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Monday’s O-Line: Why an emotional coach is sometimes a good thing, beard...
When you’re growing up, everyone has that one friend who excels at pushing people’s buttons. That friend always has the process down to an art. The button pusher’s work isn’t a simple, singular effort....
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Updated: Eskimos lose 31-21 to B.C., fall to 1-3
VANCOUVER — It’s a time where opposing offences surge and defences disappear. A strange dimension of football that allows quarterback sacks and has otherwise stellar cornerbacks hurdled over in its...
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Monday’s O-Line: Why you should fear the Riders; Shamawd Chambers;...
It’s very early in Vancouver on Monday morning and I can’t sleep. The Saskatchewan Roughriders are on my mind. I’m probably not alone with this problem. Kent Austin, who knows Mosaic Stadium, the fans...
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Eskimos release Burke Dales
With the Monday morning release of non-import punter Burke Dales, the Edmonton Eskimos have made it official: Their kicking game belongs to Grant Shaw. The Eskimos have parted ways with Dales, 36,...
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Esks roster updates, Week 5 CFL picks and a live chat at 5 p.m.
MONTREAL — A couple of roster-related items to get the morning going. Eskimos’ cornerback Joe Burnett is out for tonight’s game against the Montreal Alouettes. Burnett left Saturday’s game against the...
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Matt Nichols and Orrin Thompson both have successful ACL surgery
The Edmonton Eskimos announced this afternoon that both quarterback Matt Nichols and offensive lineman Orrin Thompson have undergone successful surgery for their torn anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL)....
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Wednesday’s O-Line: QB game shows, cursing on Twitter and more
It’s Bo Levi Mitchell. Has to be. No, wait. It’s Drew Willy. No, no. It’s Zach Collaros. Or maybe it’s still Mike Reilly or Matt Nichols. Definitely, certainly, it’s one of them, right? Remember all...
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Week 6 CFL picks, Dan Hawkins fired in Montreal and a CFL lip-reading video
Bye week has turned into bye-bye week for Dan Hawkins. The Montreal Alouettes announced Thursday morning that they’d parted ways with their rookie head coach, after the team stumbled out to a 2-3 start...
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Esks game day: Live chat at 6:30 p.m., Matt Nichols and links, links, links
It’s hard to see Matt Nichols and not think about what might have been this season. The Eskimos’ quarterback was in the locker-room on Thursday after the team’s walkthrough practice, marking the first...
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Tuesday’s O-Line: Why coaching changes in Edmonton are a bad idea, Marcus...
I’ve got an outstanding treat for you this morning. It’s Genie In A Bottle Day. Go ahead, make your wishes. If you’re like me, on your first wish you wished for infinite wishes. Upon hearing this, your...
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Monday’s O-Line: The (occasionally painful) life of Reilly
Adarius Bowman knows Buck Pierce. In 2010 in Winnipeg, Bowman saw firsthand the hardships that the talented, determined and injury-prone quarterback endured trying to play his game. Pierce was slowed...
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J.C. Sherritt suffers a broken thumb and is out indefinitely
The Edmonton Eskimos’ down-and-out season just took another bad turn. Already 1-5 in the Canadian Football League and on a four-game losing streak, the Eskimos will have to pull themselves out of their...
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Aaron Grymes latest Edmonton Eskimos player to be lost indefinitely; team...
It rained on Tuesday. On Wednesday, it poured for the Edmonton Eskimos. The team announced on its website this morning that cornerback Aaron Grymes is out indefinitely after an in-practice collision...
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Week 8 CFL picks: Esks seek consistency; another big Calgary game
CFL commissioner Mark Cohon brought it up earlier this week on Twitter: Given my role in all of this my perspective might be skewed, but the last two weeks didn’t feel quite right with just a pair...
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Monday’s O-Line: Are you not entertained?
The knock on basketball (a completely unfair one, I’ll add, admitting full bias on the subject) is that you only have to watch the last two minutes of the game. Forget the other 46 minutes, the haters...
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Week 9 CFL picks: Could the Eskimos pull the upset of the season?
It seems kind of absurd to think that it’ll happen, doesn’t it? The 6-1 Saskatchewan Roughriders, the best team in the CFL coming into Commonwealth Stadium buoyed by its loud, roaming, Cloud 9-riding...
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TSN’s Chris Schultz talks Esks, plus a pre-game chat at 1:30 p.m.
Two games into Week 9 of the CFL season and it appears to be the weekend of the upset. Montreal snuck away from their battle against the B.C. Lions with a win, thanks to a last-second field goal from...
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Monday’s O-Line: You’re (mostly) a patient bunch, Esks fans
I had a terrible sleep last night. Awful. I tried to re-watch the Eskimos’ game, only to find that my PVR — man’s supposed best friend — had betrayed me and decided to un-schedule the scheduled...
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CFL fines Weldon Brown for headshot on Mike Reilly
Upon further review, the Canadian Football League has decided that Mike Reilly did take a headshot during the Edmonton Eskimos’ loss to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. The league sent out word Thursday...
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Week 10 CFL Picks: The Cornish factor, Tavoy Moore and Ed Hervey
Is there a team in the CFL more in need of some breaks than the Edmonton Eskimos? From the league’s too little, too late ruling on Saskatchewan defensive back Weldon Brown’s hit to the head on...
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