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Article content The Saskatchewan Roughriders have traded for experienced quarterback Jake Maier, a four-year CFL veteran who was the Calgary Stampeders starter for the past two seasons. Maier could become a free agent when his contract expires Feb. 11. The Roughriders sent an eighth-round selection in the 2025 CFL draft to Calgary, which allows them to negotiate with Maier before his contract expires. It’s a common practice in the CFL — two years ago Calgary sent veteran quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in an offseason trade three months before his contract expired. Hamilton subsequently signed Mitchell to a contract. Because the Roughriders just secured returning starter Trevor Harris with a one-year contract extension, Maier is destined to be Saskatchewan’s backup quarterback. Last year’s backup, Shea Patterson, replaced Harris for seven games in 2024 and will likely become a free agent in February. Rookie Jack Coan and prospect Michael Hiers are the other quarterbacks under contract. A, six-foot, 200-pound product of California-Davis, Maier spent his first two seasons backing up Mitchell. He posted three straight 300-yard passing games as a fill-in during his rookie season and through two campaigns passed for 3,600 yards with 19 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, bumping Mitchell out of his starting assignment. Maier passed for 4,244 yards with 19 touchdowns and 15 interceptions in 2023 before throwing for 3,841 yards with 22 touchdowns and 14 interceptions last season. Maier lost his starting role last season as the Stampeders posted a 5-12-1 record and missed the playoffs. His quarterbacks coach during the previous three seasons was Marc Mueller , who joined the Roughriders in 2024 as their offensive co-ordinator. The Stampeders recently acquired Vernon Adams Jr. from the B.C. Lions in a trade that involved five draft choices. An eight-year CFL veteran with three teams, Adams is projected to be Calgary’s starting quarterback in 2025. The Regina Leader-Post has created an Afternoon Headlines newsletter that can be delivered daily to your inbox so you are up to date with the most vital news of the day. Click here to subscribe. With some online platforms blocking access to the journalism upon which you depend, our website is your destination for up-to-the-minute news, so make sure to bookmark leaderpost.com and sign up for our newsletters so we can keep you informed. Click here to subscribe. Share this Story : Saskatchewan Roughriders trade for Calgary Stampeders quarterback Jake Maier Copy Link Email X Reddit Pinterest LinkedIn TumblrCam Carter put LSU ahead for good with a jumper 1:08 into the third overtime and the Tigers came away with a wild 109-102 win over UCF on Sunday in the third-place game of the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Carter's make sparked a 5-0 spurt for LSU (5-1), which mounted a ferocious second-half rally that began after Darius Johnson drilled a 3-pointer to put the Knights up 52-34 with 12:57 to play in regulation. UCF (4-2) got back within two in the third overtime, but it never found a way to draw even. Vyctorius Miller and Jordan Sears sealed the victory, combining for three buckets down low that gave the Tigers a 106-99 cushion with 17 seconds remaining. Carter was the late-game hero for LSU, scoring the final four points of regulation to forge a 70-70 tie. He also knocked down a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:19 left in the first extra session to give the Tigers a 76-75 advantage. Sears gave LSU a four-point edge with a triple of his own with 2:10 to go, but the Tigers failed to stay in front, and UCF's Keyshawn Hall kept the game going by sinking two free throws with six seconds remaining to make it 82-82. Neither team led by more than three in the second overtime, with Hall again coming to the Knights' rescue. He made two layups in the final 52 seconds of the frame to knot things at 93 and send the teams to a third OT. Few could have predicted 15 minutes of extra basketball after UCF put together a 25-3 first-half run that lifted it to a 38-18 advantage with 2:12 left until the break. LSU responded with seven unanswered points, but the Knights still led comfortably, 40-25, at intermission. Sears finished with a game-high-tying 25 points to go along with nine boards, while Jalen Reed recorded a 21-point, 13-rebound double-double for the Tigers. Carter netted 20 points, Miller had 16 and Dji Bailey chipped in 14. Johnson collected 25 points, six rebounds, eight assists and five steals for UCF. Hall totaled 21 points and 10 boards, and Jordan Ivy-Curry supplied 20 points. LSU outshot UCF 43.2 percent to 40.7 percent and had narrow advantages from behind the arc (12 made shots to 10) and the free-throw line (21-18). --Field Level Media
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The cryptocurrency industry is pushing President-elect Donald Trump's team to kick start his promised crypto policy overhaul when he takes office next month with executive orders that would help push tokens mainstream, according to industry officials. Trump plans to issue a flurry of executive orders and directives on everything from immigration to energy on his first day in office on Jan. 20, Reuters reported this month. On the campaign trail, Trump courted crypto cash with promises to be a "crypto president," and the industry wants him to make good on that pledge with executive orders creating a bitcoin stockpile, ensuring the industry can access banking services, and creating a crypto council, the people said. They are pushing for those executive orders within Trump's first 100 days in office, and expect at least one could come on Jan. 20, said two other people with knowledge of the matter. "Given the tenor of the campaign, it would be imperative for executive orders to really set out what the actual priorities will be on day one and provide some kind of roadmap," said Rebecca Rettig, chief legal and policy officer at crypto company Polygon Labs. Holiday deals: Shop this season’s top products and sales curated by our editors. More: Trump is looking to create a bitcoin strategic reserve. How would that work? Worried about crime and volatility, President Joe Biden's regulators cracked down on crypto companies, but Trump has pledged to reverse course. His crypto policy team is already taking shape, with the announcement this month of crypto-friendly Securities and Exchange Commission chair Paul Atkins and White House crypto czar David Sacks. "There has been an effort in the Washington bureaucratic swamp to stifle innovation... but President Trump will deliver on his promise to encourage American leadership in crypto," Trump transition team spokesperson Brian Hughes said in a statement. Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, hit new records above $107,000 this month after Trump reiterated his plan, first unveiled in a speech in July, for a strategic bitcoin reserve. Bitcoin has since fallen back below $100,000. Analysts are divided on whether Trump could use executive powers to create the reserve, potentially via the Treasury Department, or whether an act of Congress would be necessary. One industry group, the Bitcoin Policy Institute, has gone as far as to draft a text of a potential executive order Trump could use to establish such a stockpile. That draft would designate bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset and require the Treasury Secretary to spend $21 billion over a year to amass a national bitcoin stockpile, according to the draft seen by Reuters. Zack Shapiro, the Bitcoin Policy Institute's head of policy, said the United States should get ahead of geopolitical rivals in monetizing bitcoin, "rather than have the price run up without the United States having any reserves." He declined to say if the group had shared the draft with Trump's team. Trump also said in July that he would not let banks "choke" crypto firms out of the traditional financial system, and some executives expect he will also try to address that issue with an executive order. Crypto companies have long complained that banks won't work with them due to regulatory scrutiny, although regulators say banks are free to lend to crypto firms that follow the law. While an executive order directing bank regulators to go easy on crypto would send a signal to agency officials and provide them with political cover, it's unlikely to have legal force since federal bank regulators are independent, some executives warned. "(They) are not going to change policy on the ground on day one," said Jonah Krane, partner at financial firm Klaros Group. "But they will tell you what direction this administration wants to head." Trump has also said he'll create a crypto industry council and his team is discussing how to structure and staff it. Previous administrations have stood up specialized councils via executive orders, executives noted. More broadly, Trump could also try to address crypto complaints that existing regulations are not fit for the industry with an executive order articulating core principles for crypto regulation, similar to an order Trump issued in 2017 directing regulators to review banking rules. "I wouldn't be surprised if you get something like an executive order early on that directs the agencies to re-examine their rules in this space," Krane added. Reporting by Hannah Lang in New York; Editing by Alistair Bell
