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Madcap finish to football (CFL)

by Zack Miller on November 7, 2010

I love football.  My parents always joke that they used to find me up late at night watching any football I could find on the TV — girls junior varsity flag football was not out of the question.  Anyway, got to love the differences in the CFL vs. NFL — the rouge is a big [...]

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Don Narcisse was the Warren Buffett of Canadian Football.   His performance numbers over a long career speak for themselves.  A small receiver (5’9″), Narcisse began his career in the CFL with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1987 after being cut from the St Louis Cardinals.  The rest was history. Here are some of his stats after [...]

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Pro athletes are notoriously bad investors.  Once bright starts worth millions of dollars are frequently left destitute within just a few years of retirement.  Put simply, these pros completely blow it when it comes to investment management.  But it doesn’t have to be that way. The Evidence Sports Illustrated, How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke: [...]

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