2016 BC Lions Season
The 2016 BC Lions season was the 59th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 63rd overall. The Lions finished in 2nd place in the West Division and finished with a 12–6 record. It was only the third time in franchise history that the Lions had finished in second place, and the first time they have done so since 1986. In each of those three years, the Lions hosted and defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in the West Semi-Final. This was the team's second stint under now tenth-year head coach, Wally Buono, and his 14th season as the general manager. Buono took over the position following Jeff Tedford's resignation on December 2, 2015. The Lions improved upon their 7–11 record from 2015 and qualified for the playoffs for the 20th straight year, which is the second-longest streak in CFL history. After winning the West Semi-Final against the Blue Bombers, the Lions lost to the Calgary Stampeders in the West Final. For the seventh consecutive season, the Lions ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Canadian Football League West Division
The West Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League (CFL), its counterpart being the East Division (CFL), East Division. Although the CFL was not founded until 1958, the West Division and its clubs are descended from earlier leagues. The five teams in the West Division are the BC Lions, Calgary Stampeders, Edmonton Elks, Saskatchewan Roughriders, and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. There were also two now-defunct teams from the Canadian Football League in the United States, mid 1990s United States expansion of the CFL who played in the West Division. Additionally, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have played three separate stints in the East Division, during seasons in which the divisions needed to be rebalanced due league expansion, contraction, or reorganization. History Pre–1936 The first organized Canadian football, football club in Western Canada was the ''Winnipeg Rugby Football Club'' which was founded in 1879. At the time the sport was generally ca ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, forests, lakes, mountains, inland deserts and grassy plains, and borders the province of Alberta to the east and the Yukon and Northwest Territories to the north. With an estimated population of 5.3million as of 2022, it is Canada's third-most populous province. The capital of British Columbia is Victoria and its largest city is Vancouver. Vancouver is the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada; the 2021 census recorded 2.6million people in Metro Vancouver. The first known human inhabitants of the area settled in British Columbia at least 10,000 years ago. Such groups include the Coast Salish, Tsilhqotʼin, and Haida peoples, among many others. One of the earliest British settlements in the area was Fort Victoria, established ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Travis Lulay
Travis may refer to: People and fictional characters *Travis (given name), a list of people and fictional characters *Travis (surname), a list of people Places in the United States *Travis, Staten Island, a neighborhood *Travis Air Force Base, a United States Air Force base in California *Travis, Texas, an unincorporated community *Travis County, Texas *Lake Travis, Texas, a reservoir on the Colorado River Schools *William B. Travis High School (Austin, Texas) *William B. Travis High School (Fort Bend County, Texas) *Travis Elementary School (other), schools in Texas and California Other uses *Travis (band), a Scottish band *Travis (chimpanzee) (died 2009), a domesticated chimpanzee who attacked and mauled a Connecticut woman *Travis CI, a hosted continuous integration service, for software development See also *Trevis (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pascal Lochard
Pascal Lochard (born September 17, 1990) is a Canadian football running back for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted by the BC Lions in the second round of the 2014 CFL Draft. He played CIS football at Laval University. He has also been a member of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Ottawa Redblacks. College career Lochard was named the most valuable player of the 49th Vanier Cup, winning the Ted Morris Memorial Trophy. Professional career BC Lions Lochard was selected by the BC Lions with the fourteenth pick in the 2014 CFL Draft. Winnipeg Blue Bombers Lochard signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on February 9, 2016. Ottawa Redblacks Upon entering 2017 free agency, Lochard signed a two-year contract with the Ottawa Redblacks. He was released by the Redblacks on May 8, 2017. Edmonton Eskimos Lochard was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club com ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jacksonville Jaguars
The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida. The Jaguars compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) South division. The team plays its home games at TIAA Bank Field. Founded alongside the Carolina Panthers in 1995 as an expansion team, the Jaguars competed in the AFC Central until they were moved to the AFC South in 2002. The franchise is owned by Shahid Khan, who bought the team from its original majority owner Wayne Weaver in 2012. The Jaguars saw early success, making the playoffs in each of their second through fifth seasons, a four-year span in which they won two division titles and appeared in two AFC Championship Games. They are the youngest NFL expansion team to appear in a conference championship (by their second season in 1996, along with the Panthers) and clinch their conference's top seed (by their fifth season in 1999). The Jaguars have been less ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Josh Johnson (cornerback)
Joshua Lutrail Johnson (born September 10, 1990) is an American professional Canadian football cornerback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Purdue University. High school career Johnson attended Pasco High School in Dade City, Florida. He was a first-team All-Sun Coast and All-Sunshine Athletic Conference after catching 32 passes for 466 yards (14.6 average) and nine touchdowns and rushing for 204 yards on 39 carries (5.2 average) as senior helping his team advance to the state semifinals. He also played baseball and was named one of the top 100 juniors in the nation after leading the Tampa Bay area in home runs. Considered a two-star recruit by ''Rivals.com'', he accepted a scholarship to Purdue over an offer from Vanderbilt. College career During his tenure, he started 36 of 49 games, where he accumulated 184 tackles (149 solo), including 7.5 for a loss, 31 pass break ups and six interceptions. He was twice nam ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL). The Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Field. In 1950, the Tigers merged with cross-town upstart Hamilton Wildcats and adopted the name "Tiger-Cats". Since the 1950 merger, the team has won the Grey Cup championship eight times, most recently in 1999. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club recognizes all Grey Cups won by Hamilton-based teams as part of their history, bringing their win total to 15 (the Hamilton Tigers with five, the Hamilton Flying Wildcats and Hamilton Alerts with one each). However, the CFL does not recognize these wins under one franchise, rather as the individual franchises that won them. If one includes their historical lineage, Hamilton football clubs won league championships in every decade of the 20th century, a feat matched by only one other North America ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alex Hoffman-Ellis
Alex Hoffman-Ellis (born August 14, 1989) is a former American professional Canadian football linebacker. After playing college football for the Washington State Cougars, he was signed in 2012 by the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League as an undrafted free agent. Hoffman-Ellis then attended their training camp, but was released that August, and briefly played for the Sacramento Mountain Lions of the United Football League before the league folded in October 2012. He was then signed to the practice squad of the San Francisco 49ers on December 4, 2012, but slayed later that month, and played for two years for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.S Early life Hoffman-Ellis is Jewish, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He first attended Santa Monica High School, and then attended Alexander Hamilton High School, in Los Angeles. At Alexander Hamilton he lettered in football (where he was team captain and played middle linebacker, tight end, and punter, rec ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andrew Harris (Canadian Football)
Andrew Harris (born April 24, 1987) is a Canadian professional Canadian football running back for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Harris is a four-time Grey Cup champion, two-time winner of the Grey Cup Most Valuable Canadian and one-time Grey Cup Most Valuable Player, as well as a five-time CFL All-Star and a six-time CFL West All-Star. He played for the BC Lions for six seasons before joining the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in 2016 as a free agent, where he was named the 2017 Most Outstanding Canadian after leading the league in rushing and setting the record for single-season receptions by a running back. In 2022, Harris passed 10,000 career rushing yards and became the CFL leader in career yards from scrimmage by a Canadian. Early years Harris was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and spent his early years in Steinbach, Manitoba, where he started playing football at age 9 with the Eastman Raiders. He is of Barbadian descent through his father. He played hig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Eric Fraser (Canadian Football)
Eric Fraser (born May 5, 1987) is a professional Canadian football defensive back retired of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted as the eighth overall selection by the Calgary Stampeders in the first round of the 2009 CFL Draft. He was selected in the 2013 CFL expansion draft by the Ottawa Redblacks and played one season for the team before signing with his hometown Lions on July 14, 2015. He played high school football at Burnaby Central Secondary School and played college football for the Central Michigan University Chippewas of the Mid-American Conference The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twel .... External linksFraser leaves Calgary with unfinished business, but he’s embracing new opportunity in Ottawa [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kirby Fabien
Kirby Fabien (born September 10, 1990) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman and is the offensive line coach for the UBC Thunderbirds football team of U Sports. University career Fabien played CIS football for the Calgary Dinos from 2008 to 2012. Professional career BC Lions After the 2011 CIS season, he was ranked as the 15th best player in the Canadian Football League’s Amateur Scouting Bureau final rankings for players eligible in the 2012 CFL Draft, and ninth by players in Canadian Interuniversity Sport. He was selected seventh overall by the BC Lions in the 2012 CFL Draft, but on May 28, 2012, the Calgary Dinos announced that he would be returning to play another year with them. He signed with the Lions during the following off-season on May 27, 2013. He spent five years with the Lions and played in 77 regular season games before becoming a free agent in 2018. Montreal Alouettes After remaining unsigned for over three months, Fabien signed with the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rennie Curran
Rennie Curran (born November 10, 1988) is a keynote speaker, leadership coach, author and former American football linebacker. He played college football at the University of Georgia. Curran was considered one of the top weakside linebackers of his class, and has been called "the most dominant defensive player in the game" by ''The Sporting News''. In January 2010, Curran announced that he was forgoing his final year of eligibility to enter the 2010 NFL Draft. He was the 97th pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Titans. High school career Curran attended Brookwood High School in Snellville, Georgia, where he became the Broncos’ all-time leading tackler and was twice named Gwinnett County Touchdown Club Defensive Player of the Year. He was named to the ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' Super Southern 100 and Class AAAAA First-team Defense. Considered a four-star recruit by ''Rivals.com'', Curran was listed as the No. 11 inside linebacker prospect in the nation. College career As a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |