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The Calgary Stampeders confirmed they've dealt the veteran quarterback Henry Burris, the 2010 league MVP to Hamilton for quarterback Kevin Glenn, offensive lineman Mark Dewit and a conditional draft pick. After Drew Tate, who recently signed a 3 year contract extension, took over first string duties late in the 2011 season, Burris' days were numbered.

Many fans will be happy to see him go, but I'm not among them.


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In a move that's certainly going to raise a few eyebrows, both in the apparent lack of communication, and also perhaps indicative to the state of the team behind closed doors, Chris Jones, the highly prized defensive coordinator for the past 3 seasons, signed with the Argos to be their defensive coordinator.

Why Jones would leave for an Argos team that's still stuck in rebuilding mode (the 10th year?) will leak out over the next couple of weeks.


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All games are on TSN subject to local blackout.

We're following the pre-season and training camp roster moves with great expectation this year despite the lack of posts. There have been no ground breaking player moves, but certainly some gaps to fill. On defence the absence of Browner and Anderson will be evident, but management seems to think we have capable replacements (it's always the secondary with issues).

On the offence some minor tinkers on the Oline and receiving corps, but overall the Stamps have brought in much of the same from last year.

Stay tuned for more information on final roster changes and upcoming season opener July 1st.

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Spoofing this junk

It probably helped that Anthony Calvillo was hurt for a few games this season, that made it hard for the Eastern based news reporters to vote for their favorite rather than the best. (Although had Calvillo played a full season it would've been close.)

Nonetheless, Henry Burris won a much deserved MOP aware at last night's Gibson's finest ceremony.


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Well we're getting back into the swing of things as training camp opened and the pre-season is about to start for the Calgary Stampeders. The season looks exciting, as always, and the team, well the team has a few holes. By a few I mean quite a few. We'll look at the changes in greater details in the coming days.

In the meantime, check out the new look of Stampeders Forum. We went with something a bit simpler, hope you enjoy. Add us to your readers and be sure to comment back. Also, we're on twitter @flamesstamps.

For updated training camp coverage check out Al Cameron who's doing a bang up job.

The Calgary Stampeders will open the 2010 season July 1st against the visiting Toronto Argonauts. Here is the rest of the 2010 scheduled dates and opponents.

Preseason will begin Sunday:

Sunday, June 13: at Edmonton 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 20: vs Saskatchewan 1 p.m.


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Crucial End of Season Run Unseen by tens of thousands

**Edit: To the credit of the organization, they did lift the blackout LATE last week, although some people said they watched it fine. This week TELUS TV did not have the game until the second quarter, late, and Starchoice customers did..... All in all this is a matter of someone in management not getting the right information out in time---not a good excuse, especially two weeks in a row.***

There are few explanations for what's transpiring in the city that will host the 2009 Grey Cup which incidentally lines the pockets of owners with an extra game of 200 dollar tickets X 45,000 = over 1 million dollars extra.

For the second week in a row the Stampeders have blacked out the home game on national coverage, the first time they've blacked out in over a year, and the second time in as many weeks. Last week the team issued an explanation, not an apology, on why the game was blacked out which you can read here.

The reason? They didn't sell 90% of the seats. Why didn't they sell? Because the organization has ADDED Over 5000 seats. That means, last week the home game was the third highest attended home game of the season yet the game was blacked out because not enough seats for the NEW number were sold.

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