Canada West will be making an announcement Monday morning with reports suggesting the conference will state fall sports are being cancelled this year because of COVID-19. .@CanadaWest will be issuing a statement pertaining to the 2020-21 season tomorrow at 11 a.m. MT. — Evan Daum (@evandaum) June 7, 2020 It would mean no women’s soccer […]
The NBA is getting ready to return and when they do, the team with the league’s top record will be the Milwaukee Bucks. One person having a close role with the day-to-day operations of the Bucks is a former member of the University of Regina Cougars women’s basketball team. Sidney Dobner graduated from the Cougars […]
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 […]
The racial unrest in the United States is nothing new according to Riders GM Roy Shivers. Shivers experienced it himself in the 60’s and 70’s and feels what we have seen over the past couple of weeks is somewhat tame compared to what he went through. Shivers, who spoke with Michael Ball on 620 CKRM’s […]
Hockey Canada announced Thursday that they will be lifting its ban on sanctioned events, leaving the power to their 13 member organizations to decide when it’s safe to return to play. General Manager of the Saskatchewan Hockey Association, Kelly McClintock says that while it was an easy decision to cancel hockey across the country on […]
A member of the Pittsburgh Penguins has tested positive for COVID-19. The team announced Thursday that an unidentified player has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus. The Penguins say the player was not in Pittsburgh at the time of test and has been at his home since first experiencing symptoms. The club said the player […]
The NHL’s return-to-play plan came into even sharper focus Thursday. If the league is able to resume the pandemic-hit 2019-20 season this summer, its playoffs will feature the usual four rounds of best-of-seven series after the qualifying portion of the schedule. The NHL announced the 24-team format last week, but had yet to iron out […]
The National Lacrosse League will not be declaring a champ this season. The league had been hoping to resume operations after COVID-19 shut it down in mid-March, but on Thursday it was decided to shift operations towards the 2020-21 season and call an end to this year. After an exhaustive effort weighing all of the […]
