The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed Deon Lacey to a contract. The American linebacker has spent the last three seasons in the NFL, most recently with the Miami Dolphins. He has 20 career tackles in the NFL, including four from last season. Before his NFL time, he spent three seasons with the Edmonton Eskimos, and helped […]
Riders fans looking forward to a summer trip to Halifax will be disappointed. The CFL has cancelled the Riders’ Touchdown Atlantic game, schedule for July 25 in Halifax. They were to play the Toronto Argonauts in a showcase of the game in a region that’s been trying to get a CFL team. The league says […]
The Riders will now host the 2022 Grey Cup in a massive pandemic-related shift for the CFL. Saskatchewan was to host the Grey Cup on November 22 this year. With the CFL season in doubt, and the Riders robbed of valuable planning time because of the pandemic, the league has taken the extraordinary step of […]
The Riders have signed Canadian linebacker Nakas Onyeka to a contract. Onyeka, taken in the 5th round of the 2017 CFL draft by Toronto, had spent his entire CFL career with the Argos before heading West. The Wilfrid Laurier product played in 36 games for the Argonauts, recording 14 tackles and two sacks on defence […]
Saskatchewan Roughriders punter Jon Ryan, is the part-owner of a baseball team in Portland, Oregon and he may soon be part of a group that owns the Western Hockey League franchise in that city. The Portland Winterhawks are up for sale after the team’s previous owner filed for bankruptcy and there is interest being shown […]
The head of the CFL Players Association says it is time to put egos aside and start working together to make sure the league continues. Many of the players are not happy with the fact that there was no consultation between the PA and the league before Commissioner Randy Ambrosie went to Ottawa asking for […]
This week it was announced that the Canadian Football League was asking the federal government for $150 million in financial aid to try and make it through the COVID-19 pandemic. CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie went in front of the House of Commons finance committee to plead the league’s case to the government. Ambrosie was met […]
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie says the most likely scenario for the league is a cancelled 2020 season during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ambrosie made the admission for the first time while testifying to a House of Commons standing committee on finance on Thursday. Ambrosie appeared via video during a panel on arts, culture, sports and charitable […]
The Saskatchewan Roughriders added to their linebacking depth Wednesday by signing Deshaun Davis to a contract. The 6’0, 235 pound Davis was taken in the 6th round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and played in all four pre-season games with the club recording 15 tackles and a sack before being released. […]
The Riders have had a lot of success with offensive linemen from the University of Saskatchewan in the past. While its not fair to compare Melfort’s Matt Riley to guys like Ben Heenan and Gene Makowsky, the green-and-white are very high on the player they took with the 7th overall pick in last month’s CFL […]
