News and notes from Week 5

Opinion

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Headline in Sunday’s Calgary Herald: ‘The Rambo Mambo’.

Lots of attention given to the return of Ken-Yon Rambo after a year away from the game recovering from reconstructive knee surgery and rightly so. The fact that Rambo scored the game’s first TD was simply a bonus for the Stamps. His hissy fit aside for Ian Logan’s tackle on the sideline – Rambo thought it was a horse-collar tackle similar to the one that ended his season last year but later kissed and made up with the Bomber safety – he looked to be in 2008 form.

Wrote B.C. Lions receiver Geroy Simon in a Tweet Saturday night: "Great to see Ken-Yon back! Our league is a lot better with him playing."

Hear, hear.

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Don’t know how the Bombers plan to defence Arland Bruce III yet — we’ll get a better feel as preparations for next Saturday’s visit to Hamilton get underway later this week — but I like the suggestion from Jovon Johnson a while back that the coaches consider using him the same way Juran Bolden was utilized back in the day. Matching up Johnson head to head against Bruce might cause some serious wrinkles in the defensive gameplan, but we doubt the receiver would finish the day with 16 receptions.

Here’s Bomber assistant GM Ross Hodgkinson on the speculation the club is about to sign Canadian defensive lineman Fernand Kashama, cut adrift by the Stamps last week: "Possibly. I have heard that name but don’t have room right now."

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Ian Logan has re-injured the same hamstring he hurt earlier this season and could be out for up to three weeks.

As solid as he is as a safety this was the club’s biggest concern about the Wilfrid Laurier product: his durability.

Brady Browne will step in to start in place of Logan and is an emerging player, but the team is thin for depth here.

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Don’t know if everyone has seen it yet, but the soccer-style TD celebration by Ticat receiver Dave Stala in Hamilton’s loss to Saskatchewan Saturday was priceless.