Canadian league championship to be decided … Its championship Sunday in Canada where the Calgary Stampeders and Ottawa Redblacks are set to battle in the 104th edition of the Grey Cup game in Toronto later today. Kick-off is scheduled for 6:30 PM ET with coverage on TSN in Canada and ESPN2 in the U.S. Calgary is heavily favored after finishing 16-2 in the regular season, while Ottawa limped home at 8-9-1, although that was good enough to lead the Eastern Conference of the CFL which wasn’t very good this year. Starting QBs are expected to be Bo Levi Mitchell of Calgary and 41-year-old Henry Burris for Ottawa. Mitchell, who played collegiately at Eastern Washington, was this year’s CFL MVP, while Burris, a Temple grad, played for both Green Bay and Chicago in the NFL in the early 2000s. And just for the record, Laval won this year’s Vanier Cup, emblematic of Canadian College supremacy, with a 31-26 win over the University of Calgary yesterday in Hamilton. That was Laval’s 4th Vanier Cup in the past 7 years, in three of which they knocked off Calgary.
