Overtime Central

This is a quick post to address a couple CFL events the past 24 hours. A Hamilton-Saskatchewan trade needs some analysing and the CBC needs to make explanations for its lack of CFL coverage once again.
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By popular demand, I’ve expanded the Overtime Central Forums with a General Sports group consisting of CFL, Saskatchewan Roughriders, NHL and Chatter (anything goes) forums. These forums are public; you do not have to be a Overtime Central member to post or view.

I have not yet added forum rules to the site, but I do have some. First, please keep it clean. This is a family site. Second, please avoid defamation of character, whether it is someone you know, an athlete or anyone else. These forums are for constructive discussion, not anonymous attacks on people. Finally, keep it on topic. As moderator I reserve the right to delete or edit any post which does not meet with with the site standards.

If you think I’ve missed a forum topic that you would like to see, let me know and I will consider adding it.

A little late, but for those needing Overtime Central to aggregate CFL Season preview articles, here is a list of some I have come across.

• Maki: Going all out for offence
• The Globe’s predictions
• CFL team previews with odds to win the Grey Cup (Toronto Star)
• CFL panel makes their Grey Cup picks (TSN)
• CFL Week 1 Picks (Sun Media)

Other CFL News I have missed posting about

• Houston: CBC intends to go out with a bang
• McManus: 18-year CFL vet a rookie again
• Coming out of the Commissioner’s State of the League Address
  • Players Front and Centre of the CFL
  • CFL boss isn’t scared of NHL
  • Cohon reaches out to WADA’s Pound
• Renaming Grey Cup a tough sale
• Brunt: Cohon sitting pretty, but will it last?
  

Look for the return of OT Jottings (formerly Recent Links) soon.

Tomorrow the 2007 CFL season gets under way and along with it three Overtime Central contests to challenge your CFL prognosticating skills. There is a wide-range of announcements that I would like to make regarding the new contests.

• If you have not signed up as of yet, check out the contest rules and consider giving one of them a go.
• If you have signed up and made all your picks already, consider posting on one of the contest forums.
• At the bottom of your contest page, there is an entry preferences section. You can sign up for emailed reminders, pick confirmations and status updates.
• I have noted roster moves in this forum post and have updated the draft list with some missing players now that rosters have been set. Please let me know if I am missing anyone you wish to draft.
• Pick reminder emails are being sent out tonight, a little late the first time as I was waiting for additional entries.
• There will not be any Overtime Central season or week previews this year as my time will be spent on other things.

The CFL announced in a press conference today that Mark Cohon has been appointed the twelfth commissioner of the league. A search for a new commissioner began last year when it was announced Tom Wright’s contract would not be renewed past December 31, 2006.
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