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Around The CFL Podcast
Around The CFL Podcast
Author: Anthony Parker
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Around the CFL podcast takes a look inside Canadian football. From weekly game previews and recaps to CFL stars popping by to chat. We will also be looking at the world of Canadian College Football, and advocating for women in sports.
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The East & West Semi-Finals took place this past weekend, as well ads HUGE news out of Ottawa
October 31st marks 3 years of the Around The CFL Podcast and it's playoff time. We look at week 21 in the CFL, and the past week in U-Sports. And it wouldn't be Halloween unless we sneak in and see what is scaring each of the 9 teams this spooky season.
Taking a look at week 20 in the Canadian Football League as well as an action packed U-Sport week.
We are joined this week by the CEO of all University Athletics in Canada, U-Sports' Pierre Arsenault. We chat about the CFL rule changes impacts on Canadian College Footbll, SFU, and the direction the sport is going in Canada.
We are back after a short break and we are talking week 18 as well as a look back at the Canadian College Football week, then looking forward to the playoff push of week 19 in the 2025 CFL season.
Monday's announcement by CFL Commissioner Stewart Johnson sparked a lot of conversation. This week my good friend and CFL on TSN Insider Dave Naylor comes on quickly to talk about the new rules and what we could expect. We also take a moment to celebrate the legendary life of Hamilton Tiger-Cats General Manager Ted Goveia who recently passed.
This very special guest deserves an episode all to herself. She is a Grey Cup Champion, and the first transgender athlete from either the CFL or NFL. I was lucky enough to sit down with the amazing Maven Maurer to talk about her journey and where she is today
Labour Day weekend has past and that means 2 things. We are 2/3's of the way through the 2025 CFL season, and Canadian College Football has begun. This week we recap the CFL week, as well as all of the U-Sport football games. We also send some love to our Canadian's who made the 53's in the NFL, and look ahead to week 14.
This week we are looking at the top 10 Canadians that are 2026 CFL Draft eligable. We also look back at week 11, as well as ahead to week 12.
The U-18 Women's Tackle Football National Championship was last month and joining us is the head coach of Team Alberta, Shawn Walter. We chat about his 3rd National Title and what it takes to develop his winning squad.
We are joined this week by the head coach of Team Canada's Women's Flag Football team, Rachel Lessard as well as star receiver Caroline Mouquin-Joubert. We discuss the path to the 2028 Summer Olympics including next week in China for the World Games
We are joined by the Vice-President of the IFAF, as well as Gridiron Nation's own Jim Mullin. We talk a little Canadian College Football, as well as the International Federation of American Football and the path to the 2028 Summer Olympics.
We are joined this week by the head coach of Canda's 2028 Olympic Flag Football Team, coach Paul LaPolice. We talk about Team Canada at the International Bowl and also the road to Panama for the World Qualifier. We also discuss the comments from ESPN's Pat McAfee.
Big changes in Edmonton, both professional and college football. Joining us this week is the new Head Coach of the University of Alberta Golden Bears, Stevenson Bone. We talk about his time coaching in Guelph and UBC, and what he expects to see this year with the U of A!
What a wild week it was. We are joined by the Western Regional Recruiter for the University of Toronto Varsity Blues and we discuss his long lasting career, and what it takes to make it in College Football.
It was an exciting, and in some cases wet week 3 in the Canadian Football League, and we take a look back as well as ahead to what is coming up in week 4.
Week 2 is over and brought some excitement. We look back on what was a busy week, and look ahead to the match up's in week 3.
Week 1 of the 2025 CFL regular season is over and we recap everything that happened, as well as look ahead at week 2.
We are about to kick-off on another CFL regular season and we are joined by CFL on TSN Insider and friend of the show, Dave Naylor. We talk about Top 50, the 2028 Olympics, and we break down the 2025 season.
Football is back! And so are we. Joining us today is Marshall Ferguson as we talk about some notable draft picks heading to the NFL, as well as the impact this year's draft class is going to have on the coming 2025 season.



