Each week, The Reporters put their thumbs out to the good and the bad in the world of sports. San Antonio Spurs Gear . This week, they discuss Chad Johnson signing in Montreal, RA Dickeys excuses, Marc Bergevins dance moves, and the NCAAs decision to provide meals to athletes. Dave Naylor, TSN 1050 My thumb is up to the Montreal Alouettes who this week signed former NFL star Chad Johnson - aka Ochocino - despite the fact he is 36 and hasnt played in the NFL since 2011. Why is my thumb up when so few ex-NFL stars ever succeed in Canada? Well, because theres really no down side to it. If Chad Johnson is truly as motivated and well-conditioned as he claims ... then hell be a welcomed addition to the Als and the CFL. And if hes not, well, hell be gone. Montreal has proven no one makes its team based on whats on the back of the jersey - just ask Ahman Green, Dominic Rhodes and others the Als signed - and then cut, when they couldnt cut it against CFL competition. Will Chad Johnson be the exception to the rule? At least it should be fun finding out. Huit-cinq anyone? Steve Simmons, SUN Media My thumb is down to RA Dickey, the erstwhile Blue Jays ace, the former Cy Young award winner who seems to lead the Major Leagues in just one category - excuses. With RA, theres always something. Something wrong. Its either too cold or its too hot. The roof at Rogers Centre is either open or closed. The wind is blowing in or its blowing out. Its day or its night. Everything, it seems, affects the knuckleball. He would be one of the three bears of pitching but with him, its not often just right. Dickey has made four starts for the Jays in this young season, and he already owns a 6.26 earned run average. Im sure he has a plausible explanation for that: I just dont want to hear one. Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated My thumb is up to Marc Bergevin, Canadiens general manager and dancin fool. After Montreals Game 1 overtime win in Tampa, cameras caught Bergevin doing a shimmy and a shake, touching off a dance craze now known as the Marcarena. Somehow I cant imagine Bergevins predecessors, Pierre "go go" Gauthier and disco Bob Gainey, men who were neither hip nor hop, busting moves in a luxury box. But thats Bergevin, who has been blessed with a sense of fun. When he played, he would often check into hotels as Denis Lemieux, the goalie from Slap Shot. Maybe Bergevin should switch aliases - to Mikhail Baryshnikov. Dave Hodge, TSN My thumb is down to NCAA President Mark Emmert, who congratulated himself and his organization for changing a dumb rule that used to prevent schools from providing meals to athletes, but allowed snacks. As Emmert pointed out, a bagel was considered a snack unless it had cream cheese on it, and then it was considered a meal. Well, maybe my thumb should be up to Emmert and the NCAA for giving their heads a shake, but no, its down for looking at what they can and cant provide to the athletes and thinking that the term "meal-ticket" actually and only refers to food. Never mind cream cheese, they should spread some money around, too. DeJuan Blair Jersey . As the Winnipeg Blue Bombers opened their main training camp Sunday, Kuale is one of the newcomers brought in to bolster a sagging defence that ranked overall where the Bombers finished 2013, in the CFL cellar with a league high 585 points against. 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Smith completed three straight passes for 43 yards on the drive capped by rookie Cairo Santoss winning 48-yard field goal with 21 seconds left.Just like that, the Chiefs made the AFC West a three-team race.Coming off their bye, the Chiefs (3-3) pulled within 1 1/2 games of San Diego (5-2). The Denver Broncos (4-1) hosted San Francisco on Sunday night. Had the Chiefs lost, they would have dropped three games behind San Diego.I think this team is in a good place mentally, Smith said. We took this challenge on, and we had two weeks to get ready with the bye week. We took it on as a challenge with no one giving us a chance. We felt like coming into this game, we were a couple plays away from being 4-1. This was an opportunity for us to kind of show what were made of, show the country. I feel like were in a good place and well keep going.Coach Andy Reid, in his second season with the Chiefs, improved his career record in games following a bye week to 14-2 (.875), the most victories of any NFL head coach in games following a bye week.I dont think theres a secret to it, said Reid, who compiled most of that post-bye magic while coaching Philadelphia. When we have good players and good coaches, good things happen. Ive been lucky enough to be in those situations.The Chargers flunked their sternest test in a month and lost for the first time since a defeat at Arizona in the season opener.Jamaal Charles scored once and gained 95 yards to give him 6,113 for his career, moving him to the top of Kansas Citys career list. He passed Priest Holmes, who had 6,070.That was my first time winning here, Charles said. That was big, it was a bigg win. DeMar DeRozan Jersey. Thats a good team, they have a great defence, great quarterback on their side. That was an amazing game to pull off today. The team fought with will and we went out there to play a great game.Charles weaved in and out of traffic to score on a 16-yard run on the first play of the second quarter. Former teammate Brandon Flowers levelled him a yard into the end zone, too late to keep the Chiefs from tying it at 7.Flowers later left the game with a concussion.Flowers put a big hit on me, but Im thankful that I got up healthy, Charles said.The Chargers, facing an established quarterback for the first time in four games, allowed Smith to complete 19 of 28 passes for 221 yards.Now they travel to face the Broncos.When you win five in a row, losing stinks, San Diegos Philip Rivers said. We have to handle it right and get ready to go to Denver on Thursday night and not let this thing go to two in a row.Rivers was 17 of 31 for 205 yards and two touchdowns. After setting an NFL record with five straight games with a passer rating of 120 or better, he tumbled to 83.4.Smith had given the Chiefs a 20-14 lead with an 11-yard touchdown pass to fullback Anthony Sherman with 14:50 left.Sherman broke a tackle inside the 10 and scored to cap an 11-play, 70-yard drive. On the previous play, a holding call against Chargers cornerback Richard Marshall nullified a sack of Smith and gave the Chiefs a first down at the 11.The Chargers got to the Kansas City 6 before Rivers threw two straight incompletions and San Diego had to settle for Nick Novaks 24-yard field goal to close to 20-17.Novak kicked a 48-yarder to tie the game with 1:57 left.Novak has 31 straight field goal conversions, breaking John Carneys team record of 29 set in 1992-93.Antonio Gates caught a 27-yard touchdown pass from Rivers just before halftime. It was the 67th career TD pass from Rivers to Gates, the most in NFL history from a quarterback to a tight end.NOTES: Rivers extended his team record to 27 straight games with at least one touchdown pass. ... Chargers backup tight end John Phillips made his first catch of the season a big one, a 1-yard touchdown reception late in the first quarter. ... Chiefs WR Junior Hemingway injured a hamstring.___Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '