As autumn turns to Winter in many parts of the northern hemisphere, the sports world continues to advance. In Canada, the Grey Cup will be played to determine the Champions of the Canadian Football League. The Calgary Stampeders and the Ottawa Redblacks will play the afternoon game which concludes the CFL season. Today's game will be the 106th contest over the Grey Cup, first awarded in 1909. Since the 1920s the cup has been an east vs. west contest, and continues that way today, the eastern vs. the western champion, in those divisions of the CFL. The Grey Cup is the successor to the Canadian Dominion Football Championship, which was first contested in 1884, and then annually until superceded in 1909. The Ottawa Redblacks sole victory in the Cup was two years ago, on their second appearance, in 2016. The Stampeders have appeared more frequently, having 7 cup victories under their belts, the last in 2014. In all, Calgary has 16 cup appearances. The game will be played in the Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta, which will, perhaps have never seen such fine football. A sellout crowd of roughly 55,000 will see the top two teams in each division, which is also annually the top rated program on Canadian television. In this year's regular season, Calgary finished atop the West with a league-best 13-5 record while Ottawa was first in the East at 11-7. This will mark the second Grey Cup meeting between these two teams in three years. In 2016, the Redblacks entered 8-9-1 and won 39-36 in overtime over Calgary (15-2-1) at Toronto. The Grand Prix season ends in grand style today with the أبو ظبي Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, in the United Arab Emirates الإمارات. Last year's winner, Lewis Hamilton, who is having a great season, well let's face it a great career, has won pole position in this year's race. -- 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.
