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The Canadian flag is displayed at centre field prior to a CFL game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Tim Hortons Field on June 14, 2025. Introduction On September 22, 2025, an earthquake in Toronto sent shockwaves across Canada. More than a year later, the aftershocks are still being felt.

CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnston and the league's Board of Governors want the public to believe that moving the uprights off the goal line and out of play in 2027 will open up the middle of the end zone, allowing teams to use more of the field to score. They are wrong, intentionally misleading, and being blatantly opaque about all the massive changes coming to the Canadian Football League next year.

Western New York is rightfully proud of its contributions to the culinary world. When our local favourites turn into world-renowned cuisine, we deserve to celebrate that. In 1985, the first BurgerFest was held in Hamburg to celebrate a century of burgers. Hamburgers – which owe their name to the town in which they were created – are widely believed to have originated at the Erie County Fairgrounds when the sausage stand run by Frank and Charles Menches ran out of pork, so they sold ground beef patties instead. Although locals know to just call them “wings” (or at most, “chicken wings”), 2002 saw the inaugural National Buffalo Wing Festival come to the city to celebrate its most iconic dish. Inspired by Bill Murray’s insatiable character in the film Osmosis Jones , Drew “Wing King” Cerza acted fast to make the then-mythological event a now-spectacular reality. Of course, we have other foods that are uniquely ours and widely appreciated (at least regionally, although the presence o...

This isn't the first time I've said something like this. As a result of my foray with FC Buffalo and getting my first taste of soccer experience as a high schooler, I decided to more closely follow several other squads as well: Bedlington (RIP), Liverpool, Western New York Flash, the U.S. National teams. And in Major League Soccer, I chose to adopt the Portland Timbers as my favourite. Inspired by their decades-long history in the NASL, the vocal and vibrant Timbers Army, the tifos and chants that adorned Jeld-Wen Field, and their built-in hatred for fellow MLS-newcomers Seattle and Vancouver, plus the fact that they'd existed for nearly 40 years with no trophies seemed like the perfect fit. And for a time, it was. But along came Minnesota United. Entering league play in 2017 (in a 5-1 loss at Portland, may I add), the "Loons" didn't carry the same weight of tradition as the Timbers. However, the colours, nickname, logo, and my personal familial ties to the st...

Good morning, and welcome to hell. Yesterday, a report emerged that Ohio University has initiated and engaged in conversations with the Sun Belt Conference about the possibility of exiting the Mid-American Conference to join the SBC. Before we go in-depth as to why that’s an asinine idea to think, let alone say out loud, let me make my stance on this crystal clear: This is a bad idea.

The usually-biennial trip to Western New York has arrived once again for the Ohio softball team. The Bobcats (23-22, 11-8 MAC) have won eight of their last 10 conference contests, including two of their three home games against Western Michigan this past weekend during the program's 50th anniversary celebration at the Ohio Softball Field. Their current position - fifth place in the MAC table - could be bolstered in these three games against ninth-place Buffalo (15-25, 7-11 MAC), but if history tells us anything, it's that one very important variable has yet to play its part in determining the Bobcats' postseason fate. Carolyn Spacek (right) celebrates her third-inning home run with  Lauren Yuhas (1)  and Megan McMenemy (21) at Canisius College's Demske Sports Complex.   March 19, 2022 Field conditions and weather at Nan Harvey Field have been responsible for the Ohio-UB series getting relocated or cancelled each of the last four times they've been scheduled to meet ...

A video from 2007 featuring then-rookie running back Marshawn Lynch has recently been making the rounds on social media. The clip then exploded when ESPN tweeted it out on Wednesday, allowing many followers to enjoy its humour for the first time. While the video itself is funny enough, there’s a heavy backstory to it that many who weren’t Bills fans at the time might not know. - - -  Willis McGahee was drafted by the Bills in 2003, and from 2004-2006 was the team’s starting running back.   After the 2006 season ended, McGahee sat down for an interview with Penthouse, in which he seemed to suggest the team should move to Canada. The comments did not sit well with fans, who for nearly two decades had to deal with relocation rumours surrounding the team. They despised him for what he said; they burnt posters of him, wrote songs for their YouTube channels, sold “Willis is Trash” t-shirts, and even chipped in for billboards. About two months after (and perhaps because of) the Pent...