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cfl: Could It Be Miller Whine Time? Column by Bob Hughes - 10/17/11 08:34 PM
So, the kindly old coach sat there, in front of the baying dawgs of the media, and the creases in his grandfatherly face seemed squeezing tighter as each word slid off the big mouths of the media wretches, who now could smell blood. And, he was in an ugly mood. And, he was not at all happy having to be there, answering to all these no nuthin’s, whose role in life is something he has always known: To build somebody up and then tear them down. At his feet, lay the carnage of one of the worst seasons in Saskatchewan Roughrider … (1 comments)
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cfl: It was the Best of Times, and It Was the Worst of Times! Column by Bob Hughes - 10/11/11 04:22 PM
The depth; that was the thing. The deeply-rooted depth that created a luxury of challenges, all of them, all, when thrown into the mix, produced a Grey Cup championship and back-to-back Grey Cup appearances. There was the young gunslinger given the endorsement of the kindly old coach to be the starting quarterback on an offense that had what was likely the best corps of pass receivers in the Canadian Football League. They were like lightning, you just never knew where and when they would strike. And, they clapped with the sound of thunder, rolling across the CFL West, bringing home playoff … (0 comments)
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cfl: The Nightmare on 10th Avenue! Column by Bob Hughes - 10/03/11 10:17 PM
Why is it that people in Regina stop at intersections which have no Stop signs, and don’t stop where there is a Stop sign? Because they do. And, why is it that the Saskatchewan Roughriders can’t figure out just what is wrong with a team that was in the last two Grey Cup games and now seems destined for a last place finish? Because they can’t. In the sober, somber aftermath of the Massacre in McMahon, which preceded the Torture in Taylor Field, vice-president of football operations and head coach Ken Miller mentioned he was going to sit down with some … (0 comments)
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cfl: Turn Out the Lights; The Party is Over... Column by Bob Hughes - 09/26/11 10:53 PM
Saturday, it was an unusual day. Saskatchewan’s late summer spawned 30 degree plus temperatures with only a whisper of a breeze. The sky was a sheet of bright blue, and there was more of the same on the way. Ah, yes, more of the same.
In a baking hot Taylor Field on that day in September, it took the stinging words of a B.C. Lions player named Aaron Hunt to bring it all home, to wipe away the makeup and the costume and the makeover. Said the large Lions’ tackle, in words that hurt, perhaps because they seemed so true: “They … (1 comments)
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cfl: Back from the Dead - and with a Big Bang! Column by Bob Hughes - 09/20/11 10:37 AM
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, the Saskatchewan Roughriders have jerked themselves from the land of the living dead in one of the most arresting stories so far this season in the Canadian Football League. Seemingly ready for the embalmer after falling to 1-7 in a pathetic first-half of the season, the Roughriders resembled anything like a Grey Cup bound team, unless they were willing to buy tickets to the big game in Vancouver. And, then, somebody blinked, and it all turned around. Just like that, actually. From the very beginning of the season, there were three impediments standing in … (0 comments)
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cfl: Switching to Slow Motion - Column by Bob Hughes - 01/12/11 06:30 PM
Somewhere on the shores of the mighty Wascana, the drums are beating. It is the annual gathering of the Loyal Disorder of Rider Priders, those long enough in the teeth that they remember the enduring horror of the Reign of Error. Across the frozen lake of thin ice are the lights of the city, beaming into the black prairie sky under minus-20 temperatures.
This will not keep the Loyal Disorder from spending the nights in their tee-pees sheltered by the great tall trees that each were hand-planted by the forefathers. When there is a wind, the tents flap hard against the … (1 comments)
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cfl: Remembering Jim Duncan, and a Few Other Things... - 01/08/11 08:28 PM
Column by Bob Hughes Jim Duncan died the other day at the age of 86 years of age, which is a good and long life and it was well lived. Jim Duncan is well-known around these parts. Only, you have to be a little old to remember that he was an assistant coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and a head coach with the Calgary Stampeders. And, he won Grey Cups with both of those teams, with Saskatchewan in 1966 and with the Stampeders in 1971. He was from North Carolina and his voice was a southern drawl and he had a … (0 comments)
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cfl: The Rider Nation Gets Its Marshall! - 01/05/11 09:59 PM
Can He Marshall Up A Grey Cup? By Bob Hughes So, it’s Greg Marshall, eh? How about that? Here’s a guy who has been knocking on the head coaching door in the Canadian Football League from the time Eve picked her first apple, or so it seems. And, where does he land? In Saskatchewan, moving into the big easy chair occupied by Ken Miller for two years of Grey Cup futility. The Roughriders are fast becoming Winnipeg East or perhaps more of a refuge for guys who wandered through the Manitoba wasteland searching for the Promised Land. There are players and … (0 comments)
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cfl: Thank Goodness for the Riders - Column by Bob Hughes - 12/09/10 01:38 PM
The best thing the Regina Pats have going for them right now is the Saskatchewan Roughriders. As the Pats, once a glory team in junior hockey, flounder through another abysmal season, headed for yet another year out of the playoffs, nobody is talking about them. Perhaps, the shock of missing the playoffs a year ago when they had, among others, a star named Jordan Eberle in the lineup, is still rolling through the city, and, thus, their pratfall this season is nothing more than the norm for what was once the cornerstone franchise of the junior hockey in Canada. Thus, they … (1 comments)
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cfl: And Just What is the Culture? Column by Bob Hughes - 12/05/10 11:15 PM
So, as the stomach continues to churn in Riderville, one question keeps persisting in seeking a definitive answer. That would be, who will be the next head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders now that Ken Miller, at 69 years of age, has ridden off into the coaching sunset, earning a well-deserved nap in his final football role as vice-president of football operations, whatever that means? Throughout the albeit brief time the Rider Nation has had to digest, spit out, and digest again what the criteria should be for finding a successor to Miller as head coach, there has been a lot … (0 comments)
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cfl: This Definitely Is A Little Bit Strange Column By Bob Hughes - 12/02/10 11:28 PM
What have the Saskatchewan Roughriders done three times in the last four years? If you said, appear in three Grey Cup games, you are correct. But that’s not the answer. The answer is, three times in the last four years the Roughriders, Canada’s most envied organization, has had to go searching for a new head coach. Ken Austin came here in 2007. He worked a miracle no other coach in the game had been able to work. He made a star out of quarterback Kerry Joseph, who hadn’t done anything before that Grey Cup win and hasn’t done anything since. Before … (1 comments)
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cfl: A Coming Of Age That Is A Thing Of Raw Beauty - Column by Bob Hughes - 11/26/10 11:28 AM
Somewhere, he is smiling. Because no matter where he was, whether it was in Edmonton or Hamilton or parked in a television booth, his heart was always with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. I used to think that Ron Lancaster was invincible. During his 18 unequalled seasons as a quarterback in the Canadian Football League, all but three of them with Saskatchewan, Ronnie took ground-shaking hits from the likes of Wayne Smith, Angelo Mosca, Tom Brown, Wayne Harris, Bill Baker, Dave Fennell, John Helton and on and on. He broke ribs, bruised bones and muscles, was knocked out, gave blood, and always defiantly … (0 comments)
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cfl: Pretty in Pink? Not in the CFL - by Bob Hughes - 10/18/10 11:31 PM
And, so, it came to pass that the Canadian Football League committed one of the biggest blunders in its long and storied history. It seems nobody at the league level had the brains to peer into the future and jump on board one of the greatest public relations accomplishments ever seen at the major league sports level. Don’t get me wrong. I have always been a huge fan of the CFL, for as long as I can remember. Hell, I made much of my living because of the CFL during the 47 years I wrote a column in Regina, Calgary and … (0 comments)
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