Saturday's letters: Sportswriter fumbles rodent references

Re. ” ‘Justin Beaver’ expected to make it to Grey Cups for years to come,” Terry Jones, Nov. 15
Once again, Terry Jones has revealed the truth about sports writing; it’s frequently entertaining, but short on facts. He clearly doesn’t know what he’s talking about to lump the beaver in with the northern pocket gopher in the Geomyidae family of rodents.
Beaver are in their own quite different family, the Castoridae, with only two species worldwide. Gainer t