Linking the country: Laurier's football farce continues, Wickenheiser's debut, and a kicker goes down

Football

• Greg Layson skewers the Golden Hawks over the Dave Montoya situation. (Big Man on Campus)
  
  
• David Grossman, on the other hand, uses the word "controversial" to describe the ruling by CIS. He must not have read that piece I linked about 2 cm above. Or this one, in which Layson lays it out very clearly: "Registering in January 2010 — and withdrawing before the end of the season, no less — makes you eligible for neither the 2009 OUA football season nor the 2010 campaign." (Toronto Star)
  
  
• Tyler Crapigna might have a broken ankle after a late tackle in what sounds like a very chippy game. Our Mike Radoslav says tackling a kicker is never acceptable; our Brian Decker "couldn't see if the hit was intentional." (Hamilton Spectator)
  
  
• Neither Gary Ross nor Jermaine Oram will play this weekend for the Mounties. Yikes. (Times & Transcript)

Hockey

• The Cougars' women's team, despite being ranked 6th in the Canada West in the first poll, think they can do better. As long as they "play consistently" and have "good goaltending" and "get pucks to the net" and are "shooting the puck" and are confident. (Regina Leader-Post)
  
  
• However, first they have to go through Hayley Wickenheiser and the Dinos. Sorry to the rest of the Calgary team, who I'm sure can skate circles around me, but that's the angle on the story I'm linking. (Regina Leader-Post)
  
  
• Nipissing hosts the Redmen and Patriotes this weekend, a tough order for early in the year. (North Bay Nugget)
  
  
• Here's one of those point-counterpoint articles, one side saying CIS shouldn't get in bed with players nobody else wants, and the other side arguing that Mike Danton and Michael Liambas are "temporary aberrations." You can guess which side is argued by our Evan Daum. (The Gateway)