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2024 CFL Season
The 2024 CFL season is scheduled to be the 70th season of modern professional Canadian football. Officially, it would be the 66th season of the Canadian Football League. Vancouver is scheduled to host the 111th Grey Cup on November 17, 2024. The regular season is scheduled to start on June 6, 2024 and end on October 26, 2024, with playoff games on November 2 and November 9, 2024. CFL news in 2024 Salary cap According to the new collective bargaining agreement, the 2024 salary cap will at least $5,585,000 (or $124,111 per active roster spot). This will be the first season that players will begin to receive revenue sharing, which will be set at 25% this season (or cap increase of 2.78% for every dollar increase). The salary cap is officially announced in late April every year as well as fines from previous year. As was the case in 2023, the minimum player salary will be set at $70,000. Draft changes Beginning this season, the two teams that had National players play the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
111th Grey Cup
The 111th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2024 season. The game is scheduled to be played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. It will be the 17th time that Vancouver has hosted the Grey Cup, with the most recent being in 2014. The game will be televised in Canada nationally on TSN, and RDS, with a free over-the-air telecast—the first since the 95th Grey Cup 17 years prior—on CTV. Host On November 3, 2022, it was announced that the game had been awarded to the city of Vancouver and the host BC Lions. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers were reportedly also bidding to host this game, but also submitted a bid for the 112th Grey Cup game. Date Per the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement signed in 2022, the league had the option of starting the 2024 season by up to 30 days sooner, which could have significantly altered the date of this game. However, the league chose to continue with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 CFL Season
The 2022 CFL season is scheduled to be the 68th season of modern-day Canadian football. Officially, it will be the 64th season of the Canadian Football League. The regular season is scheduled to begin on June 9, 2022, and end on October 29, 2022, with 18 games being played per team over 21 weeks. Regina is scheduled to host the 109th Grey Cup on November 20, 2022. CFL news in 2022 Collective Bargaining Agreement The three-year agreement that was ratified between the CFL and CFL Player's Association will expire just prior to this season, on the first day of scheduled training camp in 2022 (likely in May, 2022). Topics should include compensation, player safety, and revenue generation following two seasons heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. The 2021 salary cap for an 18-game season was set at $5,350,000 with minimum salaries set at $65,000 for National and American Players and $54,000 for Global Players. Schedule The league released the season's full schedule on D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto Sun
The ''Toronto Sun'' is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The newspaper is one of several ''Sun'' tabloids published by Postmedia Network. The newspaper's offices is located at Postmedia Place in downtown Toronto. The newspaper published its first edition in November 1971, after it had acquired the assets of the defunct ''Toronto Telegram'', and hired portions of the ''Telegram''s staff. In 1978, Toronto Sun Holdings and Toronto Sun Publishing were consolidated to form Sun Publishing (later renamed Sun Media Corporation). Sun Publishing went on to form similar tabloids to the ''Toronto Sun'' in other Canadian cities during the late 1970s and 1980s. The ''Sun'' was acquired by Postmedia Network in 2015, as a part of the sale of the ''Sun''s parent company, Sun Media. History In 1971, the Toronto Sun Publishing was created and purchased the syndication operations and newspaper vending boxes from the ''Toronto Telegram'', which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Réseau Des Sports
Réseau des sports (RDS), is a Canadian French language specialty channel oriented towards sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. (Bell Media 80% and ESPN 20%). Its full name (usually prefaced in speech by the French article "le") translates as "The Sports Network", the name of its Anglophone counterpart, TSN. History September 1, 1989–1990s RDS was launched on September 1, 1989, as a sister network to Labatt's highly successful English-language sports network TSN, but the new network initially was run on a low budget and struggled to obtain rights to major professional sporting events. Despite this, RDS became infamous in its early years for its program '' Défi Mini-Putt'', a weekly miniature golf program best known for its energetic commentator Serge Vleminckx, and his enthusiastic cries of "Birdie!" when a hole in one was scored. By the early 1990s, the network became more established, obtaining ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sports Network
The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language sports specialty channel established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. Since 2001, it has been majority-owned by communications conglomerate BCE Inc. (presently through its broadcasting subsidiary Bell Media), with a minority stake held by ESPN Inc. via a 30% share in the Bell Media subsidiary CTV Specialty Television. TSN is the largest specialty channel in Canada in terms of gross revenue, with a total of in revenue in 2013. TSN's networks focus on sports-related programming, including live and recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming. TSN was the first national cable broadcaster of the National Hockey League in Canada. Its stint has been interrupted twice by rival network Sportsnet, most recently as of the 2014–15 season under an exclusive 12-year rights deal. TSN holds regional television rights to four of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player who is eligible to sign with other clubs or franchises; i.e., not under contract to any specific team. The term is also used in reference to a player who is under contract at present but who is allowed to solicit offers from other teams. In some circumstances, the free agent's options are limited by league rules. Types Terms Unrestricted free agent Unrestricted free agents are players without a team. They have either been released from their club, had the term of their contract expire without a renewal, or were not chosen in a league's draft of amateur players. These people, generally speaking, are free to entertain offers from all other teams in the player's most recent league and elsewhere and to decide with whom to sign a contract. Players who have been bought out of league standard contracts may have restrictions within that league, such as not being able to sign with the buy-out club for a period of time in the NHL, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Ottawa Redblacks Season
The 2024 Ottawa Redblacks season is the tenth season for the team in the Canadian Football League. The Redblacks will attempt to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2018 and improve upon their league-worst 4–14 record from 2023. The team will attempt to win the second Grey Cup in Redblacks history and 11th in professional Ottawa football history. The 2024 CFL season is the second season for Bob Dyce as head coach and the third season for Shawn Burke as general manager. Offseason CFL Global Draft The 2024 CFL Global Draft took place on April 30, 2024. The Redblacks had two picks in the draft, selecting second in each round. CFL National Draft The 2024 CFL Draft The 2024 CFL National Draft is a selection of National players by Canadian Football League teams that is scheduled to take place in the spring of 2024. 74 players will be chosen from among eligible players from Canadian Universities across the coun ... took place on April 30, 2024. The Redblacks are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of the Canadian province of British Columbia, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of 91,867, and the Greater Victoria area has a population of 397,237. The city of Victoria is the 7th most densely populated city in Canada with . Victoria is the southernmost major city in Western Canada and is about southwest from British Columbia's largest city of Vancouver on the mainland. The city is about from Seattle by airplane, seaplane, ferry, or the Victoria Clipper passenger-only ferry, and from Port Angeles, Washington, by ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Named for Queen Victoria, the city is one of the oldest in the Pacific Northwest, with British settlement beginning in 1843. The city has retained a large number of its historic buildings, in particular its two most famous landmarks, the Parliament Buildings (finished in 1897 and home of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Athletic Park
Royal Athletic Park is a stadium in Victoria, British Columbia and is used for baseball, soccer, softball and football, but also hosts special events, such as the annual Great Canadian Beer Festival and previously the Rifflandia Music Festival. It is home to The Victoria HarbourCats Baseball Club of the West Coast League. It is located 1km from the city center. History In 1907 the burgeoning summer athletic teams did not have enough facilities for senior teams with paid attendances. Baseball in particular was challenged to find available dates at Oak Bay Grounds to operate due to a preference for lacrosse. Subsequently, the supporters of Canada's national summer sport lacrosse, at a meeting chaired by BC Premier McBride formed the Royal Victoria Athletic Association on March 26, 1908,''British Colonist''. March 27, 1908. http://www.britishcolonist.ca and a senior lacrosse team was founded to enable the best intermediate (Under 21) players to play in the British Columbia Amateur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Neutral Site Canadian Football League Games
The Canadian Football League (CFL) has played numerous neutral site games in its history – i.e. games outside of both teams' home cities. Several CFL games have been staged in the United States – the earliest was in 1909, and the most recent was in 1995 during the league's short-lived US expansion. In the 2005 preseason, and regular seasons of 2010, 2011 and 2013, games in Atlantic Canada were billed as Touchdown Atlantic. The event was on hiatus from 2014 to 2018, but returned in 2019, 2022, and 2023. In 2013, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats played most of their season in Guelph, Ontario, due to the reconstruction of Tim Hortons Field at the former Ivor Wynne Stadium. In 2015, games were moved to locations including Fort McMurray, Alberta, as some CFL stadiums were used for the Women's World Cup, Pan-American Games and baseball playoffs. Location maps List of games Below is a list of games played by teams from the CFL, and its predecessors the Interprovincial Rugby Foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 BC Lions Season
The 2024 BC Lions season is the 66th season for the team in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and their 70th overall. The Lions will attempt to qualify for the playoffs for the third straight year and win their seventh Grey Cup championship. The 2024 CFL season is the fourth season with Rick Campbell as the team's head coach and the third season with Campbell and Neil McEvoy as co- general managers. Offseason CFL Global Draft The 2024 CFL Global Draft took place on April 30, 2024. The Lions had two picks in the draft, selecting sixth in each round. CFL National Draft The 2024 CFL Draft took place on April 30, 2024. The Lions had nine selections in the eight-round draft. Not including traded picks, the team selected sixth in each round of the draft after finishing second in the 2023 league standings of teams that did not qualify for the 110th Grey Cup game. Preseason Schedule : Games played with blackout uniforms. : Games played with fog uniforms. Regular season St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Ambrosie
Randy Ambrosie (born March 16, 1963) is the 14th and current commissioner of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Ambrosie played Canadian football professionally as an offensive guard for the CFL's Calgary Stampeders, Toronto Argonauts, and Edmonton Eskimos. He was selected with the second overall pick in the 1985 CFL Draft by the Stampeders. Over the course of a nine-season career, he played in 142 professional games and became a Grey Cup champion. Ambrosie played college football at the University of Manitoba. Early career Ambrosie played college football for the Manitoba Bisons as an offensive lineman. In 1984, he was named an U Sports Football All-Canadian Team, All-Canadian. He was also a Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Canada West All-Star in 1983 and 1984. In a February 1985 article in ''The Globe and Mail'', it was stated that a recent poll of CFL teams listed Ambrosie as one of the top nine players available for the 1985 CFL Draft. Ambrosie received a B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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