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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

CFL Beat: Week 14

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School is back, and I'm still in denial about it. Unlike in the South, it's highly unusual to be teaching when the humidex hits 104 degrees... so the start of this school year has been especially unpleasant from a weather perspective. I sure hope some In league news this week: The

CFL Beat: Week 13

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Hi folks! It's me! I'm finally back from my whirlwind European vacation, and let me tell you - the jet lag has been REAL. Perhaps it had to do with all the cheap Euro booze or the desire to keep avoiding the reality of getting back to the classroom for

CFL Beat: Week 12

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It's your last week for the replacement (me)  for the replacement writer (Don T) of the CFL beat.  Maestro should be back and refreshed and mad at how bad I did.  Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back and since this gig don't pay in anything but a few likes, sucks

CFL Beat: Week 11

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So, remember when last week Don T stepped in for the still vacationing Maestro and did a great job.  Well, prepare to be underwhelmed. So, we've now got a Canadian talking about a Canadian league and playing Canadian music.  This will make the CTRC (Canadian TV and Radio watchdog) happy.  And

CFL Beat: Week 10

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Well, hello. Your friendly neighboUrhood Maestro is on sabbatical in Europe with Lady Maestro. You get me for a sub on this instalment of CFL Beat, for which I gladly volunteered my talent. Which won’t be necessary after all. Maestro, being generous and dutiful, left a post skeleton (great), and