{"id":69904,"date":"2025-08-14T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69904\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:47:12","slug":"cfl-fines-alouettes-evans-lemon-for-celebrations-in-23-22-loss-to-elks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/69904\/","title":{"rendered":"CFL fines Alouettes&#8217; Evans, Lemon for celebrations in 23-22 loss to Elks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Montreal Alouettes quarterback Caleb Evans and defensive lineman Shawn Lemon have been fined by the CFL for their celebrations in a 23-22 loss to the Edmonton Elks on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Evans was punished for pretending to fire a weapon after one play.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon&#8217;s violation was less specific, but the CFL says he brought the league into disrepute through a celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL does not announce the amounts of player fines.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal (5-4-0) is second in the CFL East and visits the B.C. Lions on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Evans is expected to start for the Alouettes with veteran McLeod Bethel-Thompson (elbow) going on the six-game injured list this week.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Montreal Alouettes quarterback Caleb Evans and defensive lineman Shawn Lemon have been fined by the CFL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-69904","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\/69904","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=69904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}