CFL Beat: Week 20

The Maestro - November 2, 2017November 2, 2017

It's the final week of the regular season! While the playoff teams have been set for a while, the seeding is still not yet finalized, with the East Division still up for grabs while the lower seeds in the West could potentially feature three teams with an 11-7 record this

CFL Beat: Week 19

The Maestro - October 26, 2017October 25, 2017

With two weeks left in the season, most of the playoff picture has already been settled; this year, Hamilton, Montreal and BC find themselves on the outside looking in, but so far, only Calgary has clinched the division. As a result, with a few games going counter to the picks

CFL Beat: Week 18

The Maestro - October 19, 2017October 19, 2017

I'd like to say I'm giving a shit about football this week. Realistically, I don't know if I could possibly give less of a fuck. Yesterday, Canada lost one its greatest sons, and one of the greatest men this country has ever known. While we knew this day was coming

CFL Beat: Week 17

The Maestro - October 12, 2017October 11, 2017

We've made it 75% of the way through the 2017 CFL regular season! Just four weeks remain on the schedule, and while the West playoff picture is looking fairly clear so far, with Calgary extremely far out in front & with Winnipeg having a cushion over third- and fourth-place Saskatchewan

Your 2017 #DoLoThroDo Recap

The Maestro - October 9, 2017October 9, 2017

As I mentioned on Saturday, I did an incredibly dumb thing, where I embarked out to eat as many Doritos Locos tacos as I could in a one-hour time limit. You can check the last post here if you want a further explanation of the rules... In short, I lived

Announcing… The #DoLoThroDo17 Challenge.

The Maestro - October 6, 2017October 5, 2017

I'm doing a stupid thing on Saturday, and I encourage you all to join me in this endeavour if you so please. If you want to follow along live while I do so, be sure to follow me on Twitter at @TSN_Jorts. I'll probably be starting around 1 PM EST,

CFL Beat: Week 16

The Maestro - October 5, 2017October 5, 2017

Thanksgiving Weekend is almost here! Yes, the real Thanksgiving. I talked about this a couple years ago as to why Canadian Thanksgiving is superior to American Thanksgiving - you can check it out here - but in a nutshell, it's superior due to A) typical warmer weather than what happens

CFL Beat: Week 15

The Maestro - September 28, 2017September 28, 2017

We'll be 75% of the way through the 2017 CFL season once this week wraps up, though judging by the weather throughout the Northeast and Ontario this past week, one could easily be forgiven for thinking summer had somehow just started. With the heat wave finally breaking today, we're now

CFL Beat: Week 14

The Maestro - September 21, 2017September 19, 2017

This is the time of year where the injury bug is starting to get very noticeable in the CFL. I'm not certain how many times you'll see that word or a related one throughout this week's league update, but I'm certain it's a lot. I'm also concerned with my own

CFL Beat: Week 13

The Maestro - September 14, 2017September 14, 2017

The hurricanes are over - for now - and autumn is just around the corner. It's an old Canadian cliché to say that the CFL season doesn't really begin until after Labour Day, but for a multitude of reasons, this is once again true. The West, just like each of

CFL Beat: Week 12

The Maestro - September 7, 2017September 6, 2017

School is back, and gone is my sanity, as I'm forced into teaching ninth grade math for the first time in my career... an incredibly ironic situation, since I barely passed it as a student and haven't touched any of the material in over a decade. Still, a man's gotta

CFL Beat: Week 11

The Maestro - August 31, 2017August 30, 2017

So I have to start this week's article with a rant... because I am fucking pissed at the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. As I'm sure many of you have heard by now, someone within the Ti-Cats organization deemed it prudent to hire disgraced former Baylor head coach Art Briles to work as an