Ticats

The Ticats are the last of four CFL teams to decide on a new head coach this off-season.

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Next up for the Ticats is a game next Friday at home against East Division-leading Montreal.

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The Ticats defence - with CFL sacks co-leader Justin Hickman - showed at times it could trouble quarterback Anthony Calvillo, who, last week, was sacked four times and threw for just 63 yards.

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And tailback Cory Boyd suggested he'd run for 200 yards against the Ticats in the game.

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The Als and Ticats split their four-game series this season and each had a blowout victory.

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Given the strange stagnancy that set in - the Ticats have known for weeks they'd finish third in the East and be a road team, awaiting only the identity of their semi-final foe - it might yet prove to be a masterstroke by Bellefeuille: a necessary shock to the system of a team that has slipped into the mediocrity of repeated seasons spent hovering at or around the .500 mark.

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That gave the Ticats the season series, and thus the tiebreaker if the two teams somehow finished tied in the standings.

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The stewards of the CFL are "seized" by this challenge and its board of governors has agreed to pool $1-million of collective dough to pour into southern Ontario, $500,000 to the Argos and $500,000 to the Ticats.

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The Esks are healthy and confident after thumping the Ticats last week, and appear primed to put together a win streak.

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The playoffs are why the Ticats went out and pursued free-agent running back Avon Cobourne, Marcus Thigpen is a multiposition game-breaker and, in many ways, the Als are the reason the Ticats overhauled their receiving corps this season moves that included ditching Arland Bruce III.

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