Archive for October, 2011

By Ryan Haggerty, Chicago Tribune reporter October 31, 2011 Mike and Denise Stillman have a simple business plan: If they build more baseball fields, more people will come. The Oak Lawn couple, longtime fans of the movie “Field of Dreams,” announced Sunday that their investment group has purchased the Iowa farm where the classic 1989 [...]

CALGARY — Landan Talley could be the leading candidate to be a healthy scratch. That’s after being the Calgary Stampeders’ leading receiver in Friday’s 25-13 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Despite stringing together three solid performances, the sophomore slotback knows he will lose his roster spot as soon as fellow Stamps receiver Ken-Yon Rambo is [...]

He’s 24 years of age and a sophomore in the Canadian Football League. He signed with the Calgary Stampeders on May 4, 2010, after working out in Tampa, Florida, before joining them at the main training camp. His name is Landan Talley, and he is currently making the most of his playing time at receiver after an [...]

October 22, 2011 That was a long time to wait man. That win felt really good. Not just that, I’m glad to be out of the cold now. Actually, it wasn’t that bad. It was pretty good on the field, especially when you started running around a bit. It was a great win. We just [...]

It was Landan Talley’s own instalment of Catch Me If You Can. B.C. Lions halfback Tad Kornegay couldn’t. During the third quarter of last week’s loss to the Lions, the Calgary Stampeders speedster accepted a deep pass and sprinted 81 yards for the longest touchdown romp of his professional pigskin career. “When I caught it and [...]