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Critical series for the Lions' defence

The way Pipkin floats that ball, he's gonna get picked off.

Nice Winnipeg Sun article about Hassell: ‘I could cry right now:’ Former NFL player J.T. Hassell adding Bombers’ chapter to inspiring pro football story Author of the article:Ted Wyman Defensive back and former NFL player J.T. Hassell will be in the line-up as a backup on Saturday when the Blue Bombers host the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the annual Banjo Bowl at sold-out IG Field. Defensive back and former NFL player J.T. Hassell will be in the line-up as a backup on Saturday when the Blue Bombers host the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the annual Banjo Bowl at sold-out IG Field. If it was surprising to many observers of the CFL that defensive back J.T. Hassell earned a spot in the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ line-up just a few days after signing a contract, it probably shouldn’t have been. Hassell has been surprising people his whole life. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300 “I was born with a birth defect on my left hand, only having two fingers, and barely making it out of my mom’s stomach,” Hassell said Friday after the Bombers held a walk through at IG Field. “Growing up, single mom. You know, that’s a blessing within itself and just everything else I’ve been through.” Hassell, a 27-year-old from Titusville, on Florida’s Space Coast, never let difficult circumstances get in his way. Despite having a deformed hand, he made peewee teams and high school teams and eventually played football at the Florida Institute of Technology. He then became the only player in that school’s history to make it to the NFL. The school’s football program has since been discontinued. Though undrafted, Hassell played four games with the Cleveland Browns in 2019 and three with the New York Jets in 2020. He had eight career tackles and blocked a kick with the Jets in 2020. He’d been at home for more than a year when the Bombers came calling recently. An injury to American cornerback DeMerio Houston left the Bombers secondary a little thin and Hassell provides depth and pro experience. “It’s just an honour (to be here),” Hassell said. “I could cry right now. It’s just an honour to be here. I’m at a loss for words, honestly.”

Ooooh- that's gonna leave a mark Surprised that Pipkin wasn't pulled for a concussion protocol.

Still not a fan of Danny Maciocca but his team has come to play tonight. Lions- not so much. Lions have to go on a prolonged march and soon that results in points.

Agreed. Pipkin has never looked like an all-star QB but he has not had much time as his O-line looks nothing short of terrible.

Shouldn't Campbell have thrown the challenge flag to show support for Breaux?

Starting to look like a landslide win for the Larks.

HAVE fallen off already.

Lions look like they belong in the east division of the CFL.

Same result. Kinda rooting for the Beastly Lions.

Can't help feeling that we have had so many improbable comeback wins with a depleted lineup that it seems like a cheesy movie script, and a part of me is wondering when the tide will turn.

BC looking very disorganized and liable to be blown out.

So far, Trump is the subject of three separate investigations- two federal and one state (Georgia) and there is a good chance there will be others, If/when Trump fails to win the GOP nomination, he will also lose the potential ability to pardon his henchmen, and that will set the cat among the pigeons. Bannon's fate should be a pretty good indicator of what is to come.

Today was a disastrous day for the Russians. Reports indicate 800 Russian casualties, soldiers fleeing into forests, large amounts of weapons, armoured vehicles and munitions abandoned, Russian forces encircled in pockets, Izyum, Kherson and Kharkiv have either fallen or are almost so. The pace of advance of Ukrainian forces is accelerating. The ranking Russian general there has been captured.

I wouldn't bet the farm on Trudeau staying on. The Tories will waste all of their ammunition on him and then he steps away, leaving the opposition flailing away at thin air.

Where's the fun in that?

They may suspect he might be related to Sleepy joe.

Justice Department leans in on Trump's special master request for document The United States Department of Justice on Thursday filed a response to Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's Monday ruling that granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to determine whether the trove of classified documents that were seized during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's search warrant execution at Trump's unsecured Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8th are covered by executive privilege, which Trump has claimed in his lawsuit against the FBI. Cannon, whom Trump appointed, additionally required the Justice Department to pause its probe into how and why Trump had a foreign country's above-top-secret nuclear capabilities hoarded in his beach house. The Justice Department asked Cannon "to stay the part of her order that halted the investigation and would require showing classified docs to special master, and says will appeal if she doesn't do that," New York Times national security and legal reporter Charlie Savage tweeted along with a copy of the motion. DOJ is "willing to let a master be appointed and see the unclassified docs," Savage explained. The Justice Department in its answer unambiguously emphasized the stakes surrounding what is contained within the materials that were in Trump's possession. "The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay. This Court correctly recognized the government's vital interest in conducting a national security risk assessment of the possible unauthorized disclosure of the classified records and any harm that may have resulted," it wrote. "But the review and assessment on their own are not sufficient to address and fully mitigate any national security risks presented. The Intelligence Community's review and assessment cannot be readily segregated from the Department of Justice's ('DOJ') and Federal Bureau of Investigation's ('FBI') activities in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation, and uncertainty regarding the bounds of the Court's order and its implications for the activities of the FBI has caused the Intelligence Community, in consultation with DOJ, to pause temporarily this critically important work. Moreover," DOJ continued, "the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined." The Justice Department stated that Trump "has not shown that he had standing to seek relief, or that this Court properly exercised its equitable jurisdiction, with regard to the classified records. The classified records are government property over which the Executive Branch has control and in which Plaintiff has no cognizable property interest." It noted that "accordingly, even if (as the Court stated) Plaintiff has made 'a colorable showing of a right to possess at least some of the seized property' sufficient to establish his standing to request that a special master review records that might potentially belong to him, D.E. 64 at 13, he categorically cannot make that showing with respect to documents marked as classified." The Justice Department stressed that "the seized classified records at issue here — each of which the subpoena plainly encompassed — are central" to its "ongoing criminal investigation" into Trump. It also told Cannon that the declassification power "falls upon the incumbent President, not on any former President, because it is the incumbent President who bears the responsibility to protect and defend the national security of the United States." The Justice Department's final argument was that "Trump himself declined to assert any claim of executive privilege over the classified records at the point when it would have been appropriate to do so." https://www.salon.com/2022/09/08/justice-department-leans-in-on-special-master-request-for-documents_partner/

Obviously a perfect Trump acolyte. His mother must be so proud of him