Argonauts
Sep
Argo ‘D’ swears off 4th quarter swoons
Courtesy Toronto Star: Even though the Argonauts won’t be facing the quarterback who picked them apart the last time they played the B.C. Lions, they’ll still be looking for a little payback tonight. Jarious Jackson, who threw three touchdown passes in overcoming a 22-7 deficit to lead the Lions to a victory last month in [...]
Sep
Argos O line pulling together
Courtesy Toronto Star: If the Argonauts do manage to salvage the 2009 season, they might look back to a dismal August night in Montreal as the turning point. That was the game the offensive line surrendered seven sacks, sending quarterback Kerry Joseph to the bench and making many wonder what the team was thinking when [...]
Sep
Mathis gets a show with Argos
Courtesy Toronto Star: The last time Jerome Mathis played in a meaningful football game, all he did was return a kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts. That was two long, painful and frustrating years ago, an eternity in the short and cruel world of pro football. But that enforced absence will [...]
Sep
Dorsey returns to Argos
Courtesy Toronto Star: Dominique Dorsey, one of the smallest men in professional football, has returned to fill a big hole for the Toronto Argonauts. The 5-foot-7, 170-pound speedster jogged onto the practice field in Mississauga yesterday to the hugs of his teammates and relief of Argos management after a failed attempt to make the Washington [...]
Sep
Brown ready to start season for Argos
Courtesy Toronto Star: Jonathan Brown thought tonight would never come. The Argonauts’ all-star defensive end will make his 2009 debut against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at the Rogers Centre after spending the first half of the season on the injured list with back problems. “Not being able to play for the first nine games kind of [...]
Sep
Argos desperate for “W”
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are holding the coffin lid, the hammer and the final nail. All that’s left is to bang that sliver of metal into place and all but put an end to the playoff aspirations of an East Division rival. The Toronto Argonauts come into tonight’s game at Rogers Centre with [...]
Sep
Ex-Argo Payton to take on new challenges
Courtesy Toronto Star: As the struggling Argos practised at the bottom of a nearby hill in advance of their rematch with the Ticats, a lone SUV pulled out of the player parking lot for the very last time. The car came to a halt. The door swung open and Jarrett Payton stepped out. He had [...]
Sep
Andrus tells fans to stay patient
Courtesy Toronto Star: A beleaguered Bart Andrus has a simple message to the increasing chorus of Toronto Argonauts fans calling for him to be ousted as the team’s head coach at the midpoint of his first season: It’s not as easy as it looks. “It’s always an amazing thing to me that everybody thinks they [...]
Sep
From bad to worse for the Boatmen…
Courtesy Toronto Star: At least the Toronto Argonauts didn’t toss this one away in the final minute. The Labour Day Classic against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats was over long before then, thanks mainly to a series of Argo turnovers, dropped passes and penalties. The end result was a 34-15 victory by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats yesterday before [...]
Sep
Argos, Ticats prepare for LDC
Courtesy Toronto Star: If there were any more storylines emanating from this afternoon’s game between the Toronto Argonauts and Hamilton Tiger-Cats, you’d have to think somebody was making them up. First, you have the usual emotion that comes with a traditional Labour Day game between two teams who have spent 59 years proving the old [...]
