Author Archives: Craig Silliphant

These thoughts are in no way meant to discredit Kevin Glenn's CFL career. The 38-year-old pivot has played in 268 career games. Glenn is a future Plaza of Honour member and, in my opinion, a hall of f...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have defeated every other CFL team on their way to this ten-win season in 2017. A lack of confidence shouldn't hinder the Riders chances of getting a win on Sunday, howeve...

Saskatchewan football fans will have their focus set on the Roughriders this weekend. That's the way it should be. Fans watch closely as the Green and White try to become the first cross over team to ...

Not many are questioning Saskatchewan's secondary as the CFL's eastern semi-final against Ottawa approaches. There is no reason to. The Riders had 19 interceptions in 18 regular season games in 2017; ...

Football fans in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Saskatchewan are fired up for this weekend's CFL playoff games. These centres are Canadian football hot beds. While I am looking forward to the division...

The 2017 CFL football season ends this weekend and, as is always the case, there are some meaningful story lines - and some things about week 20 that just don't matter. This weekend's Montreal/Hamilto...

Star power gave way to the sentimental favourite in the 2017 World Series. Houston's game seven win over Los Angeles gives a city and state that needed a lift a reason to celebrate. North America lear...

I don't believe there is a home field advantage for Wednesday's seventh game of the World Series. The 2016 and 2014 fall classics went to a deciding game and on both occasions the visitors won. There ...

The Calgary Stampeders have added some intrigue to November football with the CFL playoffs right around the corner. Calgary has lost two of its last three games going in to the final weekend of the re...

The Saskatoon Hilltops will chase a fourth straight Canadian Bowl title in 2017. The Hilltops defeated the Vancouver Island Raiders 48-0 in a CJFL semi-final on Sunday afternoon at SMF Field. Saskatoo...