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CFL Point Spreads Week 7: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: October 4, 2017

The 2017 CFL season has been compelling in terms of close games every week – at least until Week 6. Three of the four games were decided by at least 11 points and one was a blowout for the ages. Here’s a glance at the Week 7 games with Sports Interaction’s CFL odds. Calgary Stampeders...

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CFL Point Spreads Week 6: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: July 26, 2017

Week 5 was an unusual one in the CFL regular season with five games. Home teams were 4-1 straight up and 3-2 against the spread. It’s back to a normal four-game slate for Week 6. Here’s a glance at the games with Sports Interaction odds. Montreal Alouettes at Winnipeg Blue Bombers When: Thursday, 8:30 p.m....

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CFL Point Spreads Week 5: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: July 18, 2017

Yes, Ottawa was the Grey Cup champion in 2016, but the West Division was clearly superior to the East and that appears to be the case again thus far this season as every East team already has at least two losses. Only one West club does. Here’s a glance at the CFL Week 5 odds...

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CFL Point Spreads Week 4: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: July 11, 2017

We are three weeks into the 2017 CFL regular season and only two teams are without a loss: Calgary and Edmonton. They just so happen to be the two Grey Cup favourites as well with the Stampeders at +250 and the Eskimos at +400. Here’s a glance at the Week 4 games with Sports Interaction’s...

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CFL Point Spreads Week 3: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: July 4, 2017

Most casual bettors, regardless of sport, tend to lean on the favourites. They figure that the sportsbooks must know something they don’t by favouring one team over another. That’s certainly not always the case as has been proven by the first two weeks of the CFL season where underdogs have covered all eight games. Here’s...

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CFL Point Spreads Week 2: Best Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: June 27, 2017

Terrific opening weekend in the CFL with three games decided by three points or fewer. The lone road team to win was Edmonton at BC, but the Eskimos had a big injury as well. Here’s a glance at the Week 2 games with Sports Interaction odds. Ottawa Redblacks at Calgary Stampeders When: Thursday, 9 p.m....

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CFL Point Spreads Week 1: Best Football Picks Against the Spread

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: June 20, 2017

Welcome back, football odds and point spreads! While the 2017 NFL regular season is still about 80 days from starting, the CFL campaign kicks off around Canada this weekend. CFL Betting Odds Saskatchewan Roughriders at Montreal Alouettes When: Thursday, 7:30 p.m. ET Spread: Alouettes -6.5 Total:  50.5 Both franchises missed the playoffs in 2016 with...

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Bettors Like Calgary Stampeders' Odds as Big Grey Cup Favourites

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: June 20, 2017

The Calgary Stampeders almost had a historic 2016 regular season in the CFL, but they not only came up short of a league record but also were victims of one of the biggest-ever upsets in the Grey Cup. Sometimes losses like that can ruin a team. Other times, they can bring a club together. Which...

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104th Grey Cup Point Spread and Pick: Stampeders vs. Redblacks

• Ricky Rothstein

• Last Updated: November 23, 2016

The Calgary Stampeders look for their second Grey Cup title in three years and eighth overall on Sunday when they face the Ottawa Redblacks, who were 26-20 losers to the Edmonton Eskimos in last year’s Grey Cup. The 2016 CFL season comes to an end in Toronto — the first Grey Cup held at BMO...

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Will Ricky Ray’s shoulder injury sink the Toronto Argonauts?

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 29, 2013

Just when it looked like it couldn’t get much better for Toronto Argonauts quarterback Ricky Ray it suddenly got much, much worse. Ray, in the middle of what could have been a Most Outstanding Player season, will now miss up to six weeks with a shoulder injury. Ray tore his Teres Major muscle on the...

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Blue Bombers out to Buck trend, name Justin Goltz starting QB

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: August 1, 2013

After a lackluster start to the season, the 1-4 Winnipeg Blue Bombers have demoted veteran quarterback Buck Pierce and have named 25-year-old Justin Goltz their starting quarterback. Pierce had been the team’s starter since the 2010 season, but has struggled this year with only two touchdown passes compared to five interceptions while completing 60 percent...

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The Mitchell and Tate Debate may only be beginning for Stampeders

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: July 25, 2013

Bo Levi Mitchell may get a shot to start for Calgary on Friday night and it could kick start a fresh quarterback debate for the Stamps. Al Dannity looks at the pros and cons of the Mitchell and Tate debate. One is an experienced starter on the road back from injury. The other is a...

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McMaster Sack Master D’Aguilar Signed by Calgary Stampeders

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: May 22, 2013

The Calgary Stampeders confirmed the signing of one of the best quarterback hunters in the game as they inked Ben D’Aguilar along with three other draft picks. Al Dannity gives his take. The Stamps just got a whole lot meaner on defence. That’s my initial reaction to the formal signing of Ben D’Aguilar, a man...

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Tate Leads Stampeders into CFL West Finals

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 12, 2012

Thanks to Sunday’s game-winning 68-yard touchdown pass from Drew Tate, the Calgary Stampeders will face the B.C. Lions in the CFL Western Division final. Tate’s bomb to Romby Bryant with 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter gave the Stamps a 36-30 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Tate’s TD Ends Rollercoaster Week Tate’s touchdown was...

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CFL Most Outstanding Player: Jon Cornish vs. Chad Owens

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 9, 2012

The CFL has named Calgary Stampeders running back Jon Cornish and Toronto Argonauts wideout/kick returner Chad Owens as the finalists for this season’s Most Outstanding Player award. The winner will be announced on Nov. 22 in Toronto and it could be a tight race. Jon Cornish Cornish broke a 56-year-old season rushing record for a...

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Stampeders to Announce Starting QB Tuesday

• Frank Doyle

• Last Updated: November 5, 2012

The Calgary Stampeders will announce who their starting quarterback will be for this weekend’s playoff game against Saskatchewan on Tuesday. Stamps coach John Hufnagel has had a lot of time to think about it, but choosing between Drew Tate and Kevin Glenn isn’t going to be easy. Tate vs. Glenn Tate and Glenn are two...

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Cornish and Harris Lead New Canadian Class in the CFL

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: November 5, 2012

With the Canadian Football League preparing for the playoffs, it’s time to look at the state of the game — especially from the perspective of homegrown players. If the nominees for top Canadian are anything to go by, the game is in good hands. Tailbacks Jon Cornish of the Calgary Stampeders and Andrew Harris of...

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Stamps Join Sports Great Pantheon of Collapses Against Als!

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: July 13, 2012

Calgary’s shocking defeat in the final minutes against the Montreal Alouettes got Al Dannity thinking and that’s always dangerous. Here’s Al’s look at some of the greatest ever collapses in sports inspired, for want of a better word, by the Stampeders. Setting the scene Memorable failures where defeat is snatched from the jaws of victory...

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Durant, Cornish, Two Eskimos Named Top CFLers in Week 1

• Dale Perth

• Last Updated: July 3, 2012

The first awards have been given out in the wake of the Canadian Football League’s opening week, and it’s no surprise that representatives of Western Division clubs swept the accolades. An impressive 43-16 upset blowout engineered by Saskatchewan in Hamilton had another positive outcome, as Roughriders quarterback Darian Durant was declared the league’s top offensive...

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CFL: Tate Impresses as Stampeders Rout Als!

• Al Dannity

• Last Updated: July 2, 2012

If Drew Tate was nervous, he certainly didn’t let it show as the Calgary Stampeders dominated the Montreal Alouettes in a 38-10 win on Sunday. Al Dannity looks back on an impressive start to the season for the Stamps. Business-like start Drew Tate was not the star for the Stampeders on Sunday but the quarterback...