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The disappearance of the CFL tag
Up until this point, for people searching for past articles on the blog, I had separate tags for the Rough Riders and the next pro team to grace the field of Frank Clair Stadium. Being that we did not know what name the new franchise would adopt, a general “CFL” tag was created for the [...]
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Tournament All-Stars
The results of the Football Canada Cup and the Wilson Challenge were no doubt a little disappointing for the local talent involved, but both teams managed to land some players onto each respective tournament’s All-Star teams. Team East Ontario (not Ottawa-specific, but including many players from the region) placed Cumberland Panther DB David NSabua (conveniently, [...]
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DB David Nsabua
As we wait for Team Ontario to take the field in the Football Canada Cup on Sunday, let’s have a look at returnee David Nsabua‘s highlights from last year’s tournament. David Nsabua – u17 Football Canada Cup Highlights from David Nsabua on Vimeo.
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Tournament Week (and a half)!
There are no OVFL games scheduled in the Ottawa region this weekend, but that hardly means that local talent is sitting idle. On the Quebec side, we have the Wilson Challenge, during which Team Outaouais will seek to record their first win since their first appearance in 2007. An article from Martin Comtois for Le [...]
Wilson Challenge 2010
Last year, my attention was drawn to the Wilson Challenge when I stumbled into its all star team. This year, I’ll try to track the Outaouais team’s results throughout the tournament and to that end, have started a very basic page dedicated to it. While technically outside of my self-imposed mandate (the team entered is [...]
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OFA Evaluation Camp results
The Ontario Football Alliance recently completed its series of evaluation camps and have compiled the results. A couple of Ottawa area players have made their way onto the top 10. Sam Sabourin has not been hard to find. He played with the varsity Myers Riders last spring, then with the Jr Riders in the fall. [...]
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Team USA vs The World
While the game is televised on the NFL Network, in case there are people out there who want to keep track of the local content but do not have that network (hey, it could happen…), I plan on updating throughout the game. Hit your refresh button to keep track of how the World Team as [...]
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Ottawa’s contribution to the world!
Sort of…The article below is from Canada.com and lists the 31 Canadian players on the 43-man “world” team which will play against the US. The Ottawa-based players are highlighted. Not mentioned is that the team’s manager is former Rough Rider Rick Sowieta. PARIS – Canadians dominated the roster announced Wednesday for the World team battling [...]
New format for the Canada Cup starting in 2010
The October ’09 Ontario Football Alliance newsletter included details of a format change starting next year. The 2010 Football Canada Cup will consist of only one age group rather than the usual two. The age ban for the Football Canada Cup is now Under 18 as of July 31, 2010. Players may not be younger [...]
Wilson Challenge ’09
The Wilson challenge is an event that I would see advertised while looking for news about the Cegep de l’Outaouais Griffons but never paid much attention to. It just didn’t really seem relevant to my little mission. But then, I stumbled into a newsbit that invariably draws my eye and makes me pay attention. The [...]