{"id":4460,"date":"2025-07-18T03:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4460\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T03:31:12","slug":"toronto-argonauts-derek-slywka-made-one-of-the-best-defensive-plays-in-cfl-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/4460\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Argonauts\u2019 Derek Slywka made one of the best defensive plays in CFL history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Slywka could&#8217;ve given up on the play.<\/p>\n<p>But with a full-sprint chase standing between him and preventing a go-ahead Montreal touchdown, Slywka found an extra burst.<\/p>\n<p>He ran down the Alouettes receiver and lunged fully over the offensive player&#8217;s shoulders. Slywka used his left hand to punch the ball out, just before the end zone line.<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto Argonauts fell on the ball in the end zone for a touchback.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Les Alouettes pensaient bien avoir marqu\u00e9 un touch\u00e9, mais non! \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p>Quel jeu d\u00e9fensif de Derek Slywka.<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoAlsGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#GoAlsGo<\/a> sur RDS \ud83d\udcfa <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GWF5YC2C40\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/GWF5YC2C40<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RDS (@RDSca) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RDSca\/status\/1946031015396299137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the greatest effort plays you&#8217;ll ever see.<\/p>\n<p>Slywka is an American shining in the Canadian Football League.<\/p>\n<p>He attended Division III Ithaca College in New York after growing up in Waterloo, east of Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>And now he&#8217;s got this lifetime-best highlight to cherish.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/maple-leafs-trade-heavy-hitting-forward-canadian-rival\/3c58c9306519ab7b4ce782c8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maple Leafs trade for heavy-hitting forward from Canadian rival<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Slywka could&#8217;ve given up on the play. But with a full-sprint chase standing between him and preventing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}