Monthly Archives: January 2007

More on Being Closer to “Doing it Right”.

An addition to yesterday’s article by Matt Sekeres of the Ottawa Citizen. This whole process has been a roller-coaster, but it looks like we’re on the way up again. Of course, knowing the people in charge, it could still go off the rails, so my approach is to be “cautiously optimistic”. ============================= Neither Palmer nor [...]

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One Step Closer to “Getting it Right”

Here’s an article published just a couple of hours ago about the status of negotiations for a CFL team in Ottawa yet again. ==================== A major hurdle has been cleared in the effort to revive Ottawa’s twice-folded Canadian Football League franchise. The Citizen has learned that former CFL player Bill Palmer, the father of Montreal [...]

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The CIS Wants You!

Trying to keep track of CIS recruiting is not particularly easy. It doesn’t get anywhere near the kind of media coverage that it does in the U.S. so news can be hard to come by. One site that provides quality coverage is cisfootball.org. Not only do fans from all over the country post the news [...]

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Remember the Ravens

January 15th, 2007 I’ve been restoring some of the information I had on the Renegades on the previous versions of my site, but I admit that there’s a little appeal in that anymore. Not that I didn’t enjoy it at the time, or that I don’t miss them, but it feels like writing out the [...]

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Note To Self.

This is essentially what this place serves to be. When creating my first site about the Ottawa Renegades, I didn’t keep track of what was added when. At one point, someone asked me how many pages I had. I realized that I had over 100 and I couldn’t believe I’d reached that total so quickly. [...]

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Capital Region Football is Launched!

December 26th, ’06: New? Not really. Improved? Gad, I hope so… I’d had my Renegades website since just before the team’s first training camp in 2002. It was easy to build, which was a requirement for me because I didn’t really know what I was doing. But as I became eager to add more or [...]

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