The Rookies

Hamilton wide receiver Marquay McDaniel (Hampton) makes a catch Friday against Toronto defensive back Jason Shivers. The Argonauts rebounded to win 25-22 in overtime and improve their record to 3-7.

The Week That Was: It was an interesting week in the CFL, complete with Saskatchewan’s 55-10 thumping of Winnipeg in the Banjo Bowl, the Stampeders pulling off a late comeback to knock off the Eskimos and Montreal getting revenge on the Lions at home. All three results were significant, and both the Calgary-Edmonton and B.C. – Montreal tilts were excellent games. Still, my vote for game of the week goes to the Toronto Argonauts’ improbable 25-22 overtime victory against the Hamilton TIger-Cats. It was the first home win for the Boatmen under head coach Bart Andrus, and their triumph snapped a five-game, 405-day home losing streak that predated Andrus, stretching back to last season.
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Pacman Jones won't be making it rain in Winnipeg any time soon.

Apologies for the delayed edition of The Whole 110 Yards this week; a nasty little thing known as work intervened and killed my blogging time. As always, leave feedback and suggestions in the comments, or send them to me via e-mail, Twitter or Facebook.

There were a couple of interesting CFL games last week, including the Edmonton Eskimos’ thrilling 31-30 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts’ failure to kick a game-tying field goal in the last seconds of their 23-20 loss to the Calgary Stampeders. We’ll get to those games in detail shortly, but the most fascinating news of the week actually comes from the “Off-field Story of the Week” department. As SI’s Jim Trotter reported Monday night, cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones (West Virginia), he of the strip club troubles, was set to become the newest member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. This made sense from a few different perspectives, but unfortunately for both Winnipeg fans and CFL writers, didn’t come true. Winnipeg was clearly very interested in Jones, and their director of player personnel, John Murphy, was quoted by Trotter as saying the deal was all but done. Unfortunately, it looks like management pulled the plug after a few days of speculation, and received plenty of applause in the local media for not signing Jones (but criticism for even pursuing him). I’ll explain why I disagree with that below, but first, won’t someone please think of the strippers?
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Edmonton receiver Fred Stamps (Louisiana - Lafayette) hauls in a game-winning catch against Calgary Thursday.

It’s time for another installment of my weekly CFL column. Video highlight reels of each game, as well as scores, stats and U.S. broadcast schedules can all be found on the league home page. As always, if you have comments or suggestions for future columns, leave them below or e-mail them to me. Read the rest of this entry →

Rumors are flying, and they are pretty much true at this point. David Beckham, arguably the most recognizable soccer player/model/personality on the planet, appears to be done with the MLS, and his agents are working to get him out of his current contract with the LA Galaxy, or at least that’s what we’re lead to believe. Well that was fun while it lasted.

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