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No PR for Daniels. There is an open spot still though.

Good post. Sorry for your loss Ripper.

Signed with them a few weeks after we released him. We let him go due to "off-field issues", iirc.

He did but he has since backed off those comments. Now he basically says a small rural hospital in either country could have had the issues he encountered and it's not necessarily a reflection of the Canadian health care system.

If anyone still had thoughts of Fedor finally signing with the UFC, his fight today against Fabio Maldonado should put those to rest. It will go down in the books as a win for him but it would have been a 1st round TKO loss had the fight been anywhere but Russia. Suspect reffing and judging.

D**n freeloading righties... always looking for hand outs.

Don't think so... he only played 4 years with the Bisons but CIS rules say football players have to be 24 or younger and he's now 25.

He played 4 years at Western so he has one year left.

Not according to Bauming. Says the club told him none of those guys are going to the PR.

That might be the only way we get him back. Bauming is saying no PR for any of the 5 cut today.

I hope that means PR for Butcher?

The stadium itself isn't over 100 years old (it's still old at 80 though), it's just the location that has been used since 1910.

One huge potential factor in their willingness to sell is the plans to amend the Ali Act to cover MMA. It would force the UFC to change many of the ways they currently do business (and not in a good way for them). They have hired so high powered lobbyists to fight the proposed changes.

I would assume the Pride stuff would be included (at least in the one deal that was confirmed to be for 100% of the company). I don't think they would resurrect the Pride brand but who knows? There are Asian investors in both deals so that might be something that appeals to them. If not, maybe some cooperation between them & Rizin like Pride & the UFC did for a while?

The UFC sale could be finished soon. 2 groups have formally made offers in the 4.1 billion range. http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/Reports-UFC-Sale-Nearly-Finalized-After-Multiple-Bids-for-Full-Ownership-Exceed-364-Billion-106541

The ironic part of that is the lunatic didn't even use an AR-15. The gun he used was a Sig Sauer MCX (they are similar though).

1st cuts - final cuts are due Saturday night (9pm local time).

I'm not surprised they cut him (although he played decent in the little time he got last year) but I am surprised they didn't "ask" him to retire again instead of being cut.

I would say Nate Collins is a bit of a surprise. I wonder who's cereal he pissed in? Even going back to last year, I thought he should have seen the field more.

Ticats lose a couple DB's (Demond Washington is one of them). http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/6723011-ticats-rip-open-at-the-corners/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Sucks to see guys get hurt like that in pre-season.

Calgary has also released the following players: National linebacker James Green National long snapper Tim St. Pierre International receiver Cam White International defensive lineman Ridge Wilson