Once again, Ricky Foley is chasing a hometown Grey Cup. Samir Handanovic Inter Milan Jersey . The eight-year veteran defensive end is preparing for his first season with the Saskatchewan Roughriders some five months before Regina hosts the 2013 CFL championship game. Foley is very familiar with the challenges associated with winning the trophy at home, accomplishing the feat last year with the Toronto Argonauts. Toronto became the second straight CFL team to win the title as the host city after B.C. did so in 2011. The historic 100th Grey Cup was also special for Foley because family members from nearby Courtice, Ont., were on hand at Rogers Centre. He was named the games top Canadian. "Its really tough to beat because it was the 100th Grey Cup, there wont be another 100th Grey Cup, it was in my hometown with the hometown team and my family and friends were all there," Foley said Monday from the Riders camp in Saskatoon. "And while Im not looking in the past and this is a new chapter, the best thing I could do is add to it and win the Cup here. "That would be on par, for sure." Riders GM Brendan Taman has been busy this off-season, adding free agents Foley, linebacker Renauld Williams, defensive back Dwight Anderson and most recently defensive lineman John Chick. Taman has also acquired kicker Brody McKnight and hired former Hamilton coach George Cortez as offensive co-ordinator. But Tamans biggest move was landing slotback Geroy Simon from B.C. The 14-year veteran, already the leagues all-time receiving yards leader, needs just 29 catches to break Ben Cahoons career mark of 1,017. Hamstring issues limited Simon, 37, to just 54 catches for 700 yards and two TDs last season, the first time in 10 years he didnt crack the 1,000-yard plateau. A healthy Simon would certainly complement a solid receiving corps led by veteran slotback Weston Dressler, who had career highs of 94 catches, 1,206 yards and 13 TDs in 2012. But Foley, currently nursing an injured right oblique muscle, says talk now about Saskatchewan winning the Grey Cup is just that -- talk. "Theres definitely a sense of excitement around here with all the additions that have been made," Foley said. "As a veteran, I know you dont win the Grey Cup on paper and every team made moves in the off-season to put themselves in a position to win it. "But I think its known around the league what this team has done, the guys theyve brought in and what theyre trying to do and theyre making that push for the hometown Cup." Saskatchewan finished third in the West Division last season with an 8-10 record before dropping a 36-30 decision to Calgary in the conference semifinal. Defensively, the Riders were second overall in fewest points and yards allowed before the off-season addition of veterans Foley, Chick, Williams and Anderson. The six-foot-three, 258-pound Foley is chasing a third Grey Cup, earning his first with B.C. in 2006. Foley had a career-best 12 sacks with the Lions in 09 when he was named the CFLs top Canadian. Over three seasons in Toronto, Foley recorded a combined 10 sacks. Last year, he had 35 tackles and three sacks before adding four tackles and a sack in the Grey Cup. But in Toronto defensive co-ordinator Chris Joness scheme, Foley did more than just rush the passer. He was also required to sometimes drop back into pass coverage like an outside linebacker. "It ended up working and we won the Grey Cup so you cant argue with what we were asked to do," Foley said. "But at times it got frustrating because you felt you werent playing as well at linebacker as you were at defensive end. "Im coming here to do what I do best and thats get after the quarterback and be on the line of scrimmage. Thats not to say I wont be dropping back into coverage if its the gameplan for that week because there will be wrinkles in like that. But I think its going to be significantly different to what I did last year." Another difference, too, is the rabid support the Riders receive in Saskatchewan. The franchise averaged more than 32,000 fans per game last year, second only to Edmonton (34,378) while Torontos attendance was under 24,000 per game, second-worst in the CFL. "Argos fans are diehard fans, I think theyre on the same level as diehard Regina fans and can compete with them," Foley said. "The thing here, though, is there are so many diehard fans. I mean, were in Saskatoon and the stands are almost full for every practice ... it has a real NFL feel to it. "To Saskatchewan, this is the NFL whereas in Toronto the people there continue to search for the biggest, best thing. 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HOCKENHEIM, Germany -- FIA safety delegate Charlie Whiting wants all drivers to complete a practice session with Halo attached before the end of the year in preparation for its introduction in 2018.F1s Strategy Group unanimously agreed on Thursday to postpone the introduction of some sort of frontal cockpit protection after deciding it would be prudent to conduct more on track tests with the Halo fitted. The Halo has only run on four occasions, twice in pre-season testing with the original prototype on the Ferrari, once with an updated prototype in first practice at the British Grand Prix and once on the Red Bull during an in-season test at Silverstone.Whiting says the lack of driver feedback could lead to unintended consequences if Halo was rushed through for 2017 and is instead hoping for all drivers to test it before the end of the season in order to better understand how it impacts on a drivers vision.The FIA has decided that the Halo is the future, as has been stated in the past, Whiting said. The first step was yesterday to take it to the Strategy Group, so that is exactly what we did.The decision was taken, as I believe you know, that simply because only three drivers have ever tried it, and they have only done a total of four laps, this was something that everyone felt was quite a relevant thing and it wouldnt really be feasible in the short term to get the relevant number of laps with the Halo. That was the reason for introducing if for 2018 instead of 2017.When asked why the FIA had not conducted tests earlier, Whiting said: This is something that we had to leave to the teams because we couldnt at that point feel as though we could actually insist upon trying to put it on one of the current cars.But there are also problems, if you talk to anybody from Red Bull for example they say they cant run Halo for more than two laps before the air intakes for the cooling of the engine and cooling of the gearbox start to be affected. What we are looking to do is make it clear that every driver has to try it for a whole free practice session during the course of this year.That would give us a proper way of going forward so we ddont get caught out by something that is very hard to change back. Fredy Guarin Jersey. Thats really the idea.Whiting said the FIA is still keen to pursue Halo over Red Bulls Aeroscreen alternative for 2018, but said the key concern is currently visibility.At the moment its Halo but there will be some form of additional frontal protection. If, for example, the Aeroscreen can be redesigned to fit the free head volume - which is one of the stumbling blocks at the moment - that might be the way to go. But I think we need to look at visibility first because that is the thing that is a little bit of an unknown, so we really do need to make sure that is not a sort of showstopper. But it really would be similar between the Halo and the Aeroscreen, I would imagine.One concern raised by critics of Halo is how it would impact driver extrication if a car rolls and catches fire, but Whiting said that had been considered and was not the biggest factor behind Halo not going ahead for 2017.Were not neglecting it, it has been thought of. Now, for example, if a car turned over and was on fire I think its quite unlikely ... if it has been in an accident big enough to cause a fire then the driver probably cant get out by himself anyway.Then the first course of action will be for marshals to get there and turn the car over and this is the sort of thing you see quite regularly. So I have always felt that a car being upside down is always a worry but the marshals are normally there pretty quickly and they would turn it back over. Thats the way weve always felt about that particular scenario.And Whiting confirmed the aesthetic appeal of the design had not been a barrier to Halo being introduced.The reason they deferred the Halo is purely because the drivers havent had a good chance to assess what they can see out of the car with it on - thats fundamentally it. I know that some people have said they dont like the look of it, but its never come across as being the reason for not having Halo, which is I think what you were asking. Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys China NFL Cheap Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' ' 

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