Many wondered if Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb would be able to play out the last year of his contract in Philadelphia. Now, it appears that the Syracuse product won’t even be playing his next season in America, as the Eagles, with the unprecedented assistance of the NFL, have sold McNabb’s contract to the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.

The Roughriders will pay 70 percent of the $12.25 million left on the last year of McNabb’s deal. In return, the Philadelphia Eagles will no longer have to play with Donovan McNabb.

“I didn’t even know that my contract could have been sold to another league,” McNabb told reporters at a press conference earlier this morning. “I didn’t even know that was in the rules.” –NFL.com

With the bigger field in the CFL, McNabb will probably underthrow receivers by 20 yards or so now. And really, we should make deporting players a regular thing. The NHL moves players back and forth across the border all the time, and look how well they’re doing. Okay, bad example. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not Elton John circa 1988. Actually, this guy is Eric Tillman; he’s the general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, and he’s being charged with the sexual assault of a 16-year-old. The encounter allegedly occurred in Regina, which the way they pronounce it, rhymes with “vagina,” and really, where else would you sexually assault a girl? You know, besides her butt.

Police spokeswoman Elizabeth Popowich said an assault is believed to have taken place on Aug. 6 and was reported to police three days later. Tillman, 51, was arrested on Jan. 27 after he went to police. He was released and is to appear in court Feb. 24.

“I can only say that the alleged incident occurred in Regina and really now that there’s a charge before the courts, it’s inappropriate to discuss it further,” Popowich said.

The Roughriders have been living up to their moniker of late. In 2006, Roughriders linebacker Trevis Smith allegedly infected two women with HIV. After serving jail time, he’s going to be deported… to America! Tillman, meanwhile, has been placed on administrative leave. Good news for him, because I bet at least one high school in Canada is getting a snow day.

[TSN.ca -- thanks to Jeremy, who exclusively plows ladies who meet the state-required age of consent]

Much like the beloved American tradition, Canadia also has football on Thanksgiving.  But they have their Thanksgiving in October, because everything’s been frozen for five weeks by the time late November rolls around.

For this year’s Thanksgiving Classic, the gay motorcycle club known as the Saskatchewan Roughriders traveled to Calgary to battle the Stampeders, and Saskatchewan’s fans traveled to Calgary to battle the cops.  And certain lucky Canucks got punched in the face.  I love happy endings.

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