Hank Ilesic remembers the sidelines well, his hands resting on a chain link fence in downtown Edmonton, watching his favourite team practice day after day. “Most of those players on that team were my idols. I’d watched them for years as I grew up,” Ilesic said. “I...
Barron Miles sat there for a moment, pondering the decision. Which play is more deflating, he was asked. An interception or a blocked kick? A master at both, the 12-year CFL vet eventually came to a decision. “I guess if I was blocking the kick I think that would be...
Barron Miles sat there for a moment, pondering the decision. Which play is more deflating, he was asked. An interception or a blocked kick? A master at both, the 12-year CFL vet eventually came to a decision. “I guess if I was blocking the kick I think that would be...
Tom Hugo was an enigma. Listed at five-foot-10 and about 220 pounds, the first Hawaiian player in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (the forerunner to the CFL) was an all-star centre for the Montreal Alouettes. Playing from 1953 to 1959, a lineman of that size...
Scott Flory isn’t sure how it happened, how at the age of 12 he was in full football gear, running out the door of his home in Regina, Saskatchewan, with one thing on his mind. “I just remember having to run across Albert Street in Regina with my pads on, riding my...
