Fatty Liver

I wasn't counting but you used the word "prick" 5 times in 2 sentences. I think that deserves some kind of site award seeing as you weren't talking about Mike Kelly.

Could well be. Also depends on his marital status, easier to do if he's free to roam far from the ties that bind.

I think at this point it comes down to his after football career and whether he has taken the time to prepare and plan for it or not. If he doesn't have an alternative plan he may continue to play football by default. The low CDN dollar is a poor incentive to play in the CFL unless he wants to put down roots in the community and as he has virtually no ties to Wpg. he would be starting from scratch.

If he's going to stick he has to beat out one of Wild, Bass or Tony Burnett, so chances slim.

I suppose Dressler as well and maybe one or two of the RB's receivers like Chris Williams....not one of them earned their big pay cheques last year. It would be interesting to know what Manny A. recently signed for.

That's a crazy amount to pay for an import receiver, this is going to cause salary repercussions. Are there any other receivers in the league earning $200,000+?

Fact is if you're already reading this board, you're not going to get anything extra from reading a newspaper article.

Rumour has it Khari is the next OC in BC.

Jamie Nye @jamienye #Riders also release K Paul McCallum and DB Tristan Jackson ... leaving 49 players on the roster (just 2 int DBs Hollins and Unamba) Unamba survives the purge!

Never heard of the guy, another off the board pick by Wally.

I don't understand your logic. Do you not agree that the Arctic ice is melting at an unprecedented rate? Because Gore's hard timeline was incorrect, does that mean that this event is not actually occurring?

Time frame is wrong but the concept of an ice free Arctic is not. http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5664

O'Shea probably asked them directly if they wanted to have media exposure and their answer was likely "no thanks Mike, you can do it".

I would put more stock in Veltung, he looked good in the opportunities he was given.

Dude, is that a watermelon? That would hurt Broken face, surprised it wasn't her head that went "splat".

If i recall correctly, i believe it was on good terms. Something about his vision i believe at the time, He's still not that great, you gotta throw him the ball a ton and he will drop a ton of balls still but he will make catches too. He's still pretty inconsistent actually as a receiver. I'm not sure I'd go after him. I can't see Bowman leaving the Esks. They expect him to drop a few passes every game yet they keep throwing the ball to him. He's not going to find that level of forgiveness in too many other places.

Flying back and forth across the ocean 4 times within 10 days does not sound like fun to me.

Really? And are Western governments dumping billions upon billions of dollars into "fighting" evolution too? That's my real hang-up here. Whenever I get into a discussion with anyone who is really sold on the "consensus", it doesn't take long to get into name-calling etc. This thread has been surprisingly civil, at least, until WBFB decided to up it a notch. Anyway, like I said, my hang-up is that for years now we seen all of these catastrophic predictions and nothing has come true, yet billions upon billions of dollars continue to be diverted from so many other good causes and into "fighting" this mysterious affliction, that any day now is coming, just you wait. Why is there no accountability for those who predict these things, cause billions of dollars to be diverted, and yet their predictions are false? Why? I believe they have predicted warmer temperatures for lakes and oceans and I don't need science to verify the truth of that prediction. I live on a lake that no longer freezes over, I have seen photos and read accounts of lumber mills routinely hauling timber across this lake on horse driven sleds 75 years ago before roads were in place. Here are two articles that confirm the trend, if they don't tweak the threat of a serious ecological catastrophe in the making, I don't understand your perception of the issue. Fishing ban and use conditions for B.C. riversVICTORIA – Drought conditions are forcing the provincial government to ban fishing and impose water restrictions for farms in parts of southern British Columbia in a bid to help fish stocks through a hot, dry summer. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is suspending fishing in streams for most of Vancouver Island because of low flows and high water temperatures. Beginning on Aug. 4, the only rivers or streams where people will be allowed to fish are the Campbell, Qualicum and Quinsam rivers. The ministry has also restricted water use on farms in B.C.’s Interior in a bid to help salmon that are expected to begin spawning soon on the Coldwater River south of Merrit, where water levels are low because of dry weather. Farms drawing water from the river and its tributaries have been told they must restrict their water use between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. until Aug. 11, when they will be prohibited from drawing any water until Sept. 30. The ministry says the order covers the holders of 50 water licences who use the river for irrigation. The Fish Protection Act allows the minister to issue orders to temporarily regulate water users if fish populations are threatened. The provincial government has designated that much of southern B.C. as Drought Level 4, or extremely dry. World's lakes are warming surprisingly quickly due to climate change. Canadian lakes and those that are ice-covered in winter are warming twice as fast as others Lakes around the world are warming surprisingly quickly due to climate change, threatening the global water supply. And lakes in Canada are some of the fastest-warming in the world, a new study shows. The warming waters can lead to problems like toxic algae blooms that make water undrinkable, declines in fish populations that people rely on for food and other serious problems, warns the international team of researchers that released the study this week. "If air temperatures continue to increase and this influences water supply and water quality, that has a huge implication for humans as we need fresh water to survive," said Sapna Sharma, a researcher at Toronto's York University who was one of the lead authors of the report. The study looked at 235 lakes on six continents representing half the world's freshwater supply. Their surface temperatures between 1985 and 2009 had been measured both directly and using satellites. The lakes had different sizes, depths, locations and other characteristics, but despite their variability, "over 90 per cent of them had a clear signal of warming," said Sharma. "I didn't expect to see that." The study found that on average, lakes were warming at a rate of 0.34 C per decade — faster than either the ocean (increasing 0.12 C per decade) or the air (warming by 0.25 C per decade), the researchers reported in the journal Geophysical Research Letters and announced at the American Geophysical Union meeting San Francisco Wednesday. "Canadian lakes and ice-covered lakes were warming twice as fast as air temperatures and most of the other lakes in the study," Sharma said in an interview with CBC News. The study found that the rate of warming averaged 0.72 C per decade at high latitudes. Lake Superior warming extra fastOne of the big surprises, Sharma added, was that Lake Superior had one of the fastest rates of warming in the world. While smaller lakes might be expected to warm more quickly, a couple of factors are having a particularly strong effect on lakes like Superior. One is that lakes that are normally ice-covered in winter are melting earlier in the spring, exposing the lake to warmer air temperatures for a longer period of time. Another, ironically, is that decreased pollution in North America is leading to less smog and cloud cover. "So more solar radiation is hitting the lakes and water temperatures are warming faster than you'd just expect simply [from] climate change," Sharma said. "But hopefully, this will be a short-lived phenomenon." The paper predicts a lot of negative effects linked to the warming: Algal blooms that suck the oxygen out of the lake water, choking out other organisms, are expected to increase 20 per cent over the next century. Algal blooms that are toxic to fish and humans are expected to increase by five per cent over the next century. An increase in emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane is expected to increase four per cent over the next decade. Increased evaporation will cause a drop in lake water levels. Sharma said the warming also decreases the amount of habitat available to native cold water fish such as lake trout and walleye, while increasing the likelihood that invasive species will thrive. Africa's Lake Tanganyika hasn't warmed nearly as much as Lake Superior, but is already seeing declines in fish populations that local people rely on for food, Sharma added. In North America, lake levels are already dropping in some of the Great Lakes and algae blooms have already made tap water undrinkable for days at a time in places like Toledo, Ohio.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's a lot more to that Esks offense than just the QBs. That whole team was a lot deeper/more talented than the Riders currently are. I have no doubt Jones is going to do some serious house-cleaning and make a ton of changes, but still....long way to go..... Sask. is going to have so many new bodies and quite a few without previous CFL experience so it will likely take their D at least half a season to jell. Best they can be this year is 8-8 imo. Went to school in Sask I'm guessing? No, but spent enough time there to have been "exposed" to Rider math. Sorry.

Durant can't accomplish much unless he's a threat to run, and with his injury history I doubt they can rely on him to run very often. Take away the run and he's mediocre in the passing game. Sask. has basically disposed of all of their RB's without finding replacements so that's going to be an issue next year as well.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's a lot more to that Esks offense than just the QBs. That whole team was a lot deeper/more talented than the Riders currently are. I have no doubt Jones is going to do some serious house-cleaning and make a ton of changes, but still....long way to go..... Sask. is going to have so many new bodies and quite a few without previous CFL experience so it will likely take their D at least half a season to jell. Best they can be this year is 8-8 imo.

If our Offence improves slightly that will (going off this past season) be enough for a playoff spot alone. We were far off. And had we won a couple of the games we lost by just a few points. We make the playoffs. I sure hope they can do better than a slight improvement. So tired of stumbling, bumbling offensive performances and waiting, waiting, waiting for the offence to wake up and get on track as Q's tick off. Drew Willy only occasionally improves that performance but he rarely shows consistency marching the ball down the field throughout a game. Hopefully LaPo can bring some urgency to the play-calling and find a way to effectively use his personnel to move the ball and provide entertainment for the fans.

Looks good doing so but often leaves football behind in opponents hands.

I believe the entire state of Florida used to be a sandbar, then it evolved into a swamp.

If Trestman calls, Thorpe ain't coming back to the CFL.