The CFL will implement adjustments to its rules on low block and command centre intervention in 2024. Backfield players, regardless of their position at the snap, can now cross the offensive formation and deliver a low block on a defensive player who is lined up across from or outside the offensive tackle. But the block must occur in the legal low-block zone. This removes the requirement of the backfield player to be in the legal low-block zone at the snap. The change was made to make the call e
TORONTO — Long-time TSN broadcaster Darren Dutchyshen has died, the network announced Thursday. TSN said Dutchyshen died Wednesday at age 57. The cause of death was not provided, but his family said in a statement he was "surrounded by his closest loved ones." "His sharp wit remained until his final moments, classically delivering plenty of jokes — most of them pretty good and all of them inappropriate," his family said. Dutchyshen revealed he had prostate cancer on Sept. 9, 2021, and spent a ye
GUELPH, Ont. — He missed time last season with a concussion but Toronto Argonauts receiver Tom Nield won't be wearing a Guardian cap in CFL games. The CFL announced Wednesday it was giving players the option of wearing the soft protective helmet covers during games this season. But the league did make mouthguards mandatory, adding violations will be deemed as dress-code offences and subject to fines. The six-foot-three, 203-pound Nield, of Guelph, Ont., appeared in nine games last season but sti