Published Sept. 12 on CFL.ca On the first day of September, in a long 2010 they will never forget, the University of Waterloo Warriors football team was in London, Ontario for the first game of the OUA season. They were…
Published on CFL.ca August 25 Even though her son Jabari moved out years ago, Genise Arthur has diligently maintained his small trophy case in her Montreal home. There are the countless trophies from when Jabari was young, playing minor football…
Published on CFL.ca July 29 Calmly placing his feet in the starting blocks under the hot New Mexico sun, track star Chris Williams lowers his head to check his foot placement and pauses for a silent, serene moment of reflection.…
Published on CFL.ca June 29 Walking in to the Fighting Irish locker room at Vancouver College, it’s unavoidable. Dotted along a wall of the decades old club house is a vast collage of 8 ½ x 11 pictures of every…
When Shomari Williams was in high school he wanted nothing more than the play NCAA Division 1 football. He would stay up all night, meticulously loading disc after disc into his computer, burning them with game tape for recruiters. In…
What do you see when you look at Western student Jessica Grossman? What you can’t see is the hardship she endured for years. What you can see is her ostomy. For most dads, it would be a horrifying realization. Their…
Nothing can be as simultaneously exciting and terrifying for a young football player as getting a call from the Toronto Argonauts for a CFL Evaluation Camp interview. Of course it’s exciting — there’s a professional football team interested in getting…
It’s not like Matt Walter hasn’t been yelled at by football coaches before. So when the Calgary Dinos running back fumbled twice against the Simon Fraser Clan in 2008, he knew he was going to hear it from Dinos running…
You could say Hugo Lopez had home field advantage this past weekend at the CFL Evaluation Camp presented by Reebok. The event was held at the Varsity Centre, after all, where he plays defensive back for the University of Toronto…
No one gets this far alone. Just ask any of the participants at this past weekend’s CFL Evaluation Camp presented by Reebok how they got there and they will immediately sound off a long list of trainers, coaches and mentors.…