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2014 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
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The 2014 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 57th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 65th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 1st place in the East Division for the first time since 1998, the Tiger-Cats advanced to and lost the Grey Cup game for the second year in a row, this time to the Calgary Stampeders by a score of 20–16. The team returned to Hamilton after playing one season in Guelph, the Tiger-Cats played in a brand new stadium for the first time in franchise history, playing at the newly constructed Tim Hortons Field at the site of their old stadium, Ivor Wynne Stadium. Tim Hortons Field was due to be completed by June 30,2014, and, consequently, the team played their preseason home game at McMaster Universitys Ron Joyce Stadium. The Tiger-Cats will play their first three regular season games on the road and were scheduled to open Tim Hortons Field in week 5 on July 26,2014 against the expansion Ottawa Redblacks. The new stadium, still not yet complete with only 18,000 seats ready for use, the stadium was fully complete by October. The 2014 CFL Draft took place on May 13,2014, the Tiger-Cats had six selections in the seven-round draft, but moved up and down in positions due to trades with other clubs. The club acquired a second round selection and moved down one spot in the first round after completing a trade with Saskatchewan for Shomari Williams. The team then traded both second round selections during the draft for the first round selection they had traded to Saskatchewan, the team also gave up a third round selection for Geoff Tisdale and another sixth round selection. Finally, the Tiger-Cats traded their fourth selection for fullback Dahrran Diedrick
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2014 Calgary Stampeders season
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The 2014 Calgary Stampeders season was the 57th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 80th overall. The Stampeders finished first in the West Division for the second season for the first time since the 1996 season. The Stampeders also finished the season with a 15–3 record, tying a record last achieved in the 1995 season. With a win in Week 15 the Stampeders qualified for the playoffs for the 10th straight season, on November 30,2014, the Stampeders won their seventh Grey Cup championship 20–16 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at BC Place in Vancouver. The 2014 CFL Draft took place on May 13,2014, the Stampeders had the most picks in the draft, including trading for the first overall pick in the draft and the rights to Marwan Hage for Jon Gott. Overall, the club had nine selections in the seven-round draft, with a win in week 15, the Stampeders qualified for the playoffs for the 10th straight season. The team was the first in the CFL to clinch a playoff spot, following their week 17 win over Winnipeg, the Stampeders clinched first place in the West Division with three games remaining
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Kent Austin
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Richard Kent Austin is the current head coach of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football team. He was previously the coach at Cornell University and offensive coordinator at Ole Miss. Austin is a starting quarterback himself. Following high school at Brentwood Academy, he went to the University of Mississippi and he ranks fourth in passing yards in the Ole Miss records, behind Eli Manning, Bo Wallace, and Romaro Miller. Austin was an Academic All-American in each of his four seasons and is a member of the University of Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame. After college, Austin was selected in the 12th round of the 1986 NFL Draft by the St. Louis Cardinals and he played two seasons in the NFL as the teams third-string quarterback, attempting a single pass. In 1988, the Cardinals chose not to resign Austin, and he jumped to the CFL and joined the Roughriders. He also threw 198 touchdown passes and 191 interceptions in his 10 CFL seasons with 4 teams, Austin started at quarterback for the Roughriders, British Columbia Lions, and Toronto Argonauts, as well as serving as a backup for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He is one of only four CFL quarterbacks to pass for more than 6,000 yards in a single season. Austin won his second Grey Cup in 1994 with the British Columbia Lions, starting the 82nd Grey Cup, McManus would lead the Lions to a win on a last-second field goal. In the Columbo episode A Bird in the Hand, footage from a Saskatchewan Roughriders versus Edmonton Eskimos game was used to portray a fictional game played by a football team called The Stallions. As the footage showed Kent Austin playing and wearing the No.5 jersey, when a scene required seeing the quarterback in play, they used footage of Kent Austin. This QB rating may be based on NFL system, in 2003, Austin entered coaching as the quarterbacks coach of the Ottawa Renegades. The following year he was hired as Toronto offensive coordinator, helping lead the team to a surge that allowed the franchise to win the 2004 CFL championship. He was fired in the 2006 season and later hired as Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach for the 2007 season, on November 25,2007, Kent Austin coached the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the 95th Grey Cup Championship beating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23–19. In doing so, Austin became the first head coach to win a football championship for the same team with which he won the championship as a quarterback. He did so in his first year as coach. His performance as head coach won him the 2007 Annis Stukus Trophy as CFL coach of the year, on January 16,2008, Austin accepted the job as Offensive coordinator at the University of Mississippi, his alma mater, to serve under head coach Houston Nutt
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BC Place
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BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium located at the north side of False Creek, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is owned and operated by the BC Pavilion Corporation, a corporation of the province. It is currently the home of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer, the stadium also served as the main stadium for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Paralympics which Vancouver hosted. The stadium opened on June 19,1983 and was built as a structure with an air-supported roof. Once construction was completed, the new roof was also the largest of its type. Construction of the started in 1981 and was completed in 1983. BC Place was built as part of the preparations for the 1986 Worlds Fair, the stadium was the worlds largest air-supported domed stadium until May 4,2010 when it was deflated for the last time in preparation for the erection of its new retractable roof. The first major event held in the stadium was on June 20,1983 when the Vancouver Whitecaps hosted the Seattle Sounders in a North American Soccer League game with attendance announced at 60,342. On July 24,1983, a crowd of 41,810 watched the BC Lions defeat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 44–28 in the Lions first game at the stadium, the venue would host the Soccer Bowl 83 later that year. On September 18,1984 Pope John Paul II addressed an over-capacity crowd for A Celebration of Life, the celebration was part of the papal visit to the Archdiocese of Vancouver. It was one of the most heavily attended events in the stadium, the Popes Celebration of Life was followed a few months later by the Canadian Pacific Billy Graham Crusade, which drew similar numbers each night. The stadium was used for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication. Accepting an invitation by the Province of British Columbia, their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles, to great fanfare, they officially proclaimed the Worlds Fair open on May 2,1986. The stadium was the first air-supported structure and 24th venue to host the ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. It was also both the third CFL venue and the third Canadian venue to have served as an Olympic Stadium, after Montreals Olympic Stadium, BC Place was a venue of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup, including the Championship Final match on July 5,2015. It hosted round six of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2015-16 series, on January 5,2007, snow accumulated on the air-supported Teflon Fibreglass roof, despite strict zero accumulation of ice guidelines and ice accumulation structural warnings. The accumulation caused a tear in the roofs ETFE-coated fabric close to Gate G on the side where the roof meets the top of the concrete bowl. The tear grew quickly as air escaped through it, whereupon maintenance staff performed an intentional, as it was designed to do, the deflated roof rested on its steel support cables 6 metres above the seating and the field
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Vancouver
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Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, the Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre. With over 250,000 residents, Vancouver municipality is the fourth most densely populated city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. In that census, Vancouver was one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada, Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. In 2014, following thirty years in California, the annual TED conference made Vancouver its indefinite home, several matches of the 2015 FIFA Womens World Cup were played in Vancouver, including the final at BC Place Stadium. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west, Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B. I. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas, 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, archaeological records indicate the presence of Aboriginal people in the Vancouver area from 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The city is located in the territories of the Squamish, Musqueam. They had villages in various parts of present-day Vancouver, such as Stanley Park, False Creek, Kitsilano, Point Grey, the city takes its name from George Vancouver, who explored the inner harbour of Burrard Inlet in 1792 and gave various places British names. The explorer and North West Company trader Simon Fraser and his became the first known Europeans to set foot on the site of the present-day city. In 1808, they travelled from the east down the Fraser River, perhaps as far as Point Grey. The Fraser Gold Rush of 1858 brought over 25,000 men, mainly from California, to nearby New Westminster on the Fraser River, on their way to the Fraser Canyon, a sawmill established at Moodyville in 1863, began the citys long relationship with logging. It was quickly followed by mills owned by Captain Edward Stamp on the shore of the inlet. This mill, known as the Hastings Mill, became the nucleus around which Vancouver formed, the mills central role in the city waned after the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. It nevertheless remained important to the economy until it closed in the 1920s. The settlement which came to be called Gastown grew up quickly around the original makeshift tavern established by Gassy Jack Deighton in 1867 on the edge of the Hastings Mill property
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British Columbia
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British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, with a population of more than four million people located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest and the Cascadia bioregion, along with the U. S. states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The first British settlement in the area was Fort Victoria, established in 1843, subsequently, on the mainland, the Colony of British Columbia was founded by Richard Clement Moody and the Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, in response to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. Port Moody is named after him, in 1866, Vancouver Island became part of the colony of British Columbia, and Victoria became the united colonys capital. In 1871, British Columbia became the province of Canada. Its Latin motto is Splendor sine occasu, the capital of British Columbia remains Victoria, the fifteenth-largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for the Queen who created the original European colonies. The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, in October 2013, British Columbia had an estimated population of 4,606,371. British Columbia evolved from British possessions that were established in what is now British Columbia by 1871, First Nations, the original inhabitants of the land, have a history of at least 10,000 years in the area. Today there are few treaties and the question of Aboriginal Title, notably, the Tsilhqotin Nation has established Aboriginal title to a portion of their territory, as a result of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision. BCs economy is diverse, with service producing industries accounting for the largest portion of the provinces GDP and it is the endpoint of transcontinental railways, and the site of major Pacific ports that enable international trade. Though less than 5% of its vast 944,735 km2 land is arable and its climate encourages outdoor recreation and tourism, though its economic mainstay has long been resource extraction, principally logging, farming, and mining. Vancouver, the provinces largest city and metropolitan area, also serves as the headquarters of many western-based natural resource companies and it also benefits from a strong housing market and a per capita income well above the national average. The Northern Interior region has a climate with very cold winters. The climate of Vancouver is by far the mildest winter climate of the major Canadian cities, the provinces name was chosen by Queen Victoria, when the Colony of British Columbia, i. e. the Mainland, became a British colony in 1858. The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, British Columbias land area is 944,735 square kilometres. British Columbias rugged coastline stretches for more than 27,000 kilometres and it is the only province in Canada that borders the Pacific Ocean. British Columbias capital is Victoria, located at the tip of Vancouver Island. Only a narrow strip of the Island, from Campbell River to Victoria, is significantly populated, much of the western part of Vancouver Island and the rest of the coast is covered by thick, tall and sometimes impenetrable temperate rainforest
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Bo Levi Mitchell
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Bo Levi Mitchell is an American Canadian football quarterback for the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He played college football at Eastern Washington University, Mitchell graduated from Katy High School in Texas in 2008. As a senior in 2007, he passed for 2,451 yards and 37 touchdowns with four interceptions. He led Katy to a 16-0 undefeated season and a state championship and he was named to the Houston Chronicle’s Houston Top 110. Mitchell chose to attend SMU over an offer from Hawaii, Mitchell was also recruited by Eastern Washington. Mitchell played two seasons at SMU, starting all 19 of the games he played, in his career, he completed 385-of-676 passes for 4,590 yards with 36 touchdowns and 33 interceptions. As a sophomore in 2009, he started SMU’s first seven games before suffering an injury, Mitchell completed 56 percent of his passes for 1,725 yards,12 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, for a passing efficiency rating of 117.9. However, SMU was 3-4 in those seven games before winning five of its last six to finish 8-5, as a junior in 2010, Mitchell transferred to Eastern Washington University, which had previously recruited Mitchell out of high school. He helped lead EWU to the NCAA Division I FCS National Championship with a 20-19 come-from-behind victory over the University of Delaware, the schools first national championship in football. He was named the games Most Outstanding Player after throwing three touchdown passes in the final 16 minutes of the game and had 302 total passing yards in the game as well. In the 2011 season, Mitchell led the FCS in four categories, including passing yards. He broke EWUs record for single season passing yards with 4,009, Mitchell went on to win the Walter Payton Award as the best offensive player in the FCS and was also named the 2011 Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year. Mitchell was also named to seven All-America teams this season, earning first team honors on six of them. He was the top quarterback on teams selected by The Sports Network, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp, Associated Press, Phil Steele Publications, Mitchell went undrafted in the 2012 NFL Draft. On April 30,2012, the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League signed Mitchell to an agent contract. Mitchell saw limited playing time in the 2012 CFL season, playing as a 3rd-string backup behind Drew Tate and Kevin Glenn and ahead of Brad Sinopoli. In his first CFL start, on July 26,2013, Mitchell completed 29 of 33 attempts while passing for 376 yards, Mitchell won the Gibsons Finest Offensive Player of the Week for this performance. The 2013 season proved to be a season for Mitchell
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Andy Fantuz
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Andrew Andy Fantuz, is a Canadian football wide receiver who is a free agent. He played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders for six seasons after he was drafted by them in the first round of the 2006 CFL Draft and he then played five seasons for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Fantuz was also signed by the Chicago Bears in 2011 and he played CIS football for the University of Western Ontario. Fantuz attended John McGregor Secondary School from 1997 to 2002, where he played football and basketball and he also played for the Essex County Ravens of the Ontario Varsity Football League. Andy Fantuz attended the University of Western Ontario from 2002 to 2005, Fantuz was awarded the CIS Rookie of the year award in 2002 with 1300 receiving yards and nine touchdowns. He finished his university career as the OUA and CIS leader with 189 receptions for 4,123 yards and 41 touchdown receptions and he was a four-time CIS all-Canadian and four-time OUA all-star while being named to the first team all-Canadian in 2002,2004, and 2005. On January 21,2006, Fantuz represented Eastern Canada in the East-West Shrine Game which showcases the best college talent in the United States and with invitees from Canada. While many thought that he could go first overall in the 2006 CFL Draft, Andy Fantuz was chosen in the first round and third overall by the Saskatchewan Roughriders. After the draft, Fantuz tried out for the Detroit Lions in May 2006, because he had signed the contract late, he missed a beginning portion of the 2006 training camp. Fantuz was integrated slowly into the Roughriders offence in 2006, and he made his first start against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in week 10 and started the last nine games of the season as well as two playoff games. He scored his first touchdown in a play against the BC Lions on September 24,2006. Quarterback Kerry Joseph was rushing towards the deep in BC territory when he was tackled from behind. Fantuz promptly jumped on the ball in the endzone, culminating in his first CFL touchdown and he had his first 100-yard receiving game in week 20 against the Edmonton Eskimos. Fantuz finished the season with 30 catches for 408 yards,3 receiving touchdowns, on November 30,2006, Fantuz agreed to a two-year plus an option contract. The 2007 season was presumably a promising one for Fantuz as the media, however, the sophomore slump took its toll on Fantuz as numerous dropped balls at critical junctures led to his demotion from the starting line-up in week 5 by head coach Kent Austin. After catching just 17 balls for 201 yards through the first eight games and he continued his strong play with a 7 catch –142 yard performance against the Montreal Alouettes, filling in for Matt Dominguez who was injured in the Banjo Bowl. On October 14,2007 he had a game with seven catches for 240 receiving yards. It was the third best receiving game in team history
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O Canada
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O Canada is the national anthem of Canada. The lyrics were originally in French, an English version was created in 1906, Robert Stanley Weir wrote in 1908 another English version, which is the official and most popular version, one that is not a literal translation of the French. Weirs lyrics have been revised twice, taking their present form in 1980, the Queen-in-Council established set lyrics for O Canada in Canadas two official languages, English and French. The lyrics are as follows, Official bilingual version O Canada, True patriot love in all thy sons command. Car ton bras sait porter lépée, Il sait porter la croix, ton histoire est une épopée Des plus brillants exploits. God keep our land glorious and free, O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. O Canada, we stand on guard for thee and it has been noted that the opening theme of O Canada bears a strong resemblance to the March of the Priests from the opera The Magic Flute, composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The line The True North strong and free is based on the Lord Tennysons description of Canada as that true North, in the context of Tennysons poem To the Queen, the word true means loyal or faithful. Two provinces have adopted Latin translations of phrases from the English lyrics as their mottos, similarly, the Canadian Armys motto is Vigilamus pro te. Weirs original lyrics from 1908 contained no references and used the phrase thou dost in us command before they were changed by Weir in 1914 to read in all thy sons command. In 1926, a verse of a religious nature was added. In the late 2000s, the religious references were criticized by secularists. In the speech from the throne delivered by Governor General Michaëlle Jean on March 3,2010, in May 2016, Liberal MP Mauril Bélanger introduced a private members Bill C-210 to change two words in O Canada. These proposed changes are said to make the anthem more gender-neutral by changing the words thy sons to of us, in June 2016, the bill passed its third reading with a vote of 225 to 74 in the House of Commons. O Canada joined that fray when a group of children sang it for the 1901 tour of Canada by the Duke. The competition was won by Mercy E. Powell McCulloch, in fact, many made English translations of Routhiers words, however, the most popular version was created in 1908 by Robert Stanley Weir, a lawyer and Recorder of the City of Montreal. A slightly modified version was published for the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation in 1927. Still, by-laws and practices governing the use of song during public events in municipalities varied, in Toronto, God Save the Queen was employed, the group was then charged with establishing official lyrics for each song
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Nikki Yanofsky
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Nicole Nikki Yanofsky is a Canadian jazz-pop singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec. Yanofsky has released two live, two albums, and one extended play to date. Recently she performed at the NBA all star game 2017, Yanofsky recorded the Ella Fitzgerald classic Airmail Special for Verve Records and it was released in June 2007 on the album We All Love Ella, Celebrating the First Lady of Song. Produced by Tommy LiPuma, this track made Yanofsky the youngest singer ever to record for Verve, Yanofsky then recorded Gotta Go My Own Way in English and French for Walt Disneys smash hit High School Musical 2. The track was included as bonus material on the release of the Blu-ray, DVD. Following that, she collaborated with Herbie Hancock and will. i. am to record a version of the swing era hit Stompin at the Savoy. It was released on Kareem Abdul-Jabbars audio book, On the Shoulders of Giants, in September 2008, Yanofsky released her first full-length album, a live CD/DVD concert package entitled Ella. Of Thee I Swing. She also won Favourite Jazz Artist at the 2009 Canadian Independent Music Awards and this made her the first Canadian artist to have a number one song on that chart. The song was certified Quadruple Platinum for digital downloads in April 2010, Yanofsky recorded her first studio album, Nikki, with Phil Ramone. Along with the album-release of I Believe, it some of Yanofskys first original works—writing in collaboration with Jesse Harris as well as fellow Canadian songwriters Ron Sexsmith. It was released in April 2010 by Decca Records and was supported by an international tour, Nikki earned a Juno nomination for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year and won Yanofsky the WAVE Smooth Jazz Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. For Ganzs October 2010 Webkinz Pet of the Month song, Yanofsky recorded a version of the Webkinz World song I Dream in Pink. A2011 jazz recording of popular Disney songs entitled Everybody Wants to Be a Cat, Disney Jazz, other jazz artists on the album included Esperanza Spalding, Roy Hargrove, Dave Brubeck, Joshua Redman, and Alfredo Rodriguez. In early 2013, Yanofsky signed with Quincy Jones Productions, Inc. for worldwide management representation, Yanofskys second studio album, Little Secret, was released in Canada in May 2014. The album was produced by Quincy Jones. In 2015 Yanofsky started to collaborate with Wyclef Jean on her new album and her Solid Gold EP was released in Canada on September 30,2016. Nikki announced that her new album will be released in the Spring of 2017. Yanofsky began her singing career by performing at the 2006 Montreal International Jazz Festival
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Coin flipping
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Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air to choose between two alternatives, sometimes to resolve a dispute between two parties. It is a form of sortition which inherently has only two possible and equally likely outcomes, the historical origin of coin flipping is the interpretation of a chance outcome as the expression of divine will. Coin flipping as a game was known to the Romans as navia aut caput, as some coins had a ship on one side, in England, this game was referred to as cross and pile. The expression Heads or Tails results from heads and tails being considered opposite body parts, during a coin toss, the coin is thrown into the air such that it rotates edge-over-edge several times. Either beforehand or when the coin is in the air, an interested party calls heads or tails, the other party is assigned the opposite side. Depending on custom, the coin may be caught, caught and inverted, when the coin comes to rest, the toss is complete and the party who called correctly or was assigned the upper side is declared the winner. It is possible for a coin to land on its edge, however, even on a flat surface it is possible for a coin to land on its edge, with a chance of about 1 in 6000. Angular momentum typically prevents most coins from landing on their edges unsupported if flipped, such cases in which a coin does land on its edge are exceptionally rare and in most cases the coin is simply re-flipped. The coin may be any type as long as it has two sides, it need not be a circulating coin as such. Larger coins tend to be more popular than smaller ones, most high-profile coin tosses use custom-made ceremonial medallions. Three-way coin flips are also possible, by a different process – this can be either to choose two out of three, or to choose one out of three. To choose two out of three, three coins are flipped, and if two coins come up the same and one different, the different one loses, leaving two players. To choose one out of three, either reverse this, or add a regular two-way coin flip between the players as a second step. Note that the flip is 75% likely to work each time it is tried. A legacy of this coin flip was to reduce the use of coin flips to break ties in Texas sports, Coin tossing is a simple and unbiased way of settling a dispute or deciding between two or more arbitrary options. In a game theoretic analysis it provides even odds to both involved, requiring little effort and preventing the dispute from escalating into a struggle. Factors such as direction, the position of the sun. In team sports it is often the captain who makes the call, a competitive method may be used instead of a toss in some situations, for example in basketball the jump ball is employed, while the face-off plays a similar role in ice hockey
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Thomas J. Lawson
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General Thomas James Lawson CMM, CD is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force general. Lawson was Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces from October 2012 to July 2015 and he previously served as Deputy Commander of the North American Aerospace Defence Command. Thomas James Lawson was born on 2 November 1957 in Etobicoke, in 1979, Lawson graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. In 1981, Lawson completed wings and fighter training and was posted to 421 Squadron at CFB Baden-Soellingen where he flew the CF-104 Starfighter. He returned to Royal Military College in 1985 to complete a Master of Science in Engineering, in 1988, Lawson was promoted to Major and was posted to Montgomery, Alabama to attend the United States Air Force Air Command and Staff College. While posted in Alabama, he completed a Master of Public Administration at Auburn University, in 1991, he was posted to CFB Cold Lake and completed CF-18 Hornet training and returned to CFB Baden-Soellingen to fly operationally with 421 and 439 Squadrons. After the base closed, Lawson returned to CFB Cold Lake, joining 410 Squadron as a CF-18 instructor, Lawson was posted in 1996 to National Defence Headquarters as a career manager and promoted to lieutenant-colonel. In 1998, he was appointed commanding officer of 412 Squadron, Lawson was placed in charge of career management for Air Command and he completed the United States Air Force Air War College. In 2003, Lawson was promoted to colonel and held staff positions with the Air Force before joining the CF Transformation Team in 2005. Lawson was promoted to major-general and appointed Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in September,2009, in this role, he said the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning IIs stealth could help defend Canadian sovereignty, as Russian bombers would be faced with an undetectable threshold. Lawson was again promoted in July,2011, to lieutenant-general and, on August 15,2011, was appointed deputy commander of NORAD and posted to Colorado Springs. On August 27,2012, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the appointment of Lawson as Chief of the Defence Staff, in April 2015, a report on sexual misconduct in the forces by retired Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps was publicly released. Its not the way it should be, opposition parties and individuals on social media called for Lawsons resignation. Lawson later defended his statement, saying it was an awkward characterization, on July 17,2015, Lawson was replaced as Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Armed Forces by Lieutenant-General Jonathan Vance. General Thomas J. Lawson Has received the following Orders and Decorations, NORAD – Biography – T. J. Lawson, CMM, CD CANADIAN ARMED FORCES
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Official (Canadian football)
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An official in Canadian football is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game. Canadian football officials generally use the equipment, Whistle Used to signal that the play has ended. Penalty Marker or Flag A bright orange coloured flag that is thrown on the field toward or at the spot of a foul and it is wrapped around a weight, such as sand, beans, or small ball, so it can be thrown with some distance and accuracy. Bean Bag Used to mark various spots that are not fouls, for example, it is used to mark the spot of a fumble or where a player caught a punt. Down Indicator A specially designed wristband that is used to remind officials of the current down and it has an elastic loop attached to it that is wrapped around the fingers. Usually, officials put the loop around their index finger when it is first down, the finger when it is second down. Some officials, especially Umpires, may use a second indicator to keep track of where the ball was placed between the hash marks before the play. This is important when they re-spot the ball after an incomplete pass, game Data Card and Pencil Officials write down important administrative information, such as the winner of the pregame coin toss, team timeouts, and fouls called. Game data cards can be paper or reusable plastic. A pencil with a special bullet-shaped cap is often carried, the cap prevents the official from being stabbed by the pencil while it is in his pocket. Stopwatch Officials will carry a stopwatch when necessary for timing duties, including keeping game time, keeping the clock, and timing timeouts. Clip Headlinesman will place a clip on the chain at the edge of the line closest to the stick in order to make measurements and to set up for 2nd. The referee is responsible for the supervision of the game and has the final authority on all rulings. Thus, this position is referred to as head referee and is considered to be the crew chief. He can be identified by his differently coloured cap. In the Canadian Football League, the referee wears a cap while the other officials wear white caps. In amateur football, including CIS football, the referee wears a cap with black piping while the other officials wear black caps with white piping. During each play from scrimmage, the referee positions himself behind the offensive team, on passing plays, he primarily focuses on the quarterback and defenders approaching him
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Halftime show
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A halftime show is a performance given during the brief period between the first and second halves, or the second and third quarters, of a sporting event. Halftime shows are not given for sports with an irregular or indeterminate number of divisions, the intermissions are usually given over to contests involving randomly selected audience members. The invention of the show is generally credited to Walter Lingo. Lingo was the owner of a dog kennel and sponsored an all-Native American football team, in addition to playing football, the Indians would provide various forms of entertainment, including exhibiting the dogs, players demonstrating their prowess. Dancing, and demonstrations of native culture, a modern halftime show can consist of cheerleading performances, majorette routines, marching bands playing music, or other spectacular performances. More common in times, especially in major games, is to reserve the entire halftime period for a short concert by a major recording artist. A halftime show is an element in an American football. During the interval between the second and third quarters some form of entertainment is presented on the field, the entertainment frequently consists of performances by marching bands. At high school and most college games, the bands of the two competing teams perform at halftime. Often, the cheerleaders and/or a dance team will perform, other activities may also take place, and these vary widely. During a professional game, a high school or college band may be brought in to perform. For the Super Bowl and Grey Cup games, a show involving world-renowned music stars, dancers, fireworks. Many football historians believe halftime shows originated with the Oorang Indians of the early National Football league, the team was a marketing ploy by Walter Lingo to sell and promote his airdales. He would lure audiences to his games with the promise of a halftime show. The team was called the Indians because they were made up entirely of Native Americans, the Indians players participated in helping the Oorang Airedales perform tricks for the crowd before and after the game. However, it was their halftime entertainment that made such a huge attraction in the early 1920s. There were shooting exhibitions with the dogs retrieving the targets, there were Native American dances and tomahawk and knife-throwing demonstrations. Indians player Nick Lassa, also called Long-Time-Sleep, even wrestled a bear on occasion, another show was a demonstration of the United States Indian scouts actions during World War I
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Imagine Dragons
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Imagine Dragons is an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. It consists of lead vocalist Dan Reynolds, lead guitarist Wayne Sermon, bassist Ben McKee, the band first gained exposure in 2012 with the releases of their debut studio album Night Visions and the albums first single Its Time. Billboard placed them at the top of their Year In Rock rankings for 2013, Rolling Stone named their single Radioactive, from their Night Visions, the biggest rock hit of the year, while MTV called them the years biggest breakout band. Night Visions peaked at two on the weekly Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. The bands second studio album Smoke + Mirrors was released in 2015 and reached number one in the US, Canada and the UK. Imagine Dragons has won two American Music Awards for Favorite Alternative Artist, a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance, five Billboard Music Awards, as of January 2017, Imagine Dragons have sold 9 million albums and 27 million singles worldwide. In 2008, lead singer Dan Reynolds met drummer Andrew Tolman at Brigham Young University where they were both students, Reynolds and Tolman added Andrew Beck, Dave Lemke, and Aurora Florence to play guitar, bass, and piano for their band. Their name is an anagram for a phrase known to members of the group. The five-piece released an extended play titled Speak to Me that same year, Beck and Florence would also depart from the bands line-up that year. In 2009, Tolman recruited longtime high school friend Wayne Sermon, Tolman later recruited his wife, Brittany Tolman, to sing backup and play keys. Lemke left the later on, leading Sermon to recruit another Berklee music student, Ben McKee, to join the band as their bassist. The band garnered a following in their hometown of Provo, Utah, before the members moved to Las Vegas, the hometown of Dan Reynolds. The band released EPs titled Imagine Dragons and Hell and Silence in 2010 and they returned to the studio in 2011. The third EP, Its Time, was made before they signed a record deal and they got their first big break when Trains frontman Pat Monahan fell sick just prior to the Bite of Las Vegas Festival 2009. Imagine Dragons were called to fill in and performed to a crowd of more than 26,000 people. Local accolades including Best CD of 2011, Best Local Indie Band 2010, Las Vegas Newest Must See Live Act, Vegas Music Summit Headliner 2010, in November 2011 they signed with Interscope Records and began working with English Grammy winning producer Alex da Kid. Theresa Flaminio departed from Imagine Dragons in early 2012, leaving them as a four-piece, the band worked closely with Alex da Kid, with whom they recorded their first major label release at Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California. An EP entitled Continued Silence was released on Valentines Day digitally, the band also released an EP titled Hear Me in 2012
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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day
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The Sports Network
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The Sports Network is a Canadian English language sports specialty service. Via a 20% 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 $400.4 million in revenue in 2013. TSNs networks focus on sports-related programming, including live and recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, TSN holds regional television rights to three of the NHLs seven Canadian franchises. TSN also receives an amount of programming through its minority partner. The TSN licence currently comprises five 24-hour programming services, from its launch until 2006, TSN operated as a single, national service. On August 25,2014, the primary TSN service was re-structured into four 24-hour feeds—TSN1, TSN3, TSN4, and TSN5—with each designated as the primary TSN network for each region of Canada. However, the task was complicated by claims by CBC that it owned the rights to the NHL. With the help of a Molson employee who was a friend of Gordon, in 1991, TSN acquired rights to the IIHF World U20 Championship, otherwise known as the World Juniors, which were previously broadcast by CBC. S. College football bowl games, regarded as a sporting event of the holiday season in Canada. Due to CRTC regulations on the ownership of broadcasters, Labatt was forced to sell TSN. The Sports Network launched its website TSN. ca on October 1,1995, alternate programming could make up a maximum of 10% of the TSN schedule—an average of 2.4 hours a day. In 2000, after ESPN blocked two attempts by the Canadian partners to sell NetStar to Canwest, CTV Inc. acquired the Canadian partners shares, CTV Inc. was acquired by Bell Canada and The Woodbridge Company as part of the joint venture Bell Globemedia in 2001. As a result of its purchase of TSN, CTV would be forced to sell its sports network CTV Sportsnet. Following the acquisition, TSN would move its operations to CTVs Agincourt complex, however, Sportsnet would not move from Agincourt until 2008, which led to the now-competing networks sharing the same building as their headquarters. This oddity would become a joke between personalities on both networks, who commonly referred to jumping between the two networks as crossing the parking lot. The CRTC, however, objected to plans to rename TSN as ESPN Canada, citing concerns that it would sound more like the channel was ESPNs Canadian affiliate, and that ESPN had de facto majority control. Beginning in 2006, the CRTC officially allowed TSN to operate national secondary digital feeds with limited amounts of alternative programming, following this development, TSN began to use such a feed to broadcast additional programming that could not be aired on TSN due to scheduling conflicts or other events. On August 29,2008, the feed evolved into a new 24-hour channel, similar to ESPN2, TSN was officially permitted to use these streamlined conditions of licence on February 1,2010
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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ESPN2
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ESPN2 is an American basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc. a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation. As of February 2015, ESPN2 is available to approximately 94,379,000 pay television households in the United States, ESPN2 launched on October 1,1993 at 7,30 p. m. Eastern Time. The youthful image was reflected in its overall presentation, which featured a graffiti-themed logo. ESPN2 also featured several news programs focused on specific sports, such as NFL 2Night, NHL 2Night. In 1995, ESPN2 introduced the BottomLine, a persistent news ticker which displayed sports news, the BottomLine would later be adopted by ESPN itself and all of its future properties. On-screen graphics used a color scheme instead of red to differentiate it from ESPN. On February 12,2007, the ESPN2 branding was stripped from most on-air presentation and replaced with ESPN, sports events presented on ESPN2 originally tended to be alternative sports such as poker, billiards, lumberjacking, extreme sports and, more recently, drum and bugle corps. In 2011, ESPN2 also acquired broadcast rights to delayed coverage for some American Le Mans Series events, the channel has also become ESPNs home for tennis coverage. The showpieces are all four of the Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. Also featured on ESPN2 are the ATP World Tour Finals and U. S. -based tournaments, including the ATP Masters 1000 events at Indian Wells and Miami, as well as the US Open Series. ESPN2 formerly broadcast matches of the UEFA Champions League, until rights for that tournament moved to Fox Soccer, in 2003, ESPN2 began broadcasting Major League Lacrosse games. In March 2007, ESPN2 and the agreed on a new broadcast contract that will run until the 2016 season. ESPN2s former flagship show, the morning sports/entertainment program Cold Pizza, achieved success and saw several format. In January 2006, it was supplanted by the television simulcast of ESPN Radios Mike and Mike in the Morning, in May 2007, Cold Pizza moved from New York City to the ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut and was renamed ESPN First Take. After ESPN became part of a new broadcast contract with the association, in return, ESPN2 programming is often seen on ESPN during blackouts of games in certain markets. ESPN2 also often carries SportsCenter at times when the broadcast on ESPN is delayed by an event that overruns into one of the programs scheduled timeslots. The documentary would usually air for two hours, where the first hour would cover the production of the nights show on ESPN. The second hour usually spent time at production control while covering reaction to the nights developments, both ESPN and ESPN2 carried ABC News coverage of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon on September 11,2001
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Chris Cuthbert
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Chris Cuthbert is currently a Canadian play-by-play sportscaster for Bell Medias TSN cable network, and for the American television network NBC on NHL on NBC. Formerly, he worked for CBC Sports in a multitude of roles and he was lead play-by-play voice for Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for CTV, where he worked alongside Pierre McGuire. Cuthbert joined CBC Sports in 1984, where he anchored regional western games for Hockey Night in Canada and he also got spot play-by-play work when the networks primary western broadcaster, Don Wittman, was busy covering other events for the network, or when the schedule load necessitated it. He got his big break during the 1988 Stanley Cup Playoffs, a power outage struck the Montreal area, which ended the telecast from that city, and CBC was forced to turn to Cuthbert in Washington to provide the full broadcast - play-by-play, analyst, and host. The broadcast was totally done off the cuff as besides no regular analysts and his stellar solo effort caught the networks attention, was nominated for a Gemini Award, and launched what has been a very successful broadcasting career. Cuthbert rose to a sportscaster for CBC, where he called Olympic sports, figure skating, Canadian football and his most notable work was Hockey Night in Canada games primarily involving the Montreal Canadiens or NHL teams from Western Canada. In the era of the CBCs Hockey Night in Canada double-headers and he was assigned to a conference final every year in the play-by-play role from 1993 until 2004. Cuthberts contract was terminated by the CBC on February 24,2005, some criticized Lee, who had created the position Manager of Program Acquisitions for CBC Sports to hire her friend Sue Prestedge a year earlier, despite the looming threat of the NHL lockout. It was also believed that Cuthberts strong opposition, when CBC chose to drop its popular Hockey Day in Canada broadcast and this decision was widely criticized, as rival network TSN staged a Hockey Day of its own. After joining TSN in the spring of 2005, Cuthbert became TSNs lead CFL football voice, coincidentally, Cuthbert got his job at CBC in 1984 when Wells left the network to join the fledgling TSN. Since TSN gained the television rights to the CFL starting in 2008, Cuthbert has returned to his role as the primary voice of the CFL on TSN. Also since joining TSN in 2005, Cuthbert has served as one of the networks hockey play-by-play voices, in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons, he also worked for NBC, and usually worked alongside analyst Peter McNab and inside the glass reporter Darren Pang for regional NHL broadcasts. Along with Glenn Healy, he called the Buffalo Sabres/New York Rangers game at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, according to the Globe & Mail, it was a good show and its unlikely to be the last. Cuthbert was also one of the announcers for men’s ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Just before Canadas Sidney Crosby scored the gold medal winning goal seven minutes and forty seconds into overtime, Cuthbert said Pavelski shot, niedermayer regroups, Crosby over the line, Sidney Crosby cant bust in, up with it again hes on the ice with Iginla. And Canada has once-in-a-lifetime Olympic gold, and then later added These golden games have their crowning moment. In 1998, Cuthbert won a Gemini Award for Best Sports Broadcaster, in 2006, Cuthbert was given another Gemini, this time with his TSN CFL analyst, Glen Suitor, for Best Sports Play-by-Play or Analyst. In 2014, Cuthbert was inducted into the wing of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame
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Matt Dunigan
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Matt Dunigan is a former quarterback, coach, and executive in the Canadian Football League who is a CFL sportscaster for Canadian sports television channel TSN. In 2006, Dunigan joined the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, in 2008, he was named the host of Road Grill, a Canadian barbecue cooking series on Food Network Canada. Although born in Ohio, Dunigan was raised in Dallas, Texas, attended Lake Highlands High School, Dunigan was inducted into the Louisiana Tech University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011. Dunigan broke into the CFL in 1983 with the Edmonton Eskimos, in his rookie season, he backed up Warren Moon. Prior to the 1984 CFL Season, Moon left for the NFLs Houston Oilers and he led the Eskimos to back-to-back Grey Cup appearances in 1986 and 87, winning in 1987. He had to watch most of the game from the due to injury. His backup during this time was another CFL legend in the making, after the 75th Grey Cup victory, Dunigan tried pursuing a Major League Baseball career. He worked with a scout from the California Angels, then showed up in Florida during spring training and he was hoping to catch on with the Montreal Expos. He was signed to a Class A contract, but then released on the last day, while Edmonton held on to his rights, they traded him to the British Columbia Lions in a remarkable seven for one trade. He led the Lions to victory in their last eight games and his second year in Vancouver produced his first losing season, as the team fell to 7-11. He did throw for a career high 27 touchdowns, but new management came in, and Matt was the first one to go in another seven for one trade. When he arrived in Toronto, they made the playoffs in 1990, but 1991 proved to be a memorable year for the CFL and Argonauts. Canadian actor/comedian John Candy, along with hockey great Wayne Gretzky, Toronto then made noise by signing Notre Dame receiver Raghib Rocket Ismail. The Rocket, along with Dunigan and running back Michael Pinball Clemons led Toronto to 13-5 record, after a first round bye, the Argos won against Winnipeg in front of a packed out SkyDome, and advanced to the Grey Cup. But in that game, Dunigan broke his collarbone. He was able to throw the length of a ballroom after doctors deadened his shoulder. In minus 19 degree weather, he threw two touchdowns and won his second Grey Cup and he left for Winnipeg the following season, where he spent the next three years. The Bombers went to the Grey Cup in 1992, only to lose to the Calgary Stampeders and they returned to the Grey Cup in 1993, and lost to the Edmonton Eskimos
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101st Grey Cup
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The game took place on November 24,2013, at Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan. It was the third Grey Cup game to be hosted in Regina following the 83rd, the Roughriders won their fourth championship with a score of 45 to 23 against the Tiger-Cats. The game took place on turf, and Mosaic Stadium added temporary seating to bring the total seating capacity to just under 45,000. Kick-off occurred at 5,30 p. m. CST and this was also the fourth time that the Roughriders and Tiger-Cats met in the Grey Cup final, having previously met in the 55th, 60th, and 77th editions of the game. The Roughriders became the second western-based CFL team to win the Grey Cup at their home stadium, Roughriders running back Kory Sheets was named the Most Valuable Player after setting a Grey Cup record by rushing for 197 yards and scoring two touchdowns. Slotback Chris Getzlaf, also of the Roughriders, was awarded the Dick Suderman Trophy as the Most Valuable Canadian, on September 29,2011, news agencies reported that the game would be awarded to Regina, Saskatchewan. On October 13,2011, it was announced by the Canadian Football League that the city of Regina would host the game. It was the time that Regina hosted the event, following the 1995 and 2003 games. It was announced on February 24,2012 that Mosaic Stadium would be undergoing a series of renovations, the Saskatchewan Roughriders spent $14 million to increase seating capacity to approximately 45,000 by adding temporary seats in the end zones. Corporate boxes, concessions and washroom facilities were added to accommodate the increased number of fans at the stadium. A new 60-foot wide digital LED screen and scoreboard was installed in the northeast end zone while another new 55-foot wide digital LED screen, the Grey Cup Committee announced the details of the 101st Grey Cup on November 29,2012. Numerous festivities within Regina and throughout Saskatchewan were held as part of the Grey Cup celebrations, the festivities were officially named the Celebration in Rider Nation by the host Roughriders. The festival also featured concerts by several popular Canadian bands, including the Barenaked Ladies and Hedley, elsewhere in the province, organizers held a Riderville North celebration in Saskatoon. Aside from a party of the game, the event also featured interactive games, tributes to the Riders and musical performances. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats played the season at Alumni Stadium in Guelph, Ontario due to the demolition of their stadium, Ivor Wynne Stadium. They finished the season with a record of 10–8 and finished second in the East Division, in the playoffs, they defeated Montreal 19–16 in the East semi-final, then travelled to Toronto where they won the East final, 36–24. The Saskatchewan Roughriders had an 11–7 record, which placed second in the West Division. In the playoffs, they defeated BC 29–25 in the West semi-final, then travelled to Calgary where they won the West final, Hamilton and Saskatchewan met twice during the regular season with the Roughriders winning both games
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103rd Grey Cup
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The game was played at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Shaw Communications was the sponsor of the game, it was the first time in CFL history that the Grey Cup has been sponsored. The Eskimos won the contest 26–20 to claim their 14th Grey Cup championship in franchise history, Mike Reilly was named Most Valuable Player and Shamawd Chambers received the Dick Suderman Trophy as Most Valuable Canadian. On 24 March 2014, news reported that the game would be awarded to Winnipeg. Two days later on 26 March 2014, it was announced at a conference that Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was the fourth time Winnipeg played host to a Grey Cup, although the game was sold out, the attendance figure of 36,634 was the second lowest for a Grey Cup game since 1975. The Redblacks joined the CFL as a team in 2014. Led by 40-year-old Henry Burris, who became the oldest quarterback in CFL history to lead the league in passing yards, the Redblacks won the East Division title in 2015 with a 12–6 record. On defence, Hamilton then had Ottawa pinned deep in their own territory on second down and 25 yards, the Edmonton Eskimos finished their season with a record of 14-4. The Calgary Stampeders, the defending Grey Cup champions, finished with the record as the Eskimos after the regular season. However, Edmonton clinched first place in the division by virtue of defeating Calgary in two of three regular season contests, the two teams met again in the Western Final after Calgary defeated the BC Lions 35–9 in the Western Semi-Final. The Eskimos earned the right to represent the West in the Grey Cup game by virtue of a 45–31 victory against the Stampeders at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton. The 2015 Western Final game was the first time in CFL history where both came in with a 14-4 record in the regular season. Quarterback Mike Reilly was the offensive catalyst for the Eskimos as he passed for three touchdowns and ran for two more in the win, country performer Dean Brody performed as part of pre-game festivities, while Quebecois singer Bobby Bazini performed the national anthem. American rock band Fall Out Boy performed during halftime, Edmonton answered with a field goal followed by a Mike Reilly touchdown pass to Adarius Bowman late in the first quarter. A two-yard touchdown pass by Reilly to Akeem Shavers gave the Eskimos a 17–16 lead at half time, the second half became what the Edmonton Journal called a brutal defensive struggle. They added a point in the quarter when kicker Chris Milo, attempting to pin Edmontons offence deep in their own zone. Jordan Lynch then scored on a touchdown run that gave Edmonton a 26–20 lead with 3,22 left to play
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Canadian football
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In Canada, the term football may refer to Canadian football and American football collectively, or to either sport specifically, depending on context. The two sports have shared origins and are related but have significant differences. Rugby football in Canada originated in the early 1860s, and over time, active teams such as the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats have similar longevity. The CFL is the most popular and only major professional Canadian football league and its championship game, the Grey Cup, is one of Canadas largest sporting events, attracting a broad television audience, though it has been shrinking in recent years. In 2009, about 40% of Canadas population watched part of the game, in 2014, it was closer to 33%, great achievements in Canadian football are enshrined in the Canadian Football Hall of Fame located in Hamilton, Ontario. Other organizations across Canada perform senior league Canadian football during the summer, the first documented football match was a practice game played on November 9,1861, at University College, University of Toronto. One of the participants in the game involving University of Toronto students was Sir William Mulock, a football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear. The first written account of a game played was on October 15,1862 and it was between the First Battalion Grenadier Guards and the Second Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards resulting in a win by the Grenadier Guards 3 goals,2 rouges to nothing. In 1864, at Trinity College, Toronto, F. Barlow Cumberland, Frederick A. Bethune, the game gradually gained a following, with the Hamilton Football Club formed on November 3,1869. Montreal formed a team April 8,1872, Toronto was formed on October 4,1873, and this rugby-football soon became popular at Montreals McGill University. McGill challenged Harvard University to a game, in 1874 using a game of English rugby devised by the University of McGill. Later both the Ontario and Quebec Rugby Football Union were formed, and then the Interprovincial and Western Interprovincial Football Union, the CRFU reorganized into an umbrella organization forming the Canadian Rugby Union in 1891. The original forerunners to the current Canadian Football League, was established in 1956 when the IRFU and WIFU formed an umbrella organization, and then in 1958 the CFC left The CRFU to become the CFL. The Burnside rules closely resembling American football that were incorporated in 1903 by The ORFU, was an effort to distinguish it from a more rugby-oriented game, the rules were an attempt to standardize the rules throughout the country. The CIRFU, QRFU and CRU refused to adopt the new rules at first, the primary differences between the Canadian and American games stem from rule changes that the American side of the border adopted but the Canadian side did not. The Canadian field width was one rule that was not based on American rules, as the Canadian game was played in wider fields, initially an amateur competition, it eventually became dominated by professional teams in the 1940s and early 1950s. The Ontario Rugby Football Union, the last amateur organization to compete for the trophy, the move ushered in the modern era of Canadian professional football. Canadian football has mostly been confined to Canada, with the United States being the other country to have hosted high-level Canadian football games
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Calgary Stampeders
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The Calgary Stampeders are a professional Canadian football team based in Calgary, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League. The Stampeders play their games at McMahon Stadium and are the third-oldest active franchise in the CFL. The Stampeders were officially founded in 1945, although there were clubs in Calgary as early as 1909, the Stampeders have won seven Grey Cups, most recently in 2014, from their appearances in 15 Grey Cup Championship games. They have won 19 Western Division Championships and one Northern Division Championship in the franchises history, the team has a provincial rivalry with the Edmonton Eskimos, as well as fierce divisional rivalries with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the BC Lions. Helmet design, red background with a white, running horse and this design has been in place, with slight variations, since the 1967 season. These teams were a dominant force in football in Alberta winning championships 15 times over the next 30 years, world War II brought a halt to football in Calgary for a few years. 1940 was the year for the Bronks. The WIFU returned to Calgary on September 29,1945 with the formation of the Calgary Stampeders, in their very first game played on October 22 at Mewata Stadium they beat the Regina Roughriders 12–0 before 4,000 fans in attendance. They returned to the Grey Cup the following year, with a 13–1 record and it was 19 years until Calgary once again reached the Grey Cup, losing 24–21 to Ottawa in the 1968 final and not until 1971 when they were crowned champions, defeating the Toronto Argonauts 14–11. The year 1960 brought the Stampeders a new home, McMahon Stadium and their first game in their new stadium was on August 15,1960, a 23-38 loss to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. From 1968 to 1971 the Stampeders made it to the Grey Cup 3 out of the 4 years, after having some great years at the end of the 1960s,1972 started a long period of struggles for the Stampeders. In the 14 seasons from 1972 to 1985 the Stampeders only made the playoffs 4 times, the Stampeders nearly folded after the 1985 season due to years of declining attendance, financial woes and a poor 3–13 record. Wally Buono took over the coaching duties in 1990. The next 13 years would be some of the most successful years in Stampeders history and they reached the Grey Cup six times, winning in 1992,1998, and 2001, losing in 1991,1995, and 1999. Nevertheless, they did not win a game for several years. In 2008, the Stampeders ended their playoff drought en route to winning the teams sixth Grey Cup 22–14 against the Montreal Alouettes, Burris was named the Grey Cup Most Valuable Player with DeAngelis being the top Canadian for their efforts. John Hufnagel has been interviewed by several NFL and College football teams, Hufnagel was also the teams head coach until the end of the 2015 season, when he turned over the head coaching duties to former Stampeder and BC Lions star Dave Dickenson. Between 2009 and 2014, the Stampeders have reached the Western Final every year except 2011 and they were able to reach the Grey Cup game the following year only to come up short against the Argonauts, falling by a score of 35–22
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Canadian Football League East Division
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The Canadian Football League East Division is one of the two regional divisions of the Canadian Football League, their counterpart being the West Division. Although the CFL was not founded until 1958, the East Division, the first organized football club in Canada was the Hamilton Foot Ball Club, a predecessor of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, in 1868. This was followed by the formation of the Montreal Foot Ball Club in 1872, the Toronto Argonaut Football Club in 1873, the first organized competitions were formed in 1883, when the Ontario Rugby Football Union and the Quebec Rugby Football Union were founded. At the time the sport was generally called rugby union or rugby football because its rules were similar to rugby unions, the following year, the two provincial unions would form the Canadian Rugby Football Union, with Montreal winning the first national championship later that year. The CRFU collapsed before the decade was out, but was re-organized as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1891, the turn of the 20th century was marked by fundamental changes in the rules of the game. The ORFU was the first competition to adopt the Burnside Rules, the QRFU and CRU initially resisted the changes, but by 1906 the Burnside Rules were in force throughout Ontario and Quebec. Although substantial changes were still to come, modern Canadian football would ultimately evolve from John Thrift Meldrum Burnsides code, the new competition was soon dubbed the Big Four. Montreal won the first championship that year, in 1909 Lord Earl Grey, the Governor General of Canada, donated a trophy to be awarded to the CRU champion. The trophy, which known as the Grey Cup, would not be won by an IRFU club until the Hamilton Tigers captured the trophy in 1913. Following the 1915 season, the competition was suspended because of the First World War, from 1925 until 1953, IRFU teams would dominate Canadian football, winning 18 of the 26 Grey Cups its clubs contested in that timespan. During this period, the calibre of play in the IRFU was recognized as being on par with any league in North America, the Big Four attracted considerable interest in the United States and even had its games televised by the National Broadcasting Company for a time during the 1950s. This interest would decline as the National Football League gained prominence. By the mid-1950s, it was clear that the IRFU was a far higher calibre competition than the ORFU, moreover, the Western Interprovincial Football Union had been gaining strength over the last two decades, and its level of play was almost on par with that of the IRFU. The WIFUs champion had faced the Big Fours champion in the Grey Cup final every season since 1945, and it would prove capable of winning the Grey Cup on a regular basis during this decade. Following the 1954 season, the ORFU finally stopped challenging for the Grey Cup, although it would be another four years before the amateurs were formally locked out of Grey Cup play, this marks the start of the modern era of Canadian football. In 1956, the IRFU and WIFU agreed to form the Canadian Football Council, in 1958, the CFC withdrew from the CRU and renamed itself the Canadian Football League. The new league assumed control of the Grey Cup, though it had been the de facto professional championship for four years before then, the IRFU changed its name to the Eastern Football Conference in 1960. In 1961, the EFC agreed to an interlocking schedule with what was known by then as the Western Football Conference
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats
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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are a professional Canadian football team based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, founded in 1950 with the merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. They are currently members of the East Division of the Canadian Football League, the Tiger-Cats play their home games at Tim Hortons Field. Since the 1950 merger, the team has won the Grey Cup championship eight times, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club also recognizes all Grey Cups won by Hamilton-based teams as part of their history, which would bring their win total to 15. However, the CFL does not recognize these wins under one franchise, neither of these teams won a championship in the first decade of the 21st century. In their first forty years of existence, the Tiger-Cats were a franchise, qualifying for the playoffs in all. They are one of six teams in the modern era to win the Grey Cup at home and were the first to accomplish this when they did it in 1972. However, since 1990, they have missed the playoffs on eleven occasions and have won just one Grey Cup in 1999 and their lowest moment came when they lost a Canadian Football League record 17 games in one season with just one win during their 2003 season. The franchise has started to return to prominence after qualifying for the post-season in four of the past five seasons, including a loss in the 101st Grey Cup, founded,1950, a merger of the Hamilton Tigers and the Hamilton Wildcats. Formerly known as, The Hamilton Tigers and Hamilton Wildcats, the owner/caretaker of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club is businessman Bob Young, who purchased the club on October 7,2003. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and graduated from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and his fortune was earned in the software industry and he is currently the owner and CEO of Lulu, a self-publishing website. As of 2011, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Executive Committee consists of three people, Bob Young, Caretaker, Scott Mitchell, President, and Doug Rye, although the current Hamilton Tiger-Cats were only founded in 1950, football in Hamilton goes back much further than that. The history of Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club can be traced back to November 3,1869 in a room above George Lee’s Fruit Store, the Hamilton football club played their first game on December 18,1869 against the 13th Battalion. In 1872, the Hamilton Football club began play at the Hamilton AAA Grounds, the Hamilton Tigers began play in the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1883 and won their first Canadian Dominion Football Championship in 1906 when the Tigers beat McGill University 29–3. The Tigers continued in the ORFU until 1907, when the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union was formed, the IRFU later became known as the Big Four and eventually, the IRFU became the East division of the modern CFL in the 1950s. In the following season, the Tigers won their first of five Grey Cups when they beat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club by the margin of 44–2. The Alerts were refused entry into the ORFU in 1913 with many of its players opting to join the Tigers, the Alerts gave way to a team under the name Hamilton Rowing Club from 1913–1915, who also played in the ORFU. 1914 saw the amalgamation of the Hamilton Alerts and the Hamilton Tigers. In 1915, in the final season, the Hamilton Tigers won their second Grey Cup
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Canadian Football League
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The Canadian Football League is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football and its nine teams, which are located in nine separate cities, are divided into two divisions, the East Division, with four teams, and the West Division with five teams. As of 2016, the features a 20-week regular season. The CFL was officially founded on January 19,1958, the league was formed from a merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union founded in 1907 and the Western Interprovincial Football Union founded in 1936. Rugby football began to be played in Canada in the 1860s, the CRFU was reorganized as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1891, and served as an umbrella organization for several provincial and regional unions. The Grey Cup was donated by Governor General Earl Grey in 1909 to the winning the Senior Amateur Football Championship of Canada. By that time, the sport as played in Canada had diverged markedly from its rugby origins, in 1956, the IRFU and WIFU formed a new umbrella organization, the Canadian Football Council. In 1958, the CFC left the CRU and became the Canadian Football League, as part of an agreement between the CRU and CFL, the CFL took possession of the Grey Cup, even though amateurs had not competed for it since 1954. The CRU remained the governing body for amateur play in Canada, initially, the two unions remained autonomous, and there was no intersectional play between eastern and western teams except at the Grey Cup final. This situation was analogous to how the American baseball leagues operated for years. The IRFU was renamed the Eastern Football Conference in 1960, while the WIFU was renamed the Western Football Conference in 1961, also in 1961, limited intersectional play was introduced. It was not until 1981 that the two agreed to a full merger, becoming the East and West Divisions of the CFL. With the merger came a full interlocking schedule of 16 games per season, Other team names had traditional origins. With rowing a national craze in the late 19th century, the Argonaut Rowing Club of Toronto formed a team for its members off-season participation. The football team name Toronto Argonauts still remains though it. After World War II, the two teams in Hamilton—the Tigers and the Flying Wildcats—merged both their organizations into the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, after the 1981 season, the Alouettes folded and were replaced the next year by a new franchise named the Concordes. In 1986 the Concordes were renamed the Alouettes to attract more fan support, the demise of the Alouettes forced the League to move its easternmost Western team, Winnipeg, into the East Division. In 1993, the league admitted its first United States-based franchise, after modest success, the league then expanded further in the U. S. in 1994 with the Las Vegas Posse, Baltimore Stallions, and Shreveport Pirates
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2014 CFL season
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The 2014 Canadian Football League season was the 61st season of modern Canadian professional football. It was the 57th season of the league, Vancouver hosted the 102nd Grey Cup on November 30. The league expanded to nine teams with the addition of the Ottawa Redblacks, as a result of the expansion, the schedule shifted to a 20-week regular season plus three weeks of playoffs, the season started on June 26,2014. The collective bargaining agreement between the CFL and the CFL Players Association expired on May 29,2014, with a new and more lucrative television contract with TSN beginning this season, revenue distribution was a major sticking point in CBA negotiations. Unlike other professional leagues in North America, the CFL salary cap is not tied to league revenues. The league had offered to raise the previous $4.4 million salary cap to $5 million, the CFLPA had indicated that it would not play the 2014 season under the terms of the expired agreement. After negotiations broke down on May 21, the CFLPA began preparations for a strike vote, had the players gone on strike, it would have been only the second work stoppage in CFL history and possibly the first to have caused the cancellation of regular season games. The first CFL strike, in 1974, occurred during training camp and was settled before the season began. On June 7, the CFL and CFLPA announced that they had reached a tentative labour agreement, the agreement was ratified by the players on June 12. The new collective bargaining agreement will be in place until May 15,2019 or the first day training camp in 2019, whichever comes later. However, if the nine member clubs total aggregate revenues increase by more than $27 million in any year starting in 2016, both sides will renegotiate the salary cap. The salary cap for the 2014 season is set at $5 million per team, both figures will increase by $50,000 each year until 2018. The minimum salary per player increased by $5000 to $50,000, the game-day roster increased from 42 players to 44 players, with 46 players still being named to the active roster, meaning the reserve roster decreased from four to two players. The practice roster for teams also increased from seven to ten players in the Summer, the nine-game injury list was replaced with a six-game injury list, while retaining the option of removing two players early from the list. Clubs are also permitted to keep players on the list past the six games, the league has also removed the option-year clause on contracts for veteran players, making it possible for players to sign one-year contracts. Rookie players must still have option years on their contracts, the team was able to sign players starting on the day after the 101st Grey Cup on November 25,2013 and an expansion draft for the club was held on December 16,2013. The 2013 CFL Expansion Draft allowed the RedBlacks to select one import, additionally, after selecting four players in the 2013 CFL Draft, the RedBlacks fully participated in the 2014 CFL Draft, with the first picks in each of the drafts seven rounds. Their first regular game was in Winnipeg on July 3
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Grey Cup
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The Grey Cup is the name of both the championship game of the Canadian Football League and the trophy awarded to the victorious team playing Canadian football. It is contested between the winners of the CFLs East and West Divisional playoffs and is one of Canadian televisions largest annual sporting events, the Toronto Argonauts have 16 championships, more than any other team. The latest, the 104th Grey Cup, took place in Toronto, Ontario, on November 27,2016, the trophy was commissioned in 1909 by the Earl Grey, then Canadas governor general, who originally hoped to donate it for the countrys senior amateur hockey championship. After the Allan Cup was later donated for that purpose, Grey instead made his trophy available as the Canadian Dominion Football Championship of Canadian football. The trophy has a silver chalice attached to a base on which the names of all winning teams, players. The Grey Cup has been broken on several occasions, stolen twice and it survived a 1947 fire that destroyed numerous artifacts housed in the same building. The Grey Cup was first won by the University of Toronto Varsity Blues, play was suspended from 1916 to 1918 due to the First World War and in 1919 due to a rules dispute. The game has typically been contested in an east versus west format since the 1920s, the Edmonton Eskimos formed the Grey Cups longest dynasty, winning five consecutive championships from 1978 to 1982. While the Stanley Cup was created in 1893 as the Canadian amateur hockey championship, Grey instead offered an award to the Dominion amateur rugby football championship beginning in 1909. He initially failed to follow through on his offer, the trophy was not ordered until two weeks prior to the first championship game. The first Grey Cup game was held on December 4,1909, the trophy was not ready for presentation following the game, and the Varsity Blues did not receive it until March 1910. They retained the trophy in the two years, defeating the Hamilton Tigers in 1910 and the Toronto Argonauts in 1911. The University of Toronto failed to reach the 1912 Grey Cup, the Varsity Blues refused to hand over the trophy on the belief they could keep it until they were defeated in a title game. They kept the trophy until 1914 when they were defeated by the Argonauts, Canadas participation in the First World War resulted in the cancellation of the championship from 1916 to 1918, during which time the Cup was forgotten. Montreal Gazette writer Bob Dunn claimed that the trophy was later rediscovered as one of the heirlooms of an employee of the Toronto trust company where it had been sent for storage. Competition finally resumed in 1920 with the 8th Grey Cup game and it was the University of Torontos fourth, and final, championship. Competition for the Grey Cup was limited to member unions of the CRU, the Western Canada Rugby Football Union joined in 1921, allowing the Edmonton Eskimos to challenge. Facing the Argonauts in the 9th Grey Cup, the Eskimos became the first western team –, the Argonauts entered the game with an undefeated record, having outscored their opposition 226 to 55 during the season
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TD Place Stadium
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TD Place Stadium is a 24, 000-seat stadium in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is located at Lansdowne Park, on the edge of The Glebe neighbourhood. It is the home of the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League and it was known as Frank Clair Stadium until it was renamed on January 7,2014. It has existed in form since the 1870s, and as a complete stadium since 1908. The playing field, part of the Ottawa Exposition Grounds, was first cleared in the 1870s and it was used for equestrian events, lacrosse and rugby football. The first permanent grandstand was built on the side of the playing field in 1908. It was demolished in 1967 to build a new set of stands with an ice hockey arena underneath. A small grandstand was built in the 1920s on the south-side of the field, a second deck for the south-side was added during the 1970s. As of 2008, prior to lower south-side demolition, the stadium had a 30,927 capacity for football. In the late 1990s, the stadium was threatened with demolition when then-mayor Jim Watson led a drive by the government to allow a private developer to reconfigure Lansdowne Park. The proposals submitted all called for residences to be built on the site of the football stadium. Massive public opposition and the realization that the end of the stadium would mean the end of hopes to return CFL football to the capital led the government to step in. For many years, the stadium was known as Lansdowne Park and it was renamed in 1993 to honour Frank Clair, coach and general manager for the Ottawa Rough Riders during the 1960s and 1970s. In September 2007, the south side stands were closed because of cracks in the concrete structure. After the closure of the stands, then-Ottawa mayor Larry OBrien was quoted at the time that this was an opportunity to do a review of the usage, subsequently a process was started called Design Lansdowne to get public consultations on the Park and the stadium. After an engineering study of the north-side and south-side grandstands, the stands were condemned. The lower section of the stands was demolished by controlled implosion on July 20,2008 at 8,03 am, during the summer of 2008, a consortium of investors was formed to pursue a new CFL team in Ottawa. They bid successfully and received a franchise from the CFL
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Ottawa Redblacks
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The Ottawa Redblacks are a professional Canadian football team based in Ottawa, Ontario. The team plays in the East Division of the Canadian Football League, starting play in 2014, the Redblacks are the third CFL team to play in the city. The Ottawa Rough Riders, formed in 1876, were a member of the CFL in 1958. A new Ottawa franchise was formed as the Renegades in 2002, the Redblacks won the 2016 Grey Cup Championship, which ended a 40 year Grey Cup championship drought for the City of Ottawa. Inaugural Season,2014 Helmet design, Black background with a saw blade featuring an italicized Rough Riders-style R in the forefront, uniform colours, Red, black and white. The Ottawa Renegades abruptly ceased operations prior to the 2006 CFL season, the league liquidated the Renegades roster in a dispersal draft and placed the Ottawa CFL franchise up for sale, with the intent of eventually returning to the city. On March 25,2008, Jeff Hunt, the owner of the Ontario Hockey Leagues Ottawa 67s spearheaded a group that was awarded a franchise. The team planned to play in 2010, but cracks in the concrete structure in the south stands of Frank Clair Stadium led to the demolition of those stands. The league then set a new date of 2013 for the teams debut, the team and league then announced plans to play at a remodelled Frank Clair Stadium—now called TD Place Stadium—by 2014 if construction remained on schedule. In any event, after lawsuits and delays, the renovations were not completed until 2014. Hosting the Grey Cup is an included in the agreement of franchise ownership. A C$7-million franchise fee was reported to have paid to the CFL. Questions arose about the design in terms of whether or not it could be used by a CFL team in place of the aging Frank Clair Stadium. However, the CFL and MLS groups could not come to any agreement on coordinating their plans, furthermore, municipal officials questioned whether the city could support both CFL and MLS franchises. In April 2009, the staff of the City of Ottawa presented a report to city council on the merits of the soccer stadium, the city held public hearings based on the report, which questioned the necessity of the spending but gave a slight edge to the Lansdowne proposal. Councillors attempted to find out whether the SSE group would support sharing their stadium with a planned CFL franchise, consequently, on April 22,2009, city council chose the Lansdowne proposal over the SSE proposal as its choice for an outdoor stadium. Negotiations were conducted over the several months, leading to an August 26 presentation to council so that it could decide the fate of football in Ottawa in the foreseeable future. On November 12 and 13, council held a debate to discuss what should be done with the area at Lansdowne Park
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99th Grey Cup
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The Lions defeated the Blue Bombers 34–23 and became the first team in CFL history to win the Grey Cup after starting the season with five straight losses. They also became the first team to win the game at home since the 1994 Lions did it in the 82nd Grey Cup. This, a rematch of the 76th Grey Cup, was the time that these two teams met for the championship. The game took place on November 27,2011, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. This was the eighth Grey Cup game played at BC Place, and the 15th in Vancouver, BC head coach Wally Buono won his fifth Grey Cup, tying a CFL record. In his first Grey Cup, Lions quarterback Travis Lulay threw two touchdown passes and was named Grey Cup MVP. Lions tailback Andrew Harris, also playing in his first championship game, was the Most Valuable Canadian, on February 27,2009, news agencies reported—and the league confirmed—that the game had been awarded to Vancouver. The game was played at the home of the BC Lions, BC Place had recently completed a roof replacement, and this was the first Grey Cup played under its new retractable roof. The game was announced as a sellout on July 21,2011 and this surpassed the previous Vancouver record, set when the 93rd Grey Cup game was sold out on October 7,2005. The sellout attendance for the 99th Grey Cup was 54,313, in Canada, the game was televised in high-definition by both TSN and RDS. TSN play-by-play was provided by Chris Cuthbert, while Glen Suitor provided colour commentary, play-by-play man Denis Casavant and colour commentator Pierre Vercheval announced the game for RDS. The RDS broadcast team also included Marc Labrecque, Mike Sutherland, the game was watched on television by an average audience of 4.6 million people. Although this was down from the 6.04 million viewers that the 98th Grey Cup drew, in the Vancouver market, over half the population watched the game, and more than 11 million Canadians overall watched some or all of the broadcast on TSN and RDS. Before the game, Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden sang the national anthem, the Pepsi Max Halftime Show was performed by Vancouver-based rock band Nickelback. They played songs off their albums All The Right Reasons, Dark Horse, on the Friday preceding the championship game, the CFL Alumni Association organized a fan meet-and-greet hosted by stand-up comedian Ron James to benefit the research against concussions in football. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers entered the 2011 season with almost a completely unchanged roster than the team that went 4–14, the Blue Bombers were considered to be a non-contender by many sports writers at the start of the season. However, the Bombers shocked many by getting off to a fast start, the Bombers earned a bye into the Division Final by virtue of winning the tie-breaker for first place over the Montreal Alouettes. On November 20,2011, the Blue Bombers faced the 8–10 Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Division Final at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Edmonton Eskimos
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The Edmonton Eskimos are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta, competing in the West Division of the Canadian Football League. The Eskimos play their games at The Brick Field at Commonwealth Stadium and are the third-youngest franchise in the CFL. The Eskimos were founded in 1949, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895 and this includes a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in 2015. The Eskimos hold a North American professional sports record by qualifying for the playoffs for 34 consecutive years between 1972 and 2005, Edmonton has had the most regular season division championships in the modern era with 21, with their most recent coming in 2015. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders and are one of the three community owned teams currently operating in the CFL. Founded,1949, although other teams named the Edmonton Eskimos existed 1895 to 1923 and 1929 to 1939 Formerly known as, The Esquimaux 1897 to 1910 and this was once the most common type of ownership in the CFL. In 2006 the Ottawa Sun reported that shares cost $10 each and this contrasts with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, one of the other community owned teams in the CFL, who have offered shares to the public. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are the community owned team. Edmonton Eskimos, Inc. is governed by a board of directors. The board consists of a chairman, treasurer, secretary six directors, the clubs president and CEO is Len Rhodes, he is not currently a member of the board. The story of teams name back to stories in the press from at least 1903 and possibly as far back as 1892. It is a legacy of the rivalry between the cities of Edmonton and Calgary, the so-called Battle of Alberta. In the early years of competition between the cities, the press in each town used colourful nicknames to insult the rival teams home. Edmontonian writers called Calgary the cow camp, horse country, or the village beside the Bow. Likewise Calgarys responded with insults about Edmontons northern latitude and frigid weather, the name remained an unofficial nickname, however until the arrival in Edmonton of American baseball coach and sports promoter William Deacon White in 1907. White founded the Edmonton Eskimos baseball team in 1909, the football Eskimos in 1910, of the three, only the football teams name has survived. Edmonton played its first series of organized games with the formation of the Alberta Rugby Football Union in 1895, in 1897 the name Esquimaux was adopted. In 1910 the club was named the Edmonton Eskimos
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Jon Cornish
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Jon Cornish is a former Canadian football running back who played nine seasons with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. Cornish was drafted 13th overall in the 2006 CFL Draft and he played college football at the University of Kansas. Jon Cornish announced his retirement from the CFL on December 2,2015, while at Kansas, Cornish set the KU single season rushing record with 1,457 yards and was selected First Team All Big XII in his senior year. During his collegiate career, he was also selected Team Offensive MVP in both his junior year and senior year.7 yards per carry. In the Stampeders only 2011 playoff game versus the Edmonton Eskimos, he ran for 128 yards and those eight games were enough to garner him the 2011 Calgary Booster Club Male Athlete of the Year award and a CFL West All-star selection. In his first full year as a starter, Jon Cornish led the CFL in rushing with 1457 rushing yards on the ground, Cornish also broke Normie Kwong’s 56-year-old single-season rushing record for Canadians. This led to Jon Cornish being selected the 2012 Most Outstanding Canadian as well as being the runner up for the Most Outstanding Player award, Cornish was again selected for Calgarys Male Athlete of the Year award. Jon Cornish bettered this in 2013, rushing for 1813 yards, soon after, Cornish was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canadas top athlete for 2013. In 2014, Cornish led the CFL in rushing for the time with 1082 yards. This was despite only playing in 9 games, half of the regular season and he was a member of the 2014 Grey Cup Champion Calgary Stampeders. Cornish attended high school at the sports oriented St. Thomas More Collegiate in Burnaby. In football he rushed for 3,200 career yards and 49 touchdowns as a three-year letterwinner for Saint Thomas More High School, Cornish averaged 14.9 yards per carry while rushing for 2,136 yards and 31 touchdowns as a senior. His single-game best was 336 yards and four touchdowns, Cornish is also credited with 152 career tackles, including 89 his senior season and holds his school career record with 37 quarterback sacks,21 of which he had while a junior. At the end of his senior year Cornish was selected the British Columbia Provincial Football Player of the Year in the year of its inception, while at STMC, Cornish was on two Varsity AAA Provincial High School Football Championship teams. Following his medical redshirt, Cornish saw very limited playing time rushing only 3 times for 8 yards in his first two years. Cornish played in all 12 games of his season and was awarded the John Hadl award for most valuable offensive player of the year on his college team despite not starting a single game. Cornish led his team in all rushing categories with 780 total yards,9 rushing touchdowns and rushing yards per game and yards per carry with 65 and 5.8 and his efforts in the classroom made him an Academic All-Big 12 second-team selection. Against Nebraska on his birthday, November 5,2005, Cornish contributed a touchdown run of 72 yards to help seal Kansas first victory over Nebraska in 38 years
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