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Steve Milton

Multiplatform Columnist

Steve Milton is a Canadian Football Hall of Fame writer who has covered the CFL since 1979.

CFL’s Honour Roll Highlights Ticats Outstanding Play

September 18, 2024 | Steve Milton
It’s akin to a loud aside in a stage play, but it speaks directly to what’s at stake on Friday night in  Toronto. Each week, Pro Football Focus extensively analyzes every play of every CFL game ...

Ticats Ride Punt Return, Six Turnovers To Win Over Ottawa

September 15, 2024 | Steve Milton
Well that certainly worked out nicely. Head coach Scott Milanovich made a couple of game-roster moves this week—well, actually, one move and one non-move—and there was a certain symmetry to them ...

Woods III to Return In Front of Hall-of-Famer Owens

September 13, 2024 | Steve Milton
It’s a returner’s return. Lawrence Woods III, who has not been in a game uniform because of injury since the Ticats last played Ottawa way back in late June, draws back into Hamilton’s lineup for ...

Ticats aim to limit Ottawa special teams and defensive success

September 12, 2024 | Steve Milton
You hear it all the time from football people: it’s ideal to do well at all three phases, but to win any individual game you usually have to be better than your opponent at two of them. The ...

Ticats Defence Looking to Continue Aggressive Play

September 12, 2024 | Steve Milton
The Ottawa Redblacks are becoming one of the more interesting stories in the CFL this season, as they’ve been inching themselves into discussions about legitimate contenders for the Grey Cup. ...

Bell Earning His Shot at Running Back

September 11, 2024 | Steve Milton
In a different CFL world—one where roster ratio considerations wouldn’t conspire against it—the Tiger-Cats would like to have both James Butler and Greg Bell in uniform on game days. But there is ...

Ticats get off to a good start…and finish…to win a classic Labour Day squeaker

September 3, 2024 | Steve Milton
It was Hamilton’s elixir of the gods, the football gods. A return to the natural order of things. Mood swings of epic proportions ending in elation…and relief.  A glimmer of hope in the midst of ...

Ticats’ Peters Knows All About Labour Day in The Hammer

September 1, 2024 | Steve Milton
Two years ago, Jamal Peters had one of the best 11-day stretches ever recorded against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. And, unfortunately for Cats Crazies, they came while he was wearing the colours to ...

Looking Back at the Top 5 Labour Day Games at Tim Hortons Field

August 30, 2024 | Steve Milton
Labour Day. Two words, three syllables, hundreds of memories. Around here it’s a Classic Day. A very colourful Day: black and gold, and two shades of blue. It is Hamilton’s time: the day most ...

Ticats Fall Just Short in Winnipeg Heartbreaker

August 24, 2024 | Steve Milton
It was the best they’d played, by far, in a month and they rallied from a 16-3 halftime deficit, but Tim White quickly put it into perspective. “(Rebounding) feels good but there is no moral ...
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