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Ticats ‘Set the Tone’ with Statement Win in Montreal

September 8, 2025 | Steve Milton
In the jubilant afterglow, Miles Fox summarized the rainy Saturday afternoon quickly, and flawlessly. “We lost some games we shouldn’t have lost and we had to come out here and set a tone, and I ...

Tiger-Cats head to Montreal with sights set on extending East Division lead

September 5, 2025 | Steve Milton
They’re still a first-place team, and with seven games left in the season they’re a long way from must-win territory. But Saturday afternoon in Montréal is yet another big game for the Ticats, ...

Tiger-Cats Not Backing Away From Self-Reflection After Frustrating Loss

September 2, 2025 | Steve Milton
It was so clear and obvious that everyone could taste it, and it was sweet as nectar. Kenny Lawler had evaded coverage over the middle, cleanly enough that they could track him step by step and ...

Tired, injured, Ticats are still in first but need the bye week to regroup and recover

August 18, 2025 | Steve Milton
When your opportunity knocks, you’ve got to help it kick the door down. And largely because they didn’t do that when they had the early chances, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats head into a sorely ...

If you’re a member of Ticat Nation who believes in omens, you’re going to love this one

August 15, 2025 | Steve Milton
Saturday afternoon in Regina, the 6-3 Hamilton Tiger-Cats, perched in first place in the CFL East, will square off against the Saskatchewan Roughriders (7-1) who are in first place in the West.

Ticats just miss seventh win a row as Rourke-Mitchell shootout goes to overtime

August 11, 2025 | Steve Milton
Natural leader that he is, Bo Levi took great care to emphasize that while you have to hang onto the ball, especially in overtime, Tim White’s fumble in overtime was not the play that cost the ...

Extension of Streak the Focus for Tiger-Cats Amidst Celebrations

August 6, 2025 | Steve Milton
If Heaven can wait, so can savouring history. So the Tiger-Cats aren’t spending a single moment thinking about the rarefied atmosphere they’d enter if they can defeat the determined B.C. Lions in ...

Red-hot Ticats looking to win seven in a row for just the fourth time in franchise history

August 5, 2025 | Steve Milton
So, just how rare is the seventh straight win that the Hamilton Tiger-Cats—now 6-2 and a game ahead of the rest of the CFL East—will be chasing in Thursday night’s Wall of Fame game against the ...

Self-Assured Tiger-Cats Pick Six—in a Row—With Another Comeback Win

August 4, 2025 | Steve Milton
If you must wait out a 73-minute lightning delay—in the other team’s house—you might as well grab a couple of party favours on your way out the door. So, two more points in the standings for the ...

No easy games in CFL any more; Elks’ 1-5 record doesn’t reflect their talent Ticat say

August 1, 2025 | Steve Milton
One of them has surged into first place in their division, and the other has plummeted to last in theirs. But the constant and self-generated reminder all around the torridly-hot Ticats this week ...

Mitchell glitters as Tiger-Cats win five in a row for first time in six years

July 28, 2025 | Steve Milton
It’s one of Scott Milanovich’s favourite sayings about football seasons and also about the individual games within them. So here it is again: It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.

Tiger-Cats roar past 100 wins post Ivor Wynne era, set sights on win 101 in Vancouver against Lions

July 26, 2025 | Steve Milton
One hundred and counting. But for now they are only counting to one: the one they’re playing at B.C. Place Sunday night, when they hope to elongate their winning stretch to five straight games.

Bo Levi Mitchell makes history as Ticats complete East sweep and march West

July 21, 2025 | Steve Milton
You win some and you…oh wait, they haven’t lost any in over a month. The Tiger-Cats got another dominant effort from their defence, some great contain work on special teams and thoughtfully ...

The Challenge of Back-to-Backs: Redblacks will be improved so Tiger-Cats have to be improved too

July 19, 2025 | Steve Milton
It’s kind of like summer school: another week another test. “Last week is short-lived, right? What you do in the past doesn’t matter,” says Tiger-Cat running back Johnny Augustine, who will again ...

Tiger-Cats’ Jamal Peters Earns Honour Roll Nod After Standout Week 6

July 15, 2025 | Ticats Staff
Hamilton Tiger-Cats defensive back Jamal Peters delivered a standout performance in his team’s 23-20 victory over the Ottawa Redblacks, earning a spot on the CFL Honour Roll for Week 6, ...

Contenders need to win without their A‑Game and the Ticats just did

July 14, 2025 | Steve Milton
As somebody in the Tiger‑Cat locker room said quietly—about the only thing quiet in that raucous room—after the game, “we’ve won one on defence, won one on offence and won one ugly.” It was door ...

Stubblefield set for Ticat debut as depleted Ottawa rolls into town

July 11, 2025 | Steve Milton
First a little nomenclature. Reggie Stubblefield is often called Stubb’s—after the famous Bar-B-Q Sauce which was invented by his grandfather—but that’s not his nickname of choice. He prefers to ...

Multiple Tiger-Cats Earn CFL Honour Roll Recognition in Week 5

July 8, 2025 | Ticats Staff
A dominant all-around performance in the team’s 51-38 win over Toronto has landed several Tiger-Cats on the CFL Honour Roll for Week 5, powered by Pro Football Focus (PFF). Defensive ...

With offensive explosion against Argos behind them, the Ticats are already locking in on next East opponent

July 7, 2025 | Steve Milton
This is a measure of how the Ticats want to conduct themselves. Coming off the franchise’s first 50-point outburst in six years and 12 days, they celebrated for one heady evening, and by today ...

Argos vs. Ticats always means something: Friday it’s about second place in the East and staying on a roll

July 3, 2025 | Steve Milton
They’re a quarter of the way into a month-long stretch against their own division and the Ticats are undefeated. True, they’re still on the negative side of the overall ledger with opening losses ...
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