There may not be any Saskatchewan Roughriders games to celebrate or commisserate with right now, but 620 CKRM is hoping to spark some memories for you starting Sunday. “Reunited in Green” will see eight games from the 2019 season be re-broadcast on Sunday afternoons throughout July and August with a special twist. You will not […]
The Riders posted a loss for the 2019-20 fiscal year. But that’s nothing compared to what might be in the coming year. “To be honest, this is the biggest financial crisis the Saskatchewan Roughriders have faced in 110 years,” says Riders President and CEO Craig Reynolds. “Never in our history have we had, essentially, a […]
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says he has taken a 20 per cent pay cut due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambrosie came under heavy fire earlier this week for unilaterally imposing a 20 per cent reduction to the football operations cap of all nine CFL teams. But in a statement Thursday, Ambrosie divulged that he and […]
Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach Craig Dickenson would rather be talking about what his team needs to do to win what was to be their season opener Friday night against Montreal, but instead he is talking about a variety of other things including the current acrimony between the league and the players association. Commissioner Randy Ambrosie […]
Former CFL board chairman Jim Lawson has serious concerns regarding whether the league will play this season. CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie announced last month the earliest the league would begin an abbreviated 2020 season is sometime in September. But he also stated a cancelled campaign remains possible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawson became CFL […]
Be listening to Saskatchewan’s #1 sports show, “The Sportscage” on Wednesday afternoon. The Saskatchewan Roughriders will be making a special announcement when the show kicks off at 4:30 as Derek Taylor will be joined by Cindy Fuchs, the executive director of the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation about an initiative being planned that will be helping several […]
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie and the CFL have yet another issue to consider. U Sports, Canadian university sport’s governing body, announced Monday the cancellation of six fall national championships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Included was the Vanier Cup, presented annually to Canada’s top college football squad. The Vanier Cup was scheduled for Nov. 28 in […]
Listen now Friday was the first of a new weekly segment on the Sports Cage: Fajardo Friday. Every Friday at 5:00pm Riders QB Cody Fajardo will join the show. And the talk could go anywhere–football, relationships, recipes and definitely about the man under the helmet. Cody and his wife, Laura, have recently moved from the […]
After making $1.4 million in 2018-19, the Saskatchewan Roughriders lost $210,064 dollars in the 2019-20 season. The information comes in advance of the team’s annual general meeting June 24 in a shareholders package. Some of the numbers show the team had already spent $500,000 on preparation for the now-cancelled 2020 Grey Cup game that was […]
Veteran sports commentator Chris Cuthbert is joining Sportsnet as an NHL play-by-play analyst. Cuthbert had been at TSN since 2005, where he was the network’s lead CFL commentator as well as an NHL play-by-play voice. Cuthbert worked on CBC’s “Hockey Night in Canada” prior to joining TSN. He started in 1984 anchoring regional western games […]
