No, not the delightful pep band ... at least not yet. Just a roundup of a few things that don't quite merit full items. With no Thursday night games this year to leave us borderline unconscious Friday mornings, this might even become a regular late-week staple.

• By the standards of official teams' sites, argonauts.ca is actually pretty great. Adding Peewee Smith and giving him free reign to criticize the team was a particularly nice move, even if they inexplicably failed to name the feature "Peewee's Playhouse." But their most impressive brainwave has to be finding a way to keep their fourth-string running back occupied. Admittedly, they don't seem to really want anyone else to know about it: This thing was never publicized beforehand, and they seem to have invented an alter ego to protect John Williams' anonynimity. But ladies and gentlemen...meet "JDubbs"!
  

• Despite heavy temptation, there will be no daily rants here about Kent Austin's offence. Boatmenblog is all about the love, plus we'd kind of like to avoid pissing off the Argos before they feel guilty about how much time we're spending on this and give us some swag. ("Is that a Wayne Lammle bobblehead? Let's send it to those Boatmenblog idiots...") But if anything should give Austin some concerns about long-term job security, could it be Greg Marshall joining the ranks of the unemployed? Offensive specialist...still held in high regard in Canadian football circles...and apparently has no desire to vacate southern Ontario, which leaves only one remaining professional team that could employ him. Just saying.

• The only topic more boring than coach-slagging is endless ruminations over attendance. So let's just say this once. Whatever his other shortcomings so far (most of which have to do with the O-line, but that's a different post), Ricky Williams is not hurting the Argos at the gate - however convenient it may be to slide that into every column outlining the team's early-season woes. Last year, attendance for their second game was 26,218. This year, it was almost identical at 26,304. And that was with the World Cup, the Grand Prix,  all those street festivals clogging traffic, and a 1-2 record coming in.
  

• It's Friday night, it's summer, the city will be buzzing with places to go and things to do...so naturally, we're going to sit on a couch for three hours to watch Hamilton play Calgary. But wait...here's where things get really crazy. Instead of keeping this experience to ourselves, we're going to share it with you. That's right...Boatmenblog goes live, or at least as live as we're gonna be after several beers and several hours of watching steam shoot out of Ron Lancaster's ears. Look for our thrilling blow-by-blow sometime late tonight. Boatmenblog: Watching the Ticats so you don't have to.