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What Is the CFL’s Negotiation List, and How Do the Tiger-Cats Approach Theirs?

July 2, 2025 | Steve Milton
What was once so private is now oh so public. On Wednesday morning the CFL announced that, starting immediately, all nine teams’ negotiation lists will be constantly available, open for football ...

Tiger-Cats deliver team game, build momentum from defence-driven first win

June 30, 2025 | Steve Milton
When you play complementary football … you’re going to get compliments. So take a bow, Hamilton Tiger-Cats; you deserved this one. Top to bottom. You needed it too. There were enough positives in ...

All eyes on Veresuk and Ward as Ticats hunt first victory

June 26, 2025 | Steve Milton
The Ticats didn’t make many adjustments to their roster this week, but a couple they did make are pretty significant ones. On Wednesday, the Cats released starting middle linebacker Kyle Wilson, ...

Tiger-Cats Use Bye Week to Reset Before Alouettes Showdown

June 16, 2025 | Steve Milton
The good news is that three-quarters of the CFL East is off to a stumbling start. The bad news is that their next game happens to be against the other quarter. The Tiger-Cats headed into their ...

The legendary 1986 Ticats: No way they were going to lose third straight

June 11, 2025 | Steve Milton
From the Archives: As the Hamilton Tiger-Cats prepare to honour the 1986 Grey Cup championship team at Hamilton Stadium this Saturday, we’re revisiting Steve Milton’s feature on the legendary ...

Mitchell Hits Milestone, Wooden Breaks Loose, and Tiger-Cats Vow to Clean Up and Come Back Strong

June 9, 2025 | Steve Milton
There was late drama, and some interesting plot twists but ultimately the story had the same ending. One we’ve read too many times before. Once again the Hamilton Tiger-Cats could not find the ...

New Season, New Script: Tiger-Cats Look to Flip the Narrative and Start Fast in Calgary

June 5, 2025 | Steve Milton
It seems like such a long, almost interminable, time since last season ended but suddenly here it is; the new season is upon us. If there was a soundtrack it’d be the Hallelujah Chorus.

Roster Set, Focus Locked: Tiger-Cats Ready to Charge Into Calgary for Season Opener

June 1, 2025 | Steve Milton
All along, they’ve been installing plays and concepts for Opening Night, but they also had to find the time and mental energy to choose the group which will play in that game. Now that they’ve ...

Eleven Years Later, Tiger-Cats Return to the Field That Defined a Season

May 29, 2025 | Steve Milton
It’s not the first time they’ve returned to the scene of the non-crime, but when the Tiger-Cats travel to Guelph Friday night, they’ll be travelling back into history. Guelph is the site of the ...

As training camp ends, Milanovich says Tiger-Cats are right where they need to be

May 28, 2025 | Steve Milton
Over and Out. The Tiger-Cats staged their final full practice of the week on Wednesday morning, which means 2025 training camp’s heavy lifting is done.  All that remains is Thursday’s spirited ...

With major roster cutdown looming it’s a tense few days, even for coaches and high draft picks

May 27, 2025 | Steve Milton
The second week of training camp is an exercise in multi-tasking. Coaches are looking slightly ahead as they prepare their offences and defences for the impending opening of the regular season, ...

It was only pre-season but some good indicators for Ticats, including the “win” on draft night

May 26, 2025 | Steve Milton
A win is a win, especially against Toronto and even in a pre-season game because there’s competitive muscle memory involved. Get used to the feeling and maybe it becomes a habit. So, while there ...

Hamilton Tiger-Cats Working as a Unit—On and Off the Field

May 23, 2025 | Steve Milton
Here’s an old personal football joke, which is really only half-joking, because it’s based on longtime observation. Q: What is the rarest sight in all of pro sport? A: An offensive lineman ...

You need rain to make the crops–and football teams–grow

May 22, 2025 | Steve Milton
The incessant drizzle may throw a dark cloud over the rest of us but it puts sun into the heart of football coaches trying to prepare a team for every environmental possibility. So the Ticats’ ...

Hoping to open year on a stronger note, Ticats likely to give starters more time in Saturday pre-season game vs. Argos

May 21, 2025 | Steve Milton
One of the main reasons Scott Milanovich scheduled Sunday’s high intensity intrasquad game, with lots of unlimited body contact, was to get a leg up on the regular season. For a plethora of ...

Addition of Lawler, subtraction of triple jump has multiple-all-star White optimistic about an even better season

May 20, 2025 | Steve Milton
“I don’t feel like I’ve necessarily dominated yet. There have been times where I have, but I feel like there's just much more to come, you know?” This was Ticat receiver Tim White talking Tuesday ...

Black and Gold Kickoff: It’s a different look when there’s game-type contact

May 19, 2025 | Steve Milton
Scott Milanovich saw some of the things that he wanted to see—and some that he didn’t—Sunday night, and that included the weather. For the second straight spring, the Ticat head coach revived the ...

Nik Constantinou is Back, and In Form

May 16, 2025 | Steve Milton
Australian born punter Nik Constantinou, who had some off-season tryouts with NFL teams, has looked good in his second season in a Ticat uniform, lofting the ball a little higher and hitting ‘the ...

Speed, Hits, and Horsepower: TyJuan Garbutt Embraces Tiger-Cats’ Physical Style — and His Passion for NASCAR

May 15, 2025 | Steve Milton
The Tiger-Cats weren’t on the practice field on Thursday but that doesn’t mean they weren’t busy. The coaching staff held meetings with each other and the players, many of the players did some ...

No Time to Relax: Ticats Training Camp Opens with Urgency and Precision

May 12, 2025 | Steve Milton
They’re not in mid-season form by any means, but you certainly couldn’t have guessed from watching the Tiger-Cats' offence Monday morning that this was the first full team practice of training ...
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