Grey Cup News

Paul McCallum's sterling Grey Cup performance has accomplished two things _ put him in the record books and wiped away the memories of a bitter loss in 2004. McCallum nailed all six of his field-goal attempts as the B.C. Lions beat the Montreal Alouettes 25-14 Sunday night, earning the Surrey, B.C., native top Canadian player in the game honours. It also allowed him to tie Don Sweet, Sean Fleming and ...

Rating the two teams in the B.C. Lions' 25-14 win over the Montreal Alouettes in the 94th Grey Cup: MONTREAL ALOUETTES OFFENCE: D. Only a solid second-half comeback prevented a failing grade here. Then again, after registering just four first downs and 105 total yards in the first half there was nowhere to go but up. DEFENCE: C-plus. The Alouettes surrendered nearly 250 first-half yards to the Lions' offence, but ...

The B.C. Lions' 25-14 Grey Cup win Sunday capped quite a week for defensive end Brent Johnson. On Thursday, the six-foot-three, 265-pound Johnson was named the CFL's outstanding defensive player and Canadian after registering 16 sacks to lead the league in that category for the second straight year. Johnson became the first player in league history to win both honours in the same year. The 29-year-old native of Kingston, Ont., ...

The Grey Cup has long history of abuse, neglect and damage. And Wally Buono, whose B.C. Lions broke the historic trophy Sunday while celebrating their 25-14 win over the Montreal Alouettes, is not a first time offender. In 1998 when he was coach of the Calgary Stampeders, his team claimed the CFL championship trophy with a wild 26-24 win over Hamilton. Then Stampeders nearly left Winnipeg without the hallowed Cup, ...

It's hard to find the right for label the Montreal Alouettes. Over the past seven years they've played in the Grey Cup five times, a run impressive enough to usually earn a team the coveted dynasty tag. But with just one win and four losses to show for it, including Sunday's 25-14 defeat to the B.C. Lions, it's hard to find any description other than frustrated that fits this club. ...

When Anthony Calvillo broke into the CFL in 1994 with the defunct Las Vegas Posse, he did not look like a quarterback who would play in five Grey Cup games. Neither did he look like all-star material while throwing 45 interceptions over the next three seasons with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. But there was enough there for general manager Jim Popp to decide that Calvillo may have what it takes to succeed Tracy Ham as quarterback of the Montreal ...

The Grey Cup game has become a worldwide event _ at least on television. Broadcasts of the 94th Grey Cup game between the Montreal Alouettes and B.C. Lions will have unprecedented reach _ from the United States, Europe and Latin America to the Middle East, the South Pacific and Africa. Trajectory Sports and Media Group, the league's international broadcast distribution partner, has ``taken the Grey Cup's global exposure to new ...

It's easy to see how the B.C. Lions are heavy favourites to capture this year's Grey Cup title. Look at the club's offence, defence and special teams, and the common denominator is the Lions are stacked with athletes. Offensively, there's the grace of slotback Geroy Simon, a fluid route runner who was the CFL's top receiver this year with 105 catches, 1,856 yards and 15 touchdowns. Or there's the ruggedness ...

They are no longer the blitz-happy crew of recent years but the Alouettes defensive line remains one of Montreal's sources of strength heading into the Grey Cup game. Anchored by nasty 36-year-old tackle Ed Philion, the line will face its toughest test of the season when the Alouettes meet the high-powered B.C. Lions' attack in the CFL championship game at Canad Inns Stadium on Sunday (CBC, 6 p.m. ET). The ...

Jake Ireland will be the head referee for this year's Grey Cup game, the CFL announced Thursday night. It will be the 13th career Grey Cup appearance for Ireland and 11th as the head referee. But it will be his first CFL title game since 2001. ``I'm thrilled to be back,'' Ireland said. ``That was my objective.'' Ireland, a native of Burlington, Ont., now living in Townsend, Ont., has been ...

The dismal collapse of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Sunday's CFL West Final more than just dashed the Grey Cup hopes of the team's legions of fans, it also made the goal of a sellout for this weekend's championship game a little more elusive. ``We probably wouldn't have had enough seats if Saskatchewan got in,'' Lyle Bauer, president and chief executive of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, said Monday. Before the start ...