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Montreal Alouette fans are the only ones in North America that cheer loudest when their team challenges a ruling.

It might be a French thing but the last minute of the Saskatchewan-Montreal game with the Alouettes trying to pull off a miracle, lasted 23 plays, with Saskatchewan finally running out the clock after it was obvious Montreal was out of hope. The last 3 plays were like a Montreal beauty 36-24-36. 36 seconds left and Montreal turns over the ball. 24 seconds left when Saskatchewan turns over the ball and 36 seconds suddenly left, again, for Montreal to try and score.

The biggest losers in the new NFL collective bargaining agreement will be rookies who are now subject to a salary cap. This means most College players will now need at least 6 games under their belt before they can pay back all the “loans” from College “recruiters”.

The wife of Rupert Murdoch, Wendi Deng, leaped to his defense and thwarted a rush from an oncoming protester trying to hit her husband with a pie. Asked to comment battered and bruised Winnipeg Blue Bombers QB Buck Pierce thought his running backs could learn how to pick up the blitz from her.

A new study says men cheat on their partners for certain reasons such as being a risk taker, are easily aroused or they are taking an NBA road trip. Women cheat mostly because the guy they are with is taking NBA road trips.

3 people in Regina have been charged with operating a sophisticated marijuana grow operation by planting the pot between a crop of watermelons. Police say the 3 will be charged with trafficking, distributing and failure to produce enough watermelon helmets for the game against Calgary.

Brains of former CFL players have been donated to the Canadian Sports Concussion Project and a pattern has emerged with those players most likely to have damage graduating from the School of Hard Knocks.

Toronto is considering turning their Library over to private interests and in keeping with the Cities new green energy policies will burn all the environmental books to power a fan to keep the Mayor from sweating on everyone.
Calgary is looking to expand their home sharing plan where seniors live with a student to include seniors living with a health care worker. The expansion came about when a survey found most of the seniors play for the Calgary Flames and need special medical attention.

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took a shot at Washington by saying if the NFL can come to a deal on a collective bargaining agreement they should be able to do something on the debt ceiling. Both negotiations revolve around rookies with the NFL throwing their new players under the bus to get an agreement and Washington Tea Party rookies prepared to throw their country off the cliff to destroy any chance of getting one.

A Pastor in the US while giving a blessing to a NASCAR race thanked God for his “Smoking Hot Wife” which was followed by an awkward moment when the Pit Crews all chimed in “Amen”. Good thing the Pastor wasn’t Catholic or he would have been thanking God for the smoking hot young male peanut vendors.

A report out of Philadelphia says former Flyers Mike Richards and Jeff Carter were traded because of their drinking problems. The report is being denied by the players although fans of the Flyers figure someone was drunk when the trades happened.

This is not the 1st time this year an NHL team has been accused of drinking heavily with the last one being a GM who was considering signing Alexi Yashin to another contract.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach says the Province cannot give money to private business because they can’t appear to be picking winners, which is why they are giving $100 million to the Edmonton Oilers. Ed says no one can accuse the Oilers of being winners.

GE is sending their X-Ray business to China but they say they will use the tax breaks fought for by Tea Party members to see if they can find US jobs.

The US soccer association fired men’s coach Bob Bradley after a couple of poor results. Bradley says he was disappointed by the decision but will use his lack of success and scoring to make a run for Congress.

The Republican Party is deeply divided on what to do with the debt crisis. Tea Party members want the country to go bankrupt while the more moderate members want to give everyone a gun and let God figure it out.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford wants to cut all cultural services to balance the city’s budget. Ford says with the Jays, Leafs and Raptors Toronto has all the culture a World Class City needs.

The City of Edmonton is replacing all its 98,000 traditional street lights with high-efficiency LED lighting in an effort to save money. The city will now have dim bulbs in both the street and running their beloved Oilers.