Tiger Cats
Jun
Season Preview: Hamilton Tigercats
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will be the East’s representative in the 2011 Grey cup. Their core of Veterans, lead by Kevin Glenn, and a very healthy mix of young players make the Tiger-Cats ready to take the next step in 2011. With the addition of Avon Cobourne to the line up, the Cats have added a [...]
Sep
Sleepless in Hamilton
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: Ticat head coach Marcel Bellefeuille often says that his team has 24 hours after a game to either savour a win or lament a loss before turning their focus to the next game. But after the 42-8 shellacking at the hands of the Alouettes last week, Bellefeuille seems to have broken his [...]
Sep
Can the Cats rebound?
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: Say this for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Both previous times they’ve pitched a stinker this year — prior to Friday’s 42-8 nostril scorcher — they responded the following week with a huge and completely unexpected win. You’ll recall the discouraging effort in the season opener against Toronto that had the more-emotional fans buying [...]
Sep
Potential vs. Experience
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: Calgary running back Joffrey Reynolds slices through the Ticat defensive front and into space, just one player to beat on the way to pay dirt. Sandy Beveridge is neither the biggest or the fastest of safeties but, using near-textbook positioning and technique, he hauls down Reynolds in the open field. The gain [...]
Sep
Flu bug catching up with Ticats
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: The Ticats will head into tomorrow’s game against Montreal without a few starters in the lineup. Defensive linemen Darrell Adams and Garrett McIntyre are both “questionable” for tomorrow’s game against Montreal, while wide receiver Prechae Rodriguez is unlikely to play. Halfback Geoff Tisdale is also battling the flu, something head coach Marcel [...]
Sep
Hamilton: Where have all the fans gone?
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: If you build a winner, they will come. That was the conventional wisdom used to explain sparse crowds at Ivor Wynne Stadium during the past few seasons of Tiger-Cat football. Winning 17 games in four years and being out of playoff contention by Labour Day can have a dispiriting effect on even [...]
Sep
Ticats ‘Believe’
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: The win notwithstanding, a team with any designs on going deep into the playoffs can’t have too many outings like the Ticats did on Friday. At times it looked like a pre-season contest with the inexplicable fumbles, dropped passes, silly penalties and a third-down attempt being stuffed at the line. Even some [...]
Sep
Bruce leads charge as Cats beat Stamps
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: The two-pronged quarterback attack just became a pitchfork. After all the talk about Quinton Porter and Kevin Glenn, the game-winning touchdown pass was thrown by third-string and short-yardage quarterback Adam Tafralis. His 36-yard strike to Arland Bruce gave the Cats a 24-17 win over the Calgary Stampeders last night. The winning play [...]
Sep
Quinton’s start another sign of renewal
Courtesy Globe and Mail: So how did the two principals in the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ tag-team quarterbacking system handle the news that Kevin Glenn would be bumped in favour of Quinton Porter for Friday night’s game against the Calgary Stampeders? In Glenn’s case, by hanging around and scarfing down a DQ Blizzard after practice – in [...]
Sep
And Zen there was Porter
Courtesy Hamilton Spectator: “The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.” – Zen saying Quinton Porter is on two different but parallel journeys. One is of a deeply personal and spiritual nature as he seeks understanding and perhaps even enlightenment, using the guidance provided by Eastern philosophies and their modern Western interpretations. He meditates, [...]
