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I hope Tucker loses on appeal. He's a horrible person.

I don't get why the province isn't fining these absolute jack@sses that are out bar hopping... while showing symptoms no less. One person alone has 36 contacts in a single night. I understood their reluctance to fine people early on and wanting to give them a chance to learn but I think the learning period should be over be now.

Fox News is utterly insufferable. Amazing how many pieces of human garbage get air time on and are employed by that total embarrassment of a network.

https://www.tsn.ca/six-key-questions-the-cfl-must-answer-this-off-season-1.1529774?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter It’s been more than a month since the Canadian Football League pulled the plug on its season, with a deafening silence in its wake. While the National Football League and most of the top NCAA football schools are back on the gridiron, the CFL has put away its pads and helmets after a prolonged – and much debated – effort to play. So where does the CFL go from here? Here are six key questions that will require answers, some sooner than later, before we can begin to project what a 2021 season might look like. Some are more critical than others, but all of them matter. 1. How committed are the league and its nine teams to playing in 2021 under whatever circumstances are necessary? There’s been much debate and speculation about how many teams were truly committed to making the 2020 season happen. Sure all nine teams wanted to play. The differences were in what circumstances they were willing to support that decision. It’s essential that the league get all nine teams committed to playing, no matter where the decision-making tree may lead between now and next spring. That may require making sure the risks and losses are shared more equally around the table, so that some teams don't have substantially more to lose or gain by whatever decisions the league makes. Whether the league returns to the table with the government, can have some fans in the stands or needs to fall back on some version of a hub model, there should be no doubt there will be CFL football in 2021. 2. Will the league be able to put fans in the stands by next June? It's an impossible question to answer, given that no one knows in what state the virus will be next spring. Governments across Canada have taken a hard line when it comes to limits on gatherings – both indoors and outdoors – making no exceptions. Would that change by next spring without an effective vaccine or technology that would allow fans to be tested before they enter a stadium? There are college and NFL teams playing before partial crowds right now in the U.S., which will provide some evidence on how safe such a thing is. Without being allowed at least some fans in the stands in 2021, moving season tickets, which represent the primary revenue streams for teams during the off-season, is going to be a challenge. 3. Can the CFL and CFLPA reach agreement on changes to the final year of the collective agreement, which isn’t due to expire until May of 2022? The CFL has made it clear that the final year of its collective agreement with its players needs to be renegotiated to reflect the realities of the pandemic economy, with the league on a different kind of financial footing than it was when the deal was struck in 2019. The players are within their legal right to insist the owners must honour the CBA they negotiated in good faith two years ago. But with that stance, the owners could simply just opt not to play. All this comes on the heels of several months that demonstrated the lack of trust and occasional animosity many players feel towards the league’s leadership. It's time to move past that because this is no time to settle scores. The CFL and its players have to work together and align their interests in seeing the league through the current crisis, while understanding that doing so is going to mean both sides absorbing their share of pain. 4. What’s the salary cap going to be? It’s sure to be the most contentious issue with the players, coming off a year in which none of them got paid beyond last winter’s off-season bonuses. The CFL salary cap is slated to be $5.8 million per team in 2021, but there is little doubt the clubs will want that reduced. Coaches and front office staff of both teams and the league have taken 20 per cent haircuts across the board, so it stands the league will come at the players with a similar request. Twenty per cent of $5.8 million would mean a reduction of $1.16 million for a cap of $4.64 million per team. What would the players do if delivered a take-it-or-leave-it proposal of a 20 per cent reduction in salaries? How many current players might that force out of the game? Tough questions for the players – individually and collectively – to ponder. 5. How will teams manage the off-season football operations? The process of evaluating and signing players, both within the league and with regard to incoming players, is going to have a few curveballs this off-season. With no CFL or U-Sports football being played, the only recent film study will be among draft prospects at U.S. colleges. CFL free agency, which usually involves a flurry of signings in mid-February, could be even busier this year with so few players having negotiated extensions over the past six months. Will teams be willing to pay signing bonuses, after flushing roughly $1 million in signing bonuses a year ago without a season? Will contracts have to include clauses that make amounts subject to changes in the salary cap? It’s unclear whether teams would be able to stage free agent camps in the U.S. at some point And the annual CFL combine for incoming Canadians could be cancelled, just as it was at the start of the pandemic. Team building in the CFL will be a learning experience for everyone. 6. Is the league still committed to its embrace of international players? CFL staff spent the months before the pandemic travelling the globe to identify the best international players to fill 36 roster spots for the 2020 season – 18 on active rosters and 18 on practice rosters. A global combine scheduled for March was cancelled, and its players were left in limbo with everyone else. Globalizing the CFL’s player ranks has been a key component of commissioner Randy Ambrosie’s long-term strategy to grow the league’s business. But there are costs (estimated to be approaching $2 million for 2021) and logistics associated with this vision that add one more level of complexity during a time when the league is in survival mode. Expect this to be a discussion.

“We are psychologists, and we are convinced Donald Trump is a psychopath. His malignant behavior over the past four years is growing and escalating right before our eyes. Trump’s psychopathy will change us forever if he is not stopped. This is not hyperbole. This is not an expression of "a left-wing agenda.” This is a mental health opinion based on thousands of hours of documented behavior by this president. He breaks norms, rules, and laws with impunity.“ “They go on to list another dozen or so reasons where they base their opinion on...

Apparently 1 judge thinks they can get away with saying anything

The one thing I don’t get from the local TSN1290 media (and I sense the majority of the “Laine trade” talk is solely a media creation rather than them actually quoting sources) is that they keep saying the Jets have a 2-3 year window to win a Stanley Cup, which I think is nonsense. Their top 5 forwards aside from Laine (Wheeler, Scheifele, Connor, Ehlers) are locked in for 4 more years each minimum, as is Hellebuyck, and their top d-man Morissette is here for 7. And team windows always seem to be short-changed. How many times did we hear that the Caps window was closed before they won, or the Sharks before they made the final, or the Pens after the 2009 Cup win, or Boston after the 2013 Cup loss (you get the picture). Laine is still an RFA after next year’s contract is up, so we have him for 3 years minimum right now. Don’t move him unless we clearly win the trade from a “right now” perspective, otherwise, take the $11 million plus from Kulikov and Byfuglien that is off the books and get a serviceable centre and d-man.

I will first say that I'm not in favor of trading Laine, sends the wrong message, but if behinds the scenes something has happened and Laine does not want to be here than the Jets should accommodate him of their terms, as you say a "kings ransom".

If they trade Laine it would have to be for a kings ransom. If they were to trade him for draft picks and a mediocre d-man everyone would have deja vu from Selanne departing and the fans would go crazy.

Winnipeg's outta control right now. Good to see the mandatory mask mandate coming in. That'll definitely help bring things down a bit. The Level Orange in Westman got them under control in no time.

Not paywalled. Thank-you! This makes me so mad. The Right is killing people and lying about it. Poor, vulnerable people can't get health care and are made to work for tiny wages while the Right, the GOP, laughs and pockets cash. Disgusti It's clear that this infections and the deaths have been so underreported.

Wow! I hope this isn't paywalled, because it sure illustrates the failures of the U.S. response. The code: How genetic science helped expose a secret coronavirus outbreak https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/genetic-science-coronavirus-outbreak-iowa/?itid=hp_dontmiss

Unbelievable that you can win a court case by saying your employee doesn’t meet the standards of the industry and nobody should believe him anyways. Quote: “Fox News successfully argued that Tucker's reputation is so bad reasonable viewers know to be skeptical about his claims.” Obviously, not taken into consideration, is the fact that most of Fox’s audience is not reasonable.

With respect, I sometimes find the legal profession inconsistent horsesh*t.

Get him his fainting couch and his crying towel, begging is no a good look Blanche

What a stud. Easily the Jets best player during the 2019-20 season.

I recently went to a restaurant to hear a musical group. They advertised distance between tables, and so on. Restaurant Staff, my wife, and myself, were the only people wearing masks. I was shocked. Won’t be doing that again till this is over.

For D...yes, yes we are.

I'm an Executive Member, so I get 2% back. Not sure if the extra game is worth it but I like the Costco return policy. I was planning to get Spider-Man anyhow, so I will probably go with this one.

they will definitely survive....they've been through too much over the years for THIS to be the thing that kills 'em. It may not look exactly the same, but they'll exist in some form. With vaccines and mandatory masks at all events, I think it can happen. Football, due to being outdoors during the summer, will be an easier sell to the chief medical officers than hockey, which is indoors during the winter.

I'm optimistic, with all of the vaccines in their last trials, that we'll be back at major sporting events next summer. Let's hope the CFL survives and I think they will.

I'll tell ya, I was watching Game 4 of the 2019 season last night and it almost seemed weird watching a sporting event with a big crowd...the players going into the endzone to celebrate a TD. What I wouldn't give to get back to that again................... one day, right?

Why don’t we ever hear about criminal charges for these things? These should be investigated thoroughly, and where possible, charge the creeps. A conviction should resulted in years of incarceration. This has been going on since Notley was Premiere of Alberta. I don’t understand why we are complacent about this.

Thanks @Noellerfor posting this! I've had it in my mind to start a new thread about what the CFL needs to do to improve the league from the fan experience, to the on-field product, to the bottom line but have not really had the time to put together a thoughtful opening post with statistics and other support. If I have some time this weekend, I may do that.

A couple other cases come to mind: Ezra Levant unsuccessfully tried to avoid a libel suit by arguing that he was not a reporter, but a pundit and therefore was not subject to libel laws. He had to pay $80,000. Climate skeptic Tim Ball initially avoided a libel lawsuit because the article he wrote about Andrew Weaver was so full of errors and inaccuracies with such an "indifference to the truth" that the libels directed at Weaver should not have been taken seriously either. Weaver has successfully won an appeal and an award is pending.

Grabbed a PS5 but not one i wanted.

"But when you end up with a new Rome and it’s hyper dominated by people of one race and one gender, many of whom are disproportionately socially unintelligent, running the platforms through which most human sociality now occurs — democratic discourse, family community, so on and so forth — we all start to live in a world created by people who are just quite limited. They are smart at the thing they’re smart at and they’ve become in charge of a lot of how the world works." https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/writer-anand-giridharadas-on-techs-billionaires-are-they-even-on-the-same-team-as-us/

That's a bullshit excuse. We know damn well in 2020 what the impact of 1991 Garth was. Christ. But whatever.... Again, hopefully there'll be added chapters down the road.

Little info on why it ends where it ends

F5, F5, F5

I agree. I can hope he "fixes" the mess he's made by offering a few extra episodes. I'm such a big fan of Ken Burns' documentaries, which is why I'm a bit gutted on how the last two episodes unfolded. The genre is so massive that you can't cover everything. But, we still have the music.

Not a rumour for EB Games:

Yes, I think the occasion would call for this mask:

Ian Book is in his second year as Fighting Irish starting QB not traditional running QB but can get out of pocket and be effective with his legs. Pretty good passer too. If you are interested in him most of the Irish's games are on national TV with every home game being on NBC and the rest will mostly like find there way on to TSN or ABC.

RIP Covid.

If he appeared in public more often, he would be booed more often. But, he hides in the White House or at his properties or at his Klan rallies.

I saw this today and just sighed.....2020, man...........

I guess if Ron says it’s OK, then I guess they’re doomed..

also, more on the neg list guys with Bombers head scouts (courtesy of our man Tait...) https://www.bluebombers.com/2020/09/24/bombers-unveil-10-names-45-player-negotiation-list/?fbclid=IwAR2AcSjxkitMV6ZuV18IwJeXKcKplpYCEpTz82Kg5-BWXxAnqXseHkX_Bqw

it should still be 19 deaths