can also now fill out my Fridays and Saturdays perfectly. Some people tell me the weekend weather is beautiful, but as all good football fans know, I have no idea