The 2018 CFL season is the 65th season of modern Canadianprofessional football. Officially, it is the 61st season of the league.Edmonton is scheduled to host the 106th Grey Cup on November 25, 2018. The regular season began on June 14, 2018,one week earlier than usual, and concluded on November 3, 2018. The Final Four teams will play for spots inthe final today. Today the Hamilton Tiger-Cats will take on the OttawaRedblacks, and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will play the Calgary Stampeders. The Bombers and the Ticats have the longestdroughths in the Grey Cup. The Redblacks and the Stamps are hungry foranother title, to extend recent domination. Winnipeg has waited since 1990 for another title, and Manitobans' hopesare running very high. The Redblacksshocked the Stampeders two years ago in Toronto to claim the championship.Calgary has played in back-to-back Grey Cup games, only to lose both indramatic fashion. The Stampeders did win the Grey Cup in 2014, however. This final showdown of the season between Hamilton and Ottawaat 1 p.m. has all sorts of drama surrounding it. The two teams have met threetimes this year, with the Redblacks always victorious. The Ticats are looking to get back to theGrey Cup for the first time since 2014 when the team thought it had beatenCalgary, only to have a late Brandon Banks punt return touchdown called back ona penalty. They also lost the championship game in 2013 to the SaskatchewanRoughriders. Calgary has been in this exact same situation so many timesbefore. In fact, the Stamps have hosted a home playoff game and made the WestFinal seven consecutive years. They havenot been good in Grey Cup competition. The past two seasons have ending in bitterdisappointment. An overtime loss to Ottawa two years ago, and a lateinterception against Toronto last year, ended Grey Cup dreams for theStampeders. Their season ending stringof losses this season, ending in a win just when they needed it to advance,should also temper their hopes. Winnipeghas won six of their last seven games. Their game should make for an exciting, if unpredictable, finish for a Sunday afternoon, and a greatprelude to next week's season crowning Grey Cup. NCAA College Basketball has returned in full force, and iswell on display today. In addition toliterally dozens of off brand games, thepreseason National Invitational Tournament, this year called the NIT Season TipOff, reaches semifinals on Wednesday, with games between Louisville andTennessee, and between Marquette and Kansas. This is one of the three mainpreseason tourneys, along the Maui Invitational and the Great AlaskaShootout. Number 5 Tennessee faces Louisville on Wednesday in the Brooklyn,New York classic. A meeting with No. 2Kansas — the preseason No. 1 — could await Friday, if Kansas manages to get byMarquette. Marquette is hungry, havingmade the national top 25 last week, forthe first time in several years, and then losing to Indiana. Basketballfans will find no shortage of games to bracket their Thanksgiving Turkey. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
