take it for whats its worth but I have a good source telling me that mr. clermont is poised to sign with the roughriders. its also being posted by rod pederson the voice of the riders on his blog that its pretty much a done deal. i'm sure this comes as not much of a surprise to you though.

Bills Exhibition Game in Toronto a ticket giveaway disaster

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/ ... b6a0bb&p=1

its a disaster. We're all laughing at Ted Rogers.

Sorry for the bad news for Lions fans but it is news......

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/ ... 06ae8d625c

http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/sports/roughriders/story.html?id=4340670d-d3fa-4b13-aa21-e7d8ca7be49e

Ackles had a passion for the CFL

Darrell Davis, Leader-Post
Published: Monday, July 07, 2008

REGINA -- Bob Ackles' voice is still on my digital recorder.

I spoke to Ackles, the B.C ...

It is with shock and horror that I read about the untimely passing of the greatest man in BC Lion history. In thinking about an appropriate tribute to Bobby, in my mind there is only one truly appropriate tribute......the immediate renaming of BC Place to Bobby Ackles Place.

After all, Bobby was ...

you guys have no idea how badly i feel for all bc lions fans and all fans of the cfl in general. but mainly for lions fans. bob ackles was everything to that team. i feel really bad for all of you right now.

Lions fans owe that man everything. i'm not even sure there would be a team there right now if it werent for him and where would that leave the cfl?

floundering. we all owe him.

i am so sad to hear this. sad for the ackles family. sad for the cfl. sad for lions fans. in many ways bobby ackles was the bc lions and its just so sad. my condolensces to all.

If he got sucked in maybe he should look at firing his agent or agents, surely one of them must have been aware of the rookie rule? I can see this being an issue if he just fell off the turnip truck ,or if his agents were the basis for that old Jim Carrey movie, but I find that hard to believe. I ...

what no one has said is that the agreement between the nfl and the cfl respecting players the cfl has signed to contracts has expired and has not been renewed. i think this is the loophole that cameron wake may exploit and technically there is not an agreement.

it expired in february and was not ...

Wake is in a strange position where he has nothing left to prove up here. He waltzes in to lead the league in sacks and captured the MOP for rookie and top defensive player.

Perhaps he and his agent realize the bar has been set so high for this season that anything less would actually hurt his NFL ...

Sounds like he must be going for a new deal. My guess is that Wally won't budget on the current deal but might give them some idea of what they can expect when it's time to actually negotiate a new deal. It would set a very bad precedent to renegotiate a deal in the middle of a contract and I can't ...

Good post.

I think you might try to step outside your 'Rider fanhood, and see how a fan of another team might read what you posted above, though. You basically said that your team does all the things that that your fans screamed about for years, and that you're proud of it. It was not flattering ...

yes indeed they are a great club. thanks for the compliment for the 2007 grey cup champs solar max. as far as having their name dragged in mud by me, i think thats only you that for some strange and vague reason sees it that way. i find it quite amusing that you somehow seem to think i have a ...

It all makes purrfect sense to me. After the Grey Cup win everybody in Saskatchewan had to buy a 2007 GC Champion parka. And they aren't cheap offshore products either. They have to last 20 years. ;-)

You have a point. Luckily, most of us here do not share the negative view of the Saskatchewan ...