Is this a great time for football or what? The Premier League season starts tomorrow, the NFL preseason is under way, the Rugby World Cup and FIFA Women’s Word Cup are just around the corner, the Australian Football League season is entering its stretch run, and as if that weren’t enough, David Beckham actually played! [...]
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Devin Hester couldn’t top this if he tried. His gridiron isn’t long enough. Toronto Argonauts running back Dominique Dorsey tied a Canadian Football League record by returning a missed field goal 129 yards for a touchdown in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s 29-27 overtime loss to the Montreal Alouettes. Dorsey tied the record held by [...]
Tags: Canadian Football
Many nations on our lonely little planet are fully capable of supporting professional leagues in more than one code of football. In most European countries, soccer is the top game, and rugby is usually the second code of choice among sports fans. In Australia, they have four professional leagues — the AFL, the NRL, the [...]
Tags: Association Football · Canadian Football
We’ll never agree on how to play rugby, will we? We all agree on the basic laws of the Association football game. Interpretations vary from nation to nation, but for the most part, it’s the same game wherever you go, which has helped make it the world’s most popular football code. But we can’t agree [...]
Tags: American Football · Canadian Football · Rugby Football
Canadians aren’t just crazy about their association football. They love their 110-yard gridiron, too, and with the Canadian Football League season starting tomorrow night, the good folks at The Boatmen Blog and Sports Grumblings have their team previews ready for all to peruse. There are reports that Eric Crouch, Akili Smith and Shaun King are [...]
Tags: Canadian Football
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Canadian Football League season begins this month. Training camps for CFL clubs opened last weekend, and the first preseason game between the Montreal Alouettes and Toronto Argonauts is this Saturday. I won’t go into the whole reason why Canadians only have three downs instead of four — mostly because [...]
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