CFL Pickem Week 15: Everything's Coming Up Saskatchewan: There are CFL doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday night, beginning at 7 p.m. Eastern tonight with Winnipeg at Hamilton. Only three teams have winning records in the league, which seems like a statistical outlier to me. Current standings have me in the lead. Hooray self!

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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NFL Pickem Week 2: Wake Up, Al!: The NFL kicks off week 2 tonight with more low-energy Al Michaels on Amazon Prime. Make your picks.

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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Report: Wild's Kirill Kaprizov rejects NHL-record contract offer: The Wild star turned down an eight-year, $128-million extension offer on Tuesday, hockey insider Frank Seravalli reported on Wednesday.

The contract would have been the highest in NHL history in both average annual value ($16 million) and total earnings.

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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What We’ve Learned About the Kawhi Leonard Situation—and What We Haven’t: According to veteran journalist Pablo Torre’s reporting, in 2021 Clippers owner Steve Ballmer invested $50 million in a start-up company called Aspiration—and Aspiration in turn signed Leonard to a $28 million “no-show” endorsement deal.

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle

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Ken Dryden was a towering figure in the crease and a principled gentleman off the ice: Great athletes are uncommon. Great athletes who are also great people are rare as that rarest of birds, the Stresemann’s Bristlefront of Brazil. The Canadiens and the fans of Montreal are fortunate to have had two such men, Dryden and Jean Béliveau. Dryden was in the net in Moscow when Paul Henderson scored to give Canada the victory over Red Army in the greatest hockey series ever played.

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SportsFilter: The Saturday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Friday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle

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CFL Pickem Week 14: The Other Saturday Football: Canadian football returns Friday night with B.C./Ottawa followed by a Saturday tripleheader. Four teams are 6-5 or 5-6 so it might be a good time to stack up some wins (pickem standings). Good luck, CFL! My first-hand knowledge of how teams are playing is about to drop precipitously.

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Play SportsFilter's NFL Pickem: There's just one day left before the start of the National Football League's 106th season, when the Micah Parson-less Dallas Cowboys go on the road to face the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles. Our pickem contest has also returned. I don't know about you, but I am in fact ready for some football.

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SportsFilter: The Wednesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Tuesday Huddle

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SportsFilter: The Monday Huddle

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