Author Archives: Darrell Davis

When I buy football tickets, I’m paying to see two teams play. Not just the Saskatchewan Roughriders. So it dismays me when the “Halftime Highlights” show only the home team’s ...

With all the mass shootings these days, it's hard to think about sports. The Saskatchewan Roughriders' winning streak. CFL injuries and attendance woes. Tennis or golf tournaments. Major League Baseba...

The entire crowd, all 29,000 fans inside Mosaic Stadium, seemed to stop breathing during the third quarter of Thursday's CFL game. Saskatchewan Roughriders quarterback Cody Fajardo got tackled by a Ha...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders owe the Toronto Argonauts a “Thank you” card. The winless, desperate Argonauts acquired Zach Collaros in a trade from the Roughriders, who conceivably could ha...

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Sorry, Saskatchewan. This is the only weekend of the year that I hope is plagued by bad weather. Snow. Rain. Wind. Cold. Sleet. I don't care. It's Masters weeken...

The best Grey Cup game was in Hamilton. The best city to visit is Montreal. But when you want a community that totally absorbs the Grey Cup, the CFL couldn't have picked a better place than Regina ahe...

Darian Durant and I sat in the lobby of the Hamilton Sheraton for about an hour on Friday, July 11, 2008. It was the day before his first start as the Saskatchewan Roughriders' quarterback, back in th...

Now that the CFL's free-agent frenzy has slowed, have the Saskatchewan Roughriders made themselves better by adding players like Zack Evans, Travis Bond and Jerome Messam? Well, the team also lost vet...

Pro sports teams don't always put their crowd counts in game summaries anymore. I discovered that while researching how many consecutive games the Saskatchewan Roughriders had sold out before Friday, ...

Don't get your hopes up, Toronto Blue Jays fans. Canada's only MLB team is 3.5 games out of a wild-card playoff berth and there are some blue-clad optimists believing their team may qualify for the po...