Flames and Stamps...what else do you need? maybe the world series, nfl, Hitmen and CIS football

Flames!
ok so the flames appeared to have turned a corner on tuesday with a 2-1 win at home over the washington capitals. they only gave up one goal, killed a 9 minute penalty and Kipper didnt let in the "softy". but it was one game, the flames are in Nashville tonight and are down 3-0. the flames are 2-3-1. c'mon flames

Stampeders!
well another expected win for the other Red and white Calgary club. they defeated the Bombers 37-16 on a decent October saturday night at McMahon stadium. the Bombers clinched a playoff spot at gametime as the Argos lost badly to the Alloettes. the Bombers fell to 6-10, but will host a western team in the east semifinal. The Stamps move to 11-5, 2 points up on the Riders and Leos after those teams won on the weekend. The Eskimoes are 4 points back and will be the crossover team if they lose on Saturday to the Riders. The Stamps can clinch first in the west with a win over lowly Hamilton (3-13) on Friday. but this is the CFL, so anything can happen. I'd expect a Stamps win though.

in the world series of baseball, Tampa Bay is playing Philidelphia. Philidelphia won game 1 in Tampa Bay.

the Hitmen won again last night, and are 11-3, a great start for a team that was expected to struggle with the loss of some key parts.

the Dinos are another Calgary team that is doing well down the stretch. they are in third place in the west conference with a record of 5 wins and 2 losses. in the final game of the reg season, the University of Calgary plays the University of Alberta(1-6) on saturday. the Dinos are garunteed a playoff spot, and will likely host a playoff game.

of course the NFL is also going on, but dont expect me to cover it, haha.

thats all,
Adam

Stamps poised to take first, flames scoring but lack defense

first off, the big turkey day game - Stamps vs Riders.
winner takes the season series and the leg up on the division, loser falls 2 points back of first and in a three way tie for 2nd.
well this game wasn't even close. from the start the Stampeders took a 10-1 lead, after a game of many turnovers, which the Stampeders capitalized on for 27 points, the Riders fell the the Stamps 42-5. the Riders managed to muster more yards passing than the Stamps (not by much) but could only produce a field goal and two singles. 7 turnovers will do that. you can't win turning the ball over.
after the weekend, including an Edmonton win over BC, the Stamps were 10-5, 2 points ahead of BC, Sask, and Edmonton, with the tie breaker in hand vs the Leos and Riders with only three games left.
tonight the 3rd last week started in what was a close game wherein BC defeated Edmonton 42-28, taking the season series en route to a temporary tie with calgary for first. Edmonton will likely finish the weekend in last, as the Riders play the lowly Ticats (who had thier playoff hopes officially extinguished last week), im giving the riders a win there. Calgary plays Winnipeg tomorrow, and with a win over the 6-9 Bombers will move back into sole possetion of first

The Stampeders can win the division with 2 wins in their last 3 games garunteed. they finish the season vs Winnipeg, Hamilton and BC.

as for the Flames, the picture isn't quite the same, albeit early on.
the Flames have played 4 games and have a record of 1-2-1, after falling to rival Edmonton tonight 4-3. they play a return match in Edmonton tomorrow night. the Flames have scored alot lately, but theyve given up over 4 goals a game on average so far.
luckily there are still 78 games left to turn it around.

in Baseball the Phillies are in the world series, awaiting the winner of the Boston Red Sox and the Tampa bay Rays.

thats all for now, im off to the Stamps vs Bombers game tomorrow

HOCKEY! and CANADIAN FOOTBALL! and baseball playoffs, and nfl, and various college sports....yay for October

alright first off, the Stampeders. they finished off the Argos two weeks ago, then proceeded to lose to the Riders in an offensive shootout this past friday 44-41, dropping to 9-5 on the season both teams played well, it came down to a fumble and an interception late in the game for the Riders, as they took advantage and the Stamps ran out of time, failing to convert an onside kick after scoring a touchdown to make it a 3 point game. the Riders pulled into a tie with the STamps and the Lions, who beat the Argos (no suprise there). the Esks beat up the Bombers to pull to within 2 points of the rest of the west. In the suprise of the weekend, Hamilton beat Montreal in what was a great, well played game by both teams (on offence at least) to keep thier slim playoff hopes alive, now 4 points back of Winnipeg with 4 games remaining.
should be an interesting finish, the STamps play the Riders again on thanksgiving, im looking forward to thanksgiving...a day off, two football games and of course turkey!

as for the Flames, they finished up the preseason with an overtime victory over the Oilers 4-3, to finish the preseason at 5-2. the Flames open up the regular season this very thursday in Vancouver. the Nhl has officially kicked off with 2 games in Europe on saturday, but the rest of the teams start this week in North America.
with the Hockey season starting this week, its time for my picks for the season. I was away most of last season (and the summer) so its really just my guess of how things will go, but who really knows anyways...its a long season, anything can happen.
(tho Montreal looks great and Detroit doesnt really have any flaws, aside from a possible stanley cup hangover)
the West:
1. Detroit
2. Dallas
3. Calgary
4. Edmonton
5. San Jose
6. Anaheim
7. Chicago
8. Vancouver
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9. Columbus
10. Nashville
11. Pheonix
12. Minnesota
13. Colorado
14. Los Angeles
15. St. Louis

EAST:
1. Montreal
2. Pittsburg
3. Washington
4. Philidelphia
5. New York
6. Ottawa
7. Tampa Bay
8. New Jersey
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9. Buffalo
10. Carolina
11. Boston
12. Florida
13. Atlanta
14. Toronto!
15. NYI
Stanley cup: Montreal over Detroit
The Hitmen are off to a solid start this season

Baseball playoffs are now on and Nfl is in full swing also.

Go Stamps and Flames and Hitmen

wake me up when september ends....stamps halftime update

alright, its been a few weeks and its time for an update.
the calgary stampeders beat Montreal 42-30 (i think) in a game that was not as close as the score indicates.
last week i had the pleasure of going to the game against the Argos at McMahon stadium with a few friends. the stamps beat up the argos 34-4. the defence and special teams won the game for the stamps as the offence didn't produce very much. other big news last week was the Riders losing thier second game to the Lions in a row and Edmonton getting thier butts kicked by Montreal 40-4. awesome!
coming into this weekend, with 6 games remaining, Calgary was tied with saskatchewan for first and edmonton and BC were tied for 3rd, two points back of the teams in first.

Edmonton lost to red-hot winnipeg last night 30-23 and could be alone in last after this weekend as BC plays the last place Hamilton Tigercats tonight.
the STamps are playing Toronto right now at the Rogers center, where they havent won since 2000. The Stamps are up 21-13 at halftime.
next week the stamps start a head to head series vs the Riders, who they are tied with at the moment, although the Riders play a tough game tomorrow in Montreal against the league leading Allouettes.

the Dinos beat Manitoba, then lost last week to SFU. today I watched them on channel 10 and they beat UBC by 13 points to move to 3-2.

the Calgary Colts of the CJFL are 4-1-1 and play the Edmonton Wildcats today

The Flames started preseason this week. I had the pleasure of going to a game with one of my buddies on tuesday vs florida, which they lost 3-2. since then they have won 3 in row, with 2 wins of over pheonix and a solid 8-2 victory over floriday last night. looking great so far!

Schnieder has been traded to Atlanta by the Ducks and no word from Sundin yet

thats all for now

Friday night football

its that time of the week again. time for Friday night football
the first game tonight is at 5pm(tsn). The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2-8) visit the Toronto Argonauts (4-6). the second game has the Montreal Allouettes (7-3) visiting the Calgary Stampeders (6-4) at 8pm (tsn). should be two good games. Go Stamps Go.
Also tomorrow the Calgary Dinos football team is playing Alberta (I think), and the Calgary Colts (CJFL) are 4-0 and play this weekend.

In baseball, the Calgary Vipers are playing a team from Orange County in the Golden league baseball championship. The series was tied at 1 going to Orange County.
The Toronto Blue Jays won again last night and are 6 games back of the wildcard spot held by the Boston Redsox with about 16 games to go.


Go Stamps

Stampeders and Dinos win in successive days

last night the Calgary Stampeders deafeated the Edmonton Eskimoes in front of 46,000 fans at Commonwealth stadium, just 4 days after losing to the same team at McMahon stadium. the Stamps outplayed the Eskimoes and won 38-33. The stamps had a rough start with an eskimoes interception return for a touchdown just 29 seconds in. but the stamps answered back on thier next drive. the first half was fairly close, with the Stamps playing well on offence and defence and not making any mistakes on special teams. the Stamps defense shut down Ricky Ray, not allowing him to throw for any touchdowns. the Stamps started the second half with a interception touchdown, again, 29 seconds in but for the right team.
the biggest thing that I saw was that the defence was actually getting sacks, with 5, to move from last in the league in the sack count. the Eskimoes made it close near the end, with a touchdown with 50 seconds left on the clock, but the Stamps were able to recover the onside kick attempt and kill the last half minute on the clock, with a first down.

The Stampeders move to 6-4, tied with the Eskimoes for second, but need to finish ahead of them because the Eskimoes won the season series, meaning they have the tiebreaker.

the University of Calgary Dinos football team beat the defending Vanier cup champions, the Manitoba Bisons 37-17 at home today. Deke Junior, Dions QB, played very well and the Dinos are now 1-1, at the quarter pole of the regular season.

the Calgary Colts, of the CJFL (canadian junior football league), are 3-0 and play Edmonton (0-3) today also.

in other sports news, Sundin still hasnt decided which team to play for if he does, but if he does Montreal and New York (Rangers ) appear to the the favourites.

Canada's national mens soccer team plays Honduras today in world cup qualifying. they tied Jamaica in thier first game of the group, they need to finish at least 2nd in the group to move on to the next round of qualifying. Mexico is the other team in the 4 team group, and are favoured to win the group as the top ranked team in the region. Canada is trying to qualify for the 2010 world cup in south Africa.

the Stampeders...have fallen to 5-4

alright so today was labour day, and the Esks and Argos came out victorious. the Eskimoes defeated the Stampeders 37-16.
the Stamps defence held up in the first half, but fell apart in the second. I don't blame this loss on the defence however. the offence couldnt seem to do much aside from run close to the endzone but not convert it into touchdowns. Burris played alright in the first half before getting hurt, coming out of halftime down 12-9, the stamps led by Dave Dickenson got a touchdown. Edmonton promptly answered back, then the Stamps proceeded to fumble away the ball on two consecutive punt returns, allowing the Eskimoes to build up two touchdown lead. Dickenson got banged up late in the game and 3rd string Barrick Nealy was put in for the final minutes.
for the first time this season the Stampeders got fully beat on all 3 facets of the game.
I didn't get to watch much of the Argos game, but the Argonaughts beat the Tiger-cats 34-31, with a close finish and Hamilton failing on a 3rd and inches with a minute left.
The Eskimoes move to within 2 points of the Riders, 2 points ahead of the Stampeders who are 2 points ahead of the Lions.
the Stamps head to Edmonton to face the Eskimoes in the rematch on Friday at 7pm (TSN)
in other CFL news, it sounds like Charles Roberts has been traded by Winnipeg to BC for Joe Smith. interesting move for both, a bit of a shakeup, but it won't save the Bombers.
so the Stampeders have fallen to 5-4, but will look better on Friday, hopefully with Burris leading the charge.
one stat that sticks out to me is sacks. the stamps D have gotten the least sacks of any team in the league, need to get to the qb more.