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ROBSERVATIONS: Trevor’s terrific totals … Jauch talk … how to “cell” a joke … non-scoring big-gainers … and the weekly shout-outs

36 mins ago | Rob Vanstone
Suppose someone told you the Saskatchewan Roughriders could deploy a quarterback who produces at a rate that would generate 42 touchdown passes and 5,738 aerial yards over an 18-game regular ...

Spectacular showing in Steeltown ignited Weston Dressler’s Hall of Fame career

September 13, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
On a Saturday in Hamilton, tributes will be paid to someone whose breakout game took place on a Saturday in Hamilton. Weston Dressler and his fellow members of the Canadian Football Hall of ...

Hall of Fame profile: Roughriders struck gold when they signed Vince Goldsmith

September 12, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
The Saskatchewan Roughriders never formally announced the signing of Vince Goldsmith. There wasn’t a press conference, or even a press release. But when training camp kicked off in May of 1981, ...

Northern Football Jamboree visits Regina in late September

September 11, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
The Saskatchewan Roughriders will soon play a home game with an entire league in the stands. The 10th Northern Football Jamboree is to be held Sept. 27 to 29 in Regina. The jam-packed agenda ...

“It’s something more than football”: Thom, Sheldon team up for Beat Cancer game

September 11, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
Rivals on the football field, the Thom Trojans and Sheldon-Williams Spartans are joining forces to confront a formidable opponent. Cancer. The Regina Intercollegiate Football League teams’ second ...

Jordan Linnen on football: “I think it saved my life”

September 10, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
Video has long been a part of the equation for detail-oriented football coaches. In the case of Jordan Linnen, there is even more to the picture. When he rewinds and takes stock of his first 34 ...

Nick Wiebe’s proud parents took a flight to watch the Green and White

September 9, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
Everything was on an entirely new plane for Rob and Diane Wiebe when they flew to Winnipeg to watch their son, Nick, make his CFL debut with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. “We’ve travelled around ...

Rob Vanstone: At a loss for words after latest heartbreaker

September 8, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
WINNIPEG — Enough heartbreakers! The Saskatchewan Roughriders need a streak-breaker. The Roughriders’ winless string reached seven games (0-6-1) due to Saturday’s 26-21 CFL loss to the Winnipeg ...

Corey Mace | September 7th Post-Game

September 7, 2024 | Staff
“We got to tighten it up.”

Trevor Harris | September 7th Post-Game

September 7, 2024 | Staff
“We’ve got guys that are hungry.”

Marcus Sayles | September 7th Post-Game

September 7, 2024 | Staff
“We’re gonna recharge, come back and start winning some games.”

Blue Bombers 26, Roughriders 21: “It’s a bad taste in our mouth right now”

September 7, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
WINNIPEG — The Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers collided in another down-to-the-wire thriller on Saturday. Six days after the Blue Bombers won 35-33 at Mosaic Stadium, Winnipeg ...

ROBSERVATIONS: The demonstrated dangers of dismissiveness … breakout year for Bryan Cox Jr. …  “championship DNA” … and keeping up with KeeSean

September 7, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
WINNIPEG — Nearly 20 years ago, the Saskatchewan Roughriders were written off faster than my transmission-optional 1973 Mercury Montego. A younger version of yours truly sat in the press box at ...

Labour Day Rematch: “It’s going to be like Rocky IV”

September 6, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
WINNIPEG — Rare is the line of work in which someone is critiqued, at times indelicately, by a live audience that easily exceeds 30,000. But that is part of the routine for Trevor Harris, who ...

Corey Mace | September 6th Pre-Game

September 6, 2024 | Staff
“We have to be dialled in everything”

Trevor Harris | September 6th Pre-Game

September 6, 2024 | Staff
“When I’m playing, I’m giving you everything I got”

Bryan Cox Jr. | September 6th Pre-Game

September 6, 2024 | Staff
“We need to get one, and this is the one we need to get”

Labour Day Rematch records: It all started with Ronnie in 1977

September 6, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
The 20th consecutive Labour Day Rematch will be the 28th overall. But let’s start with 23. Ron Lancaster was the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ quarterback when they first visited the Winnipeg Blue ...

Wiebe-Ford chirping precedes Huskies-Rams rivalry game

September 5, 2024 | Rob Vanstone
Alumni of the University of Regina Rams and University of Saskatchewan Huskies don’t always get along as amicably as Nick Wiebe and Jaxon Ford. It helps, mind you, that they are teammates with ...
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