user: Q: Argos QB Ricky Ray too hot for Stampeders

This year, the Grey Cup game is a choice between the hottest quarterback in the CFL versus the hottest team. I'm going with the quarterback.The Toronto Argonauts (9-9, 2-0 in the playoffs) will defeat the Calgary Stampeders (11-7, 2-0) in the 100th Grey Cup game on Sunday evening at Rogers Centre.

For years, your correspondent has been making

picks by going against recent trends and trying to be the smartest person in the room.

Never works. Especially that last part.

This year, it's a choice between the hottest quarterback in the CFL versus the hottest team. I'm going with the quarterback.

, Ricky Ray, Ricky Ray. Fans of opposing teams are probably sick of hearing that name as the Argos have come sailing towards the island of Colchis, looking for the Golden Fleece.

There's just no avoiding a quarterback who in the last four contests has completed 95 of 130 passes (73 per cent) for 1,336 yards, 11 touchdowns and just two interceptions. Extrapolated over an 18-game schedule, that would be just over 6,000 yards -- Doug Flutie territory.

It's not just the numbers, however, it's the way his teammates have raised their games to match -- routes are sharper, blocks are stronger, the o-line will kill for this man.

There's another man they'll go to the wall for as well, and that's running back

Rather than steal a stat of the week from Sun Media's Ian Busby (our normal approach), we've come up with one of our own. If you multiply Kackert's yards per carry (6.4) by

's carries (259), you get 1,496 yards -- just a hair more than the Calgary star.

And the Toronto runner, who took over from Cory Boyd at mid-season, has 100 carries in the bag, so it's a fair enough comparison. Call it even.

, top receiver and new pro football record holder for most combined yards in a season, and you have a potent offensive attack that's going to be tough for Calgary to stop.

Toronto has won five straight games against the Stampeders -- a meaningless stat you've heard all week. Three of those wins were before GM Jim Barker blew the Toronto roster up and rebuilt it this season.

For 2012, the Double Blue won a sloppy, penalty and turnover-filled 39-36 affair in Week 2 that left neither coach happy. In Week 8, a much-tighter 22-14 result went to Toronto.

Though the new Argo offence was still being inserted in the first half of the year, Ray was still able to complete 51 of 73 passes (70 per cent) for 713 yards and three scores against the White Stallions.

They were also able to run -- Boyd for 101 yards in the first, Kackert for 94 in the second.

was not bad at QB for Calgary, going 37 of 54 (68 per cent) for 464 yards and three scores.

Leading us to Cornish. He was held to 39 yards (with a fumble) and 43 yards in the two games. Strange, considering how vulnerable to the ground game Toronto was in the first half of the schedule.

It didn't help that the Argo defence was targeting Cornish with late hits, actions that left Brandon Isaac and Marcus Ball fined after the second game between the two.

Before you take the worst prognosticator in football's word for it, however, there are a few things to consider:

Having built myself an exit door in case everything goes wrong (it usually does, so please don't bet the house on my account), it's still not enough to dissuade.

Because of this: Ricky Ray, the best gift Edmonton could possibly bestow on Toronto until they get that oil pipeline reversed, is now 10-4 in the post-season.

He will not permit anything but a Grey Cup victory.

A: This year, the Grey Cup game is a choice between the hottest quarterback in the CFL versus the hottest team.  I'm going with the quarterback. The Toronto Argonauts (9-9, 2-0 in the playoffs) will defeat the Calgary Stampeders (11-7, 2-0) in the 100th Grey Cup game on Sunday evening at Rogers


Q: 9/11 Museum shows SEAL's shirt from Bin Laden raid

Sept. 5, 2014: The fatigue shirt worn by the U.S. Navy SEAL during the mission to capture Osama bin Laden, is seen in a case at the museum in New York. The shirt joins other items donated to the museum by persons involved with the mission.AP

The shirt a Navy SEAL wore in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and a special coin given to a CIA officer who played a key role in finding him are being displayed at the Sept. 11 museum, adding potent symbols of the terrorist attacks' aftermath days before their anniversary.

The items are going on view Sunday at the ground zero museum, where leaders see them as an important and moving addition to a collection that often uses personal artifacts to explore the events and impact of 9/11.

"The death of Osama bin Laden is a huge part of the history, and we have an absolute obligation to tell it," National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum President Joe Daniels said Saturday. The display, he said, "allows millions of visitors the chance to recognize the extraordinary bravery of the men and women who sacrifice so much for this country at home and abroad."

The shirt and coin will join an existing display with a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist at the helm of the attacks was killed.

The uniform shirt, tan with camouflage sleeves and an American flag patch on the right shoulder — stars forward to invoke the historical role of a flag-bearer leading a charge into battle — belonged to a now-retired member of SEAL Team Six, which put an end to the long manhunt for the world's most wanted terrorist. The garment "connects us in a powerful and immediate way to that operation," Museum Director Alice Greenwald said.

The red, white and blue coin was made to commemorate its conclusion. The coin bears the date — May 1, 2011, in U.S. time — on one side and a red "X'' on the other. It was owned by the CIA officer, known as "Maya," who formed the basis for the main character in the Oscar-winning 2012 movie "Zero Dark Thirty."

The museum is keeping both donors' identities secret.

The museum, which opened in May and has drawn more than 900,000 visitors so far, has faced controversy over some of its exhibits. Atheists unsuccessfully sued over the "ground zero cross," a beam from the trade center wreckage; Muslim advocates complained that a film about the rise of al-Qaida unfairly linked Islam and terrorism.

Given the complex reactions bin Laden's death spurred around the world, the new exhibit may "engender discussion," Daniels said, but "I think most people will believe it belongs there."

"It is a part of the story, whatever you think of its symbolism or its meaning."

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assistant: The shirt and coin will join an existing display with a brick from the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where the terrorist at the helm of the attacks was killed.