Wally Buono

Mike Benevides Dept: It's not that Buono the faith-and-family man, who believes he owes everything he ever became to "the grace of God," sees that same blessed future accruing to the 45-year-old longtime soldier in Wally's army who was formally named his successor Tuesday morning, according to Vancouver Sun. "Can I be brutally honest with you? Nothing I've ever done has been about loyalty or friend-ship," Buono said, at a news conference in the Lions' training complex locker-room and it's not that Wally Buono saw something of himself in Mike Benevides, though there are certain obvious parallels between the impoverished son of Potenza, Italy and the boy from a Portuguese immigrant background. No, this was a football decision, said the B.C. Lions' GM and vice-president of football operations. And he makes a persuasive case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.