Recently by Malcolm Kelly

• CFL Forecasting stars no easy task for CFL GMs Let's begin the 2012 football season with something cliched - a conversation about Nostradamus. Posted: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 | 03:46 PM
• CFL CFL training camp preview: The West There hasn't been a training camp in the Canadian Football League like this for quite a while. Out west, new head coaches in B.C. and Saskatchewan lead the way, the former a major move as it means Wally Buono is off the sidelines. Stories are everywhere. Here are some of them: Posted: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 | 04:16 PM
• CFL CFL training camp preview: The East As training camp opens in the east, two teams feature new head coaches, and there are two big name quarterbacks coming in from the west. At the same time, an old performer is getting ready to answer the bell once again, and last year's Cup finalist has holes to fill. Posted: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 | 03:50 PM
• CFL History says Ricky Ray = Grey Cup ring Those Toronto Argonauts may not be able to develop a quarterback, but they sure can successfully trade for them on a semi-regular basis. Posted: Monday, December 12, 2011 | 03:02 PM
• NHL Multi-company ownership not new for Leafs Ownership of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the companies controlling the team and its building, by competing entities is hardly new.   Nor is having a major player in the broadcast business as part of the group. Posted: Friday, December 9, 2011 | 11:33 AM
• CFL 10 things we learned this CFL season So, 2011 is in the books, and that leaves one job. Here are 10 things learned as the Canadian Football League heads to the 100th Grey Cup season.  Posted: Monday, December 5, 2011 | 03:17 PM
• CFL Time will tell if Argos' Milanovich was good hire I've never understood why the Toronto Argonauts dropped the slogan "Pull Together" from their logo about 25 years ago, because it so beautifully encapsulated what this, or any team, has to do to win on a regular basis. Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 | 07:31 PM
• CFL Lions unsung hero Khreem Smith's fairy tale journey Once upon a time there was a man named Khreem Smith who found a great, golden Grey Cup ring at the end of a long, long journey.  Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011 | 01:27 AM
• CFL Catching shut-eye Grey Cup eve tricky for some players At their hotels in Vancouver on Saturday night, the B.C. Lions and Winnipeg Blue Bombers faced the night in a 104 different ways.  Some snoozed, some paced, some lay there staring at the ceiling. Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2011 | 10:22 PM
• CFL Tips for righting the good ship Argo After 43 years of growing up with, cheering for and then watching the Toronto Argonauts as a professional journalist, it was beginning to look here like the only person who could find this almost sunken franchise was Dr. Robert Ballard.  There is, however, a plan to salvage what's left of the famous old boat. Posted: Saturday, November 26, 2011 | 12:29 AM
• CFL Sidelined Bomber stays upbeat for Cup 'home game' Brandon Stewart was crutching his way around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' media breakfast on Thursday morning, spreading cheer, chatting away and looking nothing like a guy with a slightly broken heart. Posted: Thursday, November 24, 2011 | 07:52 PM
• CFL History will bite the Lions The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-8, 1-0 in playoffs) will defeat the B.C. Lions (11-7, 1-0 in playoffs) in the 99th Grey Cup Game, Sunday night (6:30 p.m. ET) at B.C. Place in Vancouver. Posted: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 | 11:49 AM
• CFL West Final prediction: Lions too hot for Eskimos This was going to be so much more fun to work out before the news came that running back Jerome Messam will not be available for the rest of the season. Rats. No revenge motive. No "Bet you're sorry you got rid of me now." So... The host B.C. Lions (11-7) will defeat the Edmonton Eskimos (11-7, 1-0 in playoffs) in the West Division final on Sunday afternoon at B.C. Place. Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2011 | 09:34 PM
• CFL East Final prediction: Bombers to tame Ticats The host Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-8) will defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (8-10, 1-0 in playoffs), in the East Division Final on Sunday afternoon (1 p.m. ET) at Canad Inns Stadium. Posted: Thursday, November 17, 2011 | 10:33 AM
• CFL West semifinal: Stamps to prevail in Edmonton Trying to work out who's going to defeat whom in this, the most competitive Canadian Football League season in history, seems a losing proposition, but since I'm interested in receiving my pay this week, let's give it a try. Posted: Friday, November 11, 2011 | 10:10 AM
• CFL CFL East semifinal: Ticats will topple Als Coming off a brilliant 1-4 post season last year we were seriously considering giving up, until the editor pointed out no picks, no pay cheque.   Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011 | 08:58 AM
• CFL Pass interference a big challenge for CFL officials When Al McColman was first hired as a downfield official in 1978 to decide what was, and what was not, pass interference, the decision was pretty straight forward. Did the defensive player make contact with the receiver? If so, flag. Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 | 09:42 AM
• CFL Power Rankings CFL Power Rankings: Week 19 Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League. Posted: Monday, November 7, 2011 | 09:10 AM
• CFL CFL Power Rankings: Week 18 Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League. Posted: Monday, October 31, 2011 | 11:05 AM
• NFL The Bills...and all that jazz A quick peruse online showed a single seat in the upper deck of the Rogers Centre for Sunday's Bills' Toronto series game between Buffalo and Washington cost around $150 for the privilege. Posted: Sunday, October 30, 2011 | 07:57 PM
• CFL Power Rankings CFL Power Rankings: Week 17 Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League. Posted: Sunday, October 23, 2011 | 11:35 PM
• CFL Argonauts' Owens combines for hard yards Michael Clemons calls Chad Owens "Extrasplendifiscent," a combination of extraordinary, splendid and magnificent. We'll allow that, as the man tagged as "Pinball" has always reminded us of a character from a Disney movie anyway. It was around the nine-minute mark of the second quarter on Friday night that Owens took a punt at his 13-yard line, ran through the first line of Edmonton defenders, juked left and up the sideline before being boxed in. Posted: Saturday, October 22, 2011 | 12:31 AM
• CFL Power Rankings CFL Power Rankings: Week 16 Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League. Posted: Monday, October 17, 2011 | 11:13 AM
• CFL Handicapping the CFL stretch run If famed Woodbine race announcer Dan Loiselle were calling this year's race for the Grey Cup as it heads around the final turn, he'd be hanging out of his little booth screaming "There's a stampede at the head of the stretch!" That there is. And heading for the line it's the closest race in many years. Here's the morning line on the five contenders, one outsider and two pretenders for the 2011 Grade 1 Grey Cup Stakes. Posted: Friday, October 14, 2011 | 11:02 PM
• CFL Power Rankings CFL Power Rankings: Week 15 Once a week, Malcolm Kelly breaks down the balance of power in the Canadian Football League. Posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 | 11:08 AM
• CFL When dominoes fall, good CFL GMs are ready Anthony Calvillo may be the most outstanding player on the Montreal Alouettes, year by year, but if general manager Jim Popp had to vote for most valuable on his roster, Diamond Ferri might get at least a little consideration. Posted: Saturday, October 8, 2011 | 08:40 PM
• CFL Ticats QB Boltus understands life as 3rd stringer Jason Boltus is the pride of Hartwick College, a beautiful little liberal arts school nestled in the Catskill Mountains where the native of Baldwinsville, N.Y., (pop. 7,053) became the NCAA Division III all-time leader in total offence. Posted: Sunday, October 2, 2011 | 11:22 AM
• CFL Former Ticat attempting to resurrect U of T When Greg Gary told friends he was going to take over the University of Toronto football program, a few of them were taken a tad aback. Posted: Sunday, September 25, 2011 | 09:34 PM
• CFL For Williams, it's not the weight, it's the wow As the Toronto International Film Festival winds down, it seems appropriate to provide this sneak peak at the debut season of Chris Williams, Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Posted: Friday, September 16, 2011 | 12:51 PM
• CFL CFL teams should never surrender Yogi Berra may not have been thinking of the Canadian Football League when the Yankees legend once mused on how games are never over until they're over. But where else can a team that started the season 1-7 find itself in the playoffs 10 weeks later after a hot finish? Posted: Saturday, September 10, 2011 | 10:50 AM
• CFL Lemon's actions likely led to exit out of Toronto The Cleo Lemon quarterback experiment is over. Long live Steven Jyles.   Posted: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 | 01:54 PM
• CFL CFL's mid-season: 10 things we learned As the Canadian Football League heads through the halfway point, CBCSports.ca's Malcolm Kelly takes his annual look at some lessons learned in the first two months. Posted: Friday, September 2, 2011 | 11:35 AM
• CFL Firings linger forever: CFL coaches The late Punch Imlach once found out he was no longer employed as general manager by the Toronto Maple Leafs by showing up for work one day and finding his parking spot had been taken away. Posted: Sunday, August 28, 2011 | 12:36 PM
• CFL The block: Where courage trumps technique The block. Knocking an onrushing defender down. Getting in their way. Keeping them out of the play or off the quarterback. It seems so simple, and yet is one of the toughest things for a football player to learn, and especially to learn to do well. Posted: Friday, August 19, 2011 | 01:40 PM
• CFL A few minutes with Adriano Belli* Do you ever wonder what a quarterback sounds like when a 290 pound defensive lineman falls on him? Posted: Friday, August 12, 2011 | 06:39 PM
• CFL CFLers define that 'magic moment' The perfect football moment.  A ball hangs up there, gleaming under the summer lights, spinning in the tightest of spirals, dropping, seemingly ever so slowly, into the soft hands of a speeding receiver who is no more than half a step - a mere blink of an eye - in front of the defender.   Six points. Lovely. Posted: Friday, August 5, 2011 | 01:02 PM
• CFL Fear factor influences CFL passing game Defenders call it Alligator Arms. And you've seen it. That's when a receiver or slot back has been hit a couple of times on pass routes, and suddenly their willingness to put those hands aggressively up in the air to haul in the ball begins to fade. The defensive backs and linebackers love that moment, one that used to be called "hearing footsteps," because it's the time you can really smell fear. Posted: Friday, July 29, 2011 | 11:36 AM
• CFL New injury treatment hits the CFL Tiger Woods has had it. Kobe Bryant has had it. Byron Parker has had it. And I've had it. If there's any justice in the world, the more famous in that above list also yelled like a six-year-old having his first booster shot when they received it, so I can feel better. Posted: Saturday, July 23, 2011 | 11:11 AM
• CFL Quarterbacking then and now Wally Gabler remembers a time in 1968 when his then-Toronto Argonauts were playing Ottawa in a two-game East final, and coach Leo Cahill came to his quarterback for a chat. Posted: Friday, July 15, 2011 | 07:09 PM
• CFL Undersized Suber packs big punch for Bombers Winnipeg's Alex Suber is yet another example of how the Canadian Football League has offered homes to those who may not fit the NFL's idea of what size you need to be a good football player. Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2011 | 03:23 PM