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3/9/2010
Tickets for the first regular season CFL game in the Maritimes go on sale March 24th in a special pre-sale on cfl.ca.
Tickets range from 29 to 79-dollars for the Argos-Eskimos matchup on September 26th in Moncton.
General ticket sales begin March 25th.
About 20-thousand seats at the University of Moncton Stadium will be available.
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3/8/2010
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have launched a new program to improve the health and lifestyle of thousands of local children.
The "BeFit" program will visit 80 schools over the next year and will provide a healthy breakfast for more than 12-thousand students from grades 3 to 6.
The children will also be invited to a fitness day at a Ticats practice.
Marwan Hage, Ray Mariuz and Auggie Barrenechea launched the program this morning at St. Patrick's elementary school on East Avenue.
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3/5/2010
Montreal Alouettes head coach Marc Trestman is the CFL's coach of the year.
Trestman had the league's best regular-season record at 15-3 and won a Grey Cup title.
Hamilton Tiger-Cat head coach Marcel Bellefeuille and Saskatchewan's Ken Miller were also finalists.
Bellefeuille led Hamilton to a 9-9 record, a second-place finish and a playoff spot in his first full season as head coach.
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3/5/2010
The CFL's Coach of the Year will be named this afternoon.
The nominees are Hamilton's Marcel Bellefeuille, Montreal's Marc Trestman and Saskatchewan’s Ken Miller.
Bellefeuille led the Ticats to a 9-and-9 record last season and a home playoff game for the first time since 2001.
The last Ticat to win coach of the year was Greg Marshall in 2004.
Bellefeuille says he will introduce his 2010 coaching staff next week.
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3/5/2010
The CFL's overtime format may have a new wrinkle in 2010.
The rules committee is recommending that teams who score a touchdown in overtime be forced to try a 2-point conversion instead of kicking an extra point.
In a media release, CFL Director of Officiating Tom Higgins said, "The rules committee decided that the two point convert will make an exciting approach to overtime even more exciting, with a pass or run with the game potentially on the line replacing a kick that has become relatively routine."
A final decision on the rule change will come this Spring.
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